Saturday class cards August 2013

The first two cards above are all the rage at the moment with the easy “sunburst technique”. The gorgeous butterfly card is made using instructions from the fabulous Tami White, using the Stampin’ up Bitty Butterfly punch and Papillon  matching Potpourri Stamp set.

The first card is made by stamping the flowers / leaves in Whisper White craft ink, then using the matching framelits, make a mask with the Big Shot. The mask is placed over the matching flower / leaf and sponging over with classic ink. Very effective.

The third card was sent to me by my lovely up-line Vicki Were, I cased the card and we made it in class last Saturday, using Crushed Curry as the main colour, and sponging all edges. This used the lovely stamp set “Happy Day”.

This set of 3 cards are made using the new Pansy punch and matching Flower Shop stamp set. The original design was by Rhonda Price, she used the Fancy Fan embossing folder, I changed it to using the Woodgrain Embossing folder.

The first card is made using strips of cardstock, layered onto a plain piece of card, this was then run through the Big Shot with an embossing folder. In this case the new Modern Mosaic Embossing Folder. The ribbon is the new 2013-2015 in colour Ruffle Stretch Trim, with the ribbon stretching, it made it a breeze to attach to the back of the cardstock circle. The clay rose was coloured with Coastal Cabana to match the ribbon.

The next card was cased from Patti Long Bossi and also uses the new Pansy Punch and matching Flower Shop Stamp set.

The last card is loosely cased from Pamela Staples,  and was fun to make. Once again it uses the Pansy Punch and Flower Shop Stamp set. This time the flower was stamped on vellum using Versamark and embossed with White embossing powder. The flower was coloured in on the back side of the vellum with Stampin’ Up! markers.

Set of 6 cards.

Recently I was asked to make a set of 6 cards to farewell colleagues from my work.

All the cards were made using Stampin’ Up! products, and new In Colours from the lastest 2012 – 2013 Stampin’ Up! Catalogue. The cards were extra large cards designed so that fellow colleagues could write their messages inside. All cards had a bit of extra bling with Dazzling Details Silver Sparkle dotted around or drawn on top.

This card was made using the full set of Floral Frames Collection Framelits, matching stamp set called Daydream Medallions, and the new Coastal Cabana coloured Cardstock.  Background stamp set used was Flowering Flourishes.

 

 

 

 

This card uses the popular triple time stamping technique and the full set of Labels Collection Framelits.  Stamp set used is my current favourite stamp set: Stippled Blossoms.

 

 

The next two cards use the large Swallowtail butterfly stamp.  The first embossed in white embossing powder onto Whisper White cards stock, then sponged with various Stampin’ Up! classic inks. Small butterflies were stamped in Midnight Muse direct to the card, and also onto Whisper White card.  They were punched out with the Elegant Butterfly punch and Bitty Butterfly punches.

The 2nd Swallowtail butterfly embossed in silver embossing powder onto vellum cardstock.  The back coloured in with markers, fussy cut out and layered on the top of the card.

This card used the Secret Garden stamp set and matching Framelits. The background Lattice Bigz die was used for the trellis. Based card stock is the new Baked Brown Sugar In Colour, leaves and flowers were stamped in Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Strawberry Slush Classic Inks.

 

 

 

The final card was made using the Flowering Flourishes Stamp set, new air dried clay and flower molds. The flowers were coloured in after making by pressing them into a Strawberry Slush Classic Ink Pad.

Easter Eggs with flowers and butterflies.

These delightful treats were made by my DD aged 10 years to take to school to share with her classmates. They went down a treat.

Punches used were the Elegant Butterfly, Blossom punch and Bitty Butterfly.

Owl Creations

I’ve been busy making some items for up coming craft markets.

The first set of items are cute little pillow boxes made with the retired Stampin’ Up! pillow box die, these are cased from Rachael Hecker, who in turned cased them from Creations on Paper.

