Love my 'Geek Club'!

Well, it's actually called 'Technique Club' but hubby calls it 'Card Club' which is okay by me but my beloved offspring, who I will not mention, refers to it as 'Geek Club'- lol. That's okay by me too because I enjoy it no matter what you call it. And isn't that what it's all about?!
Anyways, last Sunday we made 2 amazing cards.
The first one was quite involved.
But you know, it's my own dang fault! I commented on the beautiful card and how I'd like to make it when I saw it on the instructor's blog. The talented Marlene Peters
a demonstrator for Stampin Up. At one point when I had no idea what I was doing, I thought to myself 'this'll teach me for opening my big mouth!' - lol. But as I did one step at a time, it all fell into place.

Here is the beautiful card I ended up with.



Here's a closeup - blurry but you get the idea.



The Big Shot was used a LOT! We used a letterpress plate to add the 'love' background then each of the butterflies (cs and vellum) were both cut and embossed with the Big Shot and also a dotted texturz plate was used to emboss the cs 'panels'.

Lots of steps but it's so purty though.(yeah, that's my geekiness talk).

The next card, I absolutely LOVE. As a matter of fact, I just may need to order this stamp. Again, we used the BS (no, the other BS!) to emboss the edges of the card then masked it and added an allover french script stamp. We then stamped the cherry blossoms and coloured it in with SU markers and added a touch of white gel pen. A button and fabric bow was added.



And a closeup



Beautiful!

But the real fun begins when you open the card up. We scored and stamped and folded and cut and what a great effect - love, love, love it!



And a closeup



When I got home and showed it to hubby, I commented that I was going to send it to my mother for Easter - he agreed but then added - or MY mother - she'd like it too!
Looks like I better place that stamp order quick.

Card Club? - true.
Technique club? - oh yeah, I learned a lot - Geek or not!