The focus of today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson is “stretching your stamps,