Quilters Cottage Norfolk

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Card Making Wednesday 22nd February 2012

Kim brought in her 'Oo La la Girls' stamps and we had a wonderful

time stamping, painting and glittering these girls!

We used distress inks as the blending colours.

See more card making on my site

www.cards2inspire.co.uk

Monday, 20 February 2012

Dressmakers Card

Wednesday morning it was Card Making Class

with Kim @The Gallery.

I have had a couple of weeks off and I have missed

the card creating.

It is so relaxing and creative, it's lovely being a student

sometimes!

Kim is really clever in how she makes her

cards and shows us how to create ones

with her inspiration but our images.

I want to add a safety pin in the top corner

and then I feel it is finished.

Visit Kim's Blog site

www.art2inspiretech.blogspot.com

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Finished Exploding Box

This is my Exploding Box made with Kim on Wednesdays

Card Making Class @The Gallery.

You can make one by following the video

on my Tech Site

Card Making Wednesday 18th January 2012

Kim really got the inspiration going this week by

showing us how to make an, 'Exploding Box'.

My brain just took off and I made my box about textiles.

Well, Textile Tuesday.

You make the box in four parts. The three inside

pieces and the lid.

See the finished box in next post.

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Card Making Friday 13th January 2012

When I got home from Quilt Class on Thursday

there was a message on my answer phone that

there was a space on the card making afternoon

at Gill's Studio in Kings Lynn due to a

cancellation.

I love going to Gill's Card Making Shop and Studio,

as I always have a list of things for card making I can only

get there.

As you can see we had a wonderful time making

this Victorian Lady Aperture card.

Lots of Printing, cutting, making and painting

using Distress Inks.

There was a new lady starting, a complete

beginner and I learnt lots too!

I came away with my stash that grew as I

in my wisdom arrived early to class and

had lots of time to browse!!!!

See more of my card making on my blog

Friday, 13 January 2012

Card Making Wednesday 11th January 2012

On Wednesday Kim surprised us with two tri-folded shutter and

concertina cards as examples to make.

They looked very intricate to make but we were

soon measuring, folding and cutting.

I chose mine to be very Mediveal in feel.

This is how far I got that morning and I will

See my finished card and a video on how to make it

See more of my cards on my card blog

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Lace Dress form Card

Wednesday the 4th was Card Making @The Gallery

with Kim.

We were all feeling a little groggy to get started back

to class but look at what I created!

Kim showed us lots of ways of folding cards,

using different sizes.

Kim also brought in lots of inspirational papers,

I chose the lace ones!

It was good to be card making again,

Thank you Kim!

See more of my cards on my card blog

and see Kim's card blog

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Card Making Wednesday 30th November 2011

Wednesday was card making with Kim and I

was feeling a bit slow and needed to sort out my

tools and card making stuff before I felt I could do

anything creative.

You know when you feel you need to have a slow day?

Once I got going I learnt about how to distress paper and tags

using a distress tool. I then sat distressed tags for a while and watched

others create their cards.

Kim then showed us some of her new

Christmas stamps and that was it, I was off and

inspired. I stamped and inked, embossed and prepared

papers and fabrics with the new ideas.

I had a lovely morning,

Thank you Kim.

When I got home there was a Thank you card (above)

from Will the new owner of the Commission Quilt that

I have been working on over the last few months.

Will had made the artwork and card.

Thank you, Will!

See HERE

and visit Kim's Card Blog

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Card Making Wednesday 23rd November

Kim was as inspirational as ever and showed us

some different techniques and also how to layer papers

distress inks and stamping.

Carol made a fantastic Dragon Card for

her Grand Son.

I continued making layered Christmas Cards,

see above.

See Kim's site at

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Finished Folded Christmas Card

I really enjoyed making this Tri Fold Christmas Card

but hadn't estimated the amount of surfaces you

have to cover!

I used my Tim Holtz Blending tool and inks a lot

in this card, to age the card and papers.

Some of the stickers and pictures I have

had in my stash and not known what to use

them on.

The tag turned out really well and I

will probably make more of those.

See more of my card making on

my card blog

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Card Making Wednesday 1st November 2011

On Wednesday it was Card Making Class with Kim.

