Class Make and Take

This was our second make and take at Whitminster's class this month.  The greeting I chose would make this card suitable to give at the birth of a child or alternatively, by changing this greeting the card would be suitable for a number of occasions.  The colours used were Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery along with Whisper White.

We used the lovely "En Francais" stamp with Pretty in Pink ink to create our background on the back Whisper White layer and mounted this onto Pretty in Pink cardstock.  The DSP is from the "Tea Party" pack, it is so pretty, I love the soft pastel colours and of course the 12x12" sheets are double sided so you have lots of options to choose from.

We punched the bird and branch from the "Two-step" Bird Punch and stamped with the "Fine Flourish" stamp in Certainly Celery ink.  The greeting was from the "Nursery Necessities" stamp set.  We used the Daubers to ink around most of the layers to soften the edges.

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I am holding some extra classes in my craft room during the school holidays, numbers will be limited to six, details to follow shortly.

Thanks for stopping by, happy stamping!

Final Layout

I have hundreds of photographs of my son racing and many

completed layouts of him too but you can never have enough layouts of your children, don't you agree!  This photograph was taken last year at a two day event in Bromyard, Worcestershire and my son finished first overall.

The papers are from "Spiced Cider" and I also used some of the Patterns DSP in Chocolate Chip.  We sanded the edges of the DSP to break each layer up as this shows the white base underneath.  Our title and date frames are stamped using "Framed with Love" which is such a gorgeous set and then hand cut and layered using Dimensionals.  We hand cut a tag shape and added a Jumbo Eyelet at the top using the Cropadile.  We also stamped a star image from the "Nursery Necessities" stamp set and added a Metal Edge Tag with a punched heart from the "Heart to Heart" punch.  I added the letter "J" to mine as Jack's initial and punched a 1 3/4" circle from Old Olive cardstock and adhered onto the Metal Edge Tag.

All in all a pretty simple layout, as we make 3 layouts during our class they can't be too involved, but that's not to say that you can't add on your own extras when you get home!

So Saffron Stars!

I have finally had chance to sit and be creative with my new stamps and here is my first creation, a "new baby" card welcoming the "little one".  The star stamps are from "Nursery Necessities" stamped with So Saffron ink onto Whisper White card.  The middle star has been clear embossed and raised using Dimensionals.  It is difficult to see from the picture but I stamped a background onto the main body of the card using one of the tree stamps from the newly released "Trendy Trees".  I used the Scallop Edge Punch to create a border and made holes in each scallop with the Paper Piercer.