November Card Club Pt 2

 So here's November Card Club Part 2... Paula's class. This month the class was all about using the stamp set Lovely As A Tree. It was even a crafty sunday afternoon class instead of a weekday evening as we thought the class was going to take us a lot longer than normal card club does.

The first project was a candle surround.

We used:

• Lovely As A Tree stamp set
• Holiday Home stanp set
• White Vellum cardstock
• Whisper White ink
• Tuxedo Black Memento ink

The worst part of this project was the wait for the black ink to dry so we could stamp the white layer to look like snow. We may have been doing other projects while we waited but I just wanted to finish this one so I could turn the tealight on to see how cool it looked.

 ...And here the surround is with the electric tealight switched on, lovely glow and it really works with the background of the trees.

Then we moved on to making notebox with a couple of cute little cards inside of it.

We used:

• Envelope Punch board
• Lovely As A Tree stamp set
• Crumb Cake ink
• Early Espresso ink
• Linen Thread
• Sponge Daubers
• Candy Dots Neutrals
• Woodgrain embossing folder
• Autumn Accents Bigz
• Something To Say stamp set
• Word Window punch
• Modern Label punch
• Crumb Cake cardstock
• Early Espresso cardstock
• Very Vanilla cardstock

I went for making 2 different card designs to go in my box, changing one card to be horizontal and by using a different sentiment to give a little variety in my cards.

Of course there had to be some proper card making too, after all it is card club.

 

 The first card used:

• Lovely As A Tree stamp set
• Crumb Cake ink
• Crumb Cake cardstock
• Very Vanilla cardstock
• Linen Thread
• Woodgrain embossing folder
• Candy Dots Neutrals
• Sponge Daubers
• Project Life Corner punch

The second card used:

• Crumb Cake carstock
• Very Vanilla cardstock
• Crumb Cake ink
• Early Espresso ink
• Candy Dots Neutrals
• Lovely As A Tree stamp set
• Greetings Of The Season stanp set
• Ovals Collection framelit (to make the mask for background)

 We finished off by making a little giftbox...with the dreaded Envelope Punch Board again!

We used:

•  Envelope Punch Board
• Crumb Cake cardstock
• Crumb Cake ink
• Autumn Accents Bigz
• Burlap Ribbon
• Glimmer Paper Gold
• Watercolour Wonder washi tape

 This month we even got 2 goodies as it's our last class before Christmas. The first was a tube of Dazzling Details Silver Sparkle in a very sparkly box made using the Curvy Keepsake Box framelit.

 The second was a Swizzels lolly in a cute little box style bag.

Now we just have to wait for the new catalogue to come out so we can pick the theme for January's class.

November Card Club Pt 1

 So the first card club of November wasn't really a normal card club night...we had more of a workshop making 3d items to inspire us for christmas.

The first thing we made was a giftbox. I must admit I hate using the Envelope Punchboard with a passion but for some unknown reason I found the Gift Box Punchboard a lot easier. Anyone else have this issue or is it just me?

 I used:

• Gift Box Punch Board
• Under The Tree Speciality DSP
• Cherry Cobbler Sheer Linen Ribbon

 Then we moved on to my favourite project of the evening, I've been wanting to play with this die for ages as Pinterest has shown me so many good ideas to use it for. I coloured my pearls in using my cherry cobbler blendabilities so they looked like berries. Inside this little christmas pudding was a ferrero rocher...yea i ate that when I brought the pudding box home.

I used:

• Curvy Keepsake Box Thinlit
• Whisper White cardstock
• Early Espresso cardstock
• Under The Tree Speciaility DSP
• Jewels Basic Pearl
• Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities

The next project was a giftcard holder, or money holder as was suggested by Suriya who was running the workshop.

I used:

•  Dots mask
• Coastal Cabana ink
• Gift Card Enclosure Pack
• Metallic Bakers Twine
• Mossy Meadow ink
• Sponge Daubers

 Suriya must know that I get through masses of notebooks a year as there was a notebook project on the to do list as well... I kept mine rather simple as it will no doubt end up in my work bag and get a tad dirty.

