September Card Class Projects

Hello Again! And here we have Septembers card class projects - I decided not to run any classes in August due to the holidays.

These first two cards were made using another of my favourite new stamp sets so you might be seeing more creation in the future using this set - Varied Vases! It is such a bargain with 34 (!!) stamps for just £24 plus you can buy a punch, Vases Builder Punch to go with the set. Even better if you buy the punch and stamp set together as a bundle you will get 10% off! There are outlines and in-fill stamps for the vases and flowers so you can make lots of quick cards.  Also being photopolymer, they are all easy to line up with each other.

So with this first card we used a piece of embossed Lemon Lime Twist using the Petal Pair embossing folder on a piece of Sahara Sand card stock. The outline of the vases were stamped using Basic Black Archival ink and coloured in using the stamp off technique in Lemon Line Twist and Berry Burst inks. The flowers were again stamped using Basic Black Archive ink and coloured in using Lemon Line Twist and Berry Burst inks - there is even a stamp for the flowers so no actual detailed colouring in required.  The greeting is also in the same set and was stamped using Basic Black Archival ink onto a piece of Lemon Lime Twist.  The shelf was stamped direct with Berry Burst. The matt cardstock is Berry Burst. A small bow of linen thread just finishes of the card!

And here is our second card using the Varied Vases stamp set.  This time the main colours used are Daffodil Delight, Night of Navy and Pear Pizzazz. The DSP is from a retired pack but any suitable colour DSP could be used.   This time the vases were stamped and then punched out using the Vases Builder punch so no fiddly cutting required! The flowers were stamped on to Whisper White cardstock and then colours in using a Daffodil Delight marker.  The white square was cut out using the Stitched Framelits dies and the backing square of Night of Navy cut out using the Layering Squares Framelits.  The greeting is also part of the Varied Vases stamp set.  The leaves were punched out of Pear Pizzazz cardstock.  Finally a piece of 1/4" Double Stitched Daffodil Delight ribbon was wrapped around the top layer.

Our final card for this month is a very basic one suitable for a male although by changing the colour scheme and patterned paper, it could be for any gender.  The colours used were Night of Navy, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla.  The DSP is from a retired set from the last catalogue.  The greeting is Stylized Birthday with is a single stamp but or so useful! I use it all the time.  The Very Vanilla square was cut out using the Stitched Framelits dies. The star was stamped using one from the Bubble Over stamp set and punched out using a 1" circle punch and retired 1 1/4" scallop punch.

July Class Projects

Hello and welcome to a catch up of posts! I always find that the summer months seem to fly by with my children home from school and try to fill our days with activites that my business gets abandoned!

So here we are with the projects that we made at July's card classes.

This first card was made as a celebration card for all those students who had recently taken their exams and hopefully got the results that they wanted. It uses the new 2018-2020 In-Colors of Lovely Lipstick, Grapefruit Grove, Pineapple Punch, Call Me Clover and Blueberry Bushel!  We used some retired products, the Stars Thinlet dies and Curly Cute greeting stamp set plus some sequins.  The background cardstock is Crumb Cake. The greeting was also heat embossed using Gold Embossing powder.

Our second card could have several uses :- Wedding, Anniversary, Get Well or Birthday and the ideal stamp set to use for the greetings for these occasions is Beautiful Bouquet. The stamp set for the flowers is Petal Palette and these were coloured in using Powder Pink and Pear Pizzazz inks.  This card is a stepped card design which is quite easy to make once you have your dimensions, cut and score lines in place. The Stampin Up! trimmer is the perfect tool to make it with.  The main card stock is Very Vanilla and the embossed panel are Powder Pink using the Petal Pair embossing folder.  The backing panel is a piece of Pear Pizzazz card stock.

Our final card is a cutie using the Bella and Friends stamp set and a gate fold card layout.  We used the Aqua painter the colour the background behind the stamped dog using the returning In-Color Mint Macaron. The other colours used are Basic Grey ink, Poppy Parade Marker (another returning In-Color), Mint Macaron and So Saffron card stock.  The greetings came from Happy Birthday Gorgeous stampin set.