Our creations at our May class

Our lovely regulars joined Jeanette and I at our recent class and we had another lively evening.  I just love our classes - they are probably more a social get together of friends than crafting classes now I think!

I wanted to make a birthday card using the beautiful stamp set Birthday Blast, which unbelievably will not make it to the new catalogue! It, and the amazing dies which matched, were amazing - I hope they may make a return in the next Occasions catalogue but as this rarely happens I will keep my fingers crossed. I used some retired Night of Navy DSP  from the retiring DSP Colour Stacks and love the way this card turned out. There were a few different colours on offer, and all the cards looked great!

The second item I made was a triangle box, inspired by the very talented Heidi Smith (see her post here) - it fits (with a bit of a squeeze) 3 Ferrero Rochers. I changed the pattern paper, label and sentiment from Heidi's and the boxes matched the colour of their cards.  The ladies were already thinking about making more for small gifts to give to work colleagues, teachers etc.

Now Jeanette will fill you in about what she made with the class attendees......

"With some of our favourites soon to be retired, I couldn't resist an opportunity to showcase the Stylish Stems framelits and the versatile white gift boxes. Who wouldn't fall in love with them and just in time to order before they disappeared forever. Luckily our upline Sue had shown us her beautiful card with matching gift box. I'm sure you will love them as much as I do."

 These were a big hit and look even more amazing in real life.

Our next classes are on Friday 30th June @ 7pm and on Saturday 1st July @ 1 pm . Please book in early as places are limited and we would hate you to miss out.

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Our April Classes - Golden Oldies!!

Now let me be clear - I am talking about the Stamp sets in the title of this post, not us and our lovely ladies!  We were looking at our old retired sets and thought how wonderful it would be to use them again. Everyone was happy to try these old favourites. We had 3 new attendees, which was lovely, and they did an amazing job of all the projects!

Here is what Jeanette created -

 This card is made with Amazing Birthday stamp set and soon to be retired Designer Series Paper.  The class attendees had a choice of Calypso Coral or Pool Party and both turned out very pretty.

Her next project may look familiar - she did a similar one for the team swaps at Onstage - those had little "flag" post its, whereas these ones were the normal size post it notes. She had a range of papers to choose from - everyone was very impressed with the sliding butterfly closure!

The Up and Away bundle was what I used for this card - I made this at my upline Sue's class a couple of months ago - just love it!  I am so excited this stamp set and framelits are carrying over to the Annual Catalogue  - I have so many ideas for this set!  It is only available as a bundle though until the 31st May but will be in the new catalogue but as two separate items. If you would like to save 10% by buying the bundle, get in quickly! The ladies used the big shot to die cut the balloon  - love the effect.

My second card uses retired stamp sets - Both Way Blossoms and Love and Sympathy for the sentiment. I unfortunately had to make a sympathy card the previous week and used this set and loved the elegant simplicity of it.  The ladies had a choice of different sentiments, but all chose to use the beautiful sympathy sentiment and verse inside the card.

 

Our next class is on Friday 26th May and also on Friday 2nd June - would love you to come if you are local to us in Taylors Lakes, Victoria.  Click on the tab at the top of the page to contact us.

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