Use card and paper to make some quick and easy paper tags just in time for Christmas. Add that handmade touch to all your gifts.
Tag: papercraft
Maker Monday -Inks and Stamps
Learn how to use one stamp to create fabulous images with ink and water. We will be learning different techniques to manipulate a background and stamp beautiful images onto card and paper. You will make lots of small samples that can be turned into gift tags or cards.
All materials and equipment supplied, take home what you make and go home with a goody bag to continue at home.
Maker Monday – Pizza box papercraft
Hidden inside your pizza box will be a surprise stash of papercrafting goodies! We will use these to make your own cards and have fun personalising your papercraft!
Likely to be a Christmas theme but each box is a surprise to take home and continue making.
Workshops @ Mrs Macs
We have lots of workshops going on at Mrs McGregor’s. Steph comes every Tuesday morning to run a variety of crafts classes, she can turn her hand to many different crafty pursuits. We also have Thursday afternoon workshops on a theme, February was all about upcycling and March is all about flowers.
Take a look at the what’s on section for more details or pop to Crafting by Steph’s FB page and see what she’s up to.
Tools of the Trade
Some of you may know that occasionally on a Saturday, I demonstrate for docrafts, an art supplies company and often sit in The Range stores making cards and showing customers how to use all the equipment and materials they sell. If you have come into Mrs McGregor’s and met my glamorous, talkative, large teenager on a Saturday, this is why he is manning the shop.
Obviously, being a papercrafting professional, many tools are required to do a neat and tidy job and your bag should be packed and ready for all occasions. Sadly, this week, I opened my bags to find my best toolkit missing AND I had completely neglected to pack utensils to eat my lunch with. I considered ringing hubby to do an emergency leather-clad dash on his motorbike to bring me said toolkit, then found out it was Weston Air Show that day and considering all things, the shop was likely to be rather quiet, given the scorching day it was and that everyone would be down the beach.
So, not to be defeated, I had a serious rummage in my handbag and managed the following (see above). I can’t say that cutting out intricate stamped shapes of crabs to adorn my cards was easy, nor cutting fine ribbon to make bows. However, the tiny fold up scissors were better than nothing and I said a silent thank you prayer to my mum who always had a pair in her handbag. I am so glad to have followed in her footsteps by carting various items of oddness around with me in my own handbags these last 20 years!
Well, I ate my salad with the spoon (interesting), stirred my coffee with the pen (before finding the spoon..) and had a fairly quiet day to myself making cards whilst everyone in Somerset was out in the sunshine or down the beach. It’s a good job nobody was seriously interested in the tools of the trade that day. Needless to say, on arriving home I found said toolkit right on top of the cupboard where I keep my papercraft stash.
Until next time, have a great creative week, whatever you are up to.
Sue
Cardmaking
Among the many workshops here at Mrs McGregor’s is cardmaking. Not so much in favour these days, as fabric and sewing have really taken off lately, but with the eye popping cost of most birthday cards it is well worth buying the stash to make your own. You can buy a kit to make one, or an A4 design sheet for £1 that you can squeeze at least 2 cards from, or go mad and buy a whole paper/card stack along with double sided tape and a 50 pack of card blanks.
I run a papercraft class nearly every week, so if you fancy coming along to a workshop they are only a tenner each, or pop in and choose your own bits and bobs to get cracking and save yourself a fortune. (Plasters for papercuts can be provided)!