Come join the November class

There have been lots of great papers brought out for Christmas this year: Graphic 45, Kaisercraft, MM etc. Many of the designs are really, really good for cards. I have been making the most of the Kaisercraft Dear Santa and Belle Collections for the Lend a Hand for Leukaemia classes.

The November card class Window on Christmas uses Hula Hoop from Dear Santa collection. The class will to be held at Chandon Craft on Tuesday 10 November. The sample is in store for you to check out.

The vellum window is a great technique for creating focus on a busy or bright background paper.
The finishing touches come from pearls, the luxurious Maya Road scalloped velvet ribbon and Tim Holtz's Rock Candy.

You will also find out another use for cotton buds!

1 2 3 snip

A while ago I wrote about rubber-dectomies to change the images on rubber stamps. This post about changing its look in 3D!

Roller stamps have come and gone over the last ten years. This collection of roller stamps comes from the current catalogue of Stampin'Up.

Just carefully peel apart the rubber at the join. The tape holding the rubber to the drum will easily rub off the back of the stamp image. Easy!

Use some EZ-Mount to provide the cushioning and grab an acrylic block as the mount.

future

I am hoping these flowers will grow up to be our crop of edible apples i.e. lots of juicy crisp Cox's Orange Pippin. The branches are covered with pink flower buds. The winds aren't being very kind to the petals of any of the open blooms today.

irony

The greengrocer in the biggest shopping centre in town has been replaced with a discount vitamin shop.

Classes at LH4L

The date of Sunday 8 November, has been set for this year's Lend a Hand for Leukaemia fund raising day. I will be running a card making class, Easy and Elegant Cards and a Gift Holder class that day.

easy + elegant cards
Kaisercraft have created some 6 x 6 inch paper pads in the new collection due out this week. The Belle Collection pad will be used to make three cards in the card class. The designs will be a good foundation to get you started on your Christmas season cards. The class kit includes a full pad of this paper.

gift card holders
Are you planning a specially decorated Christmas lunch table? Or wanting some unusual gift holders. Snowman gift container can be decorated with different papers and colours to match your theme. You could also make crackers and serviette rings to match.

The other holder to be made in this class is one for gift cards. This card adds a little pizzazz to the presentation of a gift card.

paper + ink + heat

The October card class is now complete and open for enrolments. The design started when Raqual showed me the Technique Tuesday stamp set she had her eyes on for her own collection. Just right for a class. The images can be used to create lots of styles. There are other sets of petal stamps in the series that can be used with this technique too.

This class is about stamping, heat embossing and colouring. There is some assembly required too, of course, but I will provide some tricks for that!!

Bookings can be made at Chandon Craft, by emailing info@chandoncraft.com.au
or calling 5223 2003

following on

Tuesday card class used the Sarah-Jane Paperz ~ Garden Party paper by Bella. I still have the colours in my head. Have bought some deep crimson velvet ribbon that I plan to take into the laboratory and resurrect an old technique. Need to find a rubber stamp with a matching design to suit the roses. Shall report on how new ribbon and old stamps work together.