What a day we had! 8 maniacs and a couple of card making Virgins, food, chat, card making, more food, more chat, more cards and on and on.
By the end of the day we had successfully completed 8 cards each and every single one was completely different and a tribute to the designer.
Laughter rang out and drowned out the music at times. Glitter flew (even my old dog Beau was glittered), fingers got inky, embossing powder heated, new techniques learned and a great social day was had by all.
The great Shortbread Taste Off was voted on and prize and trophy awarded.
The criteria for our Cardanza was simple. Each member had to design and make a simple Christmas Card that could be completed in approximately 15 minutes, then to put together a kit of all the pieces needed to make the card. This way all the hard work was done for us and we all learned some new techniques.
Check out the great designs from our members below.
By the end of the day we had successfully completed 8 cards each and every single one was completely different and a tribute to the designer.
Laughter rang out and drowned out the music at times. Glitter flew (even my old dog Beau was glittered), fingers got inky, embossing powder heated, new techniques learned and a great social day was had by all.
The great Shortbread Taste Off was voted on and prize and trophy awarded.
The criteria for our Cardanza was simple. Each member had to design and make a simple Christmas Card that could be completed in approximately 15 minutes, then to put together a kit of all the pieces needed to make the card. This way all the hard work was done for us and we all learned some new techniques.
Check out the great designs from our members below.
Deb
Deb showed us teabag folding, and has included some great links to teabag folding sites online (check out the links page for more).
Click here to download Deb's instructions for how to do this simple fold.
A simple dry embossed panel was highlighted with silver pigment ink and our lovely starlike teabag folding held on with a star shaped brad.
Click here to download Deb's instructions for how to do this simple fold.
A simple dry embossed panel was highlighted with silver pigment ink and our lovely starlike teabag folding held on with a star shaped brad.
Karen
Karen created a very vintage look with distress inks, red smooch and fabulous Kaszazz vintage holly stamp.
Distress colours used included crushed olive, fired brick and vintage photo
Distress colours used included crushed olive, fired brick and vintage photo
Jill
Jill's card featured embossing, stamping, layering and fussy cutting. This simple yet effective card was enhanced by the beautiful Kaszazz 12 days of Christmas script stamp, and the use of assymetrical placing of elements (especially good if your not that great at stamping things straight ;-)
Jude
Jude had a great technique for glitter lace cards. By placing double sided sticky paper (jac paper) on the card and pressing lace over the card we sprinkled and rubbed the glitter through the lace and brushed off the excess. Then we peeled off the lace and poured a contrasting colour of glitter in the sticky negative space left over. What a simple technique to get a stunning effect. Click here to download Jude's instruction sheet.
Leanne
Leanne's card included some lovely metallic textured paper and another terrific Kaszazz stamp the Christmas Kookaburra hand coloured and glittered. The perfect card for all our overseas relatives.
Lynne
Lynne's card featured pretty bright coloured paper and a fabulous Kaszazz stamp.
Lynne is very new to the whole papercrafting and card making mania, and came up with this lovely simple card.
Lynne is very new to the whole papercrafting and card making mania, and came up with this lovely simple card.
Shaaryn
Shaaryn (another newcomer to card making) showed us you only need 3 elements to create a lovely simple card. One product that truly proved it's worth on this card was Ranger's new Sticky Embossing Powder, used in the same way as clear embossing powder, once heated it stays sticky while hot so you can sprinkle glitter onto the embossing and it REALLY stays on! This is my new favourite product.
Jayne
And my card, included some dry embossing, distress inking and bling.
Ink blending with Tim Holtz distress inks:
Blend Crushed Olive all over the embossed panel. Use Peeled Paint to highlight embossing, use Forest Moss to accent edges.
Gold ribbon was added to the panel and the panel fixed to the cream card base.
On the oval panel the tree and sentiment were stamped with Forest Moss then the panel edges were inked with Crushed Olive and the same colour was used to watercolour the tree.
The tree trunk was watercoloured with Brushed Corduroy.
The a lovely Hero Arts swirl background stamp was stamped over the whole oval panel with Antique Linen Distress Ink. Bling and a ribbon bow were added and the panel mounted on foam tape.
Ink blending with Tim Holtz distress inks:
Blend Crushed Olive all over the embossed panel. Use Peeled Paint to highlight embossing, use Forest Moss to accent edges.
Gold ribbon was added to the panel and the panel fixed to the cream card base.
On the oval panel the tree and sentiment were stamped with Forest Moss then the panel edges were inked with Crushed Olive and the same colour was used to watercolour the tree.
The tree trunk was watercoloured with Brushed Corduroy.
The a lovely Hero Arts swirl background stamp was stamped over the whole oval panel with Antique Linen Distress Ink. Bling and a ribbon bow were added and the panel mounted on foam tape.
So as you can see lovely simple designs and each one completely different in style, with many different techniques.