We're all little angels at Card Club!

Our November workshop at the Scout Hut involved making bags, tags and boxes and also ribbon angels. We were all quite taken with these as they were quite quick to make and can be used to decorate presents as well as decorations - see below:

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!!

Juan Sheet Part Dos...

Today at Tadworth we made gift bags and matching cards out of one sheet of 12 x12. Here are some of the results:

To make the gift bag first cut 4 inches off one side of the 12 x 12 paper. This can be put aside and used to make your cards and gift tags. Draw out the template as shown below. Click on the picture to enlarge and see the measurements. For instructions on how to fold the bag click here for a video tutorial.

For more One sheet templates click here to see examples on our Pinterest board.

Village Day 2012

Well here is a photo to prove that we were at Village Day even if nobody could find us!! We were not allocated the best spot this year, but the sun shone, the wind blew, and the rain stayed away - hooray!

And although it was definitely not our best year for card sales, we did well with selling the owl gift boxes and jubilee gift bags, thanks mainly to Gabby's son Max who did a great job!! Thanks Max! Click here to see how to make the triangular gift bags.

We also had the Competition Cards judged by Evan Davis (BBC Economics Journalist and Dragon's Den presenter). Find out who he chose as the next card-making entrepreneur at the next workshop on 27th June!

Too whit too woo!!

Hope you have all recovered from various Jubilee celebrations at the weekend. The fun continues here in Ashtead with Village Day on Saturday - let's hope we will be lucky with the weather. Just a quick (mainly photos) update this time and a sneak preview of some of the items made at Card Club on Wednesday, ready for sale on the stall on Saturday.  Lots of people enjoyed making the owl gift boxes, some even made little owl families!

Several people made red, white and blue themed cards and enjoyed colouring in our newly purchased Little Claire's stamps. Hopefully we will see some of these for sale on Saturday.

Our toffee filled gift bags will be on sale too, as well as kits to make more personalised ones. (Click on the links for tutorials on how to make the torn paper roses and the triangular gift bags below) 

Well done to everyone who entered our white on white card challenge and especially well done to Brenda, our winner, who receives free entry into one of our workshops. Highly commended cards were by Mandy and Kay.

Mandy's Highly Commended card

Kay's Highly Commended card

Brenda's winning card

Next month's challenge is to create a background for a card which you will then swap in a lucky dip. Another club member will complete your card and you will complete someone else's. Winners will receive half price entry into a workshop as the prize will be shared by both people contributing to the card.

All for now - hope to see you on Saturday.

Jubilee Jamboree

With two big events coming up next week, i.e. the Diamond Jubilee and of course a Jubilee themed Village Day hot on its heels, we thought we had better plan a workshop for Wednesday that incorporates both of these themes. I will be demoing how to make red, white and blue themed gift bags (available also for sale on our Village Day stall!) complete with an English rose tag. You will have the option of making a complementary paper piecing card too, using up the scraps of red, white and blue papers left over from the gift bags.

Michelle has found some cute little owl gift boxes on the "Card a la carte" blog and will be showing you how to make them. Would be good to have some of these to sell on our stall too as they will add a bit of colour and "aaah" value! So if you don't have anyone in mind when you make yours, label it clearly with your membership number and we can put it up for sale (or adoption!) on the stall.

Also a little reminder checklist of other things to bring to Wednesday's workshop:

• Cards for selling at Village Day - in cellophane bags and clearly labelled with your membership number and sorted into categories please.
• Membership Pack Card Competition entry (any theme, but the card must contain at least 5 elements from the Membership Pack), to be judged at Village Day. 
• "White on White" club challenge card. This will be judged on the night for a chance to win free entry into one of our monthly workshops.

The crafting just never stops! Michelle, Karen and I had a craft-filled day on Saturday at one of the Little Claire's workshops down in Crawley. We all made eight cards each, using the Little Claire design stamps (which just happen to be Karen's favourites!)

Thank you to Georgina and Heidi from the Design Team at Little Claire's, and to Steve and Heidi's husband who kept us well supplied with tea! Check out their blog and see if you can spot us in the photo hard at work! I have now added a link to both their shop and blog on the sidebar too.  Please let me know your favourite inspirational blogs, websites, online shops etc so we can check them out, then add them to our lists to share with others.

See you all on Wednesday.