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.

March Class (Late Post)

As we are still in the Sale-a-bration season, we continued using the free products you can get at this time.  I decided to use the Epic Celebrations set for two of the cards and both suitable for teenagers (which I often hear are difficult to find a suitable card for).
This first card was inspired by a design on Pinterest and uses the new 1/4" Stitched Edge Ribbon in Pacific Point which goes perfectly with the trainers image stamp.  The 'happy birthday' greeting was taken from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set. Other cardstock used was Silver Glimmer Paper and Whisper White.  The images were cut out using the Layering Circles Framelits and the lace holes made using the retired 1/8" hole punch.

Our second card is suitable for the musician in your life! Again using the Epic Celebrations stamp set and a basic colour theme of Real Red, Smoky Slate and Whisper White. The back ground was stamped using the Sheet Music background stamp and the Stylized Birthday stamp for the main greeting.

One of my favourite stamp sets from the new Spring/Summer seasonal catalogue is Flying Home. It has several images that can be used for  variety of occasions.  The one we used at class could be used s a new home card or as a birthday card.  I teamed it with some Basic Grey Shimmer Ribbon from the Sale-a-bration offer.  I showed my customers two different ways of colouring the images so they could chose which they wanted; either using the Watercolor Pencils or Stampin Up Write Markers.  The main colours used were Whisper white, Soft Sky and Basic Grey.  The background was created using the 'dotty' stamp in the Beautiful Peacock stamp set in Basic Grey ink. The greetings were taken from various stamp sets and punched out using the Classic Label punch.

A Touch of Autumn!

For our September Class, I chose some autumnal colours and the lovely new stamp set, Painted Harvest.

For this card we used the tri-layered stamping technique where the 3 Very Vanilla layers are placed on top of each other then the images are stamped ensuring that they go over the borders then the layers disassembled and Chocolate Chip matts are added back in between each layer.  this is the wonderful Painted Harvest stamp set which is a two-stamp image where the background of the sunflower was stamped in Crushed Curry and the detailed top layer stamped in Pumpkin Pie.  The leavers were stamped using Garden Green and cut out with the new Leaf punch.  The greeting was taken from  Flourishing Phrases.

Our second autumnal card was made using the baby-wipe technique where drops of Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler and Crushed Curry were dropped onto a baby-wipe and left to blend before using this as an ink pad to create the leaves.  This card also used a similar technique to the first where we stamped the tree trunk (stamp set Sheltering Tree  ) across two layers then removed the top Whisper White layer and stamped the leaves before re-assembling with a layer of Early Espresso in between.  The greeting was taken from Happy Birthday Gorgeous.

Our 3D project this month is a new style box I found on Pinterest called the self closing box.  It is very simple to make using the Score-board and for this we used the other leaf stamp from the Painted Harvest stamp set along with the acorn to make our own DSP.  The colours used were Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Garden Green. The greeting was taken from the Blooms & Wishes stamp set , punched out using the new Pretty Label punch and clipped to the box with some Burlap Ribbon and a Gold Library Clip. 

August Class

Well I know it is already September but I somehow forgot to show you the projects we made in August! Just shows how time flies during the summer holidays.

This month we used the new In-Colors that were released with the new annual catalogue on 1st June and will continue until 31st May 2019.  The colors are called Berry Burst, Fresh Fig, Lemon Lime Twist, Powder Pink and Tranquil Tide.  Quite a good sets of names!

For our first card, we used the Berry Burst ribbon, cardstock, ink and sheet from the Fresh Florals DSP stack.  The stamp set used was Pretty Kitty and the main card was Smoky Slate. This card is very cute, suitable for any cat lover!

Our second card uses the Powder Pink In-color ink and sheet from the Fresh Florals DSP stack.  We used a watercolour technique to colour the sky on Shimmery White cardstock with Soft Sky ink.  To highlight the clouds we filled them in with Wink of Stella Glitter Brush. The stamp set used was This Little Piggy from the new catalogue and our crafters could chose any of the 5 designs to use on their project, I have just shown two here; and greeting taken from Happy Birthday Gorgeous.  The other colours used were Basic Black and Soft Sky.

Our final card looks a bit complicated but is actually quite simple to make, as long as you get your dimensions, cuts and folds in the right places! I think one of the names for this card is a stepped waterfall.  Again we used some new In-Colors, Lemon Lime Twist and Tranquil Tide.  The Daisy punch is a great new Stampin Up punch again brought out in the new catalogue and has been sold out quite a few times already!  The leaves were made using Tranquil Tide cardstock and the Flourish Thinlets dies and the greeting was taken from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set and cut out using another new punch, Pretty Label Punch.  The center for the daisies were made from 1/2 inch punch circles of Gold Glimmer card.  The main card is Crumb Cake and stamped with the Hardwood background stamp also in Crumb Cake.

June's Card Class

Hi Again. This month we were very busy using the Big Shot and making quite a variety of styles of cards - a shaker card, an easel card and a card for the handyman in our lives!

The first card we made is suitable for a wedding or engagement.  We used Elegant Eggplant and Shimmer White cardstock but any colour can be used to suit the wedding colours. The stamp set used was Floral Phrases and matching die set Detailed Floral Thinlets.  We were thankful for the Die Brush that gets all the little bits of card out of the die!  The greeting was cut out using the Layering Ovals Framelits.  I felt that the card needed something to finish it off so used the retired punches Elegant Butterfly and Bitty Butterfly along with a small string of Rhinestone Basic Jewels.  Finally we used some Elegant Eggplant Solid Bakers Twine to wrap around the card.

 Our second card I felt was appropriate for Fathers Days that is on 18th June or for any handyman!  Unfortunately the stamp set Nailed It and matching Build It dies did not carry over from the Spring/Summer seasonal catalogue to the new annual catalogue.  The colours used were Real Red, Crumb Cake, Basic Grey, Delightful Dijon, Basic Black and Silver Foil card with Momento Ink.  The greeting was taken from a previously retired set as it the only Father's Day greeting I had.  The background was stamped using the Hardwood and the Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

Our final card was a shaker card for which I had had several requests!  This one used a new set Happy Birthday Gorgeous which is a great set consisting of 32 stamps for only £19! There are flowers and balloons and several greetings, I can see me using this sets on several occasions!  The main colours used were Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Crushed Curry, Gold Foil sheet and Whisper White. The Happy Birthday thinlet works well with this set and here I cut off the 'Birthday' part and used the word 'BIRTHDAY' from the Number of Years stamp set inside the 'shaker' part of the card. This along with the 'Hooray' was heat embossed using White embossing powder.  The background was embossed using Sparkle Embossing Folder, the stars cut out using the retired Stars Confetti punch, the balloons cut out with the Balloon Bouquet punch and the square window using the Layering Squares Framelits.