Friendly Plastic and more.

Another inspirational demo, from Kay this time, and another technique we might need to have another go at later in the year! If you can't wait that long you might like to have a look at this Friendly Plastic blog for more ideas.

By Gabby

By Kay P

By Monica

We were also impressed by your patchwork number techniques. A great way of using up paper scraps and at the same time honing skills in colour, tone and pattern matching.

By Jenny

Hope to see lots of you at Village Day on 11th June - less than two weeks away now!!

Letters, Numbers, Colours and Patterns...

...the theme for this month. So that covers quite a lot really!! The Cricut and Cuttlebug machines will be available to cut out letters and messages. We will be making use of our alphabet stamps and peel offs and we will be decorating die cut letters and numbers, either by using a patchwork of papers or stamping and embossing.

Paper patchwork

Kay will also be on hand to demonstrate how to create colourful, patterned embellishments using friendly plastic. So don't miss out!!

Friendly Plastic

And don't forget that if you want to send your cards for sale on our stall at Village Day, we will be collecting them in this week. (If you can help on the stall too then we would be very grateful.) Your Membership Pack Competition Cards are due in at Wednesday's workshop too - looking forward to seeing your creations!

Wax and shaving foam...

...might sound like a trip to the beauty salon, but no, that was our workshop on Wednesday!! Here are some of the cards that were created with the encaustic art and shaving foam marbling techniques. A big thank you to Graeme and Josie for their demonstration on the encaustic art. Cards below are by Gill C, Monica and Kay B.

The cards below all have backgrounds created using the shaving foam marbling technique, then images have been stamped on top. Cards below by Mandy, Marie and Brenda.

And well done to those people who completed the 'Red, White and Blue' card challenge this month (sorry Brenda missed yours for the photo). Hope you all enjoyed your Royal Wedding celebrations yesterday.

This month's challenge is to get busy with your competition cards ready to hand in next month for judging at Village Day.

Have fun and enjoy the rest of the long weekend!

Encaustic Art

A busy week this week - Michelle still busy counting everyone (census), kids (and me!) back to school tomorrow, Card Club workshop on Wednesday, then off again for the Royal Wedding and associated celebrations on Friday - hope you have all been making your red, white and blue themed cards for the challenge we set at the last workshop.


At this month's workshop we will be brushing up on our ironing skills! Graeme from the Tadworth club will be leading the encaustic art taster workshop. As you can see from his sample cards above he is very artistic and will be demonstrating some of the basics using special encaustic art irons and tools. I know lots of you have expressed an interest in this technique so it will be good to give it a go - and much fun than real ironing!!

In keeping with Graeme's cards above, our theme for this month is Nature/Underwater and we will also be demonstrating another technique for creating interesting background designs using shaving foam and inks - great for underwater scenes.

More memberships are due this month and that means another batch of membership packs will be handed out. So time to rummage through your packs and begin to design your competition cards. This year we would like you to use at least five items from your membership pack in your card design. It can be any size, shape or design and can be for any occasion, but must include the all important five items - you can list the items used on a separate slip of paper if it is not obvious. As with previous competitions we will arrange for the cards to be judged at Village Day and the winning member wins back their membership money. Card entries will need to be given to us at the May workshop (or before if completed).

We do have a confirmed stall at Village Day again this year - Saturday 11th June. So once again we will be asking for a merry band of volunteers to help set up and man the stall - let us know asap if you can help out. Also please think about sending some of your cards and/or handcrafted items for sale. If you want to know more about how we organise this then again please ask us at the next workshop. It helps us to organise the stall if you can make sure your cards are given to us before Village Day, in cellophane bags with envelopes, sorted into event categories and labelled with your membership number.

And that's all for now. Till Wednesday...see you then.

Dress Code

Check out some of our card creations from our March workshop.

Using punches/die cuts:

Brenda

Fantasy film and fibre: Linda W

Gabby

Joanne

Nestabilities dresses:

Kay P

Monica

Folded dress:

Karen

For Karen's templates click on the links below:

Dress Shaped Card

Folded dress 1

Folded dress 2

For the origami folded shirt click below. This is not exactly the same as the one I had, but very similar.

Origami shirt folding - will need to scale down if using florist ribbon.

Make a fashion statement...

Wednesday's theme is "Fashion and clothing". We have three demos this month, with Karen W. being our guest demonstrator. She will be showing you how to fold dresses out of patterned papers - at least two different styles, one starting with a Nestabilities cut out circle and the other more of an origami type fold. I will be making dress embellishments (and shirts if anyone needs a man's card) using stencils and die cuts as a starting point and adding ribbon, braid, fabric, felt, beads, wire, sequins etc. and Michelle will be stamping on to Fantasy Film and Fibre to create her fashion embellishments.


So come and try your hand at a bit of miniature dress design - you never know Kate may still be on the lookout for that perfect Wedding Dress!!

See you tomorrow.

Distressed and shimmering!

Just a few of the masterpieces created last Wednesday at Card Club following Michelle's 'distressing' demo! (That's distressing as in Distress inks in case you were wondering!) It's great to see the different designs produced from one demo - just shows what a creative bunch you are! The designs above were created by Marie, Jenny and Linda W. And here is a Cosmic shimmer painted design by Gill C. Tones in nicely with the blog background!

Our themed workshops seem to have got off to a good start. Our plan for the rest of the year, based on your questionnaires, is as follows: (may be subject to change, but we will let you know as far in advance as possible)

March - Clothing/Fashion
April - Nature/Underwater
May - Numbers, Colours and Patterns
June - Animals/Cute cards
July - Weather/Seasons
August - Sports
September - Oriental
October - Music
November (1) - Vintage/History
November (2) - Crafty Christmas projects

Please let us know if you have any specific ideas or resources that you are willing to share at any of these workshops. As far as extra workshops go, we are working on this at the moment. Michelle spoke to Barbara Gray at Farnborough, so thank you to Linda W for putting us on to her. Watch this space...

Don't forget Kay's 'Fabric Figurines' workshop in Ewell too.


Venue: Glyn Hall, Ewell Village
Usually once a month an a Saturday between 9am and 1pm
Cost:£25
Bring: White t-shirt, pair of scissors, apron

E-mail Kay for more details.

And that's all for now...so ta-ra till the next post!