Club SUM Workshop 13 June 2017

Christmas Sampler
So tonight we started making a 12 x 12 inch Christmas Sampler. I didn't think we would get it all done in the one workshop, and we only completed half of it, so the other half will be done in another workshop.  I pre-cut all the square cardstock and dsp and just got my ladies to stamp, colour and die cut when required and make up the individual squares. We got through 8 of the squares and will do the other 8 on another night.

Stamp Sets used:

Bright and Beautiful
Joyful Christmas
Merry Little Christmas
Stitched STockings
Tags til Christmas
That's the Ticket

DSP used

Cardstock used:

Old Olive
Cherry Cobbler
Whisper White
Smoky Slate
Garden Green

Inks used;
Tranquil Tide
Cherry Cobbler
Real Red
Basic Gray

Club SUM Workshop 9 May 2017

This is one of the cards we made tonight. using the following materials:

Window Box Thinlits Dies
Window Shopping stamp set.
Wildflower Fields DSP
Blackberry Bliss inkpad
Blackberry Bliss cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Whisper White 1/4" Cotton Ribbon
and Something Borrowed Embellishments

And this card was one of the projects my downline, Sue created for us to make.

Club SUM Workshop 11 April 2017

Just in time for Easter we made this card using the Swirly ScribblesThinlits Dies, the Halloween Scenes Edgelit Dies and the Hey Chick SAB stamp set and the "Happy Easter" from an old stamp set, Delightful Dozen.

The other card we made used the Swirly Bird stamp set and a whole lot of different ink pads
Wisteria Wonder
Perfect Plum
Cajun Craze
Old Olive
Delightful Dijon
Flirty Flamingo

Club SUM Workshop 1 March 2016

Still celebrating Sale-A-Bration, the new addition to the flyer with more stamp sets is now available.

Here are the two projects we completed on the night.

Happy Birthday to you!

Materials used in this project include:

Stamp Set: Honeycomb Happiness (SAB), Party Pants (SAB)

Cardstock: Whisper White, Blushing Bride

Inks: Early Espresso, Mint Macaron, Pumpkin Pie

DSP: Birthday Bouquet

Punch: Scalloped Tag Topper and Curvy Corner Trio

Ribbon: Pool Party 3/8" Glitter 

Honeycomb Embellishments

SNAIL Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots

A Birthday Wish...

Materials used in this project include:
Stamp Sets: Botanical Blooms,  Remembering Your Birthday
Cardstock: Whisper White, Hello Honey, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso
Inks: Mint Macaron, Early Espresso
DSP: Botanical Gardens
Dies: Botanical Builder Framelits
Punch: Scalloped Tag Topper
Ribbon: Natural 7/16" Trim
Brad, SNAIL Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots and Staples

Maria kindly baked a birthday cake to help celebrate my birthday.

We even had a bottle of champagne to celebrate.

And the girls gave me a lovely bouquet of flowers.

Club SUM Workshop 5 January 2016

A brand new year and 2 new catalogues to show off. It's Sale-A-Bration time and the new Occasions catalogue is now available.

Here's a photo of my group of ladies busy water painting their cards.

Our two projects tonight included the Baker's Box and a lovely Birthday card.

The Baker's Box used materials from both the Occasions and Annual catalogue

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The Birthday card used materials from both the Annual and Sale-A-Brations catalogue.

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Club SUM Workshop 6 October 2015

It's been a while since I posted, so with this workshop looming, I pulled out the new Holiday Catalogue, my ipad and started searching for ideas on Pinterest. These cards were CASED, but not all items are from the new catalogue, as I found I could use some of my previously purchased items.

Merry Everything/Sleigh Ride Ornament Christmas Card

Materials Used: 

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For our second project I couldn't resist the Hearth and Home thinlits. This die set has so many uses.

Hearth and Home/Jingle All the Way Christmas Card
Materials Used:

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Club SUM Workshop 4 August 2015

One of my amazing demonstrators, Sue, held this workshop and had two fantastic projects for us to make.

