Grafton Crafts

Sweet Sneakers

  

This week we held our first workshop for children. On Wednesday group of teenagers and on Thursday a group of ladies, our regular crafters made cards of two designs using clear stamp 'Sneakers' by Woodware.

The first design: ‘Happy Birthday!’
We started with 15 x 15 cm white card and used pink polka dot card (14 x 14 cm) for the background. Using Woodware punches we made circles (from a mauve card: 4.5 cm and from a white card: 3.5 cm in diameter); stamped a ‘Birthday circles’ clear stamp design by Wild Rose Studio on a pink polka dot card and then punched it with Woodware 1' circle punch.

Next, we stamped ‘Speakers’ design twice: on a white card (10.5 x 13 cm) and on a polka dot card; the latter we cut with scissors just above the sole and glue it to the corresponding parts of the sneakers on the white card; we painted shoelaces with pens. Then we punched a few flowers out of mauve and pink polka dot card to decorate the card; our finishing touches: mauve ribbon and 3 and 5 mm Silver Nail Heads as flower middles.

The second design: ‘Jeepers Creepers!’
We started with the same size, 15 x 15 cm, white card; for the background we used blue textured card (14.5 x 14.5 cm) and a white card (12 x 12 cm) that was embossed using the ‘Stars’ embossing folder by Marianne design. We stamped sneaker design on a white card and cut it with scissors, the stamped image of shoes was water coloured using Distress Ink pad: Faded Jeans. The card was trimmed with a string of stars (Die-cut) and a message box made from 5 x 5 cm blue and 4.5 x 4.5 cm white card on which we stamped “Jeepers creepers…" .

Our teenager crafters created these cards:

We hope you like our creations.

Till next week and happy crafting!

xxx