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!!

Getting Sentimental

This month our demos will give you the chance to get ahead with your first challenge card (if you haven't already done it) which is to create a card where the sentiment is the main feature on the card. We will have lots of sentiment stamps available for you to choose from. 

My demo will focus on using watercolour markers with various different types of stamps and we will look at different ways they can be used - so not all cards are sentiment focused. (Sally you will get the chance to do the butterfly card similar to the one I pinned to Pinterest if you like!)

Michelle will focus on using Nestabilities very cleverly to create flip cards where the central panel can be used as a focus for your sentiment. She also has another clever folding idea for funny sentiment cards - see below!!!

We also plan to have a short AGM at the start of the workshop, so we will try to get started promptly. Oh and you may need your diaries.

February fever!

Obviously lots of birthdays in February as the February circles were in demand - for Valentine's Day too of course! Good to see everyone again after the Christmas break and you certainly haven't lost your crafting mojo!

And you were busy making your calendars, ready for the year ahead too.

Christmas Creativity

Here are some of your creations from Wednesday. First up origami wreaths:

Click here for a tutorial on how to make these.

And here are some of the die cut snowmen, trees and wreaths. We used circle Nestabilities and the new Classic Poinsettia Dies from Creative Expressions.

Tree tutorial here (amongst others.)

Karen's "flashing" snowman has been censored to preserve his modesty!!

Your final Challenge page was to print using fruit or veg. Here are the final entries. Winners of this and the overall Journal challenge will be announced at the next workshop.

And here are your completed Dec. this Journals. Judging will take place in the next few days. Watch this space...

Bunnies, bags, boxes and book page challenge

Just a selection of the many bunny Easter cards made on Wednesday using die cut shapes.

And the Easter bags and boxes - handbags were particularly popular.

For demo notes on how to make the Easter Bunny Box or Gift Basket, click here. For the handbag click here.

Michelle and I are still deliberating over which book page to choose for our Challenge this month. It is always so difficult to choose so we thought we would have a "People's Choice" vote. Send me a reply to the email notifying you of this blog update and let me know your top 3 entries by specifying the letter shown below, next to your three favourite entries - eg A, B, C. You can still vote even if you didn't enter. You may only vote once and do not vote for your own! We will tally them up and the one with the most votes will win free entry to the next workshop. In the event of a tie Michelle and I will cast the deciding vote(s). Well done to all who took part and we will announce the winner at the next workshop.

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