I've got that shrinking feeling.....

...and not its not me that's lost weight but books that shrunk! This morning in class the ladies made mini books from shrink plastic. The stamping and colouring and shrinking were great fun BUT... ...this was what caused the ladies the trouble this morning - the ribbon lacing...there were a lot of "oh sugar"! and "ggrrrr"! and such like words used - hahaha! The holes in the shrink plastic were made with the Bind-It-All before shrinking and in the card pages with a hole punch BUT putting it altogether with narrow ribbon - it took ages and there were lots of sore fingers and more words... The shrink plastic book cover started out the same size as the stamp - 10 x 7 cms... and ended up 4 x 3 cms...So here are the ladies with their mini books...

Lin, Florence and Q... Jean, Margaret and Pat...

As usual there was loads of catching up to be done and lots of laughter - add in cups of coffee and ginger biccis - what more could a girl ask for.

Bye for now

Sue

Some lovely people making some lovely art...

My side step card....

and Eileen, Jean, Margaret, Lorraine, me and Mu yesterday with our beautiful cards..

I was so proud of the lovelies that came to today's class as they made this complicated tri-shutter card. I taught the mechanics of making the card and then they changed tables where Yaa was waiting to help them stamp, distress, cut out and paint the various elements on it. Here's Yaa helping the girls and Mario... and these lovely girls - Sophie, Becky and Lauren are here on holiday from Oban in Scotland

Two great mornings work and some happy people

Bye for now

Sue

Boy, are we motoring now!!!

I have been in work, work, work mode for the past few days and today made a couple of cards for tomorrow's class.

Last Friday Mu asked if I could show them how to make a sidestep and a triple shutter card so tomorrow that is what we are making.

A sneak peek of two more completed projects for Autumn workshops but the light is too bad to photograph them tonight so they will have to wait till tomorrow. Just look at the Distressing technique with the blending tools and the concentration shown by the girls.... and here's Marta and friends showing their cards Sven here on holiday from Germany...Somehow Bad Blogger deleted the photos of Beni and Celine so they will have to go on another post. It is so frustrating not to be able to move photos around any more if you forget one or accidently delete or if blogger does it for you.
If anyone out there in blogland knows how to get around this problem please let me know - thanks.

Bye for now

Sue

playing catch up again

Tuesday class - Erica brought along her friend Carole from America and we made exploding boxes



Erica, Christine, me, Carole showing our dirty hands from colouring the card with handles - goodness knows what they would look like if we had used our fingers!!!

our unfinished boxes...










and the Wednesday night girls making the covers of their albums



Melissa, Yaa, Mar - just look at the concentration!

and that's right up to date

so Bye for now
Sue

Exploding boxes

Having spent most of the little free time I had yesterday replacing photos I will update my blog later today but will just share a photo of the girls from last night. They made an exploding box - not a lick 'n' stick one but one polished with Ranger's Distress Ink pads on blending foam and then stamped with the lovely Crafty Individual stamps. I've said it before but I really enjoy my Wednesday evenings - they are such lovely girls - talented and such fun.

Well off to have a shower and then open the shop so
Bye for now
Sue x