Happy Birthday to our Daughter-in-Law

It was our daughter-in-law's birthday on the 9th. I was planning to give her the card that I made like this from my SCT class - Honey Bee Stamps. At nearly the last minute, I decided I didn't want to part with it!! So, I made her this one instead. It has turquoise accessories which is more like her kitchen. All the dies and stamps are from the class set. The doors open, which you can see on the second photo. 

And on the inside it looks like this.

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SCT Class - Hero Arts - Last One!!

And the cards from the SCT class from Hero Arts. The last one! I did it!! :-) This one involved ink blending, die-cutting and a bit of stenciling.

This may be my last post for a while. It's been fun doing the class cards, but we've had so many things on our to-do list. We've been chipping away at it, but keep adding more things as we go along. We've been doing the Christmas shopping, but have to finish that. And even though the cards have been done for a long time, we still have to do the letter and get the cards ready to mail. Deciding which cards each person will be getting is a job in itself!

In case I'm not back before then, Happy Thanksgiving to all.

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SCT Class - Picket Fence

Here are the SCT Class cards from Picket Fence. The images (girl, background studio pieces and easel) were preprinted and die-cut. We were also provided with a stamp set (with the dies), a stencil and some special paste. We used the stencil for the backgrounds on all of the cards. For this first one, we put the ink on the stencil, misted the stencil and then placed the white panel on top of it.

This one had the yellow paste through the stencil and then yellow ink blended over that.

This one had ink blended on the panel, two coats of clear embossing powder over the entire surface and then some paste added over that.

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SCT Class - My Favorite Things

Here are my cards from the My Favorite Things class from the SCT class.  This first one is a flat panel on the bottom layer and the smaller panel is the actual opening card.

This is a special fold card with a belly band. Lots of little die cuts.

And more little die cuts, plus some stenciling.

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SCT Class - Concord and 9th

Here are the three cards from Concord and 9th from the SCT class. The kit included the cover die, other dies, stencils, stamps and four small ink pads. 

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SCT Class - Brutus Monroe

And here are my cards from the Brutus Monroe class from SCT. There isn't much stamping on these cards - it's mostly rub-ons. The set included stamps, dies, rub-ons and a stencil.

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SCT Class - Honey Bee

Here are the cards from the Honey Bee class. Please check out the post for the last card, which is so awesome - and was so putzy! All the little pieces are die-cut. The stencil was in the kit - it stenciled the circle and also the designs on the plates, etc. So much detail!

The bottom layer is patterned paper which includes the wreath and the sentiment (and the background, too, of course.) The rest are die cuts.

I die-cut the card base using the bottom layer die. This die set was huge! There was also a small sentiment set and a stencil.

The cabinet doors open and there are dishes in them.

The inside of the card. This really isn't my kind of card, but it's pretty amazing, I think.

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SCT Card Class - Altenew

It's fun to be a little bit caught up and have time in my stamping room - it feels great. These cards are from my SCT card class from Altenew. The inks and markers they used on the cards were supplied by other companies - OLO and Concord and 9th.

Hard to tell in the photo, but this first one was embossed in gold powder. It was colored with the OLO markers. I added some Nuvo drops. The panels on all three cards were mounted on foam squares.

On this one and the third one, I used silver embossing powder. (The same image was used on all three cards.) There is white ink-splattering and also some pewter Liquid Pearls.

I didn't get the images close enough together to use the sentiment that they used in the card class, so I found a large one from Recollections to use. This card  was watercolored with the Concord and 9th inks. Again, I added Nuvo drops.

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Butterfly Thank You

The butterfly on this card is left-over from my SCT card class. The die and the patterned paper are from Pink and Main. I ink-blended a whole lot of colors over the top layer to try to match the plaid background! In the end I was pretty happy with the color results. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The patterned paper for the background is from Gina K.

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OLO Markers - SCT Card Class

I got up really early yesterday and was able to put some things in order in my stamping room, and also put together several cards. How fun! I had pieces left from making calendars and from my card class and just in general. I got all those pieces taken care of. Always a good feeling. We also got some things sorted and tossed from the cedar chest. More to go and also other projects, but we're making progress.

This card is from the card class I took. We were given four colors of OLO markers and an image from Angie Blom. I really like how we blended the purple and the green - who would have thought of that! :-) I fussy-cut the image and popped it up on foam squares. I also fussy-cut the banner and added it on top of the image.

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SCT Classes - Scrapbook.Com

My last batch of SCT class cards. These are from Scrapbook.com. 

I still have many company's products to use, but I have too much going on right now to work on them. They will be a treat for later - much later! My Christmas cards and my calendars are calling me, along with many other things!!

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SCT Classes - LDRS Creative

More SCT Class cards - these are LDRS Creative. The first one is very different from the class card, but the second two are pretty much like the class cards. (The first one was to be watercolored and then use a black Copic marker to color the entire background. I instead painted with metallic paints and splattered some gold over everything.)

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SCT Classes - Lawn Fawn

More SCT class cards - these are from Lawn Fawn.

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SCT Classes - Pink and Main

These cards are from the SCT classes - Pink and Main. They are all a variety of shaker card.

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SCT Classes - Spellbinders

These cards are from the SCT classes and from Spellbinders. I followed the instructions very, very closely. Isn't that scissors cool??

Sorry you can't see the sparkly centers in the flowers.

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SCT Classes - Taylored Epressions

These cards are from my Crop and Create Delivered card class from Scrapbook and Cards Today (SCT). I am not even half done with the classes, but I may not get to them until after Christmas!! For now, I will share eventually what I have finished.

These cards are from Taylored Expressions. The sentiments were done at the same time, using four stencils. Kind of cool. I pretty much followed the instructions for the cards exactly. The last card is a shaker card.

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