Here is the second post in the two post series on the Card Making Party I had on Tuesday. The first post, Card Making Party, Part I, shows our set up and work in progress.
This post is a gallery of what everyone made.
I only made three cards as I was pretty busy hosting:
But my guests were more prolific – here is a sampling of the cards they made:
There was an art quilter in the group so you might be able to pick out some of her cards! The snowman was made by my friend who is a retired 1st grade and Kindergarten teacher – she simply looked at an image on her phone and cut out the snowman from paper scraps, and then embellishing it with paint pens!
Everyone who attended said this card making/crafting party was “Exactly what they needed”.
It’s cold out and Colorado Winter is upon us (even though it’s not officially Winter yet), so it was time for a fun crafting get together distraction!
Tuesday I hosted a card making party for three of my friends in studio. In this post I’ll share the set up and crafting in progress; in the next post I’ll share the cards we made!
I converted my studio table (putting away the cutting mats, rotary cutters, pins, etc.) into a card making supply station and the lunch buffet station:
We were not short of food options! One of my friends brought her homemade chili and I had made broccoli cheese soup! We didn’t coordinate the menu, people just brought what they wanted – and both of us were thinking we needed a hot liquid dish to warm us up!
My studio table went from this before the party:
To this (in order to accommodate 4 crafters!):
I set up a “crafting placemat” (some pretty hard-sided Rifle Paper Co. placemats I found thrifting) at each crafter’s station, along with their own light and some basic supplies (scissors, glue stick, etc.). I also included a little holiday gift for them – a mug for their coffee//tea filled with goodies.
After diving into the lunch buffet, everyone got to work making lots of cards!
Sometimes even taking to the floor for special card making techniques (small hole punching using my eyelet kit).
I have a penpal and we’ve been exchanging letters/cards. She makes beautiful handmade cards and it was time I made her a handmade card. I pulled out my dusty papercrafting/card making supplies and made one that is an ode to Sunflowers my favorite flower!
I also decorated the envelope. I have it partially displayed in the image above behind the card because I’ve already addressed it.
(In case you are wondering, I got those little sunflowers from Hobby Lobby last year. The other supplies were in my stash and who knows where I got them as they are at least 5 – 15+ years old!)
Now that I have my card making supplies out (and I re-organized them too!), I am looking forward to making more cards!
Well they were not so quick, actually it took me a couple hours to make 8 handmade cards.
My partner John has a new position at the company he works for and a new team that now reports to him. He thought it would be good to send them each a handwritten note and include a little coffee gift card or something. I offered to make them handmade cards.
I do love card making even if I am quite amateur at it. Here are a couple older posts on my card making activities:
Since I needed to make 8 cards and wanted to get back to my 100 Block Sampler I am working on as not to lose momentum (see post “Sewing-Block” Resolved by Sewing a Block!), I thought a quick way to make cards would be using old scrapbook papers.
I was really into scrapbooking for a brief period of time around 7 – 9 years ago. I decided – “No More Loose Photos” – and went through all my boxes of photos and basically scrapbooked my life up to around the early to mid 2010s. If the photo did not work in a scrapbook, then it was destroyed/thrown out. I really appreciated the completed scrapbooks after my husband Terry died in 2018, as when I was ready, it was a nice way to look through memories. Not sure if I could have dealt with all those loose photos in a box after his passing.
So I have a bunch of leftover 12 inch x 12 inch pretty paper collections from my scrapbooking period, even though I donated to the charity thrift shop any empty scrapbook albums as I am completely done with scrapbooking (and who has printed loose photos anymore?).
Here are the 8 cards I made with those papers:
And here is a gallery of some of the other photos I took of the cards:
I had some precut card stock which came in handy and saved time. I also used a sticker book with inspirational sayings which I put on the front of each card.
The cardstock was dark colors and John needed to write a readable note in each one to his team members, so I glued a folded white piece of paper inside each card to make it easier to write a note. The image below is an example from the previous set of cards I made in February 2021:
After making the cards, I decided it was time to deal with my ridiculous pile of scrapbook papers. Since I no longer scrapbook, I only need to keep the papers which would be useful in card making.
Here is the huge pile of scrapbook papers I weeded out – I am off this afternoon to donate them to the charity thrift shop and let someone else enjoy them!
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