Vintage Ornament Kit

Here is another kit offered by Happy Hour Crafts.  It was designed by our very own Prissy Conrad.  The kit does include all pieces necessary to make this vintage ornament with full color instructions. The entire ornament centers around a bottle cap made by Maya Road.  It will look great on your Christmas tree or would be great to keep out all year long. If you would like to purchase this kit please email us at happyhourcrafts@yahoo.com for pricing information.   

Holiday Gift Ideas

Happy Hour Crafts is offering some great gift ideas for the holidays.  We are offering two different mini albums with full instructions.  The kits come with the album from Maya Road, card stock from Simple Stories, Jenni Bowlin  and October Afternoon along with some great chipboard pieces and embellishments from some of the top suppliers.  Happy Hour Crafts offers classes to groups, one or one or special order.  The two albums now offered are titled "Family" and "School Days".  Each album is full of personality, new techniques and guarantee to hold many memories for the special person receiving it.   If interested in purchasing please email us for pricing at happyhourcrafts@yahoo.com to purchase or set up a class time.  If signing up for a class we guarantee you your sides will be hurting from laughter...yes we are that funny.  LOL!  If you choose to have us mail this kit to you we guarantee you still will laugh, the instructions are not your standard format.  Hope to hear from you all soon!! Don't forget we do special orders so if you choose to have us make it for you that is a different price and we may call you LAZY....LOL!!!  See we are funny!!

Holidays are Approaching

Howdy Crafters!  The holidays are coming up and are you ready?  We know we're not, we are a bunch of lazy turds.  We want to get some classes going so are minds are racing with ideas.  We want to know what you would like to make.  We are thinking about making Christmas tags (acrylic or cardstock), cards, wreaths, mixed media and more.  We are willing to work with groups, one on one classes or special orders.  We are posting a pic of some tag ideas.  Please let us know if you would be interested in coming to a class.  Let's get off our bums and get to crafting.

Need Your Input

Hello fellow crafters!  We are trying to get our heads together for class ideas.  We want to know what you would like to do.  Some ideas we have are Basic Stamping 101, Copic Coloring, Card Making, Mixed Media Canvas, Jewelry Making and more.  Please give us some input.   We are trying to get our classes together for the holidays.  Help us get our craft on!

More Mixed Media

Another mixed media piece .... this is on canvas board.

So much fun to do these pieces. Simple steps. You would be amazed how easily this comes together.

Come on ..you know you want to do one. You'll have some great fun.

Mixed Media

 Mixed media piece titled " Two Became One ".  Enjoy. This could be a class if anyone is interested. So simple to do- cut and paste could get this on canvas. Your hands will get messy , but so worth the mess.

Working on Shadow Boxes

What a great day!  I was able to get together with some friends and have them work on their Shadow Box Book projects.  They both decided they wanted to do something a little different than what we had planned.  They wanted to use the theme Fall and Halloween.  They both came out great.  Donna and Brooke worked really hard all afternoon.  Here are a couple pics of their projects.  We are getting our heads together to come up with some new project ideas for the holidays so please stay tuned.  Hope everyone has a great week!

Board Meeting

Morning Crafters!!  The board of HHC's took off for the weekend.  Tammy has the best boss ever!  He let us use his home in Angel Fire, NM.  It is beautiful there!...and very cool.  Most days got up to 77 degrees.  Tammy and I both were celebrating our birthdays and Prissy was our present.  LOL!  We had a great time.  We all considered this our monthly board meeting.  We took some crafts to work on.  Tammy & I practied our Copic coloring and Prissy did some sketching.  It was great.  We also spent a day in Red River and did the tourist thing.  We all hated to come back but we had too.  We have some ideas running through our heads so please stay tuned for details. 

What's Going On

Just thought I would pop in to show you what I've been doing.

I started drawing a series of "Skelly"  friends . They are" Esmeralda and Edmund ". I'm currently working on making stamps from Esmeralda and Edmund. For now they are canvas paintings.The other two thirds of this Happy Hour group share a birthday (which makes it very easy for me to remember B-Days). I wanted to share with you what I shared with my two friends.

If you read any of our blogs you know Tammy is the tech helper to Freddie and I. She is in the know when we have NO clue of how or what to do. We would still be using a string and a tin can for communication if she was not here to help us. Here is her very own Esmeralda as " Techno Chick ".

I truly hope you have stopped by Freddie's blog to see all the treasures he creates. You will not be disappointed. Lots of goodies to look at over there at  Just-A-Craftin. So here is Freddie's Edmund appropriately " Just-A-Craftin ".

     Happy B-Day my fellow Happy Hour Crafters.

Paper Cowgirl Art Retreat

I had to share this!  Prissy and Tammy have gone to Waxahachie,TX for the Paper Cowgirl Art Retreat this weekend.  They are taking a couple of the classes and these pics show what they made in the first class.  They made a soldered flower necklace.  The first pic is of Tammy's.  I think is looks great!  I love all the little details.  She worked really hard on this.  She said she had to get some help in the end because her hands starting hurting.  The second pic is a close up of Prissy's.  It's beautiful...don't you think?  She said pictures do not do this project justice, they look better in person.  I can't wait to see them.  They are working on another project today.  Hopefully we will get more pics so I can share some more.  Please leave a comment and let the girls know what you think of their necklaces. 

