August Meeting - Clean and Simple

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all well and that I can find some craft mojo from somewhere, I haven't managed to make anything since having Izzy.

I thought we could have a go at some Clean and Simple cards, these are the main requirements for a CAS card:

Clean & Simple (CAS)

A design of card with clean lines, minimal elements, areas of white space and few or no embellishments.

White Space

An area of the card which has no image, layer or embellishment.This can be any colour dependent upon the colour of the card blank.

One Layer Card (OLC)

One piece of card folded in half with no additional layers and minimal embellishments, where the image is stamped or printed directly onto the cardstock.

So for all you paper fearing people and those that aren't great at colouring in or simply need a quick card these are ideal.There are a few blogs that are dedicated to cards like this, if you want to take a look the links are below.

I will bring some sketches with me as a starting point - the rest is up to you.

Less is More
Clean and Simple Stamping
A Load of Old Pickle

You will need basic card making materials, sentiment stamps and smaller images work well as do coloured inks such as Distress inks, scraps of papers, gems and ribbons are useful too.

It's Margaret Brown's birthday this month.

See you on the 14th

Introducing Isobel Amber Swire

Well my beautiful little girl is finally here, she arrived at 3.34am on the 12th June weighing 8lb 13.5oz and we've called her Isobel Amber or Izzy for short.After not wanting to come out she made her entrance into the world very quickly, so quickly Daddy missed her arrival.

We are both home and doing well, albeit a little tired!



Hope you all enjoyed craft club and just to show willing I even had a go at making some myself before I went into hospital!



If Wendy doesn't mind planning next month's meeting again, I will bring Izzy to see you all.

 Good Afternoon Ladies & gents,

Sorry it has taken me so long to put this out but I had to get hubbie to help me get onto the blog and get the photos on here. I thought we could take Marie's idea from the last meeting and have a go at this card shape.

 I don't know what it's called, but it kinda closes in on itself.

 

So, you will need some card stock to make a square card, some patterned paper and good quality card to make the frame parts nice and firm, and an image for the centre (not too big... maybe about a 5/6 cm square image for a 15cmx15cm card. You will need the usual basics, glue/double sided tape, foam mount pads if you wish, pencil, ruler and so on. Important, you cannot do all of the parts on a paper trimmer or guillotine, you will need a cutting mat, steel ruler and craft knife. I will bring spares so don't worry.

I think I have remembered to tell you everything. See you all on Tuesday.

PS I will bring some mens stamps this time if anyone wants any samples just bring some paper and ink pads.

Wendy

May meeting 8th - Male cards

Hi everyone, Hope you are all well, it's that time again. Can't believe I've only got four weeks to go until my due date! Wendy will be in charge next month. First of all I'm hoping most of you will be able to come, the last few months there have only been about 5 or 6 of us and to be honest if it carries on like this we might have to rethink the club as we are not covering the rent of the room. So it will either mean increasing the subs or if there are only going to be a few of us it running it from home. Wendy, Tina and I are hoping to have a meeting to see what we can come up with. On to next week, something nice and easy, I'm struggling to craft at the moment. We are going to be having a "male" themed week. It's Father's Day on the 17th June so they can be Father's Day or Birthday cards. If you want to bring a selection of stamps maybe we could stamp a few of each others and it might inspire everyone. Embellishments such as buttons, brads and string work well on male cards.

There are no birthdays this month so see you soon x

April meeting - 10th

Hello and welcome to another month, crossing fingers the snow will miss us after those lovely few days of summer we had the other week, wish it would come back!

This month's project is a Criss Cross Card, these make good invitations or in my case birth announcements (if you've time to make lots of them!) pretty straight forward and only need your usual stuff, cardstock, papers, images and embellishments.

The card itself is made up of two 6x6 card blanks plus an extra piece of 6x6 for the insert. Obviously any size square will work, I just prefer this size.





We have one birthday this month, Margaret Jackson.

See you next week, hope you all have a lovely Easter.

March meeting - 13th Tealight Cards

Well it's 4am and I can't sleep so thought I would post next week's meeting.

As it's Mother's Day thought these cards would be a bit different.

They are tealight cards although you could put chocolates in, if you can find some to fit.







You will need two pieces of card 11.5 x 5" and 6.5 x 5" (you can get both out of a sheet of 12x12), small piece of acetate 1.5 x 4.5", scoring tools, double sided tape and/or glue, image and papers to decorate. I will bring the candles.

The only birthday this month is mine and it's on Mother's Day.

February meeting - 14th

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all keeping warm, so glad the snow missed us, for now anyway. Where do the weeks go? February already.

This time we will be making something a bit different, an exploding box. This one has taken me quite a while to add all the decorations, so you may want to concentrate on the basic box and finnish at home. I have made the roses and butterflies for the centrepiece but you could always put a small gift inside.







You will need:

4 sheets of good quality 12x12 double sided paper
(one sheet needs to be cut into four 6x6 pieces)
The off cuts can be used for matting and layering but you can use extra papers.

Scoring board with measurements or ruler and bone folder

Wet glue / Double sided tape for box lids

Corner punch if you have one

Embellishments (these may be added later)

We have quite a few birthdays this month - Wendy, Sue, Ron and Lin so you're going to be busy this week.

Look forward to seeing you all next week.