August Class - Mothers And Daughters Too!

For our August class I chose a theme of using neutral colours and the Neutrals Colour Collection DSP papers.
The first card was made using basic black and whisper white card stock with sheets taken from the Neutrals Colour Collection DSP papers with the black and white theme.  This style of card is a Gatefold design.  Several punches and framelits we used in this design inculding Circles Collection Framelits, 1" and 2 1/2" circle punches, 1 3/4" Scallop circle punch, Bitty Butterfly punch and Elegant Butterfly punch. Some Basic Jewels were used as the bodies of the butterflies and the greeting taken from the Work of Art stamp set using Momento Ink.

Our second card is a twisted easel design made using Very Vanilla card stock, Soft Suede card stock and ink, Chocolate Chip colour sheets from the Neutrals Colour Collection DSP papers and card stock, and Crumb Cake colour sheets from the Neutrals Colour Collection DSP papers and card stock.  The two stamp sets used were Crazy For You and Petite Pairs. The flower was made by stamping of the flower stamp from the Crazy For You stamp set 3 times using Soft Suede ink and then the layers cut out and finshed with a Crumb Cake Candy dot and base. To keep the card upright for display, a stack of a trio of flowers puched using the flower from Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack and secured using a mini sliver brad.

Our 3D project was to make a birthday book useful for writing down all those family and friends birthday dates we might normally forget in a clever little folding book.  I used a computer to print out the month pages and the greeting on the front.  The main colours used were Chocolate Chip ink and cardstock and Crumb Cake  ink and card stock.  A belly band was used to keep the book closed.  The flowers were stamped using the Petit Petals stamps.

The girls thoroughly enjoyed making a birthday card and decorating a notebook (using retired products).

Junes Class

Right, I am a bit better organised for my blog this month as had it all photographed and written ahead of time.  Plus as we had treated ourselves to a weekend break at Centre Parcs the weekend of my class I had to make sure everything was planned before we went away!
So here are the projects from June:-

 This first card showcases the new 2015-2017 In Colors. Starting from the top butterfly (made with the Bitty Butterfly punch and  1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches) they are Delightful Dijon, Cucumber Crush, Watermelon Wonder, Tip Top Taupe and Mint Macaron (the greeting was made using Early Espresso ink and Petit Pairs stamp set and cardstock to complement these new colours). As you can see we didn't waste the butterflies punched out of the Whisper White cardstock and made gift tags with them using the Note Tag punch.

This is the second card we made using the Sheltering Tree stamp set which has carried over from the Spring/Summer catalogue.  I had seen another demostrator (Mandi Mace) making a card using the Hardwood stamp as a frame to the card and couldn't resist using the same idea.  The main colours in this card are Rose Red, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip.

This final card uses the new Sprinkles of Life stamp set which is a special stamp set created by Stampin Up who will give £2 from the sale of this stamp set to the Ronald McDonald House Charities.  This is a great set with so many different combinations of stamps. Plus there is a co-ordinating punch - Tree Builder.  Here is just one making a basic cupcake. I hope to use this stamp more in the near future so will post more designs.  To see more of this stamp set look at the last page of the new 2015-2016 catalogue by clicking on the link my home page.  I also used the Cherry on Top Designer Washi Tape on this card and stars puched from the Confetti Stars Border punch in Crushed Curry, Island Indigo and Watermelon Wonder. The cupcake was made using Crushed Curry cardstock and ink with Watermelon Wonder candles and Crumb Cake cardstock and Tip Top Taupe ink base. The background circle is Cucumber Crush.

Just thought I would share what we created at our last workshop - we had a lovely time sharing Stampin' Up! products with some lovely ladies. I love the background stamp En Francais and it has been used lots as you can see within this card! The other stamp sets we used were Secret Garden and Curly Cute for the greeting. The main card is Whisper White, with Sahara Sand for the background, spritzed in rich razzleberry and Sahara Sand ink. The En Francais was stamped using rich razzleberry onto Certainly Celery cardstock with co-ordinating rich razzleberry card positioned behind to great effect. The Secret Garden stamp set was stamped onto sahara sand, rich razzleberry and vanilla card and built up in layers. The Bitty Butterfly punch was used to create the butterflies in whisper white and rich razzleberry to finish it off nicely! Hope you like it too!

It is always nice to give the lovely hostess a gift, as a thank you for inviting us along! Below is a little gift set which I gave our hostess Sarah. I used the Hearts a Flutter stamp set and coordinating More Amore Speciality Designer Series Paper. The main colours used are Melon Mambo, Poole Party and Island Indigo.

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.