Easter Blessings Class.

Tonight I am doing a simple Make and Take for the Ladies Fellowship Group at Hoylake Evangelical Church. I love the Easter Blessings Stamp so I decided to centre the cards around that.
There are going to be five tables with five ladies at each so each table will be doing one of these cards.
They will each have a different Border Punch, two Stampin' Write Markers and a Blender pen.
The latter is my new favourite tool and it is proving to be very popular in my classes too. It is so easy to get a pretty watercolour effect on your cards.

I will be taking the Papillon Potpourri stamp set with me and the matching punches.
I have aldo cut out a number of butterflies with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit which embosses and cuts out five butterflies at one sweep!
The tags were punched with the popular Scallop Tag Topper Punch and finished off with a bit of Baker's Twine tied into a bow.

Scalloped Tag Topper Cards.

 Here are some cards that I have enjoyed making with the Tag Topper Punch.
I used the Summer Silhouettes Stamp Set on the first one. How I enjoyed using that stamp set again!
I used one of the stamps from the Happy Watercolour set to give that Pool Party tinge in the background and then stamped the flower and tiny accent flowers on it in Black and Pool Party ink.
It was finished off with tiny pearls, glitter pen and Vanilla Seam binding Ribbon.
I would call this a Gatefold Tag Topper Card!

I used the Watercolour Designer Series Paper on Pacific Point Cardstock on this card.
I cut out three flowers from the paper and adhered them with Dimensionals.
The sentiment  comes from the Peaceful Petals stamp set. The border on the left hand side was made using one of the Finishing Touches Edgelits. White Taffeta Ribbon and Pearls completed the card.

You can make cards in different sizes as seen in the top two cards. I stamped Whisper White Cardstock using the Petal Parade Saleabration Stamp Set for the background of the card on the left.
The sentiment is from the Pennant Parade Stamp Set cut out using the matching Banner Framelits.
I love the pastel colours of these two cards.
I used some of the Retro Designer Series Paper on the card below and the Zoo Babies Stamp Set.
Did you notice the toucan sitting on the elephant.

Scalloped Tag Topper Boxes and two cards.

I have really enjoyed playing with the Scallop Tag Topper Punch from the Spring/Summer Catalogue.
So much so that I am going to run a Class here on Thursday, March 6th at 7.30pm. We will be making some of the items in this Blog Post.
Both of the above boxes were made out of A4 Cardstock. You could make any size in between depending on how much chocolate you wanted to put in it!
The DSP on the tall box is Eastern Elegance and on the small box I used the Fresh Prints DSP Stack from the Spring/Summer Catalogue.

The box above has two openings and I got the instructions from Pootles.co.uk  HERE
I used Tango Tangerine Cardstock and DSP from the Retrofresh pack.in the Spring/Summer Catalogue.

Above is a neat little box which I have filled with some Lindt Easter Eggs (my favourite!)
I used the Sweet Sorbet Saleabration DSP on Calypso Coral Cardstock. I tied it with Pool Party Ribbon left over from last year's Saleabration.

I cased the box above from Becky Roberts'  blog www.inkingidaho.blogspot.co.uk. I just changed the colours a bit. The Cardstock base for the box and one of the cards is Crumb Cake and the base for the other card is Pool Party.The Flower Stamp is from the Happy Watercolour set from the Spring/Summer Catalogue.

Happy Watercolour Cards.

The first page to leap out at me from the new Stampin Up Spring / Summer Catalogue was page 22 with the Happy Watercolour Stamp Set and the pack of 20 Watercolour Wonder Designer Note Cards and Envelopes. There are two examples of the Designer Note Cards above. I stamped on them using Stazon Ink and then enjoyed using an Aquapainter and ink pads to colour in the flowers. I embellished them with three gold sequins from the reel of Gold Sequin Trim.

This is one of the cards which we made at our Training day recently. It was designed by Monica Gale.
The base card is Pistachio Pudding stamped with the dotty stamp from the Happy Watercolour set. It was stamped on a Tag which had already been punched out using the new Scalloped Tag Topper Punch.
The Lattice framework at the back of the card was taken from Simply Fabulous Simply Sent Kit from the Annual Catalogue on page 161. If you look carefully you will also see a piece of the Saleabration Sweet Sorbet paper. and some Calypso Coral Ruffled Ribbon.