Kim is showing us different ways of using

card making equipment to make

Christmas Cards.

Kim also showed us how to make a box for our

3D cards.

I love the time to create and learn

with different media.

See another great box pattern video

The paper dollies are colour blended with

distress inks.

I decided to make vintage version and

use a multi- fold blank.

I didn't realise you have to cover so many surfaces!

They are turning out o.k though.

I will continue these next week.

See more of Kim's card making on her Blog

www.beadthiscraftthat.co.uk

or visit my card making site

www.cards2inspire.co.uk

Monday, 31 October 2011

On Friday, I got a call from Jill at

'Jill's Crafting Studio', to say there was a

space in her afternoon class and

would I like to come along.

I jumped at the chance and off I went.

Jill's Card Studio Shop is so light and airy and

inspirational.

We were soon making a Tri Folded Christmas Card.

(See mine above). Two hours went so quick and

it was lovely meeting other card enthusiasts.

I am still at the beginner stage!!!!

Learnt lots and enjoyed the time.

Thank you to Jill and the ladies.

Monday, 17 October 2011

Lace Book

Wednesday was card making with Kim @The Gallery.

We were continuing to use the embossed book templates

and add dry embossing to our cards.

Sylvia had kindly given me several books on

card making the day before and it spurred me on

to mix my medias as usual.

I wanted to add lace and metal work.

I went shopping before the class at

Bead this Craft That for lace, pearl beads on a string

and anything that caught my eye.

(I have a craft budget each week to keep me in check an

often add weeks together to save for the larger items!).

See Bead This Craft That's website

We had a wonderful morning and all our cards were

very different. I love learning new skills and then

experimenting with all the different medias.

I will continue this Book Card over several sessions.

I have since found a lady on You Tube who has made

beautiful cards using this technique and medias

See more of my card making at

and see Kim's blog

Monday, 10 October 2011

Card Making Wednesday October 5th 2011

On Wednesday Kim brought in Embossing Boards

for us to try and I needed to make a card for

nicole's Christening.

I wanted to make a card with the 'N',

similar to the Cushion and Quilt we had

made as the Christening Gifts.

We learnt lots of techniques as usual

and as you can see I made a 'N' card!

See more of my card making

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Card Making Wednesday 28th September 2011

Wednesday was card making with Kim Crop.

She gave us the challenge of making cards for men!

It's harder than you think because there are only

so many themes that are appropriate.

I chose to make a card with a decoupage sailing ship.

I used lots of layering of stamping and papers.

I even decorated the envelope this time!

See more of my cards on my paper craft site

and see Kim's work on

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Christmas Easel Card Making

On Friday the 23rd of September ,

(as you can see I am a week behind posting due

to me not being tip top and the lovely things still

happening everyday!).

I went to Larna Crafts and Wool Shop in

Downham Market to have a card making workshop

with Elaine. We made an Easel Christmas Card.

My first Christmas Card of the year and I am

sure it will be one of many made!

It was a lovely morning and we all had lots

of fun with cutting, talking and 'GLITTER".

See a really good video on how to make an

Easel Card HERE

See more of my cards on

Monday, 22 August 2011

Card Making Wednesday August

On Wednesday it was Card Making with Kim

@The Gallery.

You can see we were all busy creating our collaged cards.

It always amazes me that we start with the same

art materials available but we all create different cards.

Kim wanted us to try more collaging in this week.

I learnt alot more tips and storage solutions too!

We had a wonderful morning and in the afternoon

Kim and I put the mornings photos on her new Blog.

See Kim's new blog

See my card and papercraft blog

Sunday, 14 August 2011

Kim Crops New Blog

On Friday I went to Kim's Home to show her how to set

up a blog and get her wonderful work on the world wide web.

Kim teaches Cardmaking and Scrapbooking

@The Gallery on a Wednesday morning.

She is an inspirational teacher with the way she uses

equipment and her vast papercraft knowledge.

We had a lovely day and I got to see

her Crafting Studio! WOW!

Everything is so organised and she

has loads of tips, see some on her website.

Thank you Kim, for a lovely lunch and sharing your day.

I am so pleased you are on the web.

Visit Kim's blog at