Make It Monday - #Simple Stamping

 Hello and welcome back. Well, once again Cary's cards last week were an absolute hit. How on earth can I follow those gorgeous gnomes? Aren't they just cute?

I don't know about you but I've started trying to make my Christmas cards. I can hear some of you saying, ALREADY? Well from this year onwards, I aim to get my cards made and written before Christmas Eve! Here's hoping! Well it hasn't been very quiet here as my poor grandson Theo who is now 7+ months old has been teething like crazy all week and still, he has no teeth! I reckon the tooth fairy forgot to dish him out some! 😂😂

Back to my projects this week. I tried to make a jumping box card, no luck yet! I started a triple cube box card, no luck yet! So I came back to simpler cards. Jest as well as it's #simplestamping today.

A few months ago, Cary and I held a charity card making day for a local care home. Most of my card have now gone but here are a few pictures of the simple stamping ones. I used some retired white papers that have a simple image on. They werre the Irresistibly Floral papers. This first one is spots. I edged the card with the gorgeous sea green colour of the Bermuda Bay ink pad and mounted it onto a White card base. To decorate this one, I added what was a wreath but it broke as I was messing about with it! It come from the lovely set of foiled papers called Forever Gold Laser cut papers. They are simply beautiful. So here after I broke it, I saw the letter C and added 2 simple words, A Celebration from the Field of Flowers stamp set. I have left the inside panel, also in the sea green, blank as I thought it might be good for the person who bought it to add their own celebratory message.

 

The 2nd card I'm showing you is another from the gorgeous Forever Gold Laser cut papers.

These simple little laser cut papers are so easy to take out from the outer mat. A few foam mats behind it and onto the card and another one is completed. This time I had a die cut stitched circle left over from another project. I added the simple Happy Birthday from the Well Said stamp set and using pads, added that too over the leaf circle. I inked along the edged of the mat again in the sea green ink and another plain mat on the inside.

Using these laser cut papers and making a card couldn't be easier than abc.

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!

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.

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.

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