ONLINE CARD CLASSES: COPICS FOR CARDMAKERS

Failed! I tend to go crazy and cannot use only a few markers.  So here is my coloring for the day.  Was trying for iridescence on the birds.  The right image is on laser printer paper the left is Copic X-Press it paper.  The laser jet is fine for practice.

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LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE: CRITTERS

Love this challenge, can never get too many critters!  This card, however, morphed from my original idea a bit and took a lot of masking and hand cutting (really don't like to do that) but I think it ended up pretty cute.  There are a lot of supplies which I will try to list tomorrow but I wanted to get this up tonight .

This is my working sketch (using all the masks I made).The original idea was to just cut out the middle but I did't like that and ended up changing it up.

A GLITZY BIRTHDAY CARD

This card is for a childhood friend who remains one of my favorite people to this day.  I am lucky enough to get to see her this week for her birthday.

I first applied the gold embossing paste to the stencil and when it was thoroughly dry I layered distress inks.  I die cut the sentiment our of three layers of the same purple cardstock so the sides would show purple.  I stamped with the gold metallic ink and embossed with the gold tinsel embossing powder (I used the same embossing powder on the edges of the card stock)
Hearts have a glob of Glossy Accents and the whole card was spritzed with a bit of water and then the gold Color Shine.  

This is the inside which I totally forgot to photograph before signing (sigh).

It is PTI Framed Love die embossed with the same Ranger gold tinsel

                                                                                 

This is the bottom inside which is just a gold foil paper (stash) stamped and embossed in the same gold tinsel.  Hard to photograph with my cell phone but it is a nice and shiny gold on gold that does match the rest of the gold on the card.

MFT SCROLLED BACKGROUND STENCIL

PAPERTREY INK BIRTHDAY TRIO, TIPPED TOP DIES, FRAMED LOVE DIE

DISTRESS INKS AND MINI DISTRESS BLENDERS

TIM HOLTZ GOLD STARS COVERED IN GLOSSY ACCENTS

RANGER GOLD EMBOSSING TINSEL

DELICATA GOLDEN GLITZ INK PAD

WENDY VECCHI GOLD EMBOSSING PASTE

HEIDI SWAPP COLOR SHINE GOLD

BAZZILL CARD SHOPPE CARDSTOCK 

ONLINE CARD CLASSES: STRETCH YOUR STAMPS 2 DAY 4

Here is my take on Kelly Marie's card technique.  I tried to work on this a little in the am, a little in the aft and a little in the pm but wow, I am sometimes so slow!  Wish I had more time to spend on this card cause all I can see are the flaws.  Drat!

                  Yes, I know, some of the letters are wonky but I thought I wanted them to look totally random.  And I still can't get that chunky embossing powder to look bumpy and not smooth and still stay on the card!

                   

ONLINE CARD CLASSES: STRETCH YOUR STAMPS DAY 3

Day 3 class, OMG, what inspiration!  I fell in LOVE with Debby's cards and they are so different from my typical card that I just had to try her technique.  This is my take on it.

PTI LIMITLESS LAYERS HEART STITCHES DIE

SIMON SAYS HEART PARADE DIE

LAWN FAWN MILO ABC'S

NEENAH SOLAR WHITE

SIMON SAYS BALLON & PATTERN STENCIL

DISTRESS INKS

WOW CLEAR GLOSS FINE EMBOSSING POWDER

AMUSE STUDIO- BLUSH PIGMENT INK, AMETHYST PIGMENT INK

SEQUINS, RHINESTONES

ONLINE CARD CLASSES: STRETCH YOUR STAMPS 2

What a great first day of class! Everyone's cards were so beautiful that I wanted to try ALL the techniques and right away and even on the same card! (not).  Anyhoo, I decided to try the emboss/watercolor technique that Kristina used.  I had a somewhat different background stamp but it is not totally dissimilar in style so I thought it would work well.  I loved the colors so much that I decided to leave the image whole and not trim it down.  I die cut the "Love" die from Simon Says Stamps twice out of three matching colored scrap papers and glued together just fractionally offset.  Top layer spritzed with Heidi Swapp Color Shine.

The hearts were left over from another project and I was thinking a little rhinestone would have worked on one of them but I forgot to add it. 

Hero Arts Herbs & Honey Tile stamp

Simon Says Stamps Love You die

MFT Lots of love die set - you

Tim Holtz Watercolor paper

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads - Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard seed

Heidi Swapp Color Shine Gold

Tombow Multi Liquid glue

Tombow Stamp Runner

Ranger Multi Matte Medium

Gold Paper from stash

PTI White cardstock

PIRATE BIRTHDAY CARD

 This was my first attempt at one of these fold-out cards and it was really challenging since it has to look good open and closed (of course I forgot to photograph it closed!)  My grandson loved it and that was all that mattered.

STUDIO CALICO 6 X 6 ATLANTIC BLUE PAPER PAD

PENNY BLACK 6 X 6 MADISON PAPER PAD

TIM HOLTZ KRAFT CORE CARDSTOCK

AVERY ELLE  KNOTTY & LET'S GET NAUTICAL

PAPERTREY INK THINK BIG FAVORITES #12

MAGENTA STAMPS (SCROLL AND BARREL)

HIGH HOPES STAMPS (PIRATE AND PIRATE SHIP)

MFT WOODGRAIN (ON PIRATE WHEEL)

LAWN FAWN BACKER'S TWINE

COPIC SKETCH MARKERS