December 13, 2010 Card Making Class

Happy Holidays everyone!
This is going to be a quick post.  Below are the cards we made in our last class meeting.  As usual, everyone brought lots of food with not much time to eat.

The black and white birthday card was made by placing the dress, shoes & purse stickers on pattern papers and cut out.  The black panel edges were punched out from EK Success border punch and trimmed with more silver stickers.

The anniversary card was made from different types of pattern paper strips taped on double-sided tape on the die cut heart shape card stock with Japanese Mizuhiki strips.  Adhere with foam tape on top of cream texture paper background, mat with olive color paper, and add ribbon before adhering on to card.

This Iris Folding pudding cake was made using 3 different color pattern papers and following the pattern.  Start by tracing the curve of the plate on to gray pattern paper, add the strips of color pattern papers on lower part of the cake, and then follow the numbering pattern.  The candles were punched out of red and yellow card stock and glue together.

 In response to Ellen's request, we did these fun gift tags using an old Hero Arts stamp set and some business card paper that I bought a while ago.  The images were stamped with pigment black ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The tags were then colored with Twinkling H2O; the buttons were threaded with yarn and adhered with double stick tapes.

That's it for now.  Our Winter Session will begin again in January 2011.  Here are the dates: 1/10, 1/24, 2/7, 3/7, 3/21.  See you all next year!

November 29, 2010 Card Making Class

Hello everyone,

Another hectic week!  Sorry for the late post.  Here's a recap of the cards we made in class.

The card below was made with the special pattern papers I have glued on the front.  The card was then trimmed with the gold snowflake stickers around the pattern papers.  The punch poinsettia was made using 2 punched 5-petal flowers and 2 punched holy leaves with gold glitter glue in the center.  The sentiment was stamped on a punched white card stock.

 The birthday card below was made with a pre-embossed white glossy card frame.  The center was made using a clear cellophane bag with happy birthday paper and some birthday confetti inside.  Finished off with a ribbon on the bottom half and popped up with foam dots.

The Hanukkah card was made by folding the front of the card back with more of the special pattern papers glued to the folded front panel.  The die-cut Star of David was glued on top of a square white and blue card oriented at a diagonal on top of the front panel.  The inside of the card was lined with a slightly smaller white card stock with a stamped sentiment.

The snowflakes card was made by first brushing 3/4 of the card front with glue pen and covered with glitters.  Punched several snowflakes on a vellum piece and glued to the bottom of a piece of snowflake paper.  The snowflake and vellum piece was glued then to the card front.  Add organza ribbon to the middle where the paper and vellum were taped together.  Note that the vellum was only taped on the top edge behind the snowflake paper so the tape would not show through.

This pirate monkeys waterfall card is an early version of the card we made in class.  Since Ellen and Lesley had to borrow my card to finish their homework, I'm using the photos of the one I made earlier for my co-worker's grandson.  Everything is basically the same except I moved the monkey on the bottom to the inside of the card and a black tab was added to the pull handle on the new card.  All the dimensions are the same as what I sent out in the emails before.  Please email me if you need me to send it to you again.  Basically, all the images were stamped in black ink and color with Prismacolor pencils except for the background which was stamped with brown ink pad.  The edges were also sponged with brown ink. 

 

 

 

 

 Have fun and until next time!