One More Card Class Card

One more card from the on-line card class. There may be more, or this may be my last. It was a fun class. For this one, I just took a piece of cardstock, spritzed it with water and crinkled it up and smooshed it. When it was distressed enough, I spritzed it with water mixed with gold and pearl Perfect Pearls. I let it dry completely before finishing the card. I cut the oval and leaves out of white with a die. That part is completely separate. Then I embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder. Then I glued both pieces to the green distressed background and mounted that panel on foam tape and added it to a card base. It's rare for me to make a card without a sentiment, but I'll either leave it as it or add a sentiment at a later date.

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Many-Layered Birthday

Yet another card from the Online Card Class. I'm making progress! LOL! I cut circles into several colors of cardstock and layered them together. I embossed the top layer with a Darice folder. Sorry the picture isn't better - I didn't realize how washed out the cupcake is, but I'm not going to bother to get a better one! The cupcake frosting is actually a creamy vanilla color and has texture, along with lines embossed by the die. The cupcake has embossed lines in it, too. The dies are from My Favorite Things.

Edited to add: I just saw the challenge from Let's Craft and Create is to use "Lots of Layers." I guess this card qualifies. :-)

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Another Woven Card

And another card from the Online Card Class. There will be more to come! This is another one using strips. The sentiment is die-cut from bronze glitter cardstock.

Very glittery in real life!

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More Online Card Class Cards

I really want to try to make cards like most of the cards in the Online Card class that I took. So, here are two more. These are made by sort of "pleating" cardstock - doing an accordion-fold. On this first one, the folded cardstock is behind the open area of a die-cut peice. I also matted with the same color cardstock. The sentiment is from Gina K and is stamped in a dark gray.  I brushed just a hint of color around the edge of the sentiment panel.

This second one uses the same method, but is trimmed into a heart. To the bottom of the heart, I added a white bow that has been sitting around my craft table for a few years! The background is embossed with a Darice folder and has ink brushed around the edges. This sentiment is also from Gina K and is also stamped in dark gray.

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Another Day One Card from Online Card Class

Here is another card I made from the Online Card Class - Crushing on Cardstock. The stripes are each one-half inch wide and the space between them is one-fourth inch. The stripes are mounted on foam squares. The strips were all made from card scraps. The sentiment was cut three times from white cardstock and glued together for added dimension. The die is from Altenew. I matted the image panel on the same color cardstock as one of the stripes.

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Online Card Class - Day Two

An idea from the current Online Card Class. I used an Altenew die for the background die-cut and to cut through the die-cut flowers. I matted the flowers and the background piece, and I popped the flowers up on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Online Card Class - Day One #3

Here is another card I made for the Online Card Class I'm taking. I ended up liking it more than I thought I would. I cut the hearts and then tore the left-side edges. I inked up along the torn edges. I embossed the top and bottom layers with one of my original Cuttlebug folders and my former favorite - Dotted Swiss. The hearts were cut with Lifestyle Crafts Dies. The heart is popped up on foam squares. The sentiment is stamped in black and is from My Favorite Things. The card base is top-folding.

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Online Card Class - Crushing on Cardstock

I'm taking the current Online Card Class, but I'm a bit behind. Luckily, it's just "do it at your own pace." These cards are based on Day One's class - using strips of cardstock. I'm pretty sure the point of the class is to use plain cardstock, but I couldn't resist using up some scraps of patterned paper for the second card. Die-cut words completed each card.

                                       

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Woven Window

Well, I finally made another card from the Online Class. It feels good to do a little creating. I cut the circle in a piece of cardstock and then used thin (1/4 inch strips) of colored cardstock to weave from the back. I mounted the panel on foam squares. I die-cut the sentiment several times and stacked them. I'm not really enamored with the card, but it was fun! I think I would like it better if I had placed the strips a little bit further apart.

