Well we had another very good roll up of people for this month's calliarts with Penny Laver and it was good to see some new faces. The new participants saw the What's On Entry, were from Pat's class or saw it listed on the blog. In total we had sixteen people come along for the afternoon.
This afternoon saw us creating a padded Japanese card with mice on it. Penny had created stylised patterns for the mice and we cut out bodies and ears. We then attached the body patterns to very then foam on one side and Japanese paper on the other. Or a contrast paper, if you listened carefully to the instructions. Carefully we then sniped into the one centimetre allowance right around the body so that we could neatly fold up the Japanese and glue. That was the tricky bit, as the piece needed to be glued down and then more glue applied to the top so that the next fold could take place. As I said tricky, but we all seemed to get there.
Next were the ears. These were a lot simpler as you just needed just to cut out the pattern and attach it to either contrast paper or Japanese paper depending on how you are organised your mouse bodies.
Then we needed to attached the bodies to the mounts of our cards. Having completed this we attached ears to bodies and then proceeded to attach whiskers and tails to the mice for a total picture. All the cards looked very cute as you will see from the pictures below.
Some of the participants went on to create more cards which were very inspiring.
Thank you to Penny for a great afternoon.
P.S. Remember that the next Calliarts afternoon is on 8 August where we will be learning Neuland!
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