Happy Easter to Everyone Looking in

Hope you have a lovely bank holiday weekend

Hi Ladies I have 2 very exciting workshop

planned for May and June

These workshops are open to all crafters

Hope to see you there

Yvonne

Creative Card Making

Workshop in Kilkenny

Saturday the 14th of May

in the Bridge Centre, Loughboy,

Full details on my Workshop page Here

Only a few places remaining for Kilkenny

Summer Card Making Workshops

at the Park View Hotel

Newtownmountkennedy

Sunday the 12th of June

Full details on my Workshop page Here

Card making has giving me a lot of pleasure over the past 5 years, I am a very busy person by nature, always fiddling with something, and when I learn something new I am the first to pass it on, today at my class I showed the girls how to make the little lace posy, and the lovely little flower from Becca's bits (Amazing paper grace) if you have any tips to pass on, please share them, the joy you will receive by someones face lighting up, when they have mastered a new technique, is worth the reward,

Enjoy your crafting where ever you are,

There is just to much selfishness in the world, to keep things to yourself.

Cards for tomorrows Class

Envelope Card,

I got a card very similar to this from

Mary O Leary for my birthday 2 years ago,

and made my own template, to share.

Please email me here if you would like a copy of my template

Double Tri-fold Cascade Card

We will add a greeting and some butterflies to this card, I have added a 15cm Embossed Card to the back of this card so that we can add an insert.

This card is made from 1 sheet of A4 card, I am also doing this Card at the Kilkenny Workshop on the 14th of May, but in a different style, so I'm saving the template untill after the workshop, and will show it as a tutorial.

Box Aperture Lace Card

Flat petal cluster flower was found on a tutorial

at Amazing Paper Grace, it's so simple you'll love it.

Blue Bird Concertina Fold Card

Very simple card but the Beautiful Art work from Kanban really make this one.

All links are in the right hand column

If you have any questions about my cards or where I get my crafty bits from please email me,

My Next Class is Wednesday

The 20th of April
Time 10.30 to 2.30

Theme Fancy Folds

Only one place remaining

Card 1. Double Cascade Concertina card

Card 2. Aperture box card

Card 3. Blue Bird fold back card

Card 4. Envelope card 
Full details can be found on my Class page Here 

Hi Everyone
Had a great day yesterday in Belfast at the creative knit and craft show, did a class with Stephanie Weighman in the morning and really enjoyed it, we made the lovely new 3D flower from her new range of diecut flowers. met up with some old friends and had lunch across the road in the pub with the girls, spent a small fortune, and only got 3 things on my wishlist, but still managed to go home broke.

Creative Card Making

Workshop in Kilkenny

Saturday the 14th of May

in the Bridge Centre, Loughboy,

Full details on my Workshop page Here

 Summer Card Making Workshops

at the Park View Hotel

Newtownmountkennedy

12th of June and 25th of September

Full details on my Workshop page Here 

Hi Ladies I have been asked to get some feed back on this event
First Dublin Craft Extravaganza
8 Well Known English craft tutors are hoping to do a craft extravaganza here in Dublin later this year,
(can't give to much away yet) they are hoping to do 8 workshops over 2 days. with lunch both days and tea/coffee twice during the day. with a selection of different crafts, jewellery, felt making, card making, Stamping, knitting, Crafting with Cd roms, using your score board for fantastic folds plus much more


1. Would you be interested in Attending

2. HOW MUCH WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY FOR THIS.


3. WOULD YOU WANT TO DO ALL 8 WORKSHOPS


4. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE A SELECTION FROM THE 8 AND ONLY PAY FOR THE ONES YOU WANT.


5. IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE DUBLIN WOULD YOU WANT TO SAY OVER AT THE HOTEL.


6. WOULD YOU PREFARE FRIDAY/SATURDAY OR SATURDAY/SUNDAY


7. IF YOU ARE STAYING OVER WOULD YOU LIKE A GALA BALL,
Any feed back would be a great help. and I will pass it on to the event organiser.
Simply copy the questions and give me your answers
then send them to me by email HERE

Coffee Morning Updates

Clare has raised the fantastic sum of €1088.00

for Enable Ireland

We still have lots of cards for sale and will keep selling them until the end of April so will give you the final amount raised at the next club night.

A Special thanks to Roberta for all her help yesterday and finishing off the cards on Tuesday.

Karen Won the card donation prise of a bottle of Bailey's

Kelley won the Recycled card making prise of a craft goody bag. (Sorry Kelley forgot to give it to you yesterday)

Thank you all for your support

Clare and Yvonne

Coffee and Cupcake Morning

In aid of Enable Ireland Bray

This Friday the 8th of April

At my house
 No 8 Corrig Drive, Kilcoole

Beside St Anthony’s School

Please pop in if you’re free on the morning

Time 11.30 to 2.00

The Kilcoole Craft Club’s Chosen Charity this year is Enable Ireland Bray and members have handmade and donated cards for sale at the coffee morning.

Children's Easter
 

Paper Craft Workshop

 

on Thursday the 22nd of April

 

Full Details HERE

Question about card making ideas

Hi Yvonne

I am looking for a few ideas to use for card making classes in our local Cuan Mhuire Centre where I have agreed to help them begin with cards. I think they will be mostly men and would appreciate if you could give me a few ideas on where to start with something simple yet effective.


Thanks


Martina Wright
Monaghan
 
Hi Martina keep the cards very simple to start off with
below are 2 very simple designs which could be adapted for men's card, using stronger colour schemes
 
 

A4 card folder in half,

Making a C5 card with 2 matting layers

1. Silver 14cm by 20cm  for 1st layer
2. Printed paper 13cm by 19cm, for 2nd layer
3. Choose a simple topper and layer it up on the silver and a plain colour card,
4. Print out a greeting and layer up on Silver and plain card.
Add some peel-offs and an embellishment

  Card 2

C5 card as above
But with 3 x 5cm Sq Panels down the side these could be matted and layered
A small embellishment on each Sq panel
Make a greeting as before
Again add some peel-off details

Hope that helps
Good Luck with the new classes
Yvonne

Creative Card Making

Beginners Class Starting

Tuesday the 12th of April

With Yvonne Tune

Kilcoole Craft Club

At the Greystones

Time 10.30 to 1.30

Cost €10.00 per class

Everything needed supplied

Where I will teach you Paper Crafting
starting with the basics,

Matting and Layering, Decoupage,

Scoring different folds, Embossing,

Floral finishes, Ribbon Art,

How to get the best from your punches,

How to use the Die Cutting Machines

How to get Colour Combinations right,

and much much more.
Tele Yvonne on 012010117 to book a place
or drop me an email HERE

I can't believe I am almost up to twenty thousand views and get so few comments, please leave a comment I would love to hear from you, if you can't manage to post a comment click my email button and send a comment by email to me. I will pop your comments up for you, and answer any card making questions you have.

Below are 2 special cards I had to make this morning,

Wedding card for a special blessing

I have used one of my new Martha Stewart deep edge boarder punches along the edge on this card, and a sizzix thin tuxedo die for the toppers, some die-cut doves and beautiful  organza flowers.

First Communion Bookatrix Card

I used a Nellie Snellin Die to make the frame behind the image, added some pearls, peel-offs, communion embellishment, and a printed greeting, I stuck a 5 by 7 inch card at the back of the bookatrix to allow me to add a blessing to the insert, which also helps the bookatrix to stand up.
Bookatrix board available Here