Remaining cards for Bawburgh

Well I never did find my original samples despite turning my craft room upside down in an attempt to find them so I've quickly put together another couple.

This first one is a simple christmas card using a leaf punch to make the wreath.

I will attempt to punch out enough leaves for you all but if any of you have a carl punch like this one please can you bring it along with you on Sunday as it will save time if more leaves are needed.

Also if you have any red glitter glue can you bring that along too instead of clear glitter glue that was on your lists.

My final card is entitled Christmas surprise on your list. The surprise being I had no idea what my 2nd card I showed you last month looked like, so I hope you like what I came up with. We are going to use liquid applique & glitter on the santa hats. If any of you have another cute animal stamp you would prefer to use then bring that along with you. As you can see I went for less tradional christmas colours this time.

September cards

Hi everyone hope you all had a good summer I know I certainly did. I cannot believe school holidays are over no more leisurely lie ins BOO HOO.

Well back to business here are some of the cards we will be doing this month. Cards 1 & 2 are for both groups but 3 is for Aylsham only. Aylsham can see their 4th card on last month post, its the folded card.

I'm afraid I have managed to lose my own card samples in the pit I call my craft room so if I do not find them today, I will quickly make up some more samples & upload them tomorrow.

Also I will not be attending Aylsham this month as its my daughter Amy's 8th birthday party so I'm afraid I will be up to my eyes with screaming children. So please spare me some thought while you are all busy "playing" & go easy on Sylvia.

Card 1


Here are the individual images that make the card 3d


Card 2



Card 3

Sheila's folded card

This is the card that Sheila taught us. It uses a single sheet of 12" x 12" double sided patterned card which is cleverly folded to form a square card with 2 slots on the card front. Into these slots a gift card, picture or tags could be placed.

I'm no good at folding (don't ask me to do teabag folding, the resulting "mess" is not a pretty sight!!!) but even I did not mess it up & I was really pleased with the end result.

If you do not have any double sided pattern card then why not stamp a random design onto the unpatterned sides. The finished card size can also be decreased by using a smaller than 12" square to begin with.

When I can fathom out how to explain the folds I will be adding the instructions to this post.

Sylvia's flower card

This is my version of Sylvia's flower card, I have left my front panel blank until I decide what greeting I want to add.

I did enjoy making this card & it did get me using my paper flowers again. Its also a versatile layout to use. Although this card used an A4 sheet folded in half, we managed to make a square version for one of our group, Louise, as she did not have the supplies to make the larger version & it turned out really well (although I do say it myself). You can see the card on our Bawburgh group shot, Louise is in the middle row in a pink top just behind Sylvia.

So for those of you who want to make this card at home here are the supplies you need.

1 A4 sheet of card.
Patterned paper cut to 21 x 14.8cm
Coordinating coloured or mirri card - 17.5 x 5cm & 12.5 x 3cm
another piece of different coloured coordinating card - 16 x 3.5cm
white card - 13 x 3.5
paper or silk flowers
3 small brads
18cm length of 1cm ribbon or could use a piece of your patterned paper
coordinating inkpads

The A4 sheet of card was folded to form base card. The patterned paper, largest coordinating card & white card were all cut with a deckle edge.

Some of the flowers & the cut white card were edged with the coordinating ink prior to being put on the card. The front panel was also raised with foam pads.

Thankyou All

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came to this months meetings, I really didn't expected so many people to make the effort given the glorious weather we are having this weekend.

I took some pictures at the Bawburgh group today, which I have just sent to a card making magazine in the hope they choose us as their group of the month. I thought it would be nice for you all to see the group shot we had taken by the hall's caretaker (Thank you Mr Caretaker) We are all holding our favourite project of the day.



You can see I did try to hide behind my card but I did not quite succeed Ha Ha.

August Cards

I'm sorry that these cards have been posted later than I hoped but I forgot I had to go on holiday!!!!! Well better late than never & hopefully you will all forgive me.

This card we will be doing at both groups & was designed by Sylvia. She has coordinated the flowers & papers together & if you look closely you will see she has used ink to change the look of the original flowers & this will be something she will show you how to do.



Card 2 is one of my own designs & I have used some Stampin up stamps. Although this card is a Christmas card by changing the colours it can easily be adapted to become a birthday card & I will have an example of this with me.



Card 3 for Bawburgh only can be seen in the previous post & is the one with the cat on the front (unfortunately this stamp will not be available to use).

This is card 3 for Aylsham & is the flowerpot card that Sandra taught at Bawburgh last month.


There are similar cards to be found on the internet but Sandra has designed it in such a way that her version can be stood up like a normal card.


As you can see, to make the card quicker & easier to do I've used punches for my flowers & these will be available to use on Saturday.


Unfortunately the other cards on your lists I do not have examples for yet so these I will post after Sundays meeting.

Hopefully this has wetted all your appetites & I hope to see lots of you at the weekend.

July meeting

Well what an eventful weekend that was, it really made me appreciate it takes 2 to run the groups smoothly regardless of how many attendees we have.

You will all be pleased to know that Sylvia has made a full recovery & she promises that she will be fighting fit for the August meeting baring any more accidents with tables or dodgy tummies.

Well here are the pictures of the cards we all made & in a later post I will attempt to upload the cards for next months meetings.

This trifold mouse card was made at both groups. The stamps are by Dimension Fourth & I think I got the original idea from a card I saw on the stand at the Thetford show, which is on again on Sunday 23rd August. Please excuse the crease on my back page border, however much I try to get rid of it, it seems to want to stay put.

This wallet card was original taught to me by my friend & Stampin up upliner Lisa, who kindly agreed to let me teach it to the groups. This is not my original card as mine was accidentally taken home by one of our members so this was one I made very quickly hence its not quite finished. We used an A4 sheet of brown card which we halved lengthwise. After rounding off all the corners we applied versamark ink to the front only & then sprinkled on clear embossing powder. Prior to heating we made patterns using an embossing tool & then heat set the embossing powder. The effect is really cool & it looks as though you have used expensive leather effect card. Inside the wallet we created pockets using the leftover brown card. This is a great card for all those really hard to please men in our life's.

This last card we made at Aylsham only but we will be making it at Bawburgh next month. This is Sylvia's creation & she has used eyelets as an effective decoration as well as serving a purpose by holding the front & back of the card together.

The third card we made at Bawburgh was designed by Sandra using Stampin up products. When I obtain a picture of her card or I complete my own (which hopefully will be soon as Aylsham will be doing this card in August) I will upload an image for you all.

Dates for next meetings are 8th & 9th August.