Entry for Stamp of Approval

A photo of one of my cards I made from the Stamp of Approval kit, really liked how it turned out!  The blended background of the frame was a little tiring, I need to learn to relax my hand more!

July 2016 Stamp of Approval box arrived!

My SOA Lovely Notes arrived yesterday, and I made a few cards.  I love the Concentric Circles die!
And the stamps are pretty neat, too.


I started out by using some Distress Inks in a rainbow pattern on some white card stock, then cut out the Concentric Circles.  For my first card I centered the rainbow die cut on a 4 x 5.25 inch piece of black card stock, then attached to the front of my card base.  Using a scrap strip of black card stock, I wrote with a white Signo pen my sentiment.  After rounding the corners, I used dimensional tape to give it some height.  I am really pleased with this card.

 
I also cut out the die on a piece of black card stock. I heat embossed in white my sentiment on the black die cut.  I attached the leftover piece of rainbow card stock to the front of my card base, then inserted the black die cut in the opening.  I then attached all the leftover rainbow pieces in the appropriate places in the black die cut.  A little time consuming, but not hard to do.  And I think the card turned out pretty nice!

For my third card I blended some Distress Inks on white card stock, then cut out as panel using the outline die that comes with the Concentric Circles die.  I stamped it using the Fill in the Blanks stamp in black.  After cutting a 4.25 x 5.5 inches rectangle from black card stock, I attached it to the front of my card, then centered the stamped piece and attached that.  I used the included word stamps to personalize it for my son-in-law, whose birthday is in a few weeks.  I think it turned out pretty masculine looking, although maybe a little bright.  But then again, I really like bright.

My last card for today was the leftover frame from cutting out another of the Concentric Circles.  Unfortunately, the circles did not make it out of the die in one piece (my fault, not the die's, I was rushing).  After attaching the frame to the front of the card, I stamped several sprays of leaves from the Lovely Notes stamps on the left side of the opening. I also stamped the sentiment in black on the right hand side of the opening. I stamped and die cut several of the large flowers, and a couple of the branches of leaves, and attached them to the left side of the card, using dimensional tape on a couple of them (and very handily covered up someone's black fingerprint).

I'm not sure why the yellow flowers seem so dull, in real life they are bright and really pop!





I'm really loving this kit!  I will be making more cards over the next couple of weeks from it!

Second lesson in my class

Having finished my first lesson, and done the homework, I was ready for the second lesson.  This lesson was on blending with the Copic Markers, and was the main reason I signed up for the Copic Jumpstart class.

First we tried shading with just one color.  Took a lot of time to get the shadows. Next up was shading with two colors.  This was less time consuming then with just one color.  Learned quite a bit from this lesson.

Shading with one color at top, and using two colors on the bottom.

Copic Jumpstart Class with Sandy Allnock

I signed up for this class (Copic Jumpstart Class) a couple of months ago, and it finally began on May 27th.  Unfortunately, I was camping and didn't have internet, except on the rare occasion we went into town.  Therefore, I started this class quite a bit later.

I watched the getting ready videos, and colored in my hex chart to see what colors I had, and how they went together, a couple of weeks ago.  I had managed to get several of the Copic Markers that Sandy recommended, and had a few in my collection that I could substitute for some of them, so I was ready to go.

The first lesson was about color wheels, and color glazing.  It took quite a bit longer to get my homework done than I had first thought.  Here is a peek at the results I had. I first colored several color wheels using different shades, and then made a glazed color wheel, where the colors overlapped the ones next to it.  Interesting!

Color wheels I made

I moved on to doing a bunch of color glazing wheels, with one color as the base, then coloring over it in sections, using a different color in each section.  This was also very interesting, as there were a lot of different effects when trying out the different colors.  Some blended easily, some seemed to take away the base color, and others didn't seem to affect the base color very much with subtle changes.

Peek at my color glazing chart

I used the same colors as Sandy did in her example of the large glazed color wheel, with one substitution. I then used those same colors in my glazing chart.

So far, I'm loving this class.  I've already learned quite a bit.