September's All Day Class Part 1

19th September All Day Class in Horsham

This was an amazing day where everyone had a great time making many lovely Christmas cards and winning lovely goodies in the raffle. This is of course in addition to the the wonderful goodie bag thqat everyone gets to take away with them!

Unfortunately, everyone was unable to complete the whole class on the day 

so we are having a catch up class another time very soon. 

Everyone received Flurry of Wishes Bundle 140868 which is the stamp set and matching punch. 

See at the end 

Flurry of Wiahes Bundle 140868

please note that it doesn't heve Gill's name on the punch normally!

Horsham Class

17th September 2015

We have changed venues for our monthly Thursday evening class to Horhsam. There was nothing at all wrong with the lovely Parish Room in Warnham, just time for a move nearer to home.

This month we made Pop Up cards.

Christmas Cuties 139787 and Santa's Gifts 138808 were the stamp sets used for these cute cards.

Christmas starts!

1st Christmas Class of 2015 

1st September - One sheet wonder

Some of our ladies haven't done a one sheet wonder before, 

so we decided that it would be good to introduce them to it. 

Using Be The Star, Perpetual Birthday Calendar, Sassy Salutations,

 Wonderful Wreath, framelits and stamp sets.

 

 The finished results by the amazing ladies.

 We love the way that they all do something slightly different.

School Holiday Classes

Summer, School Holiday classes at the Craft Den.

19th August - No class this week as Cary was preparing 

for her half century birthday party.

 Wow! It was good!

26th August - Superhero day

 Spiderman and Superman.

Fortunately, the children knew who they were depicting!

 

The next 2 cards were made using a stamp set not here in the UK 

called Calling All Heroes which we managed to borrow.

School Holiday classes

Summer, School holiday classes

During the school holidays we have make and take classes for the children at the Craft Den, in Horsham.

  The next few posts are about these days. 

29th July - Caterpillar day

 

         

 5th August - Lego day

                                                

The children just LOVE coming to classes and having a whale of a time!

Of course, they get a little sweet treat too!

Half Term Craft Class

Wednesday 28th October 

We are holding a craft class for children

Presents a

Half term Family Fun Craft Workshop

Come and join us on Wednesday the 28^th of October 10.30am till 1pm

At Broadfield Community centre, Broadfield, Crawley

We will be offering a variety of fun projects suitable for all ages 2 to 92!!

This is a mix and match create-n-take session with projects costing between £1.50 and £3 each. You can make just one or you can do as many as you like if the time and your purse allows!!!

Refreshments will be available and lots of laughter guaranteed.

For more information please contact 

Gill on 07855212306 or Text Cary on 07891177773 

or by messaging us at facebook/2biggirlscrafting

Please let us know if you’re planning on coming so that we can have enough biccies!

Looking forward to seeing you there.
Gill and Cary

2 Big Girls Crafting

4th August Bokeh Variations

Burgess Hill Class

Bokeh Variations 
These were done by spraying water over the card front and then randomly dripping ink over it using ink refils.
Once you have dripped the colours you like, gently pat it dry with paper towels.
 Leave it to dry for a few minutes or help it along gently with a heat gun.  Don't use the heat gun too hot as you may scorch the card.
Using small through to large circle punches, punch one of each sized circle out of a piece of acetate. 
 Once your mat is dry, lay the acetate over and sponge Whisper White ink into the circles, the larger the circle, the softer the effect.
Continue to lift and move the acetate all over the mat until you are happy with the result.
As you can see by the cards the ladies made, the small circles stand out more and
the larger ones tone the base colours down.
Add some White Perfect Accemts or Rhinestones to add a little sparkle.
No two mats will be the same, as you can see.   

 

These are some of our lovely ladies in the class.
They are so talented.

23rd JulyWindow Cards

Window Cards

Warnham Class

The ladies had a great time making different versions of the window cards. 

One had a single pane, and others were through several window panes.

Very simple to do but such a lovely effect. It looks as if your

 looking through the window into the garden.

Since the class, Stampin' Up! have bought out a die to cut the window or fireplace! 

Item no. 139666 at only £18.00

Perfect!

18th July Sprinkles of Life

Sprinkle of Life

half day class

Sprinkles Of Life is the stamp set designed especially by Stampin' Up! to raise much needed monies for RMHC,

 RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES.

RMHC keeps families together and surrounded by love when their 

children are receiving medical treatment far from home. 

For each stamp set that is sold, Stampin' Up! sends £2 to RMHC.

Stampin' Up! donate time and money to support RMHC. 

To date they've contributed over $1,000,000 to RMHC and their network of local RMHC chapters..

In the UK, RMHC have been helping families for over 25 years and are the UK's leading provider

 of free family accomadation at NHS hospitals.

 

In 2 Big Girls Crafting opinion, a very worthy cause.

We hope that you agree.

Ronald McDonald House Charities has been helping families for over 25 years; we are the UK's leading provider of free family accommodation at NHS hospitals.
- See more at: http://www.rmhc.org.uk/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwjrqvBRD6wf2fy-C61PIBEiQAUzKQTnIkMaHnRU3tvDIe9Zt2ylqMEcf04su6VBknEfhUWf4aAsRC8P8HAQ#sthash.dCX0t2x6.dpuf

                                                                                             

7th July Baby Wipe Technique Class

Baby Wipe Technique

(Making your own Ink pads)

This lovely class we made with our ladies in Burgess Hill. 

One of our ladies doesn't do messy cards and was a little concerned when first shown. Fortunately, we were able to show her and all the other ladies how simple it was and also NOT messy.

Starting with 2 baby wipes and a disposable plate or tray, we dropped the light ink refils randomly over the wipes. Colour by colour continuing to add each one randomly over the wipes. 

Take the stamp and place straight onto the wipes and then stamp onto the white cardstock. 

Once you are happy with the images, add more ink refil drops of different colours. 

You can just start off with another few wipes if you would like to keep the originals. 

The second image was done after adding reds and orange tones to the original wipes.

 When to stop? Whenever you decide to. 

The wipes can be kept for maybe a week or two,

   providing that you store them in an air tight bag.

This is a great way to blend colours and get your own individual choice of pattern.

How brilliant is that.... no two flowers are the same?

Didn't they do well?

1st cards

Very well done ladies. I love these.

2nd Card

 

 My final card

 

WOW! What a Summer!

WOW!

What a summer!

Once again, it seems like we're always apologising!
Cary celebrated a milestone birthday, 

as seen in the previous post Cary's daughter Tyler got married.
Gill's son Jonathan proposed to his gorgeous girlfriend Jemma (at last).
She said YES!

Finally...

 Gill has been locked out of the blog for ages!! 

UNTIL NOW!

In the famous words:

I'M BAAAACK!!

He really is a hopeless romantic. Bless him!

Now to post lots of lovely things that we and all of our lovely ladies and young people 

have been making this summer...