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!

 

1ST BIRTHDAY CARD FOR OUR LITTLE GRANDAUGHTER.

 

Recently our first grandchild turned 1 - cant believe where that year went - and I wanted to do a special  card for her 1st birthday.

I used a retired set, Fable Friends,  which hadn't seen any ink - why I dont know cos I think it is so cute, and so reminiscent of Beatrix Potter characters which I love.   I made a slimline card and used the Eclipse technique with the letters - very easy to do and so effective.

First I stamped the images on Basic White and coloured them using different Blends.  Then I used the Large Letter dies (also sadly retired) to cut out her name.  To the card base, I layered a piece of Balmy Blue cardstock and then glued the Basic White layer on top.  I then put dimensionals on the back of the letters to raise them up and fitted them into the  die cut spaces.  You get just a glimpse of  the blue peeking through. 

A hint - if you do this dont forget to save the little cut out bits - eg on the A and the R on this card. These little tiny bits are glued to the Balmy Blue  layer.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this card - my first try at an Eclipse card and was so pleased how it turned out.  Give it a go !

Till next time...

Nanette. 

STILL HERE!

 It has been a long while between posts - due to COVID restrictions we have been unable to have classes, but hopefully now most restrictions have lifted we can get back to normal soon.

Haven't been doing much crafting since Christmas,  it's been more about organising the craft room itself, and sorting through retired stamps to sell.   I need to get creative again tho - has been too long!

Hope you have been busy crafting!

Nanette.