Monday, March 28, 2011

Workshop at Ecole Mondiale

On the 23rd of March, I conducted a punchcraft workshop at Ecole Mondiale World School, as part of the Art Week. We made folders holding gift envelopes... Each envelope had a matching card inside to write a message on.
As always, I was blown away by the creativity of the kids! and mostly boys too...
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Flowers in my garden...

Here some of the gorgeous flowers that bloomed in my window garden this week...














See what my kids made in class this week...


Cards that dangle...

I was looking for something to do with my kids in class this week. So, I picked up a book I've had fore quite a while ago...'Pop-Up Cards' with Sandi Genovese.
I spent A LOT of time making my samples before my class...
Here's what I came up with...An X card with little dangles...enough to bring a smile to anyone's face.
I have scanned in the instructions from my book for you to try out...
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Background stamp is from Hero Arts. I stamped, coloured , cut out and stuck the butterfly to add dimension. The white ink adds fabulous dimension, don't you think?

More coloured and cut out butterflies...I added a piece of vellum whose edge I punched with a lace punch, to create space for writing a message.  Since an  X card is visible on all four sides, there is something on all four sides to enjoy.

The butterfly dangles are punched out of coloured vellum and stuck together with  a piece of silver thread between them.




A variation....A different type of dangle...










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I made the envelope too!


Instructions....



Saturday, March 19, 2011

Making tissue box covers!

Oh what fun we had this week! So much creativity from my little ones!
We made tissue box covers for the Jackson Maruti tissue box. Each and every one of the kids came up with   something unique...these pictures will describe them better!
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For the instructions on how to make the box, please follow this link from splitcoast stampers. I have adapted it to my tissue box...

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/tissueboxcover