March Card Club

 Here's the cards we made at March's card club. This month it was all about the stamp set Flower Shop.

Card #1

We used:

• Lost Lagoon cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Lost Lagoon ink
• Pumpkin Pie ink
• Hello Honey ink
• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Petite Petals stamp set
• Pansy Punch
• Petite Petals punch
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels
• Petite Pairs stamp set

 Card #2

We used:

• Blackberry Bliss cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Mossy Meadow cardstock
• Blackberry Bliss ink
• Smoky Slate ink
• I Love Lace stamp
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Bird punch
• Pansy punch
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels
• Scallop Oval punch
• Petite Pairs stamp set

 Card #3

We used:

• Hello Honey cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Hello Honey ink
• Tangelo Twist ink
• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set
• Petite Petals stamp set
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels
• Pansy punch
• Petite Petals punch

 Card #4

 We used:

• Whisper White cardstock
• Mossy Meadow cardstock
• Mossy Meadow ink
• Pumpkin Pie ink
• I Love Lace stamp
• Petite Pairs stamp set
• Flower Shop stamp set
• Petite Petals stamp set
• Pansy punch
• Petite Petals punch
• Basic Rhinestones Jewels

Next m onth it's all about the Happy Hour stamp set!

 

February Card Club

 Just realised I never shared February's card club pictures... We used the Celebrate Today photopolymer bundle so we had the stamp set and the matching dies to play with.

 Card #1

We used:

• Whisper White cardstock
• Pistachio Pudding cardstock
• Pistachio Pudding ink
• Baked Brown Sugar ink
• Glimmer Paper
• Celebrate Today bundle
• Stylish Stripes embossing folder
• Itty Bitty Star punch

 Card #2

We used:

• Crisp Canteloupe cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Crisp Canteloupe ink
• Glimmer paper
• Celebrate Today bundle

 Card #3

We used:

• Coastal Cabana cardstock
• Coastal Cabana ink
• Smoky Slate ink
• Glimmer paper
• Whisper White cardstock
• Celebrate Today bundle

Card #4

 

 We used:

• Strawberry Slush cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Strawberry Slush ink
• Sweetheart punch
• Glimmer paper
• Celebrate Today bundle
• Hearts embossing folder
• Confetti Heart border punch
• Happy Hearts embossing folder
• Itty Bitty Heart punch

 I'd best get writing the post for March's card club now too!

January Card Club Pt 2

 January card club part 2 was all about using Serene Silhouettes and trying out some new techniques.

This card needed a lot of drying time before we could put it together so we started the workshop by doing the background. The background was made by inking up an acrylic block with 4 different colour inks, spritzing the block with water then pressing it onto cardstock.

 We used:

• Very Vanilla cardstock
• Real Red cardstock
• Real Red ink
• Tangelo Twist ink
• So Saffron ink
• Lost Lagoon ink
• Decorative Dots embossing folder
• Memento black ink

 The next card we tried out the emboss resist technique.

We used:

• Marina Mist cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Soft Sky cardstock
• Colour Collections DSP
• Pearl Basic Jewels
• White Stampin' Emboss Powder
• Marina Mist ink
• Petite Petals stamp set
• Petite Petals punch
• Stylish Stripes embossing folder
• Sponge Daubers
• Modern Label punmch
• Word Window punch

 Then we did another messy background technique using daubers and vellum.

We used:

• Very Vanilla cardstock
• Memento black ink
• Night Of Navy ink
• So Saffron ink
• Marina Mist ink
• Wild Wasabi ink
• White vellum cardstock
• Blooming With Kindness stamp set
• Sponge Daubers

The last card wasn't difficult as such, just fiddly to get the unched holes to align with the embossed stamps.

 We used:

• Very Vanilla cardstock 
• Word Window punch
• Modern Label punch
• 1 3/4 circle punch
• Bitty Butterfly punch
• Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder
• Pearl Basic Jewels
• Gold Foil Sheets
• Project Life Corner Punch

Next month's card club is all about Celebrate Today and the Balloon Framelits dies.

January Card Club Pt 1

The first card club of 2015 turned out to be a crafternoon just the 2 of us as I was the only one who wanted to do the daytime class, gotta love shift patterns where you get odd weekdays off to make the most of everywhere being quiet.

Suriya had a couple of gifts for me to play with. With one of them I made the cards below.

I used:

• Washi Tape Note Cards Kit
• Elegant Butterfly punch
• Bitty Butterfly punch
• Strawberry Slush ink
• Good Greetings stamp set

I also helped her whip up some desktop calenders to post out to her customers wanting catalogues... I even got a calender to take home too.

Now onto the cards and things we made.

I used:

• Sheltering Tree stamp set
• Strawberry Slush ink
• Daffodil Delight ink
• Wild Wasabi ink
• Early Espresso ink
• Whisper White cardstock
• Itty Bitty Accents punch
• Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper

Then a simple card to practice some Blendabilities colouring skills.

I used:

• From The Herd stamp set
• Baked Brown sugar cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Memento black ink
• Coastal Cabana Blendabilities
• Old Olive Blendabilities
• Daffodil Delight Blendabilities
• Smoky Slate Blendabilities
• Skin Tone Assortment Blendabilities

Then we played with a stamp set and framelits that I'm getting as part of one of February's card clubs.

I used:

• Celebrate Today stamp set
• Balloon Framelits Dies
• Bow Builder punch
• Itty Bitty Accents pounch
• Hello Honey ink
• Rhinestone Basic Jewels
• Cherry Cobbler ink
• Tempting Turquoise ink
• Tempting Turquoise cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Basic Black ink
• Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper

Then we made a gift bag to use up some retired designer papers and embellishments that had been lying around forgotten about.

I used:

• Linen Thread
• Cherry Cobbler ink
• Sheltering Tree stamp set

Every card club at Suriya's comes with a challenge card to do, this month is was to make a card using the Lotus Blossom stamp set from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. I do love a challenge card and I really love this stamp set, can't wait for mine to arrive! Here's my challenge card.

I used:

• Whisper White cardstock
• Hello Honey ink
• Pumpkin Pie ink
• Basic Black ink
• Mossy Meadow marker
• Wild Wasabi marker
• Sheltering Tree stamp set
• Bow Builder punch

January Card Club Pt 2 is next week and I'll be collecting my February card club kit to have a play with early too.

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?

October Card Club

 This month's card club was all about the stamp set Flowering Flourishes, we each picked a colour to work with and this time I chose Daffodil Delight.

Here's the cards we made....

•  Daffodil Delight cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Daffodil Delight ink
• Flowering Flourishes stamp set
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Jewels Basic Rhinestone

•  Daffodil Delight cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Daffodil Delight ink
• Flowering Flourishes stamp set
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Jewels Basic Rhinestone
• Daffodil Delight seam binding

 

• Daffodil Delight cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Daffodil Delight ink
• Flowering Flourishes stamp set
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Jewels Basic Rhinestone
• I Love Lace stamp 
• Modern Label punch
• Word Window punch
• Daffodil Delight seam binding

•  Daffodil Delight cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Daffodil Delight ink
• Flowering Flourishes stamp set
• Itty Bitty Banners stamp set
•  Honeycomb embossing folder
• Bitty Banners framelits
• Ovals Collection framelits
• Daffodil Delight seam binding

 Next month is Lovely As A Tree, 3d projects and an afternoon of crafting....looking forward to it!