Friday 24 March 2017

Mothers Day and Easter Cards and Gifts

I was hoping that Spring was here to stay the other day but I am feeling the cold today and the weather outside isn't helping! So to remind us that it should be Springtime, here are the projects that we have made at this months classes.
First we used the lovely new Basket Bunch set and matching Basket Builder Framelits dies to make a Mothers Day or Easter card depending on what people chose.  We also used one shape from the new Build-it framelits to create the greeting cut-out.  The background was stamped using the 'flower' image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set. Stampin Up! markers and Watercolour Pencils and blender pens were used to colour in the stamped images.


Our main Mothers Day card was made using a variety of tools -  1" & 1 1/4" circle punches, Layering Ovals Framelits and Bold Butterfly Framelits.  The colours used were Whisper White and Wisteria Wonder, and the butterflies were cut out of Shimmer White cardstock.  Everyone  loved the spinning effect of this card.  The background butterflies were taken from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set and the greeting from Circle of Spring.
Our 3D project this month was a medium sized gift bag made using the Gift Bag Punch board.  It is an ideal way to use up old DSP.  The tag was made using the That's The Tag stamp set and matching Timeless Tags Thinlets Dies.  The ribbon shown is 5/8" Organza.