Tuesday Class

First Class of the New Year today and was lovely to see everyone after the Christmas Break..

Our first project is this lovely 3D folded basket which could be filled with candy as a gift basket or used on a desk for stationery or table decoration with adapted decorations for the event.

It is really easy to make you just have to have a sized piece of card that is divisible by 3 to get a naughts and crosses style crossed section in the middle to make the first shape.

We used a 12 x 12 piece of card and scored at 4 and 8 on one side then rotate once and repeat, then simply score each corner square from the inside corner to the outside corner and crease all the folds and fold in as in picture.   Cut 4 matching 9cm squares of fancy paper for the middle sections and then 2 each of different patterns for the corner pieces (corner pieces are cut diagonally in half to fit in the scored triangle corner pieces of card).  Before you assemble punch a hole in each folded corner piece and group the holes together to fix.  You could easily tie some pretty ribbon through the holes instead of using a loop ring as we did.

Our second card is a simple but effective easel card, I originally printed some little note cards with a Christmas craft magazine kit that had a cd with it I got for a gift off mum.  After planning to make a card with he notelets I decided it was too small so chopped a piece off and used both pieces as the background paper on this folded 6x6 card base which was simply scored on one half to create the easel shape.  The lovely caravan was off the same cd and we layered it up with Stampin' Up! layering oval dies to make the colourful layers on the topper piece.  

One of my lovely ladies Kay wanted her card for a caravanning male friend so we changed the flower background for some fancy deckchair style stripes and it looked great.

Our last card was made with my Christmas magazine kit off mum again and is this lovely men's shed card.  The door is embossed and with a fancy brad as a door handle looked great with its sign post too.  

The top one is a variation that I made for my pal Rachel's hubby Andy for his birthday (we share the same birthday on the 15th January) and he loves pottering in his shed so I made this card for him then decided to make another for class ladies to copy.  The stamped images were stamped with the Stamperatus and stamped onto watercolour card and coloured using water colour pencils and penned with a blender pen to make them look like we had painted the items.

The bottom card was Shirley's fab shading on the door to make it look more 3D she shaded the planks and coloured in the hinges, I will be nicking that idea next one made ha ha..  On using the kit at class I noticed a small watering can die that I missed the first time round so we cut it out and squeezed it in.

Another lovely crafting get together with cuppas and lemon drizzle or choc fudge cake to keep us going.

Thank you for stopping by and hope you enjoyed seeing our creations this class.

Happy Crafting

Jo. x