Showing posts with label crafty gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafty gifts. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Pleased as punch

At this month's workshop we will be looking at different ways of using punches and die cuts to help us get a head start for Village Day on June 13th. It will be a good opportunity to make cards for occasions other than birthdays - new baby, graduation, new home etc - we always try to make sure we have every occasion covered on the stall on Village Day!

Owl Punch Ideas
Ice Cream Punch Ideas
Monkey Punch Ideas
Using Nesties for New Baby Card Ideas

As well as the usual cards of course we will also be showing you some ideas for making gift items to sell or give away to your friends - post it keyrings, bookmarks, sweetie gifts and of course the list wouldn't be complete without Michelle's exploding handbags!!!

Watch out its going to... 
...explode!!!
Handbag using nesties
Ideas for contents of the gift bags
And the results are in for last month's challenge. To be announced on Wednesday!!

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Mod Podge Mania

Lots of sticky fingers on Saturday as we pretty much Mod Podged everything in sight!! I only have a few photos below, but we were Mod Podging chipboard books, glass tea-light holders, Jenga blocks, clothes pegs, card boxes, tins, glass bead magnets. There were also a few Mod Podged mirrors, but hopefully we will see them in our altered mirror competition so no photos of them yet.








Where will it all stop!!

Monday, 10 June 2013

Village Day and other news


The sun shone on Village Day and we had a much better pitch this year. We sold lots of cup cakes, cards, jewellery and sweetie gifts and met several more crafty people, who we hope will join us for future workshops. Looking forward to meeting you again.






Our Card competition was judged this year by David Gillott of Four Gables Food Academy in Ashtead, who was running his own demonstrations and baking competitions on the day. We will reveal the result at the next workshop and pass on his complimentary feedback too! Thank you very much to David for doing this for us - very much appreciated.


The crafting doesn't stop there! Michelle and I were up at Tadworth today running our regular second Monday of the month workshop. They all enjoyed having a go at the glitter paste and stencil technique, with some excellent results. Check out some of the new designs below.




Wednesday 26th June will be our next evening workshop in Ashtead at St Michael's Church Hall. In a change to our original schedule we will be covering Distress Ink techniques - check the blog the weekend before for further details on this one.

On Sat. 29th June we will be running another all-day crafting workshop at the Scout Hut in Ashtead. Techniques on offer include basic Mosaic projects, Decopatch projects and Altering items using a technique with bitumen (see mirror picture below)




We offer half or full days for the Mosaics and Decopatch, but the bitumen technique really needs a full day .

Workshop Costs:

Half Day (10am-1pm or 1pm-4pm) - £6 Members, £7 Non-Members

Full Day (10am-4pm) - £10 Members, £12 Non-members

You may bring your own items to Mosaic/Decopatch or alter or we will have items available to buy on the day too. Children (age 7+) are welcome, with a supervising adult for the half day afternoon session for mosaics and Decopatch projects.

Please contact us to book or if you would like further details.

Friday, 7 June 2013

Village Day 2013

Village Day tomorrow and this year we have an even wider range of crafty items for sale this year! We have Father's Day craft projects - cards, decorated tins, bottle gift tags...


...crafty cupcakes (although these are not edible ones!! A "sweet" little gift comprising a face flannel and a lip balm)...



...sweetie treats (and these are edible!) - sweetie and lollipop butterflies and decorated TicTac boxes...


...flower bookmarks and peg fridge magnets...


...and other crafty projects and gifts, as well as our usual range of hand made greeting cards.

Look forward to seeing lots of you there!