Leaving Gift

At the end of last term the deputy head left my sons school. She had been there for 10 years so all the time I have been there. I was asked by one of the teachers if I could make her a book that the children could all leave a message in for her. So I got my thinking cap on and came up with a tag book to hold nearly 200 tags! Two of the other mums from school spent a morning with me secreted in one of the classrooms making the pages ready for the tags (thank you so much Clare and Jeanette). I then borrowed my mother in laws sewing machine and stitched all the pockets down for added strength. Added some stamping and the class names, made a cover and put it all together. Simples! I was really pleased with the rainbow effect to tie in with the theme of fair seas and following winds with each class having a different colour fibre to tie their tags. I was also really pleased with the stab binding and the ribbon closure which went all down the right hand side to make sure the tags didn't fall out. Unfortunately I can't show pictures of the inside because it contains pictures of the children but here are some images of the outside.

 

 

Kanzashi Flowers

For our class at the crop on Saturday we used a paper that did most of the work for us when it came to making a lovely page, the paper had a title for us as well as a cute banner and some lovely glitter for an added touch of glamour. So the main technique for our class was something a little bit different. We used ribbon to make Kanzashi Flowers. If you want to have a go you can find a video on YouTube showing how to make them here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVb1-CoKUk) although we made 8 petals rather than 5. The ribbon has a gold side and a silver side both of which went beautifully with the paper. Here are some of the lovely layouts the ladies made (I just love the fact that they have made the layouts their own).

Here is my layout with a photo of my middle son celebrating his 11th birthday (sorry the photograph of him didn't come out too well!)

 This is Bobby's page and as you can see she used an oval cutter to shape her photo. Don't the wedding photos go really well on the page?

 Here is Carols page. She cut a scalloped circle with her Nestabilities which addes a lovely effect to the edge of the photo.

 Here is Glendas page and another oval to emphasise her granddaughter on her 18th birthday.

 Joy has made her own little red roses and used a red photo mount to go with her photo and has left a much larger section of the ribbon showing under her photo which really helps balance her page as she had a much smaller photo to use.

 Sue has grouped 3 photos together to tell the story of her father-in-laws 70th birthday

If any of the other ladies who did the class want to e-mail through photos of their pages I will happily add them to the blog :)

Funcrops

On Saturday I went to West Sussex for Sue's Littlegreen crop. We had a lovely day catching up and doing a bit of crafting too. I worked on an old Basic Grey page of the month kit which is very nearly finished, just need to add some stars! I'll hopefully finish it tonight, children willing! On Sunday I went to the Funcrops in Abingdon (near Oxford). This did mean a manic weekend but also meant I didn't have to unpack and repack the car, I just left it all packed ready to go Sunday morning. Sunday morning it was wet, wet, wet... I had a lovely day scrapping and meeting up with  the ladies again. Here are some of the projects they were working on during the day.

And breathe!!

I have had a cram packed 3 days... card classes Friday, crop in West Sussex Saturday and the a crop in Oxfordshire on Sunday! I was ready to drop Sunday night! So I have a lot of lovely creations to share with you. Today I'll show you the cards we made at the Cre8tive Cards class and then later in the week I'll share some of the lovely creations from over the weekend.

Our first card was this banner card using some lovely Hero Arts stamps

Our second card followed our sketch for the day and our colours for the day too. After playing with some ribbon I came up with the ruffled ribbon technique on it too which I really like.

 It's Fathers Day this Sunday so we made a nice masculine card for all our dads (or we changed the greeting if we didn't have a dad to send to).

 For our Cre8tive Fold we made a stepper card using layers of white on white and a contrasting die cut ballerina in black.

 And last but not least we did some piercing to make a border for this clever birthday candle greeting stamp.

Party Number 3!

Alex had his third party on Sunday and what a cool party it was. The kids went zip wiring and a couple of us brave adults had a go too. Alex was a bit unsure at first but soon got into the swing of things (excuse the pun!). Here is the card he sent to his friend...

 And here we are on the zipwire!

June Cre8tive Cards

The next Cre8tive cards is fast approaching so if you are local why not join us for a fun afternoon or evening of crafting. You will make at least 5 cards, learn new techniques, have full instructions to take home so you can replicate the cards and get a free gift too. All the materials you require are included, you just need to bring along basic tools (trimmer, ruler, pencil, adhesive, scissors) and the rest is all included in the cost of the class.

So what is in store for June's class? Well there is a great masculine card suitable for Fathers Day or a male birthday, a white on white stepper card, a great summery colour inspiration and more...

The details are...

10 June 2011

Fareham North West Community Centre, PO15 6TL

Afternoon session 12:30 – 3pm OR Evening session 7-9:30pm

Cost £10 which includes all materials required (please bring basic tools & adhesive)

Full instructions included to take home

Free gift with each class

You will need to book as places are limited especially in the evening session

Call Katie on 01329 313633 or e-mail katie@cre8tiveonline.co.uk for more details and to book your place

 Today I thought I'd show you another series of cards that I made as thank you notes for my sons friends who came to his birthday party. These cards were made using scraps from my scraps box, I have a drawer in which I put all my scraps from my scrapbooking and these usually are used on cards although I never seem to make a dent in the pile.

 The common theme for this series was the little ant that appears somewhere on each card. Again these were some stickers that I have had sitting there forever and I wanted to use some of them up. I still have lots more to use as well as lots of little ladybirds so I expect they will feature at some point in the future.

I hope you like the cards and are inspired a little to use up some scraps or some stickers that you have had hanging around for a while!