Heart to Heart Workshop

A new stamping era began yesterday when Vicky Stampers relocated to Padgate and I had the honour of being the first tutor in the new premises. The emphasis of the club remains the same with stamping being the main theme of our workshops and we all enjoyed a great day. It was sad in many ways to move but it means that we now have no stairs to struggle up when carrying equipment, we have a kitchen where we can make our own tea and coffee exactly to taste, better lighting and generally better facilities, all at reasonable cost. The group of people are still as great, and we enjoy good crafting and lots of fun once a month, so if anyone within reach of Padgate, near Warrington, would like to join us then email me for details. We've space now for a few more dedicated stampers.

At Jayne's request, my project was my Heart to Heart Card and you can see my sample open above and with the 4 hearts interlocked below. It is a simple card which just looks somewhat complex.
It's a great way to get good use from your die cutter and I left my Cuttlebug in the drawer in favour of my new Vagabond... I love it! I used Nestabilities to cut the 2 sizes of hearts.

First we got messy and marbled our backgrounds to use on the card with a choice of using Smooches (as I posted on 24th April) or with Shaving foam (as I posted 1st April).

There were lots of great results from the group....

Lovely bit of marbling by Neet inside this one

A card open... I think it is by Lorraine

I forgot my camera so the following photos were emailed to me ... thanks to Neet, but sorry I can't make them any bigger and so sorry that cannot see to credit the people who made them.

Everyone completed their card so we moved on to make some heart shaped packages in the afternoon.

 These packages can also be made quite quickly from Scrap book papers (as I did with the large brown one below). The blue and pink ones were made from card decorated and stamped using Distress Inks.

Once again, these are quite simple to make so if anyone would like the template for the packages, or any information of the items I've made, just email me and I'll send a pdf to you.