Class: Stepped Card with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Saturday morning for an adventure in paper engineering.  You'll create this amazing stepped card perfect for year-round display.  The colors and images evoke the feel of Summer.  

July 27th, Saurday:  10:00am - 1:00pm (call to reserve your spot and to get additional details)

Class: "Bee" Happy with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Saturday morning and create a bit of papercrafting engineering.  Caroline has designed a card featuring an unusual fold and lots of bees. Now, whether you think of bees as symbols of immortality and resurrection or bees make you think of honey, they make a wonderful image for a card…especially with a few flowers.

I apologize for the grainy photos.  Pop into the shop to see this wonderful project up close and to sign up to attend.  

July 13th, Saturday:  10:00am - 1:00pm ( class fee $25.00)

Class: Secret Garden Cards with Caroline Lawson

Graphic 45 has a marvelous new series The Secret Garden. These pages are filled with lovely pastel flowers and backgrounds. These pastels are NOT insipid fades; they are full of color and life. Caroline has done collages bringing images together to “tell a Story”. Scissors and adhesives are a must… plus a love of “fussy cutting”. 

Secret Garden Cards: Caroline Lawson: Saturday, April 6: 1-4 PM….$25.00

Class: Ruby Slippers with Caroline Lawson

Sorry for the late notice, this one got by me.  A big apology to Caroline Lawson.  

Caroline will be repeating her wonderful Ruby Slippers class this Saturday.  You'll find lots of glamour and glitz on these stylish steampunk heels by Stampendous and by the end of class you'll wish you had a pair to wear in real life.  A must for all the shoe aficionados out there!

March 23rd, Saturday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $25.00)  

Class: Steampunk Shoes with Caroline Lawson

A girl can NEVER have too many shoes! Why not join Caroline Friday and add to your own exquisite shoe collection by creating a couple of Steampunk themed cards that even the Wizard of Oz would be impressed with.  You'll be embossing, glittering, coloring, cutting...all the things that make cardmaking fun!  

Caroline recommends adding the following items to your class kit:  a Versamark pad, black embossing powder, a paper cutter, coloring tools (markers, pencils, etc.), and black acrylic paint.

February 8th, Friday:  10:00am - 1:00pm class fee is $25.00

Class: Bird Song Cards with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Friday afternoon and create three wonderful cards that celebrate nature.  You'll start with 8"x 8" papers from Graphic 45's Birdsong pad and cut and layer until your hearts content.  The results are elegant all-occasion cards perfect for any event! 

In addition to your class kit, be sure to bring good scissors, quality adhesive/gluestick, and your 8"x 8" Birdsong tablet.

January 25th, Friday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $25.00)

Class: Birdsong Cards with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Saturday and create three wonderful cards that celebrate nature.  You'll start with 8"x 8" papers from Graphic 45's Birdsong pad and cut and layer until your hearts content.  The results are elegant all-occasion cards perfect for any event! 

In addition to your class kit, be sure to bring good scissors, quality adhesive/gluestick, and your 8"x 8" Birdsong tablet.

January 12th, Saturday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $25.00)  

Class: Telescoping Card with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Saturday and create a fabulous telescoping card with lots of steampunk influence.  Layers of die cuts and paper form the base and a series of strategically placed brads create the telescoping effect.  Add metal accents and you have something spectacular and unique!  You'll want to keep this one for yourself!

November 24th, Saturday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $25.00)

Class: Halloween Collage Cards with Caroline Lawson

Take a walk on the dark side with Caroline Lawson this Saturday and create 2 adorable Halloween cards.  Caroline uses her trademark collage skills to build layers of detail that come together to form a couple of fabulous Halloween scenes.  Better get started on those spooky fall projects because it's just around the corner!

September 22nd, Saturday -  10:00am - 12:00pm (class fee $25.00)

Class: Textured Canvas with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline for the first of two sessions to create this beautiful textured piece.  The first Sunday, Caroline will have you texturing your canvas.  It will have a week to dry.  On the second Sunday, you'll be adding the artwork.  You are going to LOVE this technique.  It may get messy, so do not wear your "church" clothes.  

August 5th and 12th, Sundays:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $50.00)

Class: Vintage Halloween with Caroline Lawson

Are you hankering for a couple of Halloween projects?  It's never too early!  Join Caroline Saturday morning and create 2 spirited cards layered with details and sporting pages from the latest Gaphic 45 paper pack.  Caroline unites her carefully pieced collage techniques with a few intricate dies and the results are FABULOUS!  Get a head start on this October celebration!