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Spring Card Camp 2 - Day Five

Day Five of the Spring Card Camp online class was to use shading with stencils. The first example was "vintage" shading. She first used a very light tan over the whole stencil and then used light shades of coloring. I used two shades of green over the tan. I don't really have many stencils, so I've used this same Memory Box stencil. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted with black and mounted on a kraft cardbase. I also added a few "nail heads."

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Spring Card Camp 2 Day Four

This is my card for day four of the online card class. After having made it, and looking at the lesson again, I should probably have done things differently! Oh well - I took it as repetition of a sentiment. Actually, I guess it was using scraps of different colors and using the sentiment multiple times. This works for me, though! (I guess I could have at least stamped in different colors.) The "happy" is from Papertrey Ink. The "birthday" was die-cut with a My Favorite Things die out of turquoise and also fun foam. 

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Spring Card Camp 2 - Day Three

Day Three of the Online Spring Card Camp 2 was to use a stencil for embossing. I used a Memory Box stencil. I matted it with black. The circle stamps are from Papertrey Ink and the circles are cut with Nestabilities. The innermost circle is mounted on foam squares.

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Spring Card Camp - Day 1

Day One of the On-line Card Class Spring Card Camp was masking. I masked off the oval and used Gina K inks to fill in the oval. The sentiment stamp and the flowers are both from my favorite Hero Arts sympathy set. I think I'll make another card using the reverse oval and stamp or ink up the piece except for the oval. Hopefully soon. I had to make two quick sympathy cards. I was out. My last uncle passed away last week, as did a member of our church. Our church member died of Covid-19.

Well, I DID make another card, and even in time to put it in the same blog post. Mother's Day was a good stamping day for me:) I placed the die-cut oval on the white cardstock and brushed ink over it, around the rest of the piece. I used another oval die to add the black oval line inside the white oval. I think it would have been better without it, but oh well! I used the same stamps as the first card.

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Online Spring Card Class - Day Two

I signed up for the Online Card Class Spring Camp 2 that started on Wednesday. I finally got a chance to make a couple class cards! I watched the videos very, very late Friday night when I couldn't sleep. Then late afternoon and early evening yesterday I got these cards done. I was thinking that this theme was from Day One, but it was from Day Two. Oh well! :)

As you can probably tell, the "theme" was stripes. I taped off areas of my card fronts and brushed inks on them. For this first card, I used all Gina K inks. You really can't see it at all in the picture, but I also stamped on three of the stripes with stamps from the old Stampin' Up! set called Perfect Plaids. The flower image is from Gina K. I stamped it with Versamark and embossed with black embossing powder. The sentiment is a very old wooden stamp from Hero Arts. It is also embossed. I matted with black and mounted on a white card base.

The stripes on this one were done with distress ink. I forgot to add any stamping on them. The image is from Impression Obsession and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Online Card Class Card

A drawing was provided for this card, too. I used the drawing and also painted my card the same as hers. Well, not exactly, of course - I don't have the talent for that! I just did my best. It was a fun class. I'm excited to do more watercoloring now.

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Leaves and Flowers from the Online Card Class

Two more cards from the Online Card Class Watercolor Class. This first one is all free-hand, using the video as a guide.

A sketch was provided for this one, and I used it.

I'll have one more card from the class to share with you tomorrow, then I'll be back to stamping and die-cutting. I sure hope I use some of what I've learned in the class, though!

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More Card Class Projects

Here are four more projects from the Online Card Class I am taking - watercolors. I need LOTS more practice, but I thought I would share these anyway. I didn't actually make these four into cards - they are just the front panel. 

It's been fun to play with watercolors and learn some techniques. I'll be sharing more soon, I hope.

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More Card Class Cards

Here are two more cards from the On-Line Card Class I am taking. They are from Day 4. I haven't done any from Day 2, 3 or 5 yet. I'll work on that:)

The sentiment on the first one is written with a marker.

The sentiment on this one is a die cut.

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Watercolor Class Cards

I am taking an on-line watercoloring class. It's my first time ever taking an on-line class:) I'm a bit behind, but here are the three cards that I made for the Day One lesson. All three cards were done with no stamps or dies - just watercoloring and markers.

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