January Gathering of the Card-making Group

It took us many weeks to find a date that all might attend, and still, like January weather, not all were able to come. We still had a wonderful time being creative.

Sue brought a lovely card design that could be chosen or sent by men (our goal this month.

The bee stamp was from Magenta Style, a Canadian company.

The corner die cut was from a Tim Holtz set, Mixed Media.

The color choices were terrific, as usual.

Bonnie brought a bird card.  She tried to keep the flowers to a minimum!

The birds and branches were die cut ahead by Bonnie.  What a job!

Again, her color choices were incredible.

A man would definitely buy this for his sister.

I brought this woodland scene design embossed with a Darice folder.

Some twine, a tag and some distressing or antiquing made it suitable 

for a masculine birthday.  

We tried a de-bossed version also by gently swiping the raised 

part of the embossing folder with a stamp pad.

A nice effect also!

This wood panel with a swag of greenery would be perfect for 

a frosty January birthday, male or female.

The paper pad has a variety of wood panel colors with a distressed look.

New Big Girl Quilt for Violet

Violet is almost 2 1/2 but still in her crib.

Soon, she'll have a big girl bed and need a twin size quilt.

It's just a scrappy quilt, but the colors are wonderful!

More later...

Unicorn Headbands

My granddaughter wanted a unicorn headband.

My daughter saw some directions on Facebook.

Grandma got elected!

Supplies:  headbands, felt, ribbon, glue gun, stuffing and some metallic cord.

Very cute!  Can't wait to see them on their heads.

Directions available with a horn pattern at 

headband.htmlhttp://www.howtogal.com/2014/08/how-to-make-unicorn-horn-headband.html

Christmas Gift Tags for the Holidays

This month's meeting we focused on making gift tags for use during the holidays.  It was decidedly different for us, but we came up with an assortment of tags and a method to merchandise them.

Sue brought a lovely and intricate pair of Poinsettia tags.  We brought the petals and leaves to life by curling them with our fingers or a stylus.

Carol brought a clever Santa suit tag. The surprise was the soda/beer can pop-top as a belt buckle.

Jean made some Poinsettias for us all and some other goodies to incorporate in our own gift tags.  We said they were worthy of hanging on our trees!

Bonnie brought kits for a Mason Jar full of lights gift tag and an embossed tag.

Dianne brought some gift tag kits that were quick and inexpensive, using scrap two-sided Christmas paper, double tags for some, and stamped embellishments to add some texture or design.

The clear bags were full of gift tags using many techniques, colors, patterns and texture.

We hope they bring pleasure to wrappers in this busy season!

I wasn't able to make this session, but was able to photograph the new cards in the basket.

This one must be from Bonnie.  I recognize her tree and grass die cut.  Her squirrel brad is

another signature motif.

Carol has used this embossing folder before.  Now, she has added a turkey of circles.

Very clever!

Sue has offered a kit with an overlay stamp.

Very lovely!

In November, we are going to create gift tags.

See you then.

September Gathering of the LR Card-makers

It was a full house!  And a full basket of cards to provide ourselves, neighbors and friends with note cards for early Fall.

Carol brought this fall colors theme.

Simple design with a background patterned paper,

choices for the die-cut fronds and washi tape 

and simple sentiments.

It especially fulfills the need for masculine cards!

Sue brought this tri-panel kit with a single large stamp.

The colors were Fall-ish to match the sunflower.

She found Ranger Archival Inks worked better on the large rubber stamp.

With a choice of mini-sentiments,

these cards cover many categories.

Dianne brought two designs on the same theme.

The embossing folder again had sunflowers.

A stem of leaves on a Kraft card stock die-cut

could be a sunflower or white asters.

Organza or gingham ribbons

added some additional dimension.

Bonnie made a kit with a bouquet of bright colors, our choice.

We stamped a border with a single, large rubber stamp.

Then used another single stamp for multiple stems.

The blossom choices were colorful

and everyone approached it individually, as usual.

Time for Lemonade

Take your pick!

I would have brought this card kit

for our August get-together 

except for a bum wrist.

Not able to turn the Big Shot!