"Out of the Blue- Craft Group Workshop Photos - June 7th

Good Morning Friends,

First of all, sorry if I haven't visited your blog these last few days, my blog-pals, but it's National Volunteer's Week, so has been pretty busy at work, plus have had a workshop to prepare for...I will do a blog hop today and visit you all, promise!

Last night was the first of our new style workshops...Amy and I were having more people wanting to come than we could comfortably work with in one session, plus trying to come up with new ideas every two weeks can be difficult, so we decided to run the same workshop twice, with different ladies..it's a trial to see how it goes.

This was the  design I came up with for  my group to base their cards on last night - we were using the Bathing Belle Crafty Individuals stamp, with which I made my pop up card earlier this week. I have a very odd thing going on with this stamp -I just have to make the image stand 'proud' of the card..if she's not popping up she has to stand up somehow! How odd is that? I just can't explain it!!!

This time I made a twisted easel card, using the girl as part of the stopper...I stamped the beach huts and seagulls on white card and heat embossed with clear powder. I then inked the card with Broken China, Worn Lipstick and Wild Honey distress inks, spritzed with a little water and dried with a heat tool to move the ink around the card. I did exactly the same with the layer on the base of the card. I then spritzed with Vintage Gold Cosmic Shimmer Mist and again blasted with the heat tool for the mottled effect.

I stamped and heat embossed the bather and coloured her with watered down distress inks and stamped the quote, heat embossed and inked the card. When I cut out the figure I left a tab at the base to fix her to the stopper.

The card is finished with hessian, lace, rolled lace and a little shell.

My group of ladies, as usual came up trumps last night and made some beautiful cards. As I was going around taking my usual photos to share with you all, one of them commented that I must feel proud to see all the different variations on my design and how pleased they are when they've completed a card that has their own 'stamp' on it - and yes indeed I am, they are all wonderful! Some of the group have told me that if they didn't come to the group,they wouldn't get the chance to really sit down and craft at home, so it's great to see them all having a lovely time and making some gorgeous cards.

One of my group, Sue, showed me a photo of a card she had made for her son using some of the techniques she had learnt over the past year (yes we've be going a year now!) and it was beautiful, again..so proud because I know that this time last year she just wouldn't have made it.

Last night one of my group couldn't come, so we had a spare seat and even I got to make a very quick card in between helping out some of my ladies! Here are their lovely creations:

and finally my quick card!

We are putting on a special 'one off' workshop on Friday afternoon for the annual 'Chipping Sodbury Festival' and the Festival theme this year is the Beatles, so our card is based on a Beatles song, but you'll have to wait until  next Friday to see it!!

Thanks to Amy for asking me to run these classes with her..long may they continue, I've had such fun!

Thanks for visiting!

Love and Hugs,
Carole X

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