April's Class

How nice the light evenings are now that the clocks have changed; especially for my classes at Selsley Scout Hut where we can see the Severn Vale whilst we work, well for the first part of the evening at least!
This month we made a card for an anniversary, a general card for a child and a box to cover a cube box of tissues.
The anniversary card just used two colours, Whisper White and Mint Macaroon. The hearts were from the stamp set Pictogram Punches and the greeting taken from Number of Years stamp set. The birds made using the Bird Builder punch. Simple but effective!

The general birthday card for a child was made using the now retired Sale-a-bration set Hello.  The colours used were Real Red, Pacific Point and Daffodil Delight.

Finally this weeks 3d project showed a good way of how to use up old DSP paper by creating a box and covering the sides.  Everyone had a choice of paper designs to use and I had cut the coordinating cardstock to suit.

Early Fathers Day Class in May

Ooops, just a tad late for my May class update! As my class would have fallen on the late May Bank Holiday Monday, we decided to hold our class earlier in the month on 11th May. We made two Fathers Days cards and a chocolate bar holder.

This 'pop-up' card proved a little tricky but well worth the effort as it has a great impact when taken out of its envelope (which we also made at class using the envelope punch board). It could be suitable for any occasion but adapted it for a male with Bermuda Bay, Smokey Slate and Whisper White card stock.  The stamp set used was Pictogram Punches and lots of stars made with the Stars framelits in Bermuda Bay and Sliver Glimmer paper.

Here are the photos for the other card and matching chocolate bar holder. This would also be suitable as a wedding card and favor holder. I love the Bow Builder punch as makes such great bows so easily!  We also used a few retiring products in these projects, the Boho Blossom punch and DSP Stack.
The following photo shows how the chocolate bar is concealed!

Novembers Class (Better late than never!)

Where has the time gone? Christmas is now only 4 weeks away and I still haven't told you what we made at Novembers class! And to top it all our December class is a week early due to a busy venue so will now be next week! I had better get my skates on and start writing the post for that class now too (and I hope I won't be needing 'ice-skates' either!!).

 I gave my crafters the option of making either a(nother) Christmas card or a New Home card by using the same set of stamps and design with just a slight change in decoration.  The stamp sets used were from the Autumn/Winter catalogue, White Christmas and Holiday Home.  The DSP is taken from the Subtles Backgrounds DSP Stack amd the main colours are Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, Soft Sky, Crushed Curry and Wild Wasabi.  The photo doesn't show it too well but Dazzling Details were used as snow on the trees, ground and roof of the Christmas card.

To take a break from Christmas cards, we made a general greeting card using Pictogram Punches and coordinating punch. The 'stars' going vertically down the side of the card were punched out of the top layer of Night of Navy card using the Confetti Stars Punch to show the Crushed Curry card underneath.  This punch is great for making confetti for shaker cards - watch this space for a future card design!!

 Our final Christmas themed gift for 2014 - a table centre piece tealight holder (don't worry, its a battery operated one and definitely not intended for use with a real candle!!).  This is such a simple idea that I saw being demonstrated at a recent Demonstrator team training (thank you Victoria McLafferty) and just had to share it with you.  We used Endless Wishes stamp set to decorate the Whisper White cardstock in Night of Navy, Marina Mist and Pool Party, and again using Whisper White heat embossing powder on the vellum cardstock in the centre of the circle.

That's all for now but will be back again soon with more designs and maybe some Stampin Up news I can share with you!!