April Card Club

Friday's card club was so much fun.  One of the things we did was make purses using the new purse die; however, one of my customers kept hearing the UPS truck and announcing he was here with our order.  Strangely enough the order hadn't been placed yet, but she was so excited about the new Purse Die, that she knew it would show up anytime.  Well to make her happy as I try to do with all of my stamping friends, I let her take the die home so she could make some purses as she anxiously awaited hers to arrive.  Here's a pic of some of the purses she made:

She did such a good job on instructions, here they are.  Candee, hope you don't mind me sharing.

Used the new purse die from Sizzix for Stampin Up for these purses. They will hold the miniature candy bars and the nuggets. The dotted purse I used double sided paper for. The black and white purse is white card stock that has a black flocking on it. The red purse is flocked paper from Hobby Lobby and the coral purse I used textured paper for. Way cute and fun to make. Tips I learned: After it is cut out use a pencil on the wrong side of your handle to mark the hole for the brad to hold the handle on the purse. I used a small hole punch for that. I also used a pencil to mark the side of the purse for where the handle will be. I then used the hole punch for that as well. I cut out all the purses with the die then marked and punched the holes for the brads for the handles. Then I used the tape for the purse sides. Then used a small flower punch for the flowers on the front of the purses. Made these four in less than an hour that way. Used different papers to show this can be casual or dressed up. At the stamp club Cindy W had embossed one of the purses -- very versatile looks for a cute purse ... was hoping to be able to use a lot of scraps for it but the die cuts the purse in one piece and it will take a larger piece than scraps. Bigger than the other purses I have made but it holds more chocolate so that is a good thing !!!

Again, before I could post pictures of what we did, Candee already posted it on her blog, so I'm sharing her pics and comments.  Again Thanks Candee:

The card in the front in the blue we used MDS  Summer Smooches digital papers and stamps and made a Mother's Day card. We used a small circle punch and punched out circles from the printed paper for the 'flowers' in the blue vase. Then we cut apart the dark blue Modern Label behind the "Mother's Day" greeting to look as though the darker is a longer piece.  I am beginning to love MDS.  I have decided if i want a stamp set that I  may use only once during the year (i.e. Valentine's Day, Easter, etc.), I will buy it digitally.  The same thing applies to the paper.

 For the Happy Birthday card on the left we used the Pennant Punch for the hanging flags/banners. We used twine and we used star punches for the stars. There are pop dots behind the pennants for dimension. For the red, yellow, and light blue pieces we used a corner rounder punch. Bright and cheery and possibilities are endless !

 For the golden/pink floral card on the right we used the crayon resist technique. We all used the same supplies and each of our cards look so different---which is what creativity is all about. Fun technique and the floral stamp on this card is the same stamp on the card standing in the back---we coloured that one with markers--so as you can see different techniques for the same stamp can make it look very different.

As usual we did a lot of detail things that add up to four really nice cards -- and skills we can use on other projects !