Spring Card Camp - Day 4

Hello!  I made these cards with guidance from the Online Card Classes Spring Card Camp.  Julie Ebersole was the guest artist, and I created these based on her class.  I made some changes and don't want to give away the details from the class because it is a paid class.

 

 

Hope you enjoy!

This was colored with copic markers and I added shimmer to the die cut.

 

Here's another set of cards I made.

 

I used glossy accents on the donut and some spun sugar ink on the background.  I don't know if you can see the embossed lines on the right bottom corner. I used a score board to get them.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Potted Pretties (Mama Elephant), Funny Food (SSS), Love Notes (Concord & 9th)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, amalgam black, spun sugar

Accessories:  Potted Pretties die (ME), Funny Food die (SSS), glossy accents, crystals, shimmer 



Spring Card Camp - Day 3

Hi friends!  I'm taking the Spring Card Camp class from Online Card Classes.  Yana Smakula showed us a cool technique today.  I don't want to get into specifics about how I did this because it is a paid class.  However I did use several colors of cardstock and a sentiment strip from SSS for this card.  There are clear crystals on the card.  They look white because I took the picture right after I added them to the card and the glue was still wet!  I added shimmer to parts of the cards as well.  You could do more than one card like this with leftover pieces, however I only made one today.  I'll use the scraps to make more for sure!  (It's a little time consuming and I ran out of time!)

Here's a link to Online Card Classes in case you are interested.  I think I paid $25 (maybe less!), and classes started last Saturday and run every day throughout the month of April.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Center Cut Heart (SSS)

Paper:  Recollections white, various colored cardstock

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Crystals, shimmer, sentiment strip (SSS), craft foam 



Just Us Girls #304 - Word Week

Hi friends!  This week over at Just Us Girls it's word week.  Maria chose the word Autumn...my favorite time of the year!  I'm pretty sure it's Maria's as well!

 

This is my interpretation of Autumn...leaves.  I started with the woodgrain stencil and brushed corduroy ink.  Then I went to work on the tag.  I stamped the leaf sprig on the tag with Versamark ink and embossed it with white powder.  Then I took three distress inks and sponged them on, blending them together.  I then die cut the leaf from watercolor paper.  I worked on this leaf for a looooong time!  I did it and re-did it four times before I settled on this one.  I sponged green on the stem and towards the center of the leaf.  Then I applied some orange and yellow inks.  I then added some drops of water on it and heat set it.  The veins were stamped with brown ink.  The baker's twine, sequins, and sentiment finish it off.

 

I used this week's Tag You're It! challenge as my inspiration.

 

I'm also taking the Background Check Online Card Class and the sponging on the tag is a technique they talked about.

 

You can see more inspiration from the design team and our new guest, Karen Bourke, on the JUGs blog.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Leaf Prints (PTI), Paisley Prints (WPlus 9), First Aid Kit (Paper Smooches)

Paper:  Recollections white, watercolor

Ink:  Distress Inks:  mustard seed, spiced marmalade, rusty hinge, brushed corduroy, crushed olive; Memento rich cocoa; Versafine onyx black; Versamark

Accessories:  Leaf Prints and Tag Sale #3 dies (PTI), woodgrain stencil (Tim Holtz), white embossing powder, baker's twine, sequins, dimensionals





Time Out #36 and Just Us Girls #303 Reminder

Hello all!  I have a card for a few challenges.  I'm taking the Background Check class from Online Card Classes and I made a background from one of the lessons.  I made it into a card for the current Time Out challenge.

 

This is the card we are CASE-ing by Alice Wertz.

I sponged the middle of the cardstock with orange and blue inks.  I die cut this tea cup from blue cardstock and covered it with Wink of Stella shimmer and Glossy Accents.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink.  Simple CAS card!

 

I never got to do a card for the current Just Us Girls challenge.  I was on vacation last week and ran out of time.  So I thought I'd use the blue and orange from this beautiful photo (love those colors together!) that my friend Cheryl found.  The challenge runs through tonight (Thursday) at 9:00 pm EST, so you still have time to play!

 

Stop by the Time Out blog and Just Us Girls blog to see what the design teams have created! 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Embroidered Border (PTI)

Paper:  Recollections white, pacific point

Ink:  Dried marigold, salty ocean, Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Fancy Tea Cup die (PTI), fun foam, Wink of Stella, glossy accents





Celebrate!

Hi everyone!  I'm taking the Background Check class from Online Card Classes this week. (If you're not taking the class, I suggest you do.  All of their classes are very well done and informative!)  I've created a couple of backgrounds and made them into cards.  I'm sharing a plaid one today and a different background tomorrow. 

 

Laura Bassen created a background similar to this one and made a card with it similar to this one as well.  I guess you can say I cased her!  I used three pigment inks and a stripe stamp. I also used two die inks (the black and gray).  I sponged on the gray color and stamped the black with a thinner stripe stamp.  The scallop circle was die cut from the center then I embossed the sentiment in white.  I added some yellow sequins.

