October 1, 2012 Greeting Card Making Class

Hello everyone,

Here's an update of the cards we made in our last class.  This first card was inspired by a card made by Dawn Olchefske's blog at Dostamping with Dawn. The card was made with all Kraft color card stocks.  The background layer was embossed with Cuttlebug embossing folder and sponged with brown ink.  Stamp pine needles and pine cones on the opposite corners of the smallest Kraft panel and sponged edges as shown.  Adhere to another panel about 1/4 inch larger before adhering to the embossed background with foam tape.  Adhere everything to the card base and add sentiments sticker as shown.

 This pansies card was made using Starform pansies sticker on watercolor paper and Twinklin' H2O watercolors.  Add silver sticker trims and corners as shown.  Punch scallop borders on the purple pattern paper using Fiskar border punch and adhere everything on white card base as shown.

 The light blue panel of this mitten card was made using the Sizzix original die.  The mittens' outline was traced onto the black panel.  Ribbons were taped as shown directly onto the black card stock except for the mitten cuffs which was done by taping the ribbons onto the back of the light blue die cut panel.  Turn the light blue die cut panel back with the right side on top and tape it down to the black card panel where the rest of ribbons were taped down.  Adhere the assembled panels onto a blue card base.  Add silver snowflake border and sentiment sticker to front to finish the card as shown.

I goofed on this next card.  I forgot to bring the train stamp to class.  So everyone made a floral card instead because that was the stampI found in my supply cabinet at school that would fit the white card panel that I had cut out.  Actually, the card that everyone made looked better than this train card.  The ladies were able to color the flowers with markers that made it more colorful.  Oh well, it was a hot day and not such a good day to make a masculine card I suppose.  Not my best to say the least!

Anyway, have a good week everyone and see you next Monday October 15, 2012 at 11:30 a.m.   As always, leave a comment and let me know what you think.