Nic's Stamped Creations

Thank goodness its Friday! Phew! It has been a long action packed week and I have been eagerly looking forward to the weekend so we can just stop for a while and relax. Its always difficult when Luke returns to school after the holidays for him and me as we get used to the routine again of getting out of the house on time. I am pleased to announce though that we survived and were not even the tiniest bit late any morning this week (it is very rare that we are)

We have been really enjoying the sun this week, this morning was just lovely for a walk to school passing all the blossom trees on the way put me in the mood for a few summery cards which I will hopefully get to make over the weekend. One of the things which I have been up to this week is running my monthly card class at Angels and Butterflies in Garforth, Leeds. It was my first time in their new studio (they just relocated to new premises) so it was a lot of trial and error working out where to put my display and where to work. I had some lovely ladies join me for the class and I will share below some photos I took before we started along with one of the cards they made. The very talented Amanda from the thecraftspa.blogspot.com/ allowed me to use one of her tutorials to teach the ladies how to make a swing card. Amanda has very cleverly found a way to stop the card from just swinging without any structure and I feel this will be a design I will make a lot in the future now I have mastered it. The ladies struggled a little to begin with but all created lovely unique cards which they put their own stamp on so to speak!

As the ladies who attended my class are quite new to stamping I have been showing them different ways to use their inks and stamps. This week we learnt how to use a blender pen which we used to color in The lovely as Lace Back ground stamp.  It was an enjoyable morning. If you live close by and are interested in joining my class then please do get in touch. Finally before I go I will just mention that there are still lots of goodies available on the retirement list so if you have not placed your order yet then please do visit my shop at http://nicbaker.stampinup.net/ Thank you