Saturday was the One Day Craft Crop to Aid Refugees that I have been planning for several weeks. We did most of the set up on Friday night so that we were already to go at 9:00 am and people started arriving around 8:45 am. The day was beautiful which meant that we had lots of natural light in the church lobby and there's was lots of room for all 29 participants. There were a lot of scrapbookers and an equal number of card makers and we had a few other interesting crafts as well!
My friend, Janice and her crew cooked up some amazing meals, and our pastor's wife, Nikki, came in twice on her day off just to run our specialty coffee bar for a couple of hours! We had lots of muscles, male and female, helping with the set up and take down and hauling my equipment back and forth, including my dear hubby, Ken! I'll share a few photos of the day in a bit, but first I wanted to share one card that I made at the retreat.
Because I was hosting, I didn't have a lot of time to craft, but I did get some things done and one of my main goals was to make a birthday card for my friend, Lorraine, who was helping me all week with the preparations for the event! Her birthday was over two weeks ago, so it was long overdue, but we both had been travelling, and working on this event, so this was the first opportunity! I used the rose stamp from the set, Rose Wonder and enjoyed myself with the Watercolour Pencils and Blender Pens!
- The first step was to stamp the image in Versamark ink on Whisper White paper and heat emboss it using White Stampin' Emboss Powder. That gives you a nice boundary for all the areas you will be colouring in with the Watercolour Pencils. It also gives a nice, soft look to the finished image.
- I used the Rich Razzleberry Watercolour pencil to colour at the base of each petal where it joins the flower or where it emerges from under another petal. That changed toward the center, as it looked to me as if the petals stopped curling outward, and stood upright to form the tighter core of the rose. The Blender Pen is used lightly to blend that colour toward the center of the petal.
- Then I used the Melon Mambo Watercolour pencil to add a thin line of colour at the outer edge of each petal and next to the Rich Razzleberry. Again, the Blender Pen was used to draw the colour to the center of the petal from both top and bottom.
- For the leaf, I used Old Olive and Daffodil Delight in the same way.
- The sentiment is from Rose Wonder and is stamped in Rich Razzleberry ink, and outlined with the image from the Rose Wonder set stamped in Garden Green. The Rose Garden Thinlit Dies have a die to cut that exact shape. It's hard to catch the background paper of the card in this photo, but it is a card base of Rich Razzleberry and a backing of Garden Green.
Only 3 more sleeps until the new Annual Catalogue comes out and the old Annual Catalogue and the 2017 Occasions Catalogue are history! Make sure you get your orders in before it's too late. I am putting in an order today which will likely be my last one for the retiring products so message me with your order before 7 pm.
Here are more photos of our fun at the One Day Craft Crop to Aid Refugees!
Pre-event set-up!
Some of the fun people attending the Crop!
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