Twitcher alert!

"In a change to the published programme..." we will be doing Pan Pastels, Distress Inks and Gelatos this month and not silk painting and mini canvases as per the original list. (that will now be next month)

Karen will be demoing her little birdie cards using die cuts and either Pan Pastels or distress inks to colour them in to create the species of your choice. Here's a test for the twitchers among you - name these birds...

I will be doing a demo with Gelato crayons - looking at several different techniques using embossing folders, die cuts, stamps etc...

But that's not all for this blog post as you may have noticed I missed one. So here are the Challenge Cards from last time - Emboss It challenge.

A

B

C

And of course your brayered cards:

And your Brusho cards:

And finally some pictures from Village Day where we managed to keep the rain away again!!

Village Day 2015 Photos

Well another successful Village Day with a steady flow of customers and some regulars returning to stock up on their cards. We were sandwiched between the YMCA bottle tombola and the Alzheimer's Society stalls this year - guess that is about where we fit in real life! The weather stayed fine again and an enjoyable day was had by all. Thank you to Karen, Sue, Penny, Rachael and Katherine for their help on the day. 

Here are a few pics of the stall set up.

Michelle cling-filmed the cards to the stand this year to save time on set up!
Here she is dancing with it!!

All ready to go. Katherine keeping an eye on things.

Zoe's Ashtead NameScape drew a lot of people in to the stall this year
 - very eye-catching.

This is the pre-coloured version of Zoe's limited edition Ashtead NameScape.

Neatly arranged cards

Ice cream cone sweetie treats -
sold out after Rachael and Katherine's top sales pitch!

Busy stall!

Handbags at dawn...

Watch out they may explode at any minute...

And a "Parliament of Owls" - quite appropriate this week! The owls get my vote!!

And a selection of other punch art animals:

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!!