July 14th, Saturday:  10:00am - 12:00pm (class fee $25.00) 

Class: Pyramid Cards with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Saturday afternoon and create two beautiful cards that feature an unusual "stacking" technique.  The images are stamped and stacked in a pyramid layout that showcases the wonderful designs while adding dimension and elegance.  Additional details finish the cards off perfectly and will have the lucky recipient saying "wow"!  This technique would be a fabulous way to add a bit of pizzazz to cards for any occasion.   

July 7th, Saturday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $25.00)      

Class: The Never-Ending Card with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Friday afternoon and learn her secret behind the never-ending card.  This card folds and refolds, creating new cards with every twist and turn.  Just when you think you've seen them all, turn it over and get a new series of cards.  This is a wonderful project that will confound your friends and dumbfound everyone else.  Please, bing a paper cutter, a score board, and a good adhesive...not a glue stick.  Caroline suggests Glossy Accents; Zip-Dry would work or a small Zyron.

June 29th, Friday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $30.00)

Class: Steampunk Box Workshop with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Saturday for a day of steampunk inspiration and create this picturesque box.  Caroline will supply the box, feet, corners, and paper.  If you have a box you'd like to use, please bring it along.  This is a workshop, so you'll have the opportunity to make this creation uniquely yours by incorporating various ephemera and metal bits you've collected over the years.  Need to enhance that collection for this project?  Hit your husband's tool box, you never know what treasures you'll discover.  Or head to the hardware store.  It's filled with aisles of metal bits perfect for this project and so many others.  Other things that might work...old bottles, springs, jewelry, thimbles, buttons, subway tokens, coins, etc.  You're only limited by your imagination!

You'll be using special adhesive for this project; Caroline likes Bond 527, but E6000 can also be used...just remember that it's toxic.  

June 9th, Saturday:  10:00am - 4:00pm (class fee $50.00)

Class: Curiosity Dipdych Workshop with Caroline Lawson

Join Caroline Lawson Friday for a day filled with collage and creativity.  You'll create this wonderful diptych from 2 collaged tags that are hinged together to showcase layers of imagery.  Create a surreal fantasy featuring a couple of fabulous stamped designs against a backdrop of elements trimmed from "The Old Curiosity Shoppe" paper pad from Graphic 45.  Bring your class kit and be sure to add a pair of sharp paper scissors and a good glue stick, along with a pad of the "The Old Curiosity Shoppe".

May 18th, Friday:  10:00am - 4:00pm (class fee $35.00)  

Class: Never-ending Card with Caroline Lawson

Did you miss Caroline's class featuring this clever feat of paper engineering?  Not to worry, you have another chance to learn how to create this amazing card within a card, within a card, within a card.  The photos do not adequately capture the "never ending" aspect of this card, so I urge you to stop by the store this week and see it up close and in person.  The card folds back on itself revealing a different layout and then repeats the process again and again. 

Caroline's project features decorative papers by Graphic 45 so be sure to bring an 8"x 8" tablet of the Hallowe'en in Wonderland series. 


October 21st, Friday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $25.00)

Class: The Never Ending Card with Caroline Lawson

Welcome back to the CP2 blog!  Did you have a good weekend?  We hope you are feeling refreshed and ready to get crafty!

Jump back into the artsy swing of things by joining Caroline Lawson Friday afternoon.  She'll show you the paper engineering secret behind her magical never ending card that seems to go on forever and ever.  The photos do not adequately capture the "never ending" aspect of this card, so I urge you to stop by the store this week and see it up close and in person.  The card folds back on itself revealing a different layout and then repeats the process again and again.

Caroline's project features decorative papers by Graphic 45 so be sure to bring an 8"x 8" tablet of the Hallowe'en in Wonderland series.

September 9th, Friday:  1:00pm - 4:00pm (class fee $25.00)     

Workshop: Steampunk Box with Caroline lawson

Join Caroline Saturday for a day of steampunk inspiration and create this picturesque box.  Caroline will supply the box, feet, corners, and paper.  If you have a box you'd like to use, please bring it along.  This is a workshop, so you'll have the opportunity to make this creation uniquely yours by incorporating various ephemera and metal bits you've collected over the years.  Need to enhance that collection for this project?  Hit your husband's tool box, you never know what treasures you'll discover.  Or head to the hardware store.  It's filled with aisles of metal bits perfect for this project and so many others.  Other things that might work...old bottles, springs, jewelry, thimbles, buttons, subway tokens, coins, etc.  You're only limited by your imagination!

You'll be using special adhesive for this project; Caroline likes Bond 527, but E6000 can also be used...just remember that it's toxic.  

August 13th, Saturday:  10:00am - 4:00pm (class fee $50.00)
This class has been rescheduled for September.  Please watch the blog for details!  Thank you!