I had a scraptastic scrappy weekend a few weeks ago after a new job assignment imposed break from creating. Spent two days at Scrapbook and Cards Today's Crop & Create Markham. Loved, loved, loved it!
Loved catching up with familiar faces and friends. Of course there is great shopping from The Memory Keeper and The Scrapping Turtle and Catherine ensures that there are plenty of other scrap goodies to buy at the registration table from the various workshop instructors.
I had fun and lots of laughs cropping with Lisa and Stacey, who I had met last year, and made many new friends this year as our table was larger.
I took Vicki Boutin's Shadow Box Techniques class and created a funky shadowbox for my sister-in-law's birthday. Her b-day is in April, so I can't show it here until then.
I can, however, show you the cards that I made with the left over Pink Paislee Heritage patterned paper scraps.
Inspired by some of the elements on the shadow box, I created this:
The bordered punch trim is actually washi tape. That took a bit of time to figure out a technique to make it work so it looked like fabric trim.
It was adhered to the end of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, border punched and then inked in sections as I slowly removed it from the paper. Then using two pointed instruments, I styled it do add dimension. Lastly, I cue-tipped some corn starch onto the back of the raised segments so that they would not stick down in future if pressed upon.
The butterflies were stamped using one of my favourite Magenta stamps on vellum packaging liner and fussy cut.
Next up was this beauty:
The flower inspiration for this one came from Sheila's Petaloo Flower Sale Bin. When I saw these babies, an idea formed and I was off. With the flowers and a specific card worthy friend in need of a pick-you-up in mind, this card came together really easily and quickly.
Lots of textures and dimension on this one.
Once that well of creativeness was sprung, I was raring to go and created two other layouts which I will share at another time.
TTFN,
Loved catching up with familiar faces and friends. Of course there is great shopping from The Memory Keeper and The Scrapping Turtle and Catherine ensures that there are plenty of other scrap goodies to buy at the registration table from the various workshop instructors.
I had fun and lots of laughs cropping with Lisa and Stacey, who I had met last year, and made many new friends this year as our table was larger.
I took Vicki Boutin's Shadow Box Techniques class and created a funky shadowbox for my sister-in-law's birthday. Her b-day is in April, so I can't show it here until then.
I can, however, show you the cards that I made with the left over Pink Paislee Heritage patterned paper scraps.
Inspired by some of the elements on the shadow box, I created this:
The bordered punch trim is actually washi tape. That took a bit of time to figure out a technique to make it work so it looked like fabric trim.
It was adhered to the end of an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, border punched and then inked in sections as I slowly removed it from the paper. Then using two pointed instruments, I styled it do add dimension. Lastly, I cue-tipped some corn starch onto the back of the raised segments so that they would not stick down in future if pressed upon.
The butterflies were stamped using one of my favourite Magenta stamps on vellum packaging liner and fussy cut.
Next up was this beauty:
The flower inspiration for this one came from Sheila's Petaloo Flower Sale Bin. When I saw these babies, an idea formed and I was off. With the flowers and a specific card worthy friend in need of a pick-you-up in mind, this card came together really easily and quickly.
Lots of textures and dimension on this one.
Once that well of creativeness was sprung, I was raring to go and created two other layouts which I will share at another time.
TTFN,
7 comments:
GORGEOUS cards... LOVE those vellum butterflies!!!
Oh these are gorgeous!!
Love them both. Those butterflies are gorgeous and that flower is just soo berautiful!xx
Beautiful cards Cassandra! I love the pretty butterflies and fabulous flowers!
Gorgeous cards!! Love those sticks on card no. 1!!
How I would love to go on such a weekend too!!!
Oh my goodness how fun and what awesome projects! So jealous!
It was great catching up with you too! And I still love that card!
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