Monday Class card 1 and 2

Due to the first Monday of the month being a bank holiday we held our 6 card class on Friday evening. Thank you to my group of ladies who came along, the new Spring Mini catalogue was well received by all.

Here is the first card we made.....

We used a very vanilla card base teamed with pool party ink and cardstock. The images are from a new stamp set in the spring mini called Spiced Paisley and the greeting is from Your a Gem. We ran the pool party card stock through the stripes embossing folder and added a strip of dsp from spice cake and velvet ribbon. The greeting was stamped and then punched out using the 3/4" circle punch.

and card 2....

This card uses a whisper white base and is teamed with Not Quite Navy cardstock and ink.

The floral image comes from My Friend in the Spring Mini and the sentiment from Create a Cupcake, which was stamped and punched out using the ex large oval punch and mounted on a decorative label shape.

To finish off the card we used the embosslits butterflies and cut them out using dsp from Paisley Petals. To make the card "pop" some rhinestone gems would look lovely along the body of the butterflies.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, Hannah and I are off for a walk soon to blow the cobwebs away!

Spring Mini Catalogue

I am in love with this catalogue......I had such fun yesterday making some samples to show at last night's class. The vintage look and colours are so not in my colour palette ( I am a jewelled winter which means all the deep purples, green, black and white are so me) but I am so drawn to the mustards and browns to theme up with the stamp sets and accessories we have. No pink and purple for a while me thinks!!!

Here is one of my samples. A decorated journal

All the products used came from the Spring Mini or main Catalogue. (there may be something you don't recognise but all will be revealed after the 24th of January....

I have used a Stampin' Up! journal 6x6 and distressed so saffron and more mustard cardstock with the distressing tool and daubered the edges with crumb cake and early espresso ink. I have used the new spiced cake dsp and again distressed the edges with tearing and daubering. The circle in the centre comes from the circles 2# die and the sentiments from Your a Gem and something that will have to stay secret for a bit longer...I have used more mustard scallop dots ribbon, velvet ribbon from the spring mini, victoria crochet trim and very vaniila seam binding ribbon. Accessories come in the form of large buttons and a key charm from the mini and pearls from the main calatlogue. Ah nearly forgot I also used crystal effects on the "Love" and coloured in the small hearts with the real red marker pen.

I would love to know what you think of the journal?

First Class of 2012

Tonight is our 6 card class. Class will be held at Chapel Hay Methodist Church for this month only, from 7-9pm.

You will have a chance to view the new mini catalgoue and get to use new products in making your cards.

A list of all 2012 classes and dates are on my blog. Just click on the classes tab at the top of the page or contact me for more details.

I Will post some photo's of the cards we make tomorrow.

Happy New Year

The children have gone back to school today....have I had an easy day? No the decorations are down and the house has had a spring clean and I am now ready to get back to work.

I thought I would show you some of the lovely handmade Christmas Cards I received today, and then if you pop back tomorrow you will be able to have a look at our new mini catalogue. There are some lovely new things to see. I will also be updating my 2012 class dates so that you can plan ahead.....

So here we go with the cards.

Last Class of 2011

My last class of 2011 was held on the 15th December, and since then I have had a bit of a break from crafting. End of term things with Hannah and then visits to Sussex and Hampshire last week and that last minute Christmas Shopping and queuing to collect the turkey......

let me show you what we made...we decided we had had enough of Christmas so we made these fun box's and card.

Here is the box we made. The original idea came from Jenny Moors and my ladies asked to make one exactly the same so we did.

and the card

Now I don't normally do this with cards but I used 4 different stamp sets with this one. Everything Eleanor, Aviary, French Foliage and Happiest Birthday Wishes. They just seemed to go well together. The card is a two fold one and just so easy to create.

We had mince pies, sweets and homemade cakes as it was the birthday of one of my ladies.

Cards by some very talented ladies and gents

I have just taken down my birthday cards today to make room for Christmas cards. I thought I would share some of the handmade ones with you.

Friday Class

Last Friday it was our last Christmas class. I decided that we would have a fun packed evening with 4 projects to make.

We made a gift bag inspired by Jenny Moors and a tag to go with it. We used the Mocha Morning Speciality papers and early espresso cardstock.

We then moved on to this lovely snowman box that Amanda Fowler showed us how to do earlier in the year.

and lastly a little thinking of you card. The stamped images are from Pines and poinsettias and were stamped using the marker pens so that we had a multi coloured image.

In the New Year I will have a brand NEW set of the marker pens to give away! please make sure you check back to find out how you can take part.