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Today's lesson made me so eager to go home to try all of the techniques! I'm so happy with the results!
In the 2 cards I made tonight, I attempted the masculine version of the cards by Debby and Laura. I'll work on the feminine ones tonight after work.
Like Debby, I used the Wendy Vecchi embossing paste in white for the branch then coated it with Ranger silver embossing powder. Although now I wonder what happens when I heat up the embossing paste in silver. The texture of the paste is different: silver is smooth and white is sort of fluffy and slightly gritty.
I'll have to try it! I do love the way the white paste puffed up! I actually did that once before on accident while being impatient and trying to dry the white paste faster with my heat gun.
I also used the snowflake cut pattern from Birds Cards on my silhouette and coated it in Ranger Silver embossing powder. The rhinestone is from My Mind's Eye.
The "MERRY" (which I stamped crooked!) is from Lawn Fawn Milo's ABCs set and the "Christmas" is a masked off sentiment stamp from Stampendous set Christmas Wishes.
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I've been dying to use this stamp set since I bought it but never got around to it. Perfect time to use it - for card class!I was attempting to make a card inspired by Laura Bassen's day 3 plaid card. The truth is, I'm still terrible at stamping plaid. I tried and made some really hideous patterns. Lol. So in comes a chance for me to use my 6x6 designer paper pads that I seem to collect. I used the general idea then went a little further. I do love how they turned out though!The sentiment is normally "wishing you a cozy day" but I masked off "day" and used a Lawn Fawn alpha set to write "Holiday" to make this card more seasonal. It also helped using my winter/Christmas designer paper. I love the little pillows!The fish (cat card) and bone (dog card) are colored in with Ranger Perfect Pearls in mandarin and biscotti. I'm so so so in love with perfect pearls. Maybe because I used to buy a lot of makeup and it sort of reminds me of those loose powders. The shimmery-ness makes me swoon!
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Neenah Desert Storm base card with brown card stock card front. hero arts wood grain stamp inked with versamark and covered with Ranger perfect pearls. Love the perfect pearls! I just bought it this weekend and it's GORGEOUS!Inspired by Kristina Werner's day 1 card design from Online Card Class holidays 2013
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Day 2 class included a lesson on Layered Die Cut Inlay. I didn't have much time as I had dinner with my family then met up with Teresa for some Michael's browsing (PL albums were buy 1 get 1 free!). By the time I got home it was 9pm and I finished the 4 card fronts below (I should do more stamping and more sparkles...) by 11:15pm. I really just wanted to try the technique. But how to do it without craft dies... *ponder ponder*Once again, I have to get creative with my card making because I don't have a die cutter yet. I used my silhouette to cut out various shapes:
- trees/house and snowflake are from Birds Cards Xmas Cut Files
- "joy" is text I welded together
I haven't even had the chance to trim and put these on cards yet. I'd like to probably add some small embellishments and/or glitters. These were more just a chance to try out the technique that Jennifer McGuire showed in class. I actually enjoyed putting these together because I like puzzles and I like meticulous detail type of work. I know.. I'm weird.
A side shot of the first card front to show how flat this card is. SO COOL! Also, I think I need a new blade for my silhouette... the snowflake cuts were a bit fuzzy.
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I loved my last online card class so much I decided I would definitely participate in the holiday class! As always, plenty of great ideas and inspiration.
Here's my card for day 1 inspired by Jennifer McGuire's quarter fold card.
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