I created this card for the Online Card Class, where you are to use a die cut in a different way.What I did here was place the flower and the grapefruit outside the circle die so they would lay outside the circle but still be in tact.  I then colored the House Mouse image with some Copics markers. I used a piece of velum and banner cut it by hand. I also colored the flowers by the sentiment with some lavender ink. Trying to follow color schemes and techniques and a bit of the card sketch for this week.

This card was for last week's online card class where you were to make a card with a Seasonal stamp set and make a non-seasonal card. I chose the hat and You're Cool from a snowman set and kept with the online card class theme colors. I tried to use the various colors with one stamp set but I ended up using one stamp set for the typewriter and the sentiment on the typewriter paper, then I also used some other stamps to add color. Inside is a computer generated sentiment that says, "Hat's off to you!" and stamped the same hat inside.

This card was a challenge for me, but I really like Tammy Tutterow's style, and she had a great tutorial in my Online card class! I had to try it! On her tutorial, she stamped the wood grain background, but I didn't have a wood grain stamp. I did have a nice embossing folder with this wood grain pattern by Darice. I ran it through some cored card stock, and I tried the dark brown cored card stock by Tim Holtz first and sanded it so the core would show through, but it was too dark. So I still used cored card stock but I used the back of it which is a more manila color and simply ran some Distress Walnut Stain over the embossed pattern. I did make the flowered background by stamping various flower images and coloring them in with copics and I did water color the background in Baja Blue ink. I then simply drew in my own stems and doodles. I finally found some plain seam binding so I could stain it myself. and that was fun to put the ink on my craft sheet, mist it with water and run my seam binding through it by mopping up the moisture of the water and inks with the seam binding and I crinkled it up and scrunched it so it would be wrinkled on purpose.There is a small vellum circle in the middle, and I did stitch along the edges and also in the circled stamped image. I did not have any felt to stain, so I used old book paper instead I made three layers of book paper and stained the top layer with Distress Peeled Paint, but I'm such a dork I put the card together with the book print words going upside down. I still like how the overall effect looks!

This card above was fun because the technique was  from week one and the technique was to create your own background with the class theme colors but first you had to make a penciled plaid background with a ruler and then stamp the inked flowers over that. Then erase the pencil lines after that, and the flowers should look a little textured. Mine kind of look that way, but I probably should have made more lines in my plaid. Then the next step was to emboss a nice sentiment in silver embossing powder on vellum. This helps soften the loud colors of the stamped background.

 This is a cute little round card made with my Circle Spellbinders. This card was from the second week of my Online Card Class.We simply just folded a piece of card stock and placed the round spellbinder die just over the top of the fold, so when the die is cut it is connected at the fold but still opens like a card. Then I used some wood designer paper and cut it out the same size circle and adhered to the card front. Then I found some coordinating blue dotted designer paper and cut it a few sizes smaller than the card. Then the next step was to make your own resist colored background. This is fun because you use Versamark clear embossing ink and stamp several flowers or one large flowered background stamp on white watercolor paper. Heat emboss with white embossing powder. Then on a craft sheet, lay down desired ink colors, and here I chose Distress Peeled Paint, and I even put some Baja Breeze ink down and spritzed with water. Then I lay the heat embossed water color paper over the ink, turned it over and let it dry. The next step was to make a vellum flag and heat emboss with a greeting sentiment. I tied the end with a bit of solid faded orange bakers twine. Cute little thing, aint' it?

This is another star shaped card from week one, using the theme colors and making a striped background with scraps! What a cute way to use up your scraps at the end of your project! The use of vellum is popular in this class, and I rather like it! A great way to use some of the vellum stash I've had for quite awhile!

This is a star shaped card made for the Online Card Class I am taking. It's from Onlinecardclass.com
Once I knew the RGB codes, I printed the colors from my Cricut Imagine, and also cut the start shape from the stock images the Imagine stores. Then I simply followed the tutorial for this cute little card. The circular stamp is from a Birthday grouping, but I skipped the cupcake that goes with it. The heart is a cut out with a bunch of glitter added. The little star is a punch I had in my stash. Inside is a place for a nice stamped message.

I made this card for Onlinecardclass.com.
I used my Cricut to make the sentiment using the color RBG codes of my Cricut Imagine and cut the word Howdy out from the Old West Cartridge. I then cut out the same word five more times using white card stock and stacked them on top of each other to make a thicker, popped up sentiment. This was a technique from the onlinecardclass,.com
Then the next interesting thing was marking the card every half inch and stamp sentiments in a chevron style for the banner background. That was cool too. Then the banner is sandwiched inbetween the blue card base and another white card base of the same size (4-1/4 x 5-1/2). Then flowers and leaves are used in the class theme colors and added as embellishments. An inside sentiment is stamped in Versa Mark and white embossing powder is heated to create a nice white sentiment on the blue card base. More flowers added as embellishments. My inside sentiment simply states: Thinking of you today and smiling.
Fun card!

Cards for fun, July and a challenge!

The first four cards here are from a card class my friend Katherine Anderson held. At the last minute, I had to go on a business trip and missed the class! However, Katherine saved all the cuts and I finished the cards at home. These cards are from StampinUp's Best of Flowers stamp set. These are some examples of what can be done with this set! Lots of fun!

The fifth card is a Victorian style vintage card I tried to make totally girly. I like to look at these beauties, but sometimes I have a hard time doing them! So I made myself go outside my box and attempted it. The image is one I found on free Printables in Pinterest. On my Pinterest board, under Printables, you will see the link to where this image is credited. She's so pretty! I love the Music Paper background it was printed on. I simply chose this image and printed it on card stock from my Epson printer. Then I incorporated the image with lace (three kinds)! Seam bindng lace, the little pom lace and some pretty lace I found at Hobby Lobby the other day. I added some pearls and aged some papers by sponging them, and then added the heart locket trinket. My next attempt I'll try to add more textured layers!

The bright red white and blue card was inspired by this card: http://www.cardscraps.com/blog/2013/07/04/happy-4th-with-six-sided-sampler/

but I didn't have the hexagon shapes.  Her card is so beautiful, I kind of cased it but made the changes using a 1 inch square punch instead.

The last card is for a new online class I signed up for. Today is the last day to enter the Pre-Class challenge 2, and I thought I'd try it! I had fun stitching and sponging this card for the challenge.