All Dressed Up class

This class is for the feminine side in us. Shoes, lipstick and perfume. We all need some pampering.

Monday morning 24th February 10am - 12noon
Wednesday morning 26th February 10am - 12noon
Friday evening 28th February 7pm -9pm

When: See dates above
Cost: $10
Where: Zena's Craft Studio in Wellington Point (email me for the address)

Please RSVP which class you wish to attend, so that I can prepare all the kits. Please bring your ‘basic kit’ to each class. This includes, tape runner/adhesive, double sided foam tape, multipurpose liquid adhesive and scissors.

 * If you are a beginner and do not have a kit, there will be kits available for sale.

Cards from the class using Under My Umbrella

Our latest class was all about techniques. I love sharing techniques with my ladies. They get so excited about learning something new. We used the new Under My Umbrella stamp set

We used 3 layers on this card. Crumb Cake for the base, then Bermuda Bay cut ever so slightly bigger than the Whisper White. I just wanted a little peek of Bermuda Bay.  Using the Aqua Painter and Coastal Cabana ink, we washed across the card, then stamped the sweet little rain drops randomly over the wash.. The umbrella was stamped on to a piece of DSP. The flowers and boots were stamped and then coloured with our Blends. We did a couple of layers of flowers to give a 3D look.   

This Bermuda Bay card had the oval window cut out and then stamped with the rain drops in Bermuda Bay ink. However the card below is what we actually made.

This is the card we finally made. It's one of my newest dies and I couldn't resist changing this from the Oval to the floral oval from the Petal Labels Die. To create the windows background, we used the Sponge brayer and various colours. These colours were Mint Macaron, Coastal Cabana, Night of Navy and Gorgeous Grape. Then with the Aqua Painter we flicked small droplets of water over the sponging. The sentiments were all chopped up and backed with Copper foil. 

 

Who would have thought all these colours would look ok together. Night of Navy as the base with a peek of Pineapple Punch behind this vibrant DSP. The umbrella and boots were stamped with the cute little flowers from this set. Lots of layers in this card.

So which one of these cards grabs you? I think my favourite is number one, or two or maybe three!

Masking class

We made three totally different cards all using the masking technique.

This card had masking on masking to get this look.

 
We stamped the blue umbrella first then masked it up to stamp the red one. We then stamped the third umbrella. Once all the umbrellas were stamped and masked then the dots were stamped over them.

This last card was everyones favourite. Not only did we mask, but we created a faux frame. First step was to stamp the flower, then it was masked and we laid another mask over this. We sponged in 3 different colours then stamped randomly over this sponged area. Lastly we drew a frame around the images with a write marker. Pretty neat ey?

Swinging is fun

Well it wasn't a dance but anyone passing by would have thought there was a party going on last night. My Friday night girls are naughty, they had far too much fun.

The class technique for May was how to make a Swing card and also the Rock and roll technique. The first card was the Swing card. Instead of using the cutting tool, we used the Big Shot and the Window Frames Collection framelit die to cut the swing shape. Then it was embossed front and back and then embellished with the cute little umbrella from the Rain or Shine stamp set. The front of the swing had  rain drops with the sentiment, "thoughts of you" and the back had the umbrella with a sponged sun with the sentiment "rain or shine". The back of the card had the sentiment "makes me happy".

 

Card: Not Quite Navy, Whisper White

Ink: Not Quite Navy

Stamp sets: Rain or Shine, Under the Big Top

Tool: Big Shot, Window Frames Collection framelit die, Large oval punch

 

Next came the first of the rock and roll cards. Sorry my photo taking skills leave a bit to be desired.

 

 

 

Card: So Saffron, Perfect Plum, Crumb Cake, Whisper White

Ink: So Saffron, Perfect Plum, Crumb Cake

Stamp sets: Rain or Shine

Tool: Crimper, Medium oval punch, Curly label punch

 

Finally the last card.

Card: Whisper White, So Saffron

Ink: So Saffron,Wild Wasabi

Stamp Set: French Foliage

Tool: Scallop border punch, 1^3/4 square punch, 1^3/8 square punch, Wild Wasabi ribbon