Woohoo!! Play Time!!!

School is over, well at least this challenging and stressful  class is over. I handed in my final research paper last night.

To celebrate, I binged on the new online card class "Clean and Sheer". Kristina  and Jennifer and others were sharing tips and techniques for working with vellum or acetate.

Jennifer's videos on embossing with vellum and acetate was way cool, so that is what I tried my hand at.

 

I did many of the elements she shared with us, but on the inside I die cut and embossed the balloon with the same Cuttlebug happy birthday folder and attached it inside so it matched up with the outside. Jennifer showed us how to add color to the embossed vellum/acetate images, but I decided to color the embossed balloon and let it show through subtlety.

There were some very cool techniques other than these that you must check out.

 

It's what is on the inside that counts!

Since there are no stamp stores left in my area, I really depend on Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner's Online Card Classes to provide me with inspiration and new techniques to create my cards. Right now I am taking Insider. This class focuses on the inside of the card. This is something I never focus on, in fact, I don't even do the insides of my cards until I am ready to give it to someone and then I am scrambling to find a sentiment and an inkpad! 

So this class is a challenge!! during our first day of class Jennifer focused on easy popups- another thing I never do! I loved the idea of a card popping up in the inside of the card.  She showed us a water color technique she calls "I painted this". I can't explain, you will just have to take the class!

I chose to make a Thanksgiving card using one of my favorite Thanksgiving stamps from Amuse. My sentiments came from Hero Arts . Jennifer used watercolor paper, but for my card I wanted the harvesty feel of kraft paper. 

Does anyone have any special Thanksgiving stamps they like? I could use some new ones, but they are hard to find.

His and Her Class Day 1

Well this is a bit unusual, me posting on a weeknight, but I was so excited after watching the first couple of videos for the His and Her online card class. I had to get busy and try this cool technique Jennifer Maguire did. She stamped in white and then off set stamped in a tone on tone color, to get a cool masculine card. She used leaves, I went with my chevron stamp. Sorry about the lousy photos, but it is later, and its so grey and rainy out. Believe it or not this card is a more blue then grey.

The first card is clearly the "her" card, but using the same technique except I chose multiple colors fro the flowers and leaves. I embossed the saying. I wasn't sure how well the white ink alone would show up on the yellow card. 

This is a such a great technique and i am gonna be experimenting quite a bit with it!

Thanks Jennifer and Kristine for such a great kick off to this online card class!!

more green cards

More  St. Patrick's Day cards. This one I used a technique that Jennifer Maguire showed during the Clean and Simple Card Making 2. It is called gradient stamping, where you layer your ink colors so they blend from light to dark.  The class is over, but you can still sign up and enjoy all the videos and instructions.

Stay tune for more lucky green cards!