Our first project used the Vintage Leaves stamp set with the co-ordinating Leaflets Framelits and the some of the delightful papers from the Bohemian DSP set.

The second project made use of the Watercolor Wings stamp set as well as the co-ordinating and more wonderful papers from the English Garden DSP set.

If you are reading this and would like to join our workshops, please drop us a line or leave a comment, we welcome all stampers, whether you're a beginner or have been stamping for a while.

Club SUM Workshop 7 July 2015

Tonight I had my Stampin' Up! ladies make two cards.

The first one is a male card.  I don't do many of these, but the Guy Greetings stamp set lends itself to some great male cards, including this one.

Guy Greetings Male All-Occasions card
Materials Used:

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The second we made is a very nice floral card which can be used also for any occasion. Using aqua painters I watercoloured the flowers with Watermelon Wonder and Daffodil Delight.

Birthday Blossoms card
Materials Used:

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This card lends itself to so many colour variations. Here's one I did using Marina Mist, for a blue version.

Club SUM Workshop 5 May 2015

Tuesday 5th May

For this workshop I had two Mother's Day projects lined up as it was coming up.

For our first project we made a Mother's Day card

Wonderful Mother card
Materials Used:
Rubber Stamps: Something Lacy background stamp from the 2015 Occasions Catalogue; Flower Shop stamp set (130939 W); Mixed Bunch stamp set (128442) - Retired; Well Scripted stamp set (122082 W) - Retired
Tools: Pansy punch (130698); 
Cardstock/Patterned Paper: Whisper White cardstock (106549); Early Espresso cardstock (121686)
Inkpads: Soft Suede ink pad (126978) ;Baked Brown Sugar ink pad (121174)
Adhesives: SNAIL adhesive (104332); Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
Accessories: Pearl Basic Jewels (119247)

For our second project we made a Flowerpot card with pull out card to write your sentiment.

Flowerpot card
Materials used:
Rubber Stamps: Flower Shop stamp set (130939 W)
Petite Petals stamp set (133155 (C)
For You Flower single stamp (121596) - Retired
Tools: Big Shot (113439); Autumn Accents Bigz Die (127812); Scallop Trim Border Punch (118402); Fancy Flower Punch (118073); Petite Petals Punch (133322)
Cardstock/Patterned Paper: Whisper White cardstock (106549); Night of Navy cardstock (106577); Garden Green cardstock (108605)
Inkpads: 
Adhesives: SNAIL adhesive (104332); Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
Ribbon: Ribbon Taffeta 1/8" Regal Rose (122965)

Club SUM Workshop 27 January 2015

Tuesday 27 January

My first workshop of the year, I decided to make a card which I had seen demonstrated by Teneale Williams at the Party Time event.  The balloon swings like a pendulum via a mechanism hidden behind the front panel.  So simple, yet effective.

Materials Used from the 2015 Occasions Catalogue:
Celebrate Today stamp set
Butterfly Basics stamp set
Balloon Framelits Die
Cardstock
Dimensionals

The picture below shows the mechanism, which is virtually a folded piece of cardstock and a coin or heavy weight.

My other project used the following from the 2015 Occasions Catalogue:

Butterfly Basics stamp set

Butterflies Thinlits Dies

Painted Blooms DSP

Tip:  A trick I learnt at the Party Time event, use a dryer sheet with your dies to stop the paper getting stuck in your dies, they will stick to the dryer sheet instead. I found baking paper is also great, if you don't have any dryer sheets and you get a die cut that is translucent like vellum which you can use in other projects. Position the baking paper between the die and the cardstock.

Club SUM Workshop 11 March 2014

I had been thinking that I would run my workshop as a dinner party..no food, but our projects would make up the menu, so I set about creating a menu.

On my menu, there would be an Appetiser, something small and easy to make. This was the Tag-alicious Topper Gift Tag.  Then the Main Course would be a card project using the Peachy Keen stamp set and On Film Framelits, followed by Dessert, which would make use of the Good as Gold SAB Simply Set Pack.

