March Class Creations

For our second class, I thought I would see how our new crafters would take to a card that looks challenging but if well planned and prepared can be a very effective and elaborate card to make which isn't that tricky! So we made this Tri-Shutter card using the Floral District DSP with the Sale-a-bration stamp set Bloomin Marvelous. It also introduced our new ladies to the Stampin' Trimmer and its benefits of being a scoring tool as well.

I had made a template for everyone to aid them in their cutting and scoring. I had also pre-cut all the card stock and DSP required for the panels to save time. But the 2 3/8" Scallop Circles and 1 3/4" Circles were punched out at the class.
The colours used were Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, Baja Breeze and Lucky Limeade.  The flowers, bird and leaves on the round panels were hand cut and the butterflies punched out using the Bitty Butterfly punch from the Spring/Summer catalogue. I love this little punch and it also goes with the Papillion Potpourri stamp set too!  The centre panel has a piece of Rich Razzleberry 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon around it to tie all the colours together.
Our ladies were very pleased with their finished cards and proud of themselves too for creating it!

I had also made this card using a retired DSP and stamp sets with Soft Suede, Very Vanilla and Basic Black for a commission for a male 90th birthday and for my fathers recent 70th birthday.  The greeting and numbers were stamped using Memorable Moments Stamp set which is a great set for adding numbers to cards. (The wording 'Dad' was created on the computer).

The second project that the ladies made at March's class was the following box, which held two mini cards and envelopes. The focus of this project was Designer Series Paper (DSP) - and that you could create all of the below using just one piece of DSP! Alli choose the gorgeous Twitterpated DSP and used the sale-a-bration ribbon in island indigo to co-ordinate. The main box was created using from a single A4 sheet of Crumb Cake card. The colours used for the cards were crumb cake backgrounds and baja breeze for the Postage Stamp punch outs. The Bitty Butterfly stamp was used to create two butterflies from Island Indigo cardstock and finished off with a couple of pearls. The Best of Everything Stamp set was used too finish off the card and box. The class were also introduced to the Simply Scored Scoring Tool which enabled the ladies to experience this truly marvellous piece of equipment which enabled them to easily score the card to create the envelopes and box! Making envelopes is such a breeze with this device - and they look great!

If you would like to come along to our classes and learn to create a card such as this then please contact us (Hazel on 01452 740258 and Alli on 07791 807748). Our classes run on the second Monday of the month in Rodborough, Stroud.