I used:

• Kraft Grid Journal
• Stars mask 
• Coastal Cabana ink
• Sponge Daubers

Then there was a candle to work on...

I used:

• Heat Tool
• Tissue Paper
• Real Red ink
• Mossy Meadow ink
• Festival of Trees stamp set

Using some of the spare card I had I made myself a dozen tags to go on presents.

I used:

• Whisper White cardstock
• Festival of Trees stamp set
• Mossy Meadow ink
• Tag Topper punch

There were also some card blanks to make 5 cards. really love this stamp set and it's so easy to use, it's one of the new photopolymer sets.

I used:

• Whisper White cardstock
• Mossy Meadow ink
• Real Red ink
• Pear Pizzazz ink
• Wondrous Wreath stamp set

The final project was a fabric bag to decorate.

I stamped different images from the same stamp set on either side of the bag.

I used:

• Mini Muslin Bag 
• Mossy Meadow ink
• Crushed Curry Chevron Ribbon
• Many Marvellous Markers

November card club Pt 2 is on the 23rd and it's more 3d projects but this time playing with the stanmp set Lovely As A Tree. 

 

If anyone has pinterest or blog links to projects using this stamp set can you share them with me as a comment for future inspiration please?

Xmas candle

So here's my final piece of xmas work, it's a candle to sit on our mantle... it's also my entry for 2 of this weeks challenges... Cute Card Thursday (ok so it's not a card lol) 'Punches' and Stamp Something 'red, green & gold'.
I've used:

• Ikea candle
• Star paper punch
• Gold paper
• Spiral Whisper Little Gem stamp
• Marvy pens
• Green snowflake ribbon
• Red ribbon

Dogs & Puppies

This weeks Crafty Creations challenge has been set by me and I picked the theme 'Dogs & puppies' ... so drag out the cute stamps, pawprint papers and brads and come join in. Im offering 4 sets of earrings made by me as the prize in the colours of my recent beady goodness makes and the 2 new sets im making for an order.
For my candle I used:

• Ikea candle
• PB image 'Next to you!'
• Marvy pens
• Dotty black ribbon (thanks jen)
• Red heart brad (from tesco)

So come along and join in!

It's not jewellery this time!

So here's a candle that I made earlier... shock horror no beads or wire...It's part of an xmas present for a family member.
I've used:

• PB stamp 'Buzz in the air'
• 2 lilac brads
• 1 pale yellow brad
• Purple flower ribbon (hobbycraft)
• Ikea small candle
• Marvy pens
• Tissue paper

Thanks a bunch!

This week's Penny Black Saturday challenge is 'Thanks A Bunch!', so i made this jazzy little candle with the bear with the bunch of flowers..... and it also fits with the Stamp Something theme 'For a friend' as it's not for me ;)
I've used:

• Small Ikea candle
• PB stamp 'Arrangement!'
• Marvy pens
• Stripy ribbon (poppicrafts)
• 2 metal flower brads (thanks donna)

PB spring candle

Hi everyone I am still here, thanks for the messages of concern.. i've been overloaded with uni and then working virtually every night this week and most of today, but hopefully i'll be around a bit more as of the next the few weeks...
So anyway here's my entry for this week's Penny Black challenge where the theme is 'Seasons', i picked spring as i wanted to give this stamp another airing.
I've used:

• Good ol' 99p ikea candle
• Pb stamp 'embraceable'
• Marvy pens
• Whispers words 'lots of funky love' stamp
• Prima flowers
• My fabby new hairdryer lol

Finally got a candle to work!

Wahey i'm dead chuffed with this one! So attempt number 3 at a candle and it finally looks good! i blame the old hairdryer i used as this is attempt one with my new hairdryer and it's worked :)
I've used:

• tissue paper
• greaseproof paper
• stazon for the main image
• PB image 'Embrace'
• colouring pens and pencils
• 5 primas
• whispers stamp 'lots of funky love'
• pink ink pad