Arty Farty class

I was asked by a fellow demonstrator if I would conduct an Arty Farty class at her place. I love sharing special techniques and showing just how easy they are, even though they look so complicated.

The cards we made started out as a sheet of A4 Very Vanilla that went through layers of sponging, masking, stamping and finally stamping with bleach.

We then cut up the sheet to make the decorated layer of a Tri Shutter card. Everyone used 3 different colours of ink so each one was so different and absolutely gorgeous. Once they were in strips they took on a different look again. All the ladies were thrilled with this step.

The Tri shutter base was Natural White and went beautifully with all the colours. We decorated the front using Faux silk flowers (we made by distressing and pulling apart several scallop circles), our clay flowers and an acetate butterfly coloured with the blendabilities.

Phew finally finished.

This was only the first card of the day. Yep get the tough one over first and then the rest are easy peasy. The second one was a 3x3 card we used the same technique, minus the masking and stamping layers. I wanted them to use the same inks and this time sponge very softly to show how the same colours can look so different.

The last one was using the remainder of the A4 sheet.

This was such a great day and I loved all the completely different colour combinations. I think all the ladies had a great time.

Tri Shutter Easter card

What a fun couple of nights for our March class, check out what we made.

First was the Tri Shutter Easter card. The Easter eggs were made by punching out 4 large ovals and then decorating each of them with our lovely In Colours. I cut out our envelope using my favourite tool the BIG SHOT. The little chick is the Bird Builder punch. I nipped off his tail feathers so he would fit into the cracked shell. Cute ey?

The panels were made using the Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper. Just love it. The front and back panels I used Island Indigo and Calypso Coral and dry embossed them. I love teaching this card as everyone gets such a kick out of the finished result. It always looks so hard and yet it is quite easy, just a lot of preparation.

Then we expored a few uses for the scallop circle punch. The flower is made up of 3 scallop circles and then they were distressed to pull them apart making 6 flowers, the petals were sponged and then layered and scrunched. The leaves were also made with the scallop circle punch then sponged.

Then lastly we did a tea bag style fold on this little cutie. We used 4 scallop circles and folded back 5 of the petals then turned it over and folded the edges into the centre. Joining them together with a brad. Aren't they just darling?