In this class, held each month at Scrap Palace, you will make 12 unique, and super cute greeting cards to send to your family and friends. Each student will be provided with envelopes for each card, along with all the materials and embellishments needed to assemble each card in class.

Please bring a basic tool kit consisting scissors, and distressing inks along with you to class. Your adhesives will be provided.

This class is appropriate for all experience levels. As always, if you can’t make the class, kits are available.

Join Jennifer Dera from the Scrap Palace of Romeo, and learn to make your own greeting cards! In this class, you will make 4 unique, and super cute greeting cards to send to your family and friends. Each student will be provided with envelopes for each card, along with all the materials and embellishments needed to assemble each card in class. Please bring a basic tool kit consisting of scissors and an adhesive runner. All the other necessary tools and adhesives will be provided. This class is appropriate
for all experience levels.

Ok so every house I’ve ever owned has started uhh, well less than perfect. Possibly close to uninhabitable in the eyes of some. Especially me. I’m a night at the Hilton vs. Camping in a tent kinda girl if you get my drift. So anyway, over the next few days I’m going to share some of what I consider the most gruesome highlights of the house we have now. I think I’ll do some before and after shots just for the fun of it. Thanks to the ladies at the MCC Grand Opening Chat for the inspiration here.

We were chatting about home decor and got onto the topic of wallpaper. Wallpaper and I have had many intimate meetings over the last 7 years or so. It seems I always get a house that the person before decided to wallpaper… over and over and over again. Of course never removing one layer before adding another. It is almost like a treasure hunt as you peel each layer off to find another layer underneath that reflects on an era long past.

For example, and this is probably the BEST example I have… How many of you have ever come across a layer of wallpaper celebrating the United States Bicentennial (1975)? I sadly, can say that I have seen such wallpaper and I hope to never lay eyes on it again. Back in 1975 wallpaper I don’t think was manufactured with the intent of ever actually being REMOVED from the walls. So each piece came off in about 1/2″ strips that were about 5″ to 6″ long if you were lucky.

And what would this story be without a photo to share. As you know if you read this on a regular basis, I’ll take a photo of just about everything. lol. Really. Anyway, without further ado…

You’ll notice that this layer of wallpaper was uniquely situated UNDER a layer of CEDAR SHINGLE that was NAILED to the walls in this particular room. Thats a pile of some of them there on the floor. Interesting decor choice I know. I suppose I should be grateful that the cedar was nailed and not glued. There is a silver lining to everything I guess.

Why couldn’t these people have celebrated the Bicentennial like everyone else with a special US Mint coin… quarters, half-dollars, Eisenhower dollars?? No, instead they too the far more sensible approach and wallpaper our house in celebration. That makes so much more sense.

~j