 

My colors came from this week's Color Throwdown.  I did add in the gray and black as neutrals.  Love these colors!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Plaid Background Builder (MFT), Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches)

Paper:  Recollections white, perfect plum

Ink:  Pear tart, dandelion, sweet plum (Memento Luxe), smoky slate, Memento tuxedo black, Versamark

Accessories:  Peek-a-Boo Circle Window die (MFT), sequins, white embossing powder



Merry Everything

I recently took the Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop 2014.  One of the days featured one layer cards and Jennifer McGuire did a fabulous one that I was itching to try.   I had some time on Saturday to try it.

 

The technique was partial die cutting using a scallop die and this Santa die from My Favorite Things.  After I die cut everything, I stamped the Santa and colored it with copic markers.    Then on the inside, I made a stencil of a larger scallop and used distress inks with a blender to lay some color down.  I forgot to take a picture of the inside.  The sentiment was stamped and I added some snow with a white signo gel pen.

 

Another Christmas card down!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Jingle All the Way (MFT

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, copic markers, broken china and salty ocean distress inks

Accessories:  Jingle all the Way dienamics (MFT), Spellbinders scallop dies, signo white gel pen, glossy accents

 





Stretch Your Stamps 2

Hi everyone!  I'm participating in the Online Card Classes current class called Stretch Your Stamps 2.  These classes are wonderful and are appropriate for all levels of stampers.  I think I've taken all their classes and I think they are all fabulous!

I shamelessly CASED Kristina's cards with some changes.  I guess I CASED her layouts and colors, but used different stamps.  I used PTI's Background Basics: Venice stamp and their Wonderful Words: Hello stamp to create this card.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts' Year Round Sentiments.  I don't want to give away how I created this card because the class is for paid participants, but let me tell you it was fun and relaxing to create it!

This is the second card I made with the remainder of the piece I created.  I stamped the Happy sentiment from the same Hero Arts stamp set.  Then I die cut the birthday word about five or six times from black cardstock and stacked them together.  I added some Wink of Stella shimmer and Glossy Accents to make it more "special"!  I added enamel dots to both cards...love those things!

 

That's it for today!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Background Basics: Venice (PTI); Year Round Sentiments (Hero Arts)

Paper:  Neenah white, watercolor paper, black

Ink:  Versamark, Versafine onyx black, watercolors

Accessories:  Wonderful Words: Birthday and Hello dies (PTI), enamel dots, glossy accents, Wink of Stella shimmer





Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you hard-working moms out there!  I have a mom and a mother-in-law that I painstakingly made cards for last night.  They took a long time to make, but I was having fun and it was for a good occasion!

I'm taking the Online Card Classes Watercolor for Card Makers class, and I watched a video by my favorite stamper, Jennifer McGuire.  So I of course had to try her technique!

 In her video, she embossed her image with white embossing powder.  On my first card I, of course, forgot to do that and stamped it in black Archival ink.  I was not happy with the result  until I finished the entire thing.  I almost tossed it, but with watercoloring you can play around with the colors even after it's dried.  That's what I did here.  I didn't give up.  I colored the image with Distress markers in fired brick and spun sugar for the flowers and mowed lawn and forest moss (?) for the leaves.  I didn't like the way the leaves came out at first (too muddy-looking), but they look fine after a while.  I added some blue in the background with tumbled glass.  This actually wasn't my favorite of the two, but looking at it now, I like it so much more!

Here is my second attempt, the way Jennifer did it.  I like it much better in person.  It really is so much prettier than how the camera captured it.  I embossed this one in white embossing powder.  It was actually easier to color embossed.  Here I used spun sugar and picked raspberry for the flowers and just mowed lawn for the leaves.  I like the leaves better in this one.  Again, the background was colored with tumbled glass, but I think I used too much color.   I finished both off with some banners, the sentiment, pearls, and some Wink of Stella shimmer which you cannot see in the picture.

I hope you have a great day with your families.  We are off to our cabin for the day.  It's supposed to be in the 70s and sunny today, something we so desperately need!

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers: Sweet Pea (PTI), Motherly Love (Flourishes)

Paper:  Neenah white, Tim Holtz watercolor paper, certainly celery, pink pirouette, retired SU dp

Ink:  Versamark, Archival black, Versafine onyx black, Distress markers:  picked raspberry, spun sugar, fired brick, mowed lawn, forest moss, tumbled glass

Accessories:  Spellbinder's die, pearls, white embossing powder, dimensionals

Online Card Classes - Watercoloring

Hi everyone!  Today is day 1 of the Online Card Classes Watercolor for Card Makers. 

 There were three different watercolor techniques presented today, and I chose to do one that Kristina Werner taught.  I used a retired background stamp from SU called Hand Stitched, some white embossing powder, and water color paints to create this strip.  It started out as a full panel, however I wanted to follow the Clean & Simple sketch, so I cut it in half.

 

Here's the sketch.

 

I'm also entering this into the Catered Crop button challenge.

