Showing posts with label Happy Watercolour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Watercolour. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Paper Have Day Retreat - Morning Project

Good morning! Again this is another scheduled post as I am hoping when you read this that I will be enjoying a well deserved lie in, partly for Mother's Day and partly from the exhaustion of running yesterdays event! I will be back with all the low down on the event tomorrow, once I have got my energy back and caught up on my laundry!
 This was the project we made in the morning. The girls got 1/2 a pack of the Watercolour Wonder paper and 1/2 a pack of the Watercolour Wonder Note cards. Ever since Stampin' Up! brought out these new style wood mount boxes I have been wanting to go a stationery gift set so this was the perfect opportunity.
 Inside I created a belly band of matching DSP for the envelopes and added a loop for the pen. I then created a box with the Envelope Punch Board and cut one side off to leave it open and decorated it with a monogram. 
 The cards inside are all kept pretty simple as they already have some lovely designs on them
Back tomorrow with all the goss from the day!
Julie
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Monday, 24 March 2014

Happy Watercolour Technique Class

Hi there! I've scheduled this post to pop up early this morning as I will be busy sorting Evan out as he goes on a school residential this week, well for 3 days. I have promised him his favourite breakfast today which is porridge! I will miss our little guy like mad but I have to confess I am looking forward to 2 school run free days!!!
This is the class I delivered on Saturday afternoon. My technique class. The ladies got the stamp set included in the cost of the class and I shared a few techniques with them. Because all the ladies have their own stamps we can do harder makes as they don't have to spend time waiting for stamps. I always start with a warm up card and here it is! Very simple card and I showed the ladies how to make a card blank from the Scallop Square framelit die. We also explored colouring with a blender pen and the ink pads.
So here is the second card. We always do the hardest one in the middle. I know box cards are going crazy but I saw this cute one my wonderful downline Amanda shared using the Scallop Tag Topper punch on the flaps and I had to have a go. Amanda has done a great tutorial on this which you can find on her blog HERE and HERE. Thank you Amanda for the inspiration.
This one took a LOT of work as you can imagine and the ladies got their boxes constructed and things stamped but I think it was a case of assembling the rest at home as we were on a tight schedule!
Here is the back of the card!
And finally here is the "cool down" card. I don't often make tall cards so thought I would for this class. The background is not a new dotty stamp but it is created using the rubber on the end of a pencil! Remember me saying I had to go all the way to Utah to learn that trick!!! Yep!
I shared a little technique on how to have the stamp still attached but cutting the main image out with a framelit. Not sure that is the best description but maybe you get my meaning! A pencil and some fussy cutting is required for this!

Right then I am on my way to do my work today, got a really busy week ahead. It's the last week of Sale-A-Bration so please don't miss out on those gorgeous freebies or if you want to join my team then I would love to have a chat with you! See you later.
Julie
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