April 15, 2013 Card Making Class

Hello everyone,

Another busy week went by.  Had to take my son to the doctors for his fever and his eyes.  Thank goodness nothing serious from both visits.  Below is a recap from our last class.  I took the pictures of these cards standing up.  The first card and last card look good, but the middle two look sort of squashed for some reason.  Oh well!
This floral basket card was made using the Iris Folding method with light and dark brown pattern papers for the iris pattern.  Store bought flowers and punched leaves were added to top the basket.  Drops of white enamel accents by Ranger were added to the center of the flowers to finish off.

 This next card was made by using a Fiskar scallop border punch on lime card stock, add peach pattern paper on top and adhere to the side of the card base.  Circles stickers were added as shown and finished off with orange and green blings.

This lilac card was made using the Sizzix die for the base of the lilac, the branch and the leaf.  The flowers were punched out using Martha Steward punch. Purple ink was added to the center of each flower before gluing to the lilac die cut.  Sponge brown ink along the edge of the branch and olive green ink around the leaf and the veins before adhering onto card base.

This hibiscus card was made by stamping the flower randomly onto red card panel using fire brick distress ink by Tim Holtz and repeat stamping one hibiscus on square white panel.  Adhere the panels onto black card stock as shown.  Wrap ribbon around the bottom part of the card before adhering onto card base.  Stamp sentiment and punch out with Fiskar scallop oval punch.  Adhere on top of ribbon as shown to finish card.

By the way, I added a link to my Pinterest page on the right margin where I pin the cards that I've made over the years.  Check it out and let me know what you think.  Well that's it for now.   See you on 4/29 for our next class.  Have a great week!

Spring Session - April 1st, 2013 First Card Making Class

Hello everyone,

Well Spring is here even though it's still chilly out there. We had our first class last Monday and I had a full house!  A warm welcome to all the new faces! All the running around is good exercise for me as I so needed it!

Anyway, this first card is short version of a teabag folding method.  The flower was made by punching five 1-1/16" circles out of double-sided pattern paper (orange on one side and green on the other).  The circles were first folded in half to find the center, and then the bottom half of each circle was folded into a "V" shape for each petal.  Put the five petal together with the "V" pointing in the center to form the flower.  You may need to adjust it as you go along.   Adhere onto green stripe circle sticker and adhere onto card base.  Add orange strip sticker across and poka dots oval on the bottom of card base.  Add gold sticker sentiment and orange bling as shown to finish card.

This next card was inspired by Darlene Design using Tim Holtz distress inks and sponge applicator for the background onto a white die cut from Spellbinder.  The image was stamped with black ink on top.  The 1" blue paper strip was adhered onto a white card base before adding the stamped image.  Add the silver sticker sentiment to finish.

This next card was made using an embossing folder (either Sizzix or Cuttlebug) on a light brown card stock for the texture background.  The circles were cut using Spellbinder circle dies on white and brown card stock.  Stamp bear with brown ink and adhere the circles together as shown.  Adhere the green pattern paper onto brown card stock before adhering onto texture background.  Tie a ribbon around the bottom half of the assemble panel before adhering to card base.  I left this card without sentiment so I can add it later.  It would probably make a good masculine birthday card.

This last card was inspired from the Papercrafts magazine.  The white background was embossed with the poka dots embossing folder from Cuttlebug and rounded off the corners.  The pot was die cut with mustard card stock and the Sizzix original pot die.  The edges of the pot were sponged with orange ink.  The leaves were punched with EK Success punch and sponged with green The veins on the leaves were scored with a dry embossing tool. The flowers were punched out of pink card stock using EK Success small flower punch and embossed before gluing them onto card as shown.  The pink flag was added by popping up the middle with foam tape and finished off with a silver sticker sentiment.

Well that's it for now.  Our next class will be Monday April 15th (tax day) from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.  Have a great week!