Ladies that Craft!

Thirteen lovely ladies, lots of paper, lots of glue, lots of punches, stamps and ink but most of all, lots of fun!

 

Thursday saw my sixth month at Ransomes Sports & Social Club for crafting.  In reality I can't call it a card class as a few ladies spend their time Scrapbooking! The one thing we all do equally is have a lovely time together. I had 12 ladies this month, being the most in one night, plus a VIP guest. Saskia is 7 years old and very clearly takes after her Nanny Janice as she's very talented, very lovely and very well behaved. Ok, well 2 out of the 3 are like her Nanny but I'm not going to publicly announce which ones they are! I leave that to your imagination!!!

June 2012 Card Class

"Please Miss!" "Janice there really is no need to put your hand up!"

 Apparently, according to my husband, its impossible to get a picture of me with my mouth closed! I Have no idea what he means, I'm sure!  Last evenings card class was lots of fun and the ladies seemed to be very pleased with the outcome of all their hard work; there were lots of happy smiling faces as you can see below!

Nice layouts Bex!

My Layout!

Bex came up with some great layouts with the scrapping kit; very imaginative! I'm looking forward to seeing what they look like with photos on them!   I like to bring a nice selection of stamps and punches so that the scrappers can get even more creative, Bex was very excited about the Cupcake and Owl Punches!  Here you can see my take on the kit to help with inspiration.  Sarah did a similar layout to mine and it looked fab!  When I look at the picture on my layout it always makes me wonder where all the time has gone to!  Scrapping gives me so much pleasure and I always enjoy my escapes to Create and Co to do my own! 

If you would like to see the cards we made at this card class please visit my facebook page on the link on the left side of the blog! (If you look carefully you can see them below with Janice's and Nicola's beautiful makes!) Left is a close up of some of the stamp work using stamps from various sets (see labels below) to create this wonderful collage which I was really pleased with! 

Janice and Nicola

I can't wait 'til the next Card Class; I do love seeing all the lovely ladies, and we do have such a good laugh too! 

Rachel, Bex and Lizzie

Card Class at Ransomes Sports and Social Club 31st May 2012

A display of all the kits and personalised sweetie boxes!

Sorry this is a bit late in coming but here we are with last months Card Class pictures.  I thought this time I would show you the prepared kits all ready and willing to go!  As you can see I decided to go along with the rest of the nation and do it in 'Jubilee' style!  The Union Jack was made up with so many strips I thought it might get confusing but as you can see below there were no such problems!  I gave my ladies some creative freedom so that they could use the same kit but vary their results; again below shows how good that can turn out!

I used mostly materials from the summer mini but had to adapt to get all I needed together for the Celebrate card.  On the blue background to the flag I used the Parlour Prints stamp in craft white and heat embossed using the cherry scented embossing powder from the summer mini; very effective I thought!  

I love to mess about with my punches and it is amazing how versatile they can be.  Using the Blossom punch and cutting off two of the petals you get a cool little butterfly!  I used a brad from the antiques pack to hold it in place!  The Blossom punch was also used to create the layered flower on the pop up card.  Again using different colours and papers the results were all unique!

The ladies loved having some sweets to nibble at to get the creative juice flowing!  Starburst will do that for you!!!  I'm really loving the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch.  It is very effective as an alternative to actual ribbon and looks great wrapped around the little personnalised (using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet) boxes (made with the Bigz Scallop Square Clear die and scored on the Simply Scored Scoring Tool) made for the sweeties.  Try saying that after a glass or two of wine!!!!!

These two lovelies were created by Nicola as variations using the same kits!  It is always a delight to see what people come up with using their own imagination!

First Card Class at Ransomes Sports & Social Club - Summer Mini

These lovelies are Nicola's creations from the evening!

Lorraine, very pleased!

 

Bex, Rachael, Maggie and Jo

This Class was going to be a trial run held in the bar at Ransomes Sports and Social Club but in the event I had 10 lovely ladies come along so it was a good thing that we were given a great side room instead as it was polling day and the bar was a little busy!

The Scrappers!

We arrived and started to set up and before we knew it all the ladies had arrived and it was all go! Tracey and Dawn prefer to scrapbook so I prepared a little package each for them with papers, ribbons and embellishments and they were thrilled!  I was amazed at what they had come up with, Tracey having completed almost 4 layouts in the two hours with Dawn not far behind! Not so for Mike, who had bought them along, and Paul who took all that time enjoy a pint of beer in the bar, escaping from all us crazy ladies!

It looks chaotic, but creativeness is like that!

Jo Hard at Work

We had a wide range  of experience levels at the class from absolute beginners to expert and all made fantastic cards to take home with them.  It is very rewarding to see someone who has never made a card before to go away with

Lorraine, Sandra, Janice, Tracey and Dawn

something good enough to send to someone!

Everyone seemed to have a good time and some have already booked their places on the next one on 31st May.  If you would like to come along please contact me by email on karencurd@hotmail.co.uk or at Facebook via the link.  

Check out Nicola's Blog entries of the event by following links below!

The Cards :)

As promised here's a peek of the cards we made last night ...

A (Card) Class Act !

Last night was Stampin' Up! Card Class with the lovely Karen Curd, Janice, Lorraine, Sandra and I spent a couple of hours making cards and thoroughly enjoying ourselves , I was especially pleased to be out on a school night !!!