Today's Craft Day

Today we had a little craft day, four friends crafting, eating buns and cake and having a lovely time together.  We started off with a little handbag gift bag using a pattern from the wonderful Kadoosjes magazine given to me by the wonderful and very talented Jolan Meurs. We used a variety of Stampin' Up! papers and cardstock so there was a lovely selection of colours.  Caroline taught Theresa how to cut a rough circle and roll it into a flower and she went mad making lots of different sized flowers, next thing we knew she had added flowers and handcut leaves to the bottom of her handbag (see top photo) and it looked amazing, much better than ours so we will all be adding flowers and leaves shortly! 

We then moved on to making a six sided box (see yesterday's post) using the Stampin' Up! mini milk carton die and sticking two pieces together, forming it into a box and decorating the sides with patterned papers before tying the top off with Pool Party Seam Binding.  I used some of the new Twitterpated papers on Caroline's so she can use it for a display sample to show off the lovely papers in the new Summer mini. 

We had a lovely lunch, lots of assorted sarnies and Kathy's amazing choccy cupcakes and cake.  After lunch we made an awning card, Caroline made hers into a flower shop using my favourite Bright Blossoms stamp set and we made cupcake shops using the Cupcake stamp set and matching punch.  We rounded off the day with a card using papers from the Nursery Nest paper range, some lovely Wisteria Wonder and Crumb Cake cardstock and the Labels Framelets from the new Summer Mini, ruffled ribbon and stamps from the Bright Blossoms stamp set again and one of the Designer Frames embossing  folder.  Everyone got lots of practise using the Stamp-a-ma-jig, that was interesting!!!!