I Taught A Card Making Class This Week

I used to teach at the LSS, back in Virginia, when I lived near one. I also taught classes in my new home here in Texas in 2019, for a little over a year, but COVID brought that to an end. It's a lot of work to design the cards, make the kits, etc., but I enjoyed it for the most part, even when I didn't get paid for it. I've done all my crafting alone for the last few years, and it's been good therapy with everything that has happened with COVID shutdowns, DH's back surgery/recovery, then his heart attack and recovery, but all through that, I was crafting alone. I've missed scrapbooking and card making with others, but a recent Facebook request to borrow a Cricut machine led to my teaching a card class at my church's women's monthly meeting on Thursday.

There were 3 different craft groups that night, all in the same room and vicinity, so it was a bit noisy, but those who did the card making enjoyed it. Two of my neighbors who were interested in card making came with me, and one of the gals at church turned out to be another near neighbor that I hadn't met yet.

I chose to do two cards that I had designed and posted here previously, and one new one, which is the top photo below. The new one was probably the easiest to prepare, since I used Silhouette print and cut images, and just created a mat for one of them, given texture with an embossing folder. The banner was cut from American Crafts paper of long ago, using a die from Queen & Co. I barely had enough of the right colors of card stock.

 

 

Below are all of the three cards in the class kits. I have posted the other two cards on this blog in the past, although the red die cut "Hello" was replaced with a stamped "Hello, Friend," instead. Also, the Lemonade card was a little different. I used a phrase from the stamp set that included the lemons & lemonade, but chose a font on my computer and printed the phrase (that is on the front) for die cutting, and the rest of the phrase was printed inside the card. You can see the inside phrase inside the lemonade card in the upper middle of the photo, behind and to the right of the front of the lemonade card.