Other Students' Floral Designs

As promised, I'm finally getting around to posting other people's designs. I wanted to show how varied the designs can be even though we all start off with the same materials. Hope you enjoy. =) Lisa

mine =)

Catching Up

Well, I've been a busy little bee in the last month.  I found a new job - a prep person in a busy little floral shop called Grower Direct Acadia.  I'm enjoying it so far.  It's a permanent part-time position.  I'm working a few more hours than I had planned on but I believe my employer will give me the flexibility I need to still do the things I want to with Tamara.  So all is good.  Since I've been so busy, I'm just loading this post with a few pictures that show some of the scrap pages I've completed.  I also completed my Floral Design Level 3 course and have thrown in my arrangements to show off as well.  In the next post I'm going to post some of the other arrangement that the other ladies made in my last two classes as well as I love how we are all given the same product and we all come up with a different design.  As well as I have some pics of the kids birthdays.  Hope you enjoy what I have here.

School Daze - Sep 05 (I really like the colours in this LO)

Class 5 - Minimalist Arrangement 

 I experimented with gluing some beads onto my LO - I wanted to enhance the Vegas theme.

 Witchy Witch - just a quick simple LO

Class 6 - Tropicals (front)

 (back)

 A vase arrangements that I put together with the extra flowers we got to bring home.  Not too shabby - though I wish I had some extra greens to support everything better.

Happy day ahead, first day off work in the last 7 days and the weather is warming up.  Cheers!  =) Lisa

Happy Birthday Grandmas and then some.

Well Myron's Grandma birthday was fast approaching and so I quickly made this card to send to her.  Then I remembered that my Grandma's birthday was approaching.  So I wanted to do a card for her.  Then I had a moment and realized that both of my kids' birthday's were around the corner.  Then another thought struck and I realized Mother's day was not too far away either.  SO  here's a round of the cards I made.

 For Grandma Dorothy.

 For my Grandma

 For my Mom

 For my Mom In Law,

 For my son,

 and finally for my daughter.

It was card frenzy!  =)

My latest obsession

I don't know why and it's been building for some time but lately I love the Asian style art of Cherry Blossoms.  So much so that I have found ways to bring it into my home and I am planning on incorporating it into more of my scrapbooking.

This first is my attempt to paint my own design.  I don't think it turned out too bad - I'm saving it and may try to put it on one of my scrap pages.

One day I took Tamara & her friend Rebecca to a ceramics store, The Clayground where you get to paint your own object.  They have so many things to choose from plates to animals to teapots to vases, etc.  I had difficulty choosing just one until I finally decided on this bud vase.  And then you can see my second attempt at some Asian Art.

I had been coveting this teapot I saw in Teaopia before Christmas mainly because it came with a strainer and you can steep loose leaf tea easily in it but also because of the design painted on it and thought it would look great on our counter, so I finally bought last week. 

It looks good doesn't it?  =)

Then when I was looking for some scrapbooking supplies ( I really was interested into learning how to use mists) I came across this template and knew I had to have it!

I can hardly wait to play with the template. (I also bought some glimmer mist to experiment with - you may have noticed I tried the mist on some of the Mom Day cards I made in the previous post).

So I'm off to enjoy my latest obsessions!  Have a great weekend!  =) Lisa

Mom's Day Cards

Well, I was approached by my boss Parvaneh at Gypsy Rose to make and sell cards (and having some ready for Mother's Day) as I had given her a thankyou card for a couple of plants she gave me.  Now my style is fairly simple but if people like them and buy them, why not?  So I came up with 12.  Parvaneh wanted simple & elegant.  Hopefully I came through.

And if not, then I have a bunch of cards to give to family & friends. Now if only I can find a neat way to display them in the store!  =) Lisa