 

Sorry for the short post, but I didn't want to give too many details since this is a class that's paid for.  Also, it's kind of late and I need some sleep!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Hand Stitched (SU), Take Flight (Clearly Besotted)

Paper:  Tim Holtz watercolor paper, Neenah white, calypso coral

Ink:  Versamark, watercolor paints

Accessories:  Button, floss, white embossing powder, enamel dots, sequins, dimensionals





Happy 85th Birthday Mom

Yesterday was my mom's 85th birthday!  Today we are celebrating at my house with just the grandchildren and my husband and me.  I wanted to make a special card for her and remembered I had this die.  I purchased it after seeing a card Jennifer McGuire created for the Summer Card Camp class from Online Card Classes.  I just had to have it, but of course, it has never been used until now!  I cased the card Jennifer created with a few changes.

 

The die was cut from white card stock that I doubled up for more stability (this die is very fragile).  The butterflies are attached at different places on the die, but I cut them off so I could place them elsewhere.  I covered the die with Versamark ink and Verdigris embossing powder.  I did this twice.  I ran a piece of card stock through an embossing folder and adhered it to the card front.  I cut another piece and embossed the sentiment on it then sprayed it with gold mist.  The butterflies were colored with copic markers and then embossed with a hologram embossing powder.  It's very sparkly in person.

That's it!  Thanks for stopping by!  I'll be back tomorrow with a Just Us Girls photo inspiration challenge!  See you then!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Big Birthday Wishes, Women of Life (PTI)

Ink:  Copic markers, Versamark

Paper:  Neenah white

Accessories:  Butterfly Tendrils (Simon Says Stamp), Verdigris, hologram highlights, and gold embossing powders, Heidi Swapp gold mist, embossing folder, dimensionals



Online Card Classes - Clean & Simple

Hello!  I had a snow day today, so I was able to get inky for an hour or two.   I'm taking the Clean & Simple Card Making class from Online Card Classes and I just LOVED what the girls showed us today.  I was intrigued by the masking techniques that Jennifer and Laura did and it was surprisingly easy to recreate.

 

Jennifer used a mask and a stencil on one of her cards, and since I love stencils I decided to try that for my first card.  I used some Eclipse masking paper and the die to die cut the opening.  Then I die cut the butterfly out of the middle of that.  I put the stencil on top and sponged two different inks over it.  It's really cool when you remove the stencil and masks to see the design that's left!  The sentiment was stamped after everything was revealed.

This card is almost an identical case of Laura's card.  I've been itching to use this new to me background stamp from MFT.  I stamped it in gray ink and then used various inks with various size circles.  I just had to use the yellow and green Color Theory inks which I just purchased from Studio Calico.  Just beautiful colors!  I used the same mask as in the previous card.

This last card is another case of Jennifer's card.  I once again used the same mask.  This time I created a floral design.  After stamping, I sponged some yellow ink over the design.  I had to add the sequins because some of the ink bled through the mask.  It's still a one layer card

 

These were such fun to make and so simple to achieve these looks.  I love these classes because I have access to them forever.  I do go back and look at some of the techniques they've taught in other classes, so they are worth the money (which really isn't all that much!).

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  Make sure you stop by tomorrow because there is a new challenge in blog land called Time Out Challenges and I'm on the design team!  I think you'll like the challenges we have planned for you!  I'm looking forward to you stopping by to see what it's all about!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Fresh Cut Florals and Folk Art Florals (WPlus9), Beautiful Blooms II (PTI), Oh Happy Day (Avery Elle), Birthday Greetings and Patterned Triangles background (MFT)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black; butter bar, pale tomato, bubble gum (Hero Arts); emerald city, sunny day (Color Theory); smoky slate (SU)

Paper:  Neenah white, PTI white

Accessories:  Eclipse masking paper, rounded banner dies (MFT), Darla butterfly (Memory Box), Color Theory sequins 





Another Stenciled Card!

Oh my goodness, I was so inspired by the Stenciled class from Online Card Classes!  I have another card to share based on a technique I learned from the class.

 

I cased the card Jennifer McGuire did.  I didn't have the butterfly stencil she used, but I was browsing around in Hobby Lobby the other day and found a stencil with two butterflies on it for $2.99.  Score!  So here's the technique.  Apply various inks through the stencil lightly.  I used Hero Arts inks, but Distress Inks work really well also.  Then I placed another stencil (I used the Large Lotus Flower stencil from Hero Arts) with some design to it right on top of the butterfly opening.  I applied the same inks in the same places using a heavier hand.  When you remove the stencils, this is what you end up with.  Very cool technique!  The thank you die was cut several times from turquoise, pink and white card stock and glued together to make it more dimensional.  I added some Wink of Stella shimmer and glossy accents for some shine.  The butterfly didn't look finished until I added the pearls to its body.  (I need a new camera.  My pictures just aren't doing it for me anymore!)

 

That's it!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps: None!

Paper:  Neenah white, regal rose, tempting turquoise

Ink:  Butter bar, fresh peach, pale tomato, bubble gum, tide pool (Hero Arts)

Accessories:  Butterfly stencil (Hobby Lobby), large lotus flower stencil (Hero Arts), Wonder Words: Thank You die (PTI), Wink of Stella shimmer brush, glossy accents, pearls