FIRST CARD CLASS FOR SUCH A LONG TIME!

 Last night I was so happy to host a card class  again- has been a long time coming but so glad I could do it!  The ladies who came were just as happy to be there, and it was a lovely night.  Here is what we made....

This card I thought was ideal for the men in my life and even better, used up a little of my many scraps!  It uses the stamp set The Right Triangle and the matching dies,  and also the sadly retired Playful Alphabet dies, which after adding a foam sheet  behind the paper I die cut them out.  I stamped the triangles in Versamark,  to give a soft tone-on-tone look,  with different patterns from the stamp set and arranged them randomly on the front of the card.  The Birthday sentiment is also from a retired set  - Word Wishes - and I heat embossed it in white.  Love how they turned out.

The 2nd card was just so elegant I thought, ideal for many different occasions - think it would make a lovely sympathy card too.

The stamp set here was the Encircled in Friendship  - it has lovely images and sentiments.  On a white card base I cut a strip of Night of Navy and attached to the left hand side. Then cutting a 1/4" strip of Basic White cardstock,  attached that to the navy strip.  A small square was stamped with one of the flower images and heat embossed with clear embossing powder and coloured with watercolour pencils and a blender pen to smooth out the colouring.  This was backed again in the Navy and added with dimensionals. and a few small pearls.

The final card was using (again) a retired bundle called Birds & Branches.  Must confess I bought the set mainly cos of the beautiful dies - so many possibilities!

Using Gorgeous Grape I stamped the flowers 9 times, not re inking between 3 flower images, so I obtained different shades of colour. I then layered three of these flowers, offsetting a little to give fullness and repeated this for the other 2 flowers.  The little branch was tucked into the die cut, and I used Pool Party ink with the blending brush to create some colour in the background. The sentiment  (from the Quite Curvy stamp set) was stamped and fussy cut and adhered with foam strips.  The ladies all did different colours and they all looked fabulous.

Thanks for visiting and hope you can get into your craft room soon!

Nanette. 

PS. Many thanks to Jill , Tracy and Emma for the inspiration. Didnt change too  much as I thought their ideas were just perfect!