The 2nd set of items are little boxes using the retired Stampin’ Up! number 2 box die and the Big Shot. These boxes were also cased, this time from Kirsty Brown.

Birthday in a Box

I’ve been creating these lovely boxes, with matching note card and decorated birthday cake using a battery operated tea –light candle. I purchased the instructions for these delightful boxes from Victoria Rogers. 

This set of boxes uses the new Sale-a-bration Designer Series paper Sycamore Street and a retired Stampin’ Up! hostess set called Happiest Birthday Wishes.  Some of these boxes will be available for purchase at my next craft market.

Fancy Favour Doggy Bags

These are some cute little bags I made for sale at Craft Markets using the Fancy Favour XL Bigz Die and the Big Shot.  The Dogs are made with lots of Stampin’ Up! Punches

Red, White and Black

Here are some lovely cards that were made with the Stampin’ Up! stamp set “Marry Me”.  The silhouette design of the beautiful bride and groom lend to the black, white and red colour combination.

The same colour combination also lends itself to the lovely trinket box. With Antique brads for the drawer knobs, the flower on top is made with the new Blossom punch, from the coming Autumn-Winter mini catalogue. Available from 1st April 2012

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Christmas Card Class

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During our last Saturday afternoon class we made a selection of Christmas cards using the Stampin’ Up! stamp Dasher. Although he was also called Rudolph and Prancer in the class!! LOL!  Two of the cards were embossed with gold embossing powder. The third card also used the Lovely as a Tree Stamp set.

Although the pictured pillow die boxes shown have a lovely chocolate theme, (Eat Chocolate Stamp Set) the ones we made in class were Christmas themed.

Next weeks class will be a continuation of Christmas themed cards, but with a punch art flare added.

Easel Cards

A few weeks ago at my Saturday afternoon class we had a go at making several different varieties of easel cards.  The are wonderful show case cards and were fun to do.

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These cards all used the Big shot and Dies. Scallop Circle Die, Bigz Butterly Die, Blossom Party Die.

Sorry I can’t find where I cased the Butterfly card from to give them credit.

The Circle easel card also used the Circle Scissors Plus to cut the large circles and the petal punch for the tiny message envelope. The top circle was cut out of glossy white card, trees embossed with black embossing powder and then brayered in blue and green.

We also made two other cards not pictured, a tiny easel card with the small butterflies from the Bigz Butterfly Die and another easel card using the Top Note Die.

Scallop Circle Easel Card

Isn’t this card georgeous!! Cased from “Bronwyn Eastley”. Uses the Stampin’ Up! Punch Potpourri 2010 Hostess set.

Workshop and Class cards.

This gift tag and bookmark set was cased from the talented Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator: Shirley McAvoy. I had a workshop with some special ladies who loved owls!! They were impressed!

We also made this really nice card, using the 2011 Punch Bunch Sale-a-bration stamp set. And also the hostess set Punch Potpourri.  This card was cased from someone!! Sorry my computer is broken, and I can’t find where I got it from. So sorry I can’t give the very creative crafty lady the credit for this wonderful card.

This card was done a while ago at a class.  The technique for the “lace” was done using the Stampin’ Up! Medallion Stamp. This card was also “cased” from a wonderful card maker Patty Bennett.

Men’s Card class.

Last Saturday a few ladies came around for one of my regular classes. They had chosen to make cards for men. My latest purchase was the Stampin’ Up! Woodgrain Stamp. I got a bit carried away with trying out my new stamp and we ended up making six cards. Most of these cards are cased from the Splitcoaststampers website. I can see me using the Woodgrain stamp for many more items.

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The ladies and I really enjoyed using the new Stampin’ Up! Owl Punch along with the matching Owl Stamp from the latest Sale-a-Bration Brochure. The Owl Stamp belongs to the Punch Bunch set, which is one of four stamp sets available for free with every purchase over $120.0, until the end of March 2011.