Wednesday 14 November 2012

A quick sneaky post

Hello there
I'm being naughty and writing this post in bed, as 'him indoors' is away at the moment, so I can!
 I want to share a couple of cards I made tonight at a friend's Stamp-a-stack event. Catherine did a brilliant job of leading us rowdy crafters in the right direction, yet in a way which still let us have fun. 

This was the first one we made. You'll see that I've not done a very good job on matching up my layers. I love the cherry cobbler colour though. You can't tell from this photo but I also sprayed a homemade alcohol mist over the whisper white card sections. You use the Stampin' Up gold shimmer mist with some alcohol in a spray bottle - it's so much easier and prettier than glitter.
The next card was my favourite -
We were shown how to emboss only away from the centre piece - it's a great technique to provide a very effective look. It basically involves creating a home made thick stencil of the shape you want and placing that on the top of your 'sandwich' whilst running it through your Cuttlebug or whichever machine you own. I chose a scalloped card base, as I think it ties in well with the scalloped circle in the middle.
I had a fun night with my crafty friends and I've still got all the kit to make another 5 cards at least from Catherine.  We were too busy chatting to make a 'stack' :-)
Thanks again x

Take care out there and try to craft with friends as often as you can

4 comments:

  1. Your cards look fab, and thanks for bringing glittery stuff for us to play with!

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  2. they look great... argh I missed glitter!! darn sickness bug!!

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  3. Its always so much fun when a group of crafters get together :D Your cards look fabulous! x

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  4. Helen, you'll proabably make all 8 of the cards Catherine had planned as we're not there to disrupt you :-)
    Karen - I agree completely, although my group tend to talk too much and not get alot of crafting done but we love it, so no matter :-)

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