Crafty Card Night!

On Saturday we were invited to Sandy Appelhans' house for an evening of crafts and fellowship.  She is a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and regularly hosts classes for the community.  Turns out we can be pretty creative in more than just dance :-)

Looking back it's really funny to see how each of our personalities came out during the card making process.
 
Laci loves to figure things out for herself. She took on the challenge of  just looking at the example card and ignoring the directions.

Amy is by the book. Not only did she follow the directions but checked them off one by one as they were completed.


Erin has her own way of doing things. She decided that even though the cards were beautiful she'd rather mix up the colors and rearrange things a bit.

Melanie loves COLOR! She spent the most time with the watercolor markers and didn't want to move on to the next station. 


Card #1 Telescoping Fall Card- This one was a challenge at first. All the colors on the top were actually painted on with chalk!







Card #2- Maple Leaf Woven Card- This one was the favorite of everyone. The inside of the leaf is painted with the watercolor markers that Melanie loved. See how the edges of the "woven" part look burned? Don't worry, we weren't playing with fire. It's actually torn and brushed with dark brown ink to appear burned. Very cool.

Card #3- Thank You Banner Card- This was the first card we attempted and it was intimidating at first. With words like Big Shot, Embossing Folder, Dimensional, and Huffing we knew we were in a different world. It is interesting how the arts develop their own jargon and they'd probably be just as intimidated if we started talking about arabesques and pirouettes.





All Done! 4 projects in one evening, whew!



Apparently Stampin' Up! demonstrators can be found all over so look online for classes near you. If you're in the Wichita area check out Sandy's classes at http://sandyappelhans.stampinup.net

Thanks again Sandy for letting us crash your class!