Items new to the shop...

We are on the verge of a new year.  I love Christmas and it has been so much fun bringing the wonderful season into the shop...but one of my resolutions this year is to try and keep up with my memories as they are happening...and that means, JANUARY----New Year's Page.  FEBRUARY----Valentine's!  I WILL BE PREPARED THIS YEAR!!!!  I have always tried to stay crafty...to share my love for all that is paper with others.  I say to myself most years, how great it would be to get Valentine's out to everyone.  I say how nice it would be to be able to give away little trinkets and mini's.  Christmas is days away and I have yet to mail a handmade card.  Better organization and better planning (hopefully), will help me achieve my goals this year.  I deserve it and so do those I love.  SOOOO, to help me get along in my endeavours, I have ordered some papers and products in the shop to help me keep up.  More are on the way and there are always fun things in the shop to see.  It's a small shop...but full of inspiration.  New papers always help inspire me...The line from Kaiser craft...Sweet Nothings, is definitely going to be a favorite of mine this year!  I can't wait to show you what I make with it.  Come in and see it for yourself.  You will love it!

A few projects to make for the holidays...

So here are a few projects made in the shop this month.  If you keep up with me on Facebook, you'll see these as they post.  Some are great, some are just downright terrible...but you gotta do what makes you happy.  If you are at least doing what you love, than none of the time you spent doing it will have been wasted.  I am proud of everything I make.  I am even proud to say that yeah, some of it's not the best.  But I know that while I was making it, I had a smile on my face and nothing in the world was troubling.  I got to enjoy myself.  It's hard learning to take time for yourself...but you deserve it.  The housework can wait.  Until you are wearing your prom dress from 1995 and a swimsuit bottom as underwear because you've put your laundry off for far too long...just create.  Merry Christmas!  I can't believe the season is almost over.  I need to catch up on everything from cards to pages, but no rush.  That's what crops are for...catching up. 

Hello! You ready for Christmas?

I've been trying to keep up with home life and life at the shop.  I'm doing ok, but sometimes being a mom to two very active little ones can take over and give you little time for anything else.  I have had a chance to put together a few pages though.  Simple and easy, especially if you have the right tools.  To keep up with the season and pages for the year, I have made two very simple pages using dies and simple cardstocks.  The first is a nativity scene page using Prismatic Cardstocks by Bazzill.  Pretty simple colors, very neutral.  The spacing is made so that a title or journaling can be added across the top, or on the bottom.  You might want to try glitter or even real stickles to bring out the stars on the page, especially the one above the manger.  I had a 3 year old tugging at my arm while I applied mine and it kind of got wonky, but that's ok.  It's not making mistakes, it's making memories...right?  So the next layout is a two photo layout using Prismatics papers, sheets from my Prima 6x6 pad, Martha Stewart's Punch around the Page Snow Flurries Punches and a Quickutz die that says Merry Christmas.  I used a BoBunny Snowflake stamp (Part of the Snowfall line), and embossed it with some gold embossing powder and just offset the stamp on both sides of the sheet of punched cardstock.  I just layered it above a plain darker sheet for contrast.  I used the edge punch to add a little more interest on the photo mats, and finally glued on some Prima flowers just because...well, I like flowers.  The Snowfall line has jumping deer, large snowflakes, etc., so pretty much you can embellish this as much or as little as you like.  I'm more simple, and it's nice to sit down and create a page that is classic and not a whole lotta crazy stuff going on.    Have fun getting your albums updated with all your favorite holiday memories! 

Gotta catch up!

Oh how sad, I update the blog on the website but always forget about this little poor baby.  I will have to get my photos all together and get more things out for the shop.  A lot has been happening lately and that is a great thing!  Classes and crops are still moving right along, and you are always welcome to join in.  You can text me anytime at 843-670-1676 if you have questions about the shop, or if you would like to pre-order or see what's available.  You can always send an email too.  I keep things posted on the store's Facebook Page, and as well, I keep a personal page for Shelley Berman.  I have some videos and tutorials that have been completed, just need to upload.  Are you keeping up with Tim Holtz and the 12 tags of Christmas?  I am and I can't wait to catch up on the last two tags I have missed. So far I have done the first 3 and they will all be in the shop to take a look at.  Take care and hope to be posting soon!


Shelley