Reminder of Shadowbox Class

Hey fellow crafters!  We wanted to remind you of our Shadowbox class which is being held on June 18th at the Cole Community Center in Canyon from 10:00-3:00.  Cost of the class is 40.00.  We have four spaces left.  Come learn some of the newest techniques and play with some of the newest product out.  Payment is due in advance to reserve you spot.  You can email us at happyhourcrafts@yahoo.com.  Come have an afternoon of fun!!

National Skull Appreciation Blog Hop Project

Okay Dawg I accept your dare.  Prissy wanted me to post one of my projects I used for the blog hop today so here it is.  It's a wall hanging.  I really did have a great time participating in my first blog hop.  If you haven't done it before I really encourage you to try it. We got to view some very talented crafters and their projects.  We also got to see some of the newest products out there in craft land.  LOL!  We've had so much fun that we are looking around for other blog hops. 

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop

  One of my projects I made for Smeared & Smudged Blog Hop.

Come on Freddie show these nice people one of your projects. Dare you! Double dare!!!

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop

Hey Crafters!  We have something exciting happening.  We recently came across this website for Smeared Ink stamps.  They carry a lot of the Gothic and Day of the Dead stamps.  They have organized a blog hop for Skull Appreciation Day on June 4th....of course the theme is skulls.  If you don't know what a blog hop is...we didn't either until recently...LOL!  It is a way to showcase your projects.  They usually give you a theme and then create a list of blogs and you can go from blog to blog and view everyone's projects.  A great way to get your name and projects out there for everyone to see.  Prissy and I hopped on board and have created a few items.  Starting on Saturday morning June 4th you can view ours and others projects.  You can click here to start the hop on Saturday at Smeared and Smudged

Reminder of Shadowbox Book Class

Hey fellow crafters we are sending out a reminder.  We are offering this Shadowbox Book class on June 18th 10:00-3:00.  It will be held at the Canyon Community Center in Canyon, TX.  Cost of the class is 40.00 + tax.  We have a few spaces left, if you would like to reserve your spot you will need to pay in advance.  You can mail your payment to 4521 Princeton St Amarillo,TX 79109 or we can make arrangements to pick it up.  We will be showing you lots of new techniques and you will be getting to play with a lot of new products.  Come have some fun with us!  Any questions you can contact us by phone or email us at happyhourcrafts@yahoo.com.  Our contact numbers are listed here on the blog.  Thanks!!

Handy Suggestion

A suggestion came in from one of our friends recently.  She said she would appreciate a column on our blog about new products and what we thought of them.  We at, Happy Hour Crafts, love to play with the newest and greatest tools and products.  Because we don't have access to all the newest and greatest we will share a little tip with you.  We go to a site call Craft Critique to check out the new products and they always have reviews listed which we have found to be very reliable.  If you have any questions or wonder about any new items out on the market this is the site to check out.  I hope you find it as helpful as we have.  Cheers and happy crafting!!  

Twine flowers

While walking around Michaels Prissy and I came upon some flowers.  They looked like they could have been made out of twine or yarn.  We kept looking at them when I finally said "I think I could make this flower."  I came home and dug out some twine I had and was very excited to find I found something to do with it.  Another idea came to mind...I wonder if I could mist the twine.  I made two flowers, one I left natural and the second I used some Maya Road mist on it.  I also played with different embellishments.  I used a pearl brad on one and on the other I used mini glass beads applied with Glossy Accents.  I think this idea with be shared in a class soon.  Don't forget our upcoming class on April 18th, its the Shadowbox Book.  You can get the information about this class on our blog.

Shadowbox Book Class

Hey everybody just sending out a reminder of our next class.  It is this Shadowbox Book.  Class will be held on June 18th 10:00-3:00 at the Cole Community Center in Canyon.  Cost of class is 40.00 plus tax.  We will be providing all supplies to make this item.  You just need to bring the basics..paper trimmer, scissors, adhesive. We will be demostrating a lot of new techniques.  Come have fun with us and leave with a beautiful project.  We have four spaces available.  To save your spot you will need to pay in advance.  You can mail to 4521 Princeton St Amarillo TX 79109.  Please email us if you have any questions happyhourcrafts@yahoo.com 

Announcing Shadowbox Book Class

We are excited to announce the next class.  It is the Shadowbox Book.  We had a lot of you asking about this one.  The class is set for June 18th 10:00-3:00 at the Canyon Community Center in the Mesa Room.  Cost of the class is 40.00 plus tax.  Payment must be received before class date to ensure your spot is reserved.  Maximum class size is eight and we are half full already so please take advantage of this soon.  If you would like to sign up please email us at happyhourcrafts@yahoo.com to get you registered and you can mail payment to 4521 Princeton St Amarillo TX 79109 and please make payable to Happy Hour Crafts.  We will supply all necessary items to complete project.  You will just need to bring basic tools(papercutter, scissors, adhesive and a smile.  Come have fun with us!  Cheers!!

GiGi's Spring Garland

This is a picture of our friend Gloria's garland who attended our Spring Garland Class this weekend.  She went home and finished it up and had her husband hang up the finished product.  We think she did a great job!  We love that she shared her finished product with us.  Thanks to her she has my braining spinning.  I'm trying to come up with some type of reward plan for our customers.  Details of this to come.  Please take a look at Gloria's blog she does some beautiful work it is gigiscorneroftheworld.blogspot.com.  She has some beautiful cards for sale.  Please take a look.  Thanks again Gloria!