World Card Making Day - Prick 'n Stitch

Sue Berry presented a Prick 'n Stitch workshop. Many of the ladies battled with this one as you needed to follow a pattern to complete the snowflake. I certainly appreciate the time and patience that goes into making these embroidered cards now!

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World Card Making Day - Shoes glorious shoes

This was such a fun workshop presented by Amanda Harrod. She brought lots of samples to show us what can be done with the basic pattern and I have taken photos of most of the shoes made on the day too. I know a few ladies have made more of them, I just haven't had a chance yet. These would make such special invitations, with the details slipped into the shoe.

Have a fabulous day!

World Card Making Day - Gift display box for cards

This lovely box for presenting cards as a gift set was a workshop by Gail Grant. Sue Berry is seated next to Gail. Another lovely idea for a Christmas gift and with 55 days to go, I had better get cracking!

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World Card Making Day - gift card holder

Lynn Cupido presented this lovely idea for giving a gift card.

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World Card Making Day - Card flower

Sandra Fullerton taught us to make this flower from circles of double sided scrapbooking paper on World Card Making Day. In the photo Sandra is wearing purple and Amanda is next to her.

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World Card Making Day - Gift bag

Shamela taught us to make this cute little bag in her workshop on World Card Making Day.

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World Card Making Day - Caddy Card

Here is another World Card Making Day workshop that we did, this one with Corinna Lengner. A wonderful idea and Corinna gave me the one with tissue paper filled with Sally Williams Nougat as a thank you for hosting the day. You use one sheet of Scrapbooking paper for the base and offcuts to decorate or you can use a double sided sheet of patterned paper. A lovely quick gift packaging idea!

I have lots of photos to upload to my blog but just not getting much time to blog lately, I hope to catch up soon. Enjoy your weekend! Thanks for popping by!

World Card Making Day - Gift tube

Hello again, I am hoping that life is settling a little so that I can do some crafting. Today I am sharing the gift tube that we made on World Card Making Day. Sasha started with making the ribbon flower and tulle bow to decorate the lid. Here are our completed ones. The stamped image is from Wee stamps, punches are Martha Stewart. The tube will be great filled with nougat, chocolates, scented bath goodies or a candle.

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World Card Making Day - Ribbon flowers

Our first workshop on World Card Making Day was presented by Sasha, my 13 year old daughter. I am so lucky that she is interested in my craft and will happily make cards for her friend's birthdays. We made these lovely ribbon flowers which we then added to the gift tube that we made in my workshop.

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World Card Making Day 2011

To sustain us for a busy day of workshops we had a lovely lunch of chicken, quiche, salads - mixed salad, potato, couscous, bean, rolls and a delicious exotic bread, in this photo you can see some of the spread as it arrived. The cakes and goodies provided for tea were also fabulous! Thanks to everyone for bringing their share of eats and to Gail for organising the list. We were also able to have a little (or a lot) of retail therapy before the workshops and at lunch and teatime.

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World Card Making Day 2011

Sorry I saved this blog post instead of publishing it last week - duh!!!

Wow, we had an even bigger and better World Card Making Day this year on Saturday 1 October. It is the 3rd one that I've hosted and every year it is fine-tuned a bit, I think it is almost perfect now. The first people arrived at 8.45am and left at about 6.30pm as we ran a little late with the workshops. We had a super day jam packed with exciting workshops, delicious lunch and tea and great creative company, lots of lucky draws and donations for everyone!

This is a photo of the pile of stash that awaited everyone at their places at the table when they arrived. The participants received the following donations: Lindt chocs from Woolies, a 200g slab of chocolate and a P.S bar from PnP, Spices from Flavorite, offcut paper and UHU gluestick from Deckle Edge, a super mixed pack of goodies from Scrapbook Factory Shop and Power Pritt gel from Henkel, these items were organised by Sandra Fullerton, thanks Sandra. We also received - a beaded tealight holder from Sharon Byrne, notepad, pencil, punch, calendar, paper clips from Sue, homemade yummy biscuits from Lynn Cupido, pack of ribbon, serviettes and flowers from Joyce. I organised donations of ribbon from Unique Global Textiles, ribbon, sequins and beads from Beadazzled, flowers, ribbon, pearls and paper from Simply Creative and Omo liquid detergent. I donated bling, pearls, ribbon and lace for everyone as a thank you for joining us on the day.

There were also plenty of wonderful lucky draws valued up to R500. These were donated by:
Gail Grant - 2 mixed bags of goodies,
Corinna - Upikit stamp set and flowersoft,
Amanda Harrod - 4 gifts containing: embossing boards, DVD, PSX stamps, embossing folders etc,
Sharon Byrne - printers tray filled with brass charms,
Sue - a pack of organising/office goodies,
Ronita from Simply Creative - gift voucher,
Craftwise - 12 month subscription,
Shamela - 15 stamps/sets,
Debbie - Mini embossing machine with 4 dies and K Memories scrapbook kit to make up a file folder. The participants all received 1 or 2 lucky draw prizes.

Thank you to everyone for their contributions to the day! I will be sharing the day with you in blog posts over the next few weeks.

Enjoy your day!