Wednesday's Workshop 12th August 09

We had a great night Wednesday, we made a lovely elegant Thank you card using the 'Elegant Thank You' stamp from the Spring Mini Catalogue and the 'Bella's Border' wheel. We used bashful blue ink and cardstock and chocolate chip cardstock and grosgrain ribbon. We also used the scallop edge and scallop square punches.

Next we made a really easy and cute little gift bag idea stuffed with lollies using Designer Series Paper (I used Washington Apple), the fabulous Crimper to do the edges and the scallop circle and 3.5cm circle punches for the little tag with the sentiment from the hostess set 'Best Yet'. I used bashful blue and pumpkin pie cardstock and pumpkin pie stamp pad for the gift tag also. Everyone loved this and was impressed by how easy it was and how it would be a really great idea for party bags for kids birthdays!!

Treasures you find when you tidy up!

When I was re-organising my stamping/work area I found this cute stamp that I had stamped and embossed at a friends house a couple of years ago. It had been sitting there for years (you can tell I really hold onto 'stuff' that I think I might use in the future - no matter how far in the future that may be!) so instead of tucking it away again, I got stuck into it immediately. I coloured in the image using my blender pen and ink from various stamp pads. Cute huh?

Pretty Wedding card

We were invited to a wedding and the happy couple arranged a Wishing Well instead of gifts. So I made this card and we put the money inside and tided it up in a cello bag with pretty ribbon and popped that in the wishing well. That was the easiest gift I have ever had to arrange!