Thursday, November 19, 2015
Online Card Class Day 3--Classic and Elegant
Another card for my online class. Really enjoying all the new ideas I'm getting from this class. Here is my take on the Classic and Elegant card. It is a simple design using the Hero Arts Color Layering Christmas Tree. I trimmed the top panel to 3 3/4 by 5 1/2, and adhered a narrow gold ribbon to each side. The panel was attached with foam tape to the top folding card base. I will be attaching some red gems to the tree (as soon as I find them again)! If I can't find the gems, I may be using red stickles to give the tree a little more color!
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Online Card Classes--Holiday Style Day One--Clean and Simple
Love the Online Card Classes I've taken so far, and this one is shaping up to be another.
The first class was clean and simple, and I liked the technique Julie used for her trees. While she made it a one layer card, I had the Tim Holtz Crazy Birds stamps with matching dies, and wanted to try them out.
I masked a snow hill on the bottom of the card front, then colored the sky with Simon Says Stamp steel blue ink, using a stipple brush to, I hope, look like a swirling snowy sky. I then stamped a tree (from Hero Arts Sending Holiday Cheer stamp set) several different times, using first and second generation stamping to get color variations. I was hoping to give the card the illusion of distance for some of the trees.
After stamping, coloring, and die stamping a bird, I stamped and colored a Santa hat and candy cane, also from Tim Holtz. Since I don't have the dies for this set (yet), I was forced to cut out by hand. I'm not good at this, and the die set is definitely going on my Christmas list!!
I glued the hat and candy cane to the bird, then glued it to the front of the card front I had made. I stamped the sentiment from Tim Holtz on the front, and used a sentiment from the Hero Arts stamp set--may your home be filled with the joys of the season--for the inside. The sentiments were stamped in Momento Tuxedo Black.
The front was trimmed to 5 1/4 by 4 inches, and was then attached to the card front.
The first class was clean and simple, and I liked the technique Julie used for her trees. While she made it a one layer card, I had the Tim Holtz Crazy Birds stamps with matching dies, and wanted to try them out.
I masked a snow hill on the bottom of the card front, then colored the sky with Simon Says Stamp steel blue ink, using a stipple brush to, I hope, look like a swirling snowy sky. I then stamped a tree (from Hero Arts Sending Holiday Cheer stamp set) several different times, using first and second generation stamping to get color variations. I was hoping to give the card the illusion of distance for some of the trees.
After stamping, coloring, and die stamping a bird, I stamped and colored a Santa hat and candy cane, also from Tim Holtz. Since I don't have the dies for this set (yet), I was forced to cut out by hand. I'm not good at this, and the die set is definitely going on my Christmas list!!
I glued the hat and candy cane to the bird, then glued it to the front of the card front I had made. I stamped the sentiment from Tim Holtz on the front, and used a sentiment from the Hero Arts stamp set--may your home be filled with the joys of the season--for the inside. The sentiments were stamped in Momento Tuxedo Black.
The front was trimmed to 5 1/4 by 4 inches, and was then attached to the card front.
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