Then I sent out my invitations using the Celebration Basics Invitations two weeks before the workshop.

I set the table up as you would a dinner party and used my rescued frame to decorate the place.

 As Easter is approaching, I made up some Monster hugs party favours with Malteser bunnies.

Tag-alicious Topper Gift Tag
Materials used:
Big Wish Stamp Set
Sweet Sorbet DSP
Scalloped Tag Topper Punch
Smoky Slate Cardstock
Whisper White Cardstock
Burlap Trim
Calypso Coral Baker's Twine

Peachy Keen Picture Perfect Card
Materials used:
Peachy Keen Stamp Set
Hip Notes Stamp Set
Another Great Birthday Stamp Set
On Film Framelits Dies
Whisper White Cardstock
Coastal Cabana Cardstock
Crushed Curry Cardstock
Sweet Sorbet DSP
Retro Fresh This and That Designer Washi Tape

Take an old frame....

I found this frame on someone's front lawn ready for the local council cleanup collection and rescued it thinking I could use it one day.  It was just the frame, no backing, some of the ornate plaster work was chipped, but I thought with a little bit of work, I could make a rustic looking frame.  I didn't have to do much with it, just dusted it off. It was already painted silver, so I just touched up some of the areas which were scratched and added the backing board which I made using some cardboard from some Ikea packaging cut to size. I crumpled up some white tissue paper and then straightened it back out before glueing the tissue paper to the cardboard and gave it an extra coat of white paint. It turned out better than I had hoped for.

Then added some coloured banners, cards, felted balls and I had a very colourful display which I hung up for my Stampin' Up! workshop.

Club SUM Workshop 4 February 2014: Sue's Card Projects

These are the cards, my friend and fellow demonstrator, Sue demonstrated in February when I was away on holidays up the coast. The "Bee" card was pretty simply to put together, but the "Birthday" card was a lot more fiddly. I did adapt it by putting the string banner across the top instead of sticking it to the bottom front panel.

"Bee" card
Materials used:
Summer Starfruit cardstock
Early Espresso cardstock
Old Olive cardstock

Tangerine Tango cardstock
Spiral Flower Originals Die
Honeycomb Embossing Folder
Bee stamp from the Backyard Basics stamp set
Birthday greetings from the Wetlands stamp set
Crochet trim and Gumball green stitched satin ribbon

"Bee" Card

Happy Birthday card
Materials used:
Another Great Year stamp set
Watercolor Wonder DSP
Tea Lace Paper Doilies
SAB Banner Punch

"Birthday" Card

Club SUM Christmas Dinner 19 December 2012

This year we had a combined Christmas dinner and workshop. Following on from the success of last years Thai take out dinner, we again ordered from the same place and had our meal before getting stuck into a Christmas card project.

 My sister, Lily was stuck with making the Fruit salad christmas tree which did not quite come out as I had pictured it. Next time, I'll need to prepare it the night before. Just too busy.

Club SUM Workshop 24 January 2012 : Chinese New Year

Held my first Club SUM workshop for the year on 24th January and because it was still in the Chinese New Year period, I made these little goodies for my SU ladies. In each one I put a chinese red packet with a little gold chocolate coin in each.

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Summer Sun, Whisper White
Ribbon: Basic Black Taffeta
Bigz Dies: Scallop Envelope
Brad: Real Red
Stamp: Happy New Year (Not SU stamp)

Club SUM Workshop 6 September 2011: Launch of New Catalogue

At our Stampin' Up! workshop on Tuesday night, we launched the new Idea Book and Catalogue and to celebrate I got the girls to make some paper shoes. I had made one shoe and their project was complete the other shoe, so that they had a pair. I used the shoes as a treat holder, so that each of my girls had a bag of chockies to take home as well as a pair of paper shoes.The shoes were made using Flirtatious Designer Series Paper, grosgrain ribbon and brads. Please see my earlier post for the shoe template. It was a challenge putting the shoes together, but in the end I think the girls were happy with their shoes.

Here is a photo of the girls with their finished creations.