Sunday, 26 June 2011

2 weeks of scrapbooking!

I have been so busy the last 2 weeks (no excuse I know) that this is the first night I have been able to get our classes uptodate on the blog. 

So this was not last week but the week before!!! We used some 'just beautiful' My Minds Eye papers and... we used the Cricut machine with the Storybook cartridge for our titles.  So here is my example


and here are the ladies stunning layouts...

Katrina, Jackie and Chris



On this one I think Chris was telling Sharon off for hiding lol



A close up of  Kerry with her 'Nanna Bess' layout


A close up of Sharons glasses peeping over the top of her layout 'Boop Boop A Doop lol!!



Here is Sue and Wendy



Lynn and Maeghan



and finally little Sam




Now for last weeks class

We made a different type of flower this week - a 'twist and push'!!!!  And I had a lovely surprise of my bessie Sue join us




Here we are all busy distressing and inking




And here is Jackies take on the layout



and Sams


Kerry and Lisa's


Well thats it for now - see you all in a weeks time  Polly xx

Triple Easel Secret Crafter Copic Card Class

Good afternoon ladies

What a lovely relaxed class we had today, and those fans were sheer heaven weren't they and doesn't Lynn make the best cuppa's ever and perfectly timed too.

Hope you all enjoyed your planned BBQ's, mine was delicious and finished off nicely with a nice glass of rose.

Today's techniques learnt 
facial blending
tip to tip blending
 different types of copics
 refilling copics
replacing copic nibs

This is the Triple Easel Card that we made
The images available at Grimsby Crafts are Secret Crafter Manga Images - the beauty of these is that the face is rather large and allows the extra room to create the facial features using the copics.  The papers are also available in the shop, the pearls are but have been coloured with the copics.

Here is a close up of each image
Colours used today were
G99, G94, G82 (greens) Little boy
W1, W3, W7 (warm greys) hair on both images
E53, E51, E50 (creams) on both images
RV23, RV21, RV13 (red violets) the pinks on the little girl
R27, R22 (reds) for the little boys red apple.
E11, E00, E000 (earth tones) skin for both
BG000 (blue green) for the eyes
C1 (cool grey) for the outline on both images and the little girls inner mouth.
White gel pergamano pen from Grimsby Crafts.

The distress ink used around the image is Tim Holtz Crushed Olive
The swirl was a Prima clear stamp from my stash.
The centre Sentiment is from Grimsby Crafts
The inner sentiment is by My Sentiments Exactly and from my stash.

The next class is on 24th July 1pm - 3.30pm 

Techniques being taught
Feather Blending
Hair Colouring
Colouring Pleats and Folds

The card will be on show next week but we will be using one of the Whiff Of Joy images

Enjoy your practising ladies and see you soon
Hugs 
Kate 
xx



Monday, 13 June 2011

Thursday night scrapbooking

 Hmmm yummy pages from My Minds Eye 'Lost & Found'  were the papers used for our scrapbooking night - very very good quality that were perfect for inking and distressing!!  Lynn certainly has good taste for scrapbooking papers.  We made a different handmade flower this week - the pompom flower!

Here is the page I made for the class as an example 



Here are the ladies being busy bees as always


(Kerry having a bit of a little breather) :O)


and here are their completed pages


Just waiting for Sandra to add a little lipstick


Here we go lol

Sam, Sandra, Sue and Wendy



and

Katrina, Lynn, Kerry & Sharon


Very lovely pages as always ladies

see you next week

Polly x

Monday, 6 June 2011

Thursday Scrapbook Night

Thursdays night class was a busy old one - distressing, embossing, inking, and punching!!!  Lots of work involved but as usual our ladies did a fine job creating their layouts based on the one I made below.


Here they all are being busy and creative!



Chris and Sue finished their pages with quite a few minutes to spare


and so did Lisa and... oh its Sharon hiding!!


Heres Katrina shaking her little bag of completed flowers lol!!!!


and here is Jackie with her completed page (inside the shocking pink box at the corner of the table was a fantastic album that Jackie had made - filled with oodles and oodles of  design and detail - she sooo needs to get a blog to showcase these little beauties off)!!! 


Well thats it for this week - hope to see you all next week

Polly xx