Paint charts, punches and paper piecing...

Looks like we are all ready for February 14th after last week's workshop! Lots of hearts in various styles. Here are the paint chart hearts using shades of the same colour tone.

And a couple of mosaic style hearts...

And a couple of cards exploring colour/tone in a different way...

The paper piecing demo explored the use of pattern as well as colour...first up paper strips, with a few hearts creeping in though!

Paper weaving...

And moving away from paper strips to incorporating torn paper, matting and layering and other shapes, oh and a few hearts!

Happy New Card Club Year...

...bit late but like Chinese New Year it starts a month in!!

Anyway the first workshop of the year will take place on Wednesday (27th) timing 7.45 - 9.45pm - dates now confirmed with the Church Hall. So the usual last Wednesday of the month apart - from our two in November.

Our first workshop of the year will feature paper mosaics and paper piecing - exploring colour and pattern choices. There is a slight Valentine's focus, but it doesn't have to be all hearts!

Shades of one colour - pastel pinks and red

Contrasting colours - brights

Shades of primary colours

Ombre effect using punches and paint chart chips

We will also be discussing the year ahead. I sent out invites before Christmas to everyone who is on Pinterest to post to our new board - Ideas for 2016 - but not sure everyone has accepted their invites. Please check your notifications so you can get pinning your ideas. (That includes you Michelle!!) If you use the Pinterest App I'm aware it is not always obvious that you have an invite. Let me know if you are having any problems and I can try to resend the invites.

See you on Wednesday.

Quick cards for Christmas

Wednesday will be our last workshop for 2014 and as is the tradition we will be making quick and easy Christmas cards using patterned papers. We will of course also be presenting prizes to the winners of our Dec this Journal challenge and presenting our very own ACMC awards. We will also have mince pies and our Christmas Charity raffle so don't forget to bring your prizes and your pennies.

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.