Wednesday, November 20, 2024

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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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

SCT - Stamps of Life

Here are my cards from Stamps of Life for the SCT card class. I'm moving right along! By the time this posts, I may have them all done. Yippee.
The first card - a modified gate-fold card.
Here is the second card - an easel card.



And the last card.

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Monday, November 18, 2024

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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Sunday, November 17, 2024

SCT Class - Gina K Designs

Ahh, I am doing the SCT classes in order, and I finally reached Gina K. I really do love her cards. She was so generous with supplies for the class. There was a full-sized stamp set with dies, the oval stencils, and also the background stamp. We used the "kissing" technique with the silhouette stamps and the background stamp.


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Saturday, November 16, 2024

SCT Class - Ranger/Simon Hurley

These four cards are from the SCT (Stamping and Cards Today Crop and Create) class that I took starting in September. Lucky for me that the classes are all on YouTube, as I was not able to do them live. I finally finished three more classes. Maybe I'll have more of them done before this post publishes.

This class was Simon Hurley for Ranger. Most of the cards are identical to the class cards. The kit consisted of the stamps and dies, stencils and AstroPaste.




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Friday, November 15, 2024

Gina K-Designed Cards

Gina K made some cards like this on one of her recent videos. So simple and pretty. You mask off the stripes around the edges and then use stencils and ink-blending. The sentiments are from my parts and were done with the Glimmer Hot Foil system. They are popped up, of course. I added three really old Martha Stewart gems to each card.

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Up-Cycled 25th Anniversary Card

While going through the cedar chest, we came across MANY cards. We tossed them all except a silver anniversary one. It was just too pretty to toss. (Gosh, we got that 25 years ago!! LOL!) The original card was prettier than this one, but this one will do. The background, the sentiment and the silver embossed panel were all from that card. The sentiment was on vellum, and I was able to save that, also, and add it to the inside. This is a larger card measuring 5 x 6.5 inches.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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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Monday, November 11, 2024

Thinking of You


This card was inspired by my friend, Vicki. She has made several of this fold lately. It's so simple but really adds a lot, I think. She has used very pretty papers, though, and I just used some fairly plain patterned paper. The sentiment is from Gina K. The flowers are from Altenew and were in my card parts book. I actually did some paint splattering for the background of the flowers.


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