January 2018 All-Occasions class

Welcome to a new year! Before I start making Christmas card again, I needed to re-stock my stash of other cards: birthday, sympathy, baby and more! So, I held a card class last night. It gets me motivated to come up with some designs (with the help of Pinterest) and fill up my stash. The ladies braved the snowy weather and cold and came out to make these cards. I am in love with how realistic looking that bunny stamp is!

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Countdown to Christmas 2017: Week 20

Week 20: Woohoo! 20 weeks of card making! I needed to make a few more cards in the Northern Lights theme, so it's another one of those. I love these so much. Each one turns out unique. I used two retired stamp sets here for the moose and the sentiment. Ink colours used are: Rich Razzelberry, Coastal Cabana (retired), Crushed Curry, Night of Navy, and Basic Black. I embossed the sentiment in white. I added a few speckles of embossing powder around the darker edges to look like stars or the Milky Way....something new I tried. I think it worked! The last 2 images show a close up of the "stars". This card is dedicated to my stamp class ladies. If you look close, I stamped the sentiment slightly crooked. I felt so sad. There was no way I was throwing this artwork out. So I tried to fix it by cutting the cardstock a bit. It still looked funny so I layered the navy cardstock underneath at an angle to draw less attention to my mistake. There is always a fix! :)

Countdown to Christmas 2017: Week 19

Week 19: It's still Monday! Today I felt I needed to do some sponging work. I find it relaxing. I used the same colour base as one of my favourite mountain cards I made last year. In case you missed it, here it is! :)

And this is the one for Week 19, very similar. I basically CASED my own card. I'm not sure which I like better, but probably the mountain one still. Although that little deer is cute :)

The inks for the sky are: Rich Razzleberry, Coastal Cabana (retired), Night of Navy, and Basic Black. The silhouette (I love silhouette stamps!) is from a retired set called To You and Yours Too, and that is stamped in Basic Black. The sentiment is heat embossed in white, and from the same set. I added some silver 1/8 inch ribbon along the side and mounted the card on Melon Mambo and Night of Navy cardstock. I dotted a few stars/snowflakes in the sky with my Aqua Painter dipped in Whisper White craft ink.

Countdown to Christmas 2017: Week 18

Week 18: Whoops, Tuesday again :) Oh well, at least I'm sticking to it. This week I've started writing out my Christmas cards, I do it all by hand because I'm old fashioned. I saw this post floating around online and thought I'd share it because it's true:

Here is your card for the week: I used Cherry Cobbler cardstock for the base. The fold is different, so I've done a few views for you. I layered a piece of Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate, Basic Black cardstock and Whisper White cardstock. I saw the foil acetate used so much last year online and hardly at all this year. I tied a bit of 1/8 inch gold ribbon on the side, stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink using the sentiment from the Musical Season stamp set. The french horn was cut out of gold foil sheet using the Instruments Framelits Dies.

Countdown to Christmas 2017: Week 17

Week 17: Today is Tuesday, whoops :) Here is another card we made at the Christmas card class at the beginning of November and 2 additional cards with a few changes....all are done using sponging for the background and the Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies (I love these!). The last card I heat embossed the greeting in silver embossing powder and added some Wink of Stella for snow.

Countdown to Christmas 2017: Week 16

Week 16: Today I'm sharing with you a card I designed for the Christmas Card workshop I had last weekend and several alternatives. It uses the Hearts Come Home stamp set in the white circle and the sentiment is from Snowflake Sentiments. The card base is Old Olive, the scalloped framelit was used to cut out the scallop shape in Real Red. Whisper White twine is wrapped around a piece of Merry Music Specialty DSP. Ink used was Basic Grey. The 3 alternative cards also feature gold glimmer paper and gold thread. I think my favourite card is the last one :)

Countdown to Christmas 2017: Week 15

Week 15: I was on the ball this week, so this post is going up early! I used the Hearts Come Home and Snowflake Sentiments stamp sets. The background is Whisper White cardstock that I embossed using the Softly Falling embossing folder, after I stamped in Basic Grey ink. The red cardstock is Cherry Cobbler and the star is cut out of gold Glimmer paper using the retired star framelits.