Thursday Evening Fun

Last night I attended one of the get together of Craft Cafe - Camberley group and held a class for them. This group of crafters meets on a regular basis at St Mary's, Park Road, Camberley. They have a facebook page - Craft Cafe- Camberley if you are interested in finding out more.

I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I think that those to came along did too.

This is what they made. At least, this is my version. A couple of them decided to have a closed box.

The box contains four notecards and envelopes, so it would make a great gift for someone.

Because the Designer Series Paper is double sided it would be possible to make four completely different ones to the above, depending on which side of the paper you prefer. That is what some of the ladies who came to the class did.

We used the Envelope Punch Board to make the box. Joanne James (aka the Crafty Owl) has a great tool on her website that allows you to put in dimensions for your finished box and it then tells you how large a piece of card you need and where to punch/score.

For the box, I started with a piece of Thick Whisper White card that was 21cm x 21 cm. And, I then scored and punched on the first side at 7.8 cm and 10.6 cm. After that, I turned the card 90° and lined up the score lines with the Score Guide and then punched and scored. This was then repeated for the two remaining sides.

If you want to leave it as a complete box you can do so, but I cut off one of the thinner ends to make an open box.

Details of some of the Stampin' Up! products used are as follows:

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Fiona xx

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #175

I'm a little bit early posting this as I was on a roll with my Swirly Birds stamp set and co-ordinating Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies.

When I saw this week's sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

Caro, who set the challenge said that so long as there were 5 elements of differing sizes (harder to do than you think) and that they are on a diagonal (also harder to do than you think as you need to fit all five in) then effectively it's good to go!

This is what I came up with.

I stamped the images and sentiment in two of the new In Colors - Emerald Envy and Dapper Denim. I also added a Whisper White swirl that I had cut out using the new Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies.

The sentiment comes from the Thoughtful Banners stamp set. This is a great new photopolymer set that has 53 stamps in it. You can make up multiple sentiments and what's more there are banners that you can also stamp.

Here's a side view so you can see that I did decorate the inside. No naked insides for me!

Check back tomorrow to see what else I've been trying out.

Fiona x