Not Simply Stamping

Our techniques on Wednesday both involve stamping, but it won't be a case of stamping and mounting the images. We will have two demos as usual on Wednesday - one led by Kay and one led by Sue. Kay will be showing you how to layer a stamped image to give a 3D effect to your stamped cards.

Sue will be showing you two different ways to achieve a tiled effect, with your stamped images.

Cut tiles

Scored tiles

The results are in for last month's challenge too - as voted by you! They will be announced after a long pause and drumroll on Wednesday!! See you there.

Juan Sheet!!

So tomorrow's workshop - CHRISTMAS!!!! No getting away from it now the shops have got Christmas stuff in. So tomorrow one of our demos is a challenge demo - make a set of Christmas cards out of one sheet of paper - (not "Juan Sheet" of the Plenty Kitchen Roll advert as the title suggests!) Choose your background paper, decide how to cut it up to get maximum usage, jazz up the paper a bit if you like, then add embellishments and greetings. Job done and Christmas cards started - (next year's for you Mandy!!)

The second demo will be punch art/die cut cards using basic shapes as a starting point for Christmas themed cards like the tree below. 

Also don't forget to bring your challenge cards this month - new card from old. And we will have a new Christmas take home challenge for you too.

Hopefully your altered mirrors are coming along well for the Christmas competition too. If you haven't had chance yet you might want to come along to our Saturday workshop on Saturday 5th October. We will be making items suitable for gifts for Christmas using scrapbook papers and Mod Podge. This is a technique that works well with the mirrors and many other things. Other projects could include coasters and table mats, washer necklaces, tins, glass vases, card organiser boxes, Countdown to Christmas decorations etc. Mod Podge mania!!

Some of the projects are quicker than others so both full and half day workshops will be available again.

Workshop Costs:

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

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

See you tomorrow.

Technology troubles!

Just a quick update while I am able to access the blog! We are still having a few technical difficulties at home so I have limited internet access at the moment. May not be able to add any of my photos till it is fixed. But watch this space...I may work out a way!! Or we might get it fixed!

The next Ashtead workshop is on a sports/male theme. Kay will be demoing 'steampunk' techniques and I do have some photos of these that Kay emailed to me - see below.



We also have some decoupage sports sheets, cigarette style sports cards and lots of rubber stamps for you to play with. A good chance to get more ideas for those always tricky male cards!!

And remember the challenge this month is to make a sports/olympic themed card.