Chear & Dear

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Foiled Christmas Pet Cards


Rachel made some cute Christmas cards with cats and dogs! 

And a hint of sparkle with foiling!


(inside of card)


🎄     🎄     🎄



(inside of card)


Here is the fabric she used.

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(she used the border on this one)


Rachel foiled the words and accents with the Minc Machine.

She used this red Pink & Main foil.

And these Foilables from Pink & Main.


Rachel also made some really cute mug mats 
with the same fabric from the cards shown above!



I hope this post inspires you to try something new!
Gabby













 

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Fall Class Schedule

 


Farmhouse Memories

148-A Harristown Road

Paradise, PA 17562

717-442-1907

farmhousememoriesblog.blogspot.com

Scrapbooking & stamping supplies plus fabric & miniature quilts


2024 Fall Class Schedule


  • Card-making With Fabric Class taught by Rachel Stoltzfus

    Learn how to make fun and easy cards using fabric and dies.

    You will make & take two cards.

    Saturday, October 19: 9:30 am Cost: $16.00 per person


Junk Journal Class taught by Debbie Vanmeter

  • Create your own journal with lots of pockets and tags, using paper and fabric.

    Wednesday, October 30: 9:30 am – 1:00pm Cost: $36.00 per person


  • Inky Backgrounds Class taught by Nancy

    Learn to use Distressing inks, stamping foam, and stencils to create eye-catching card backgrounds.

    You will complete one card, along with a few backgrounds.

    Saturday, November 9: 9:30am – 12:00pm Cost: $20.00 per person


  • Junk Journal Ephemera Class

    Learn to dye seam binding ribbon, make a dangle paper clip, and more fun junk

    journal creations.

    Wednesday, November 13: 9:30am Cost: $20.00 per person


  • Christmas Inspiration Class taught by Laura Ross

    Catch the excitement and learn to use washi-tape from AALL& CREATE

    and 3-D punch out sheets to give your Christmas giving a new look.

    Monday, November 18: 9:30am Cost: $18.00 per person


  • Foiling For Christmas Class taught by Rachel Stoltzfus

Learn the hot new technique of adding foil to your cards and scrapbook pages. You will do hands-on foiling, using Stickies (no machine required). Then you will the MINC Machine to foil using

Foilables (cardstock pieces that have been printed with toner ink). We will also demonstrate foiling

with the Hot Foil machine. We hope to clear up the confusion about the 3 different ways to foil.

Saturday, November 23: 9:30am – 12:00pm Cost: $20.00 per person


If you have a group of friends that would like to do a class

together, call ahead and schedule your own personal class. We

also rent out our upstairs cropping room for a fee of $8 per person per day.

Please call ahead and schedule your day.




*Please Note: Your space for the classes will be reserved when we receive your payment. If you wish to cancel a space for a class, we need to know 3 days in advance in order for you to receive a refund in store credit. We reserve the right to cancel a class in which case we would issue store credit.







Thursday, September 12, 2024

Fall and Floral Cards

 

Fall is coming up in a few weeks and we 

have a few more fall cards for your inspiration!

And with the last hints of spring some floral cards

made by one of our customers.


🍁     FALL     🍁

Here are the fall cards Rachel made!


(inside of card)

🍁     🍁     🍁


(inside of card)

This is the view of the front and the inside.

Here is the fabric.
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Here is the picture frame
die she used.



 💮     FLORAL     💮


One of our customers, Marge Smoker, made these
floral cards. 

Here is the first card.

Here is the second card she made.


(here is the inside)

(inside of card)

Here is the fabric she used.

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We are less than 2 weeks away from the start of Buggies and Buds
Shop Hop ---- so we are working hard to complete our 
MAKE N TAKE and samples of all the new products.
Hoping to see you soon! 
For more info on Shop Hop go to 
buggiesandbuds.com

Have a wonderful weekend! 
Gabby


























Saturday, September 7, 2024

Club Challenge Cards

 

We issued a challenge for the ladies who 

come to Club every month.

They chose a fat quarter of Christmas fabric to 

make a card sample for the store. 

Susan Krause 

The gold is foiled with the Hot Foil Machine.


(inside of circle card)

Here is the die Susan used on the rose circle card.

This is the fabric she used.
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Rachel

For Rachel's Club cards she used a coordinating fabric.

Here are her cards.

(inside of cards)

And this is the fabric she used.
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Karen Millard

Here are Karen's cards.


(inside of card)

Here is the fabric she used.

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Karen's other card has a special feature! 
You wind the Santa up and close the card, when you open the card
the Santa will spin.

Here is the fabric Karen used.

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Cheryl Cicioni


(inside of card)

Cheryl put a pocket inside of this card for 
an ornament!


Here is the second card she made.


(inside of card)

This is the fabric she used.

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Burnsie 

Here are her three critter cards!

Here is the fabric Burnsie used for her cards.

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Betty Helpa


(card open)

Here is the die she used on this card.



Here is another one of Betty's card.


(inside of card)

Here is the card pattern she used.

And this is the fabric.

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Nancy Salzman

These are the cards she made as well as
the die she used.

Here is the fabric Nancy used.

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Card Making With Fabric Club

Every first Wednesday of the month the Club ladies 
get together to create cards! They learn from each other and
inspire one another! If you are interested in Club call Rachel 
at 717-442-1907.

I hope this post inspires you to
be creative! 
Gabby


































































Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Betty's Cards

 Betty is a part of our monthly card club that meets here 
the first Wednesday of each month.
She made all of these cards (in the following two pictures) 
from one fat quarter of fabric!



This is the fabric that she used for all of these cards.

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She embellished the insides of the cards with this fabric as well.

Here are two of my favorites from the cards that Betty made.


(inside of the card above)



Here is the above card opened up.


Happy Wednesday!
Cheryl