Monthly Card Class - September

I'm sorry this is a little late, but I wanted to share the photos from last month's card class!  I had four lovely ladies join me for crafting, tea and cake and these are the cards we made...

One of the favourites of the night was this card which featured the Kind and Cosy stamp set. I showed the ladies how they could use marker pens to colour their stamps to get multi-coloured designs.

The second card - a clean and simple design I CASed (Copy And Share!) from pinterest. The scored lines not only help with placing the circles in a straight line but add an extra something to the design!

The third card we made showcases two techniques even I hadn't tried before - the baby-wipe technique, and another technique called 'rock n roll'! If you search for videos on YouTube you'll get a better explanation on how to do these than I can give you!  The stamp set is an exclusive hostess set called Morning Meadow.

The final card was another clean and simple one, this time featuring Summer Silhouettes and some paper-piercing!

We used the essentials paper piercing pack to create the scallop design at the bottom of the card. Simple but effective.

Here is an action shot of the crafting in progress!

My home baking went down well too. This month I did a raspberry bakewell cake - a new favourite!

My next class is this Thursday 10th October where we'll be doing a mix of Christmas and non-Christmas cards. I have space for one more if you want to come along - please contact me in advance!

Kylie x

Class With Polka Dot Pieces

Happy Sunday everyone! Today I have some time to relax after a hectic few weeks and I thought I should catch up with some blogging!

Yesterday we had a fantastic crafty afternoon at our Summer Papercraft Class. Fiona Cullen and I taught 14 lovely ladies how to make 3 cards and a gift box using their very own set of stamps - Polka Dot Pieces - a brand new set in the Annual Catalogue. I think this one is going to be really popular - it's got flowers, butterflies and birds all in one set and a cute sentiment too!

With it being so new, there isn't a lot of photos online yet of cards and projects made with this stamp set. So my usual source of ideas and inspiration for my class projects was quite limited. But the stamps are really easy to work with, especially using the coordinating punches too, so it was fun coming up with a range of designs for the class projects.

Here are the 4 projects we designed for the class.

The first card used the bird. We coloured the stamp with markers and punched it out with the bird builder punch. The flowers are made from the Simply Pressed Clay and molds - we made these in advance of the class. The papers are the Gingam Garden Designer Series Papers.

The second card was a simple one with butterflies and the sentiment from the set.

The third card was an explosion of flowers and a sentiment from perfectly penned in the centre!

Finally a simple 2-4-6-8 gift box decorated with butterflies.

Some picture of the ladies in action, and some of their cards where they had come up with designs and ideas of their own...

Everyone got their stamps to take home in a goody bag which contained an extra treat...

We even decorated the bag and treat using the same stamp set to give everyone more ideas for how they can use the stamps to make more projects at home.

This was Fiona's first class since becoming a demonstrator in my team in May. She did brilliantly and everyone enjoyed their afternoon of crafting so no doubt there will be more!

For details of my upcoming events and classes, click here

If you live closer to east Leeds then check out Fiona's classes

Kylie x

Butterflies, Flowers, Birds and Bees

Good evening! I really should be making my way to bed right now after such a hectic weekend and several late nights, but I think I might be able to sleep better after posting this about my last class which actually took place over a week ago!

So finally here are the pictures of the cards we made at my Spring Card Class....

The butterfly card features the Swallowtail stamp, and the background on the flower card is Flowering Flourish

The bees were from the Spring Sampler stamp set and also features the honeycomb embossing folders.  The bird cards use For the Birds and coloured in with blender pens.

I showed the ladies how to make these rolled paper flowers - a quilling tool makes it really easy!

We did some heat embossing using pool party embossing powder which looks fab on the Summer Starfruit card.  Then we painted over the butterfly with the champagne shimmer paint for a lovely shimmery effect

Everyone loved doing a bit of colouring in!  So therapeutic!!

 

Lastly the bees were stamped with black stazon ink - this ink dries permanent so we could colour the yellow stripes and add dazzling diamonds to the wings without the colour running!

I wish I had taken a picture of my home-baking too - I made rocky road and lemon drizzle cake for  this class!

For details of my next class, click here!!

Kylie x

Papillion birthday

It's still all about the butterflies! Here's another card which uses the lovely Papillon Pot Pourri stamp set. This one also uses two of the soon to be discontinued colours - Baja Breeze and Not Quite Navy (see Saturday's post for details). Baja Breeze will be especially missed but I'm looking forward to using some new ones!

Supplies used:

Stamps: Papillon Pot Pourri, Petite Pairs

Inks: Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy

Card: Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Note Quite Navy

Papers: First Edition

Equipment: Circle punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Elegant Butterfly Punch

Embellishments: Pearls

Belated Butterfly Birthdays

One of my new year's resolutions was to be better at sending out birthday cards on time!  I've not done brilliantly so far.  A few people have received their cards on time, but others have not been so lucky!  SORRY!!

To catch up I thought I'd get one of my favourite stamp sets out and make a set of cards to write and send out in one go.  It's so much easier to make 10 cards in a batch than doing them one by one as they are needed.

After stamping the butterflies in white all over the crumb cake card base I varied the design slightly on each card.

Now I'm up to date with my birthday card list - yey!

Kylie x

Sympathy and butterflies

Luckily I don't often need to make sympathy cards.  I do end up thinking more about the design than I do for other cards, finding it hard to get the balance of mood right.

But the ever versatile Papillion Pot Pourri stamps always comes to the rescue.

The sentiments from Petite Pairs say exactly what I wanted to on the front and on the inside of the card.

Products used:

Stamps: Papillion Pot Pourri, Petite Pairs

Card stock: Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Inks: Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy

Papers: First Edition speciality papers

Other: Elegant Butterfly Punch, Pearls

Christmas swaps

Once a quarter, Julie Kettlewell hosts a team training day for her team - Julie's Jems.  Since joining Stampin' Up! in February I have missed a couple of these, but managed to get myself booked onto the most recent one in July.  It was really great to meet other demonstrators in the team, and to get lots of tips and ideas from Julie.  We did lots of crafting too, and there were gorgeous cupcakes which seems to have become a tradition at these events.

There was a Christmas theme at this training day, and we were asked to make some Christmas swaps using a non-Christmas stamp set!  I used  Everything Eleanor, including the little bird which I coloured as a robin, and some festive colours (Real Red and Old Olive) to create my swaps...

Products used:

Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Petite Pairs

Inks: Old Olive, Soft Suede, Real Red

Card stock: Real Red, Very Vanilla

Ribbon: Very Vanilla Satin

Punches: Large Scallop Circle

It was great to swap these for some really lovely and unique projects from the other ladies!  It certainly got us thinking about Christmas and all the exciting things that will be coming in the new Autumn/Winter Seasonal Catalogue which will launch on 1st September!

Happy Birthday Butterfly

Another Beautiful Butterfly card, and using up some scraps of the retired sale-a-bration papers Everyday Enchantment.

Products used:

Stamps: Petite Pairs

Ink: Pool Party, Crumb Cake (for edges)

Papers: Everyday Enchantment (SAB)

Card stock: Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Very Vanilla

Equipment: Beautiful Butterflies Die,  Perfect Dots Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty Punches, Circle Punches

Other: Calypso Coral Bakers Twine, Pearls