Colouring Competition!

First of all a very big thank you to our guest demonstrator and judge at our June workshop - Zoe Green of NameScape fame.

Zoe provided the inspiration for our Summer card competition with her amazing NameScape pictures. Zoe hand draws all her pictures and uses Promarkers to colour them. She personalises each picture based on the recipient's hobbies, interests and experiences.

Follow the NameScape links to see further examples of her work. Here is the very detailed picture she drew for my daughter Emma for her 13th Birthday.

NameScape by Zoe Green

For our competition we chose to work with numbers rather than names. The challenge was to personalise them using a range of stamps and embellishments and obviously incorporate some of the Promarker techniques that Zoe demonstrated for us. She shared her knowledge (20 year's worth!) of using Promarkers to create light and shade and 3D effects, as well as her passion for the purple Promarkers! Here are some photos of you all in action following the demo.

Zoe also very kindly agreed to judge the finished cards, a job which she said she found very difficult because of the standard of the cards produced. Well done to everyone who took part. See below for the finished cards and...drum roll please...photos of the winners with their cards!

And the winners were: 

Penny in third place with her 61st patchwork card that perfectly coordinates with her outfit! Well done Penny! 

Sue in second place with her pink and purple glittery 20th card. Well done Sue! Penny and Sue both won a grown-up colouring book! 

And the winner was Carol Shenton with her purple floral 60th card which also coordinates very well with her outfit! Carol won her membership back as well as a grown-up colouring book. Well done Carol!

Well done to everyone for rising to the challenge. And thank you again to Zoe. We hope to see you at Card Club again soon!

Village Day and Competition winners

Part two of the photo gallery for this month - including pictures of a mostly dry Village Day, 3D card competition winners and Stamping challenge winners.

Firstly our stall. We needed the gazebos this year and clothes pegs to hold them together and prevent leaks!

First time ever it's rained on us at Village Day!
Linda - you should have sent your raincoat!

General birthday cards

Cards and peg magnets

Special birthday cards and bookmarks

Notebooks, card sets and Sally's picture frame - evidence!

Other occasion cards and Get Well tissue packs

Kids and New Baby Cards

Sweetie treats

Football themed Father's Day gifts

Secondly, the competition entries. A big thank you to Joy Wemms, Rotary President, for judging our competition. Well done to Mandy our winner and Carol S our runner-up. Mandy won some crafty goodies and her membership fee back and Carol also received some crafty goodies.

Joy Wemms with the competition entries

Mandy's winning entry

And thirdly the best entries in our bi-monthly challenge this month, as voted by you at Card Club. The challenge was to showcase a stamp you like and a stamp you don't. The votes were counted and pages are shown in reverse order below. Third place was D - not sure whose this is. Please let me know and I will add your name in lights to the blog! Second place was Kay B - Project C And finally congratulations to...  Linda W, project H, who came first and wins a free workshop next time. Well done Linda.

Pearl techniques...

Hopefully you are all getting on well with your humorous card challenge for next month (May workshop). If you didn't pick up a stamped image last month and would like one just ask us at this week's workshop as we have some spare. And don't forget to check on our link to Pinterest for inspiration with funny quotes.

We are getting closer to our deadline for the Pearl/30th Card competition, which is also due in at the May workshop, in time for judging at Village Day. So in order to give you a little helping hand towards the deadline, this week's workshop will be based around different pearl techniques.

We will have pearl card available, stick on pearls in a range of colours and we will be doing demos using Liquid Pearls and Cosmic Shimmer pearly powders. So if you have an idea already, you can use the available resources to get on with your card or you can get further inspiration from our demos.

See you there!

Dib dib dib!!!

Well a change of venue and time for this week's extra November workshop - the Scout Hut in Ashtead 8.30 till 10.30pm (where we have done our Saturday workshops previously). We will be making Christmas decorations this week - three variations on a Christmas star/snowflake theme. Please bring any kitchen roll tubes you may have for Kay's demo.

Plus the Cuttlebug and dies will be available to make simple cut-out or 3D decorations.

Dob dob dob - till Wednesday!!