Winter 2024 - Handmade Greeting Cards Workshop, February 7 & 10, 2024

Hello everyone,

Hope you are enjoying the wonderful sunny day we had today.

Below is a quick recap of the cards we made.

Begonias Birthday: Emboss white card panel with Alternew 3D Begonia embossing folder. Use sponge daubers to color the flowers using Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry and Twisted Citron distress inks for the flowers and leaves on the "deboss/sunken" side. Go over the outside edges and the spaces in between with Fired Brick distress ink to add more definition to the overall picture. Add ribbon, stamped sentiment and adhere to card base as shown.

Happy Everything: Apply alcohol inks onto silver shimmer Yupo paper. Using a stamping platform, stamp image with Alcohol Lift ink onto Yupo paper. Place paper towel over stamped image to soak up the inks from the Yupo paper to reveal the stamped image. Repeat applying Alcohol Lift ink and stamp as many time as necessary to get a clear image. (Remember to clean off stamp to remove the alcohol inks before applying the Alcohol Lift ink each time.)

Lighthouse: Apply shimmer inks onto acrylic block, add water to create a small puddle and slightly dunk watercolor paper over the puddle to pick up colors. Repeat as necessary to get enough coverage. Die cut the lighthouse using the shimmer card panel. Assemble the watercolor panel in the back of the frame and the lighthouse die cut. Add blue twine, sentiment and blue mat to finish card as shown.

Birthday Pansies: Adhere pansies sticker onto vellum. Color the back of the vellum with markers. Adhere the colored vellum to the back of the lavender card panel. Add ribbon and sentiment to finish card as shown.