Take Ten for Dad

  Ten minutes, two sheets of card stock and three buttons are all you need to make this cute gift cardholder for dad.  Work backwards! Create a pocket that fits your gift card. Cut a 'shirt' that fits and adhere it all to a card made from co-ordinating card stock. We added buttons and stitching with a marker to finish it!

Make a Card Monday

Here's a sneek peek at what we're doing tomorrow!

Drop by Monday, any time between 10:30 to 12:30, sit with girls, and make a card.  Its all very informal and everyone is welcome.  The make  and takes are different every week. We provide everything you need for a $2 drop in fee.

Free Father's Day Make and Take

Join us 

with the kids on

Saturday June 16th 

between
11:00AM to 2:00PM 

and 

make a card for dad.

Don't Forget DAD!

Stamp D-A-D on three different colours of card stock.  Line up the D-A-D as shown, then FLIP OVER and cut the green and beige pieces to match the brown. Set Aside.

Stamp D-A-D on three different pattern papers.

Cut out the D-A-D on the printed paper.  Cut the right side of the DAD on the green , beige and brown paper making sure to leave it attached (this step may be omitted for younger crafters). Glue the patterned D-A-D over the matching green, beige and brown D-A-D.
Line the D-A-D up so the ends match.  Punch two holes, use eyelets to reinforce them if desired and thread the brown ribbon through and tie.
Now the base of your card is finished and you can add photos, coupons and Father’s Day greetings.  HAVE FUN!

Card Of the Week

 This week we're back to basics!  With all the toys and tools that are available to us these days we forget how effective simple things like pencil crayons can be.  Here we've stamped   'Dogwood Branch' and 'Create Art' (one of my favourites) from Memorybox, on kraft cardstock using Tsukineko Rich Cocoa. Next, we dusted off the pencil crayons and coloured in the branch. Trim the cardstock, to the sizeof the word background, before mounting it on a chocolate covered mat. On another piece of kraft card stock, stampand colour 'Dogwood Branch' again as shown.  Mount the smaller mat on top and adhere the whole thing to a coral card.

Stamp Club This Saturday

Everyone is welcome!
Here's the supply list for the  May demo of watercolour background
techniques.

• Watercolours -  pans or tubes
• Brushes - bring an assortment
• Watercolour paper cut into practice sheets
• Palette  or white plate or
  a couple of yogurt  lids
• Water container
• Heat gun or hair dryer
  Water spritzer
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Saran wrap or light plastic bags/dry
  cleaning bags
• Pink, purple or red watercolour pencil
  Eye dropper, pipette,Q tip
• Cellulose sponge cut into the size/shape of
  a white Staedler eraserBlack 
• micron pen
• pencil
• Birthday candle or white wax crayon

If you don't have some of the "extras", don't sweat, we can share!

Saturday, May 26 from 9:30 - 11 AM at the False Creek Community
Centre.   You are welcome to drop by to trade stamping ideas and to
have a great   time!  The drop in fee is $5.  There is a card swap
every meeting if   you'd like to partake bring 10 cards with you.

Embossed Owls

Check out this cool card using Dreamweaver Stencils and Embossing paste!

This card was done using embossing paste which was coloured in using a stipple brush and some cat's eye ink pads.  The stencil we used is below.  Aren't these owls a hoot!

To finish the project, you will need some embossing paste, pigment ink (we used these cat's eye inkpads) and a metal spatula.

We have these items in stock so come on in and visit us to get started on your own dreamweaver projects!

Memory Box Dies

We just can't keep up for the demand for these dies.  They have proven to be such a popular item!  We are hopefully going to get another shipment in next week to replenish our current stock.  Some of you have ordered online and are waiting patiently.....so we thank you for your patience.

Below is an example of one of these beautiful dies.

This die is called Lavalier Circle.  We will be using this die in an upcoming Make a Card Monday, so stay tuned!

Card of the Week

Happy Monday everyone! This week's card of the week is all abou the birds.  Owls, that is!  Here is what we used to create the card.

We used the "Wildbloom" patterned paper from Memory Box's Voila collection, coordinating it with white and green cardstock.

We stamped the Owl image twice on white cardstock.  The owl on the second stamped image are then coloured and cut out.  We will use these cut out pieces to create a 3D effect by popping them up on top of the original stamped image.

Below is a close up of the card.  You can see the 3D effect by using pop dots to elevate the owl images off the card.  It adds dimension to the finished card.

And this is the final card with the ribbon detail added.  We did this to balance the card -- there is white script on one side of the card and a ribbon detail on the other.

Coffee and a Card

Just a reminder that there is no Coffee and a Card tomorrow.