June 30 Technique Class

Bargello is a stitching (or quilting) technique that creates a geometric design.  Perfectly suited to paper.  We used different colours and patterns of paper, but an interesting look can be achieved by just using many hues of one colour.  It isn’t as complex as it looks!!

 

June 18, Birds of a Feather

We all ‘flocked together’ on Saturday to make good use of the Bird Builder punch. 

Thanks to inspiration from Heather Stewart in Auckland, NZ and Valita from Macksville, AU there were more than just chickadees and cardinals as projects.  I tried for a Galah Cockatoo, a Fantail and a Tui (none probably recognizable to people down-under!). 

Lynn Pratt has designed a number of different birds using the punch and they were all great to look at for ideas. 

Here is what we made…

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June 13, Card Making in the Devon Library

A couple of masculine cards this time – butterflies can be for men too!!  Stripes and ‘hardware’ give a masculine look as well.

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June 8, Senior’s Day in the Library

A bookmark card is a perfect one for a Library class.  This one was inspired by a swap I received from a lady in Calgary.  I did the heat embossing ahead of time so all that needed to be done was some coloring, Big Shot embossing and putting together.  We even had a visitor from down under making a card to take home with her to Australia!