The first of Diane's work..

Diane used the older  punch for the flowers in the center...and our brocade embossing folder...and our butterflies....and indigo paper...and pearls...

 this is the preview shot.....

 and these were some stamps Diane bought from me quite awhile ago...just love how they fit into her design...

Card in a box swap (Backyard basics and retro DSP) tutorial on Jan 28th post

The tutorial for this is on this post http://franscraftplace.blogspot.com/2014/01/box-card-tutorial.html   I took the directions from Tanya Bell's video (AU) and made them work for our regular card envelopes...there is a step by step picture tutorial at that location....   I did this for a one on one (really six cards) swap..love the colors...

 closeup of butterfly...

 front and inside the box..

 the whole card again....poor picture of the middle..sorry about that..lol

This is a sneak peak of one of my downline's work...some SU things used...some not...she does wonderful work.....will post it on my Create with Fran site and here....

Serene Silhouettes..masculine class

LOVED the hardwood stamp...so many possibilities  to say the least...as soon as this was stamped..the blender pen was used to move the ink around..love the effect....gives it a 3D look...lol...

 I probably will not sell this set either as it one of my favorites and love a little of the asian look and feel this set has that.....was stamped in choc chip, the stamped off ...and then olive was added, gives it a two tone look ....

 again....took several pictures...put this stamp colored directly with makers and put it inside

Life in the Forest class card

Used the dots embossing folder at the bottom...

and love love love the new fringed scissors....the class cards turned out better....the mushroom was either cut and added or placed more in the grass....mine is in the air.....good masculine set

Open Sea

I am sssssooooo sorry....I took over 60 pictures and could not get a good picture of this card and I love how it turned out.....I am using indigo and  pool party....used the coordination pool party with dots embossing folder and really came out nice...brayered the indigo on the naturals composition paper

this is a much much better photo and only good one I took...I really need to take a photography course to say the least......the porthole is popped as it the section with the twine...I didn't like the twine so mentioned to my customers to separate the twine when making their card.....

this is the difference...I loved the separated look much better(before porthole was added in class)...don't you agree?  lol

Walk in the Wild card

Sorry....I am still helping with the work on my leak...now small bath is being remodeled....this is from my class over the weekend....quick 4 x 4 card...this was a masculine class...will post the others within the next few days....and later in the week...go to my site Create with Fran...both here and there...will show you my downline's work....Diane...so talented, and her paintings come right off the page they are ssssssoooo realistic..

I LOVE this set....probably will not resell as it is a great masculine set ...all I used on the embossed watercolor peasant was an aqua painter and crumb cake ink..it actually picked up the cajun very well...hard to see in this photo...but try it ..it gives a reddish tint when used on the watercolor paper

Simply Sketched frame..cased

Yep....this is not my card....a changed a few things...but isn't it wonderful.....you stamp the image twice...and put the fussy cut pieces...I used the single bloom ...the corner jutting out leaf...the middle of flower and the one far piece....just glued then on...except for edges....then used the aqua painter with the cantalope ink and tired to shade light and dark....and then added the crystal effects with a toothpick and then let dry..put the card together later....at end of class....giving it time to dry....

 the white piece .....used a larger oval ...cut it out first and left that larger piece for the flower area...

 temporarily glued the cantalope and WW piece and then cut oval and bottom scallop edge..you can't permanently glue the two together at this time...because the white piece needs to be embossed...yes, I could have prepped that part also but didn't ..did prep the cut ww piece and cut out the white oval before class....

 sorry...I took several and I mean several pictures to show how leaving the edge unglued adds dimension...this is the best of all....not good but think it shows the idea....after the oval crystal effect piece has dried....you use four dimensionals and glue the oval to the frame...and then add the corner dimensionals...

 the 1.25 scallop oval punch was used for the tag.....