A busy, productive crafting weekend.

Well this weekend was a bit busy.  My sister and I joined a class with Fiona at Oakfield Crafts.  We just made a few different cards!:

The class was all day, and my sister and I stayed late as well.  The cards are based around the Petite Petals stamps and punch from Stampin Up, and four of their colour suites.   We made fourteen cards, an exploding flower box, a box for mini Easter eggs,  an acetate card storage box and a decorated pencil.  (Sorry for the rubbish photo's but photography is not my strong point.)

Some of the cards were very simple and quick to made, ideal when you need a quick make.

Others took a lot longer.  The first attempt at the exploding flower box was educational, reminding me to measure properly!

I love the papers that we used.  What I like about the Stampin Up range is that they produce card and ink to match with the papers so there is much less searching through your stash for something that goes.

The other aspect that I really like is that there are so many punches or dies that match the stamps.  There are a lot of flowers on the projects but they were so quick to make, just stamp with dye based ink (for a quick dry) then punch out.  No fiddly cutting, hooray.

I love the exploding box.  I think that this will be for my mum for Mothers Day.  (She doesn't have a computer so won't see this).

The card on my tiny easel is a new design that I've not seen before.   It appears like a file folder with tabs, and you make it with the Envelope Punch Board.  Which is also used to make the little red Easter box.

I hope that if you liked these cards you will visit Fiona's website that I have linked to at the top.  She runs shorter classes most months, either Friday evening or Saturday morning and all the card and elements are provided (just take your basic sticking preferences and tools).  The class that we went to we had a huge stack of card, loads of the papers, rhinestones, mini eggs, pencil,  acetate box AND the petite petals stamp and punch set, all to keep.  So I have lots leftover to make more cards.

Hope you like them.

LouP

Three tiered birthday card for my sister

This was a complicated and time consuming card to make.  Especially as I had to work out how to do it from some pics that I had taken of a similar card at a demo.  The Do-Craft demo lady didn't make it that day but had just brought it along as one of her examples, and it was in heart shapes.

I used my scalloped triangle die to cut three decreasing sized single triangles.  Then the same three sized dies to cut folded cards, with the bottom just over the folded edge to make 3 white triangular base cards.
I scored the front of each base card halfway along.

I decorated each of the single card triangles with Lucy Cromwell papers and topper from the mega pack.  I inked round the edge of each with a co-ordinating colour.  They are then attached to the pointed end of the base card only with some strong double sided tape.

The last piece was attaching a tricky little bow to the front to act as the first "stopper".

The card folds flat for posting if required.  To display simply tuck the point of each triangle behind the fold of the base card in front of it.

It was a slow process working out what to do, but now that I have it will be much quicker in future.  And of course I can use my other die shapes as well.  The possibilities are endless!