Another Stampin' Up! Special!!!

 

Have you ever wanted patterned paper that exactly matches your cardstock, ink, and ribbon colors?  Now is the deal your won't want to miss.  For the month of August if you buy three packages of Designer Series Paper you get one free...AND there is no limit!  eeeeeee!  To shop you can contact me or go directly to my site wendyhalverson.stampinup.net

Stay tuned for my convention posts.  It is hard to sort through the 300+ pictures! 

CONVENTION!!!!

I am so excited.  I get to go to my very first Stampin' Up! Covention today!  I have been a demonstrator for five years last month.  So check back for postings of my swaps and pictures of the fun.  EEEEE!  So excited.
While I'm gone check out the brand new catalog.  It has roughly 65 stamp sets that I MUST have!  You can search it online by clicking HERE

Scrapbook in a day fun!

We had a great time making scrapbooks!  Even scrapbooking virgins made beautiful pages and were so pleased!  Here is my cover page and a layout I contributed.  Happy summer!

Where it all began!

One summer in 1988  I got to take art classes from a woman in her home.  We did all sorts of art projects and in the very end we all got to paint a picture on her front window.  Mine was the penguin on the ice block.  I was a little 9 year old, with shorts up to my armpits, but I already knew I loved doing crafty, artistic things.  Have a great summer and do something crafty!

Scrapbook In a Day Class!

Hi all.  To kick off summer my friends and I are having a scrapbook in a day class.  The class will use the Playful polkadots scrappin' kit from the Summer mini catalog.  For further details check out my site wendyhalverson.stampinup.net  The scrapbook will be 6x6, the perfect size for a fun gift or to keep for scrappin' a summer trip!  Let me know if you would like to come by June 3rd!
Happy stampin' scrappin' and craftin'!
Wendy

Clearance Rack Love!

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Happy Friday Everyone.  I am unfortunately home sick today but I have never been too sick to surf the net and look for deals.  Some of you who have been to my apartment around the holidays know I am obsessed with Christmas decor!  Last year I used these large felt snowflakes, that come in three colors, to make garland.  GUESS WHAT...THEY ARE ON THE CLEARANCE RACK for only $4.99 and you get more than 25 of them!  I made the garland with small silver cording and simply tying each snowflake to the other.  I hung my garland over the big doorway in our dinning room but it would be great on the tree too.  To look at all of the Clearance Rack check out my site here and then click on the "shop now" logo.  Have a great weekend!

Photoshop tippies!

Hi All!  So yesterday was my last day of photoshop class.  I feel like I could take at least 10 more weeks of class and still not learn it all.  Today I thought I would share a tool that I find very helpful in photoshop called an adjustment layer.  By adding an adjustment layer it is possible to lighten or darken a photo and make it more vibrant.  I use it a lot because I accidently don't use flash or I use too much flash!  This is really helpful when photographing cards and projects too.  My favorite is an adjustment called "curves".  I realize that I am ill equipped to explain this completely but I found this great tutorial here:
http://photoshoptips.net/2005/09/16/adjustment-layers/ 
Give it a go.  I think you'll like it too!   Here is a version of my final photoshop project.  Hope you like it!  Just a hint this is far from what I ended up turning in.  I'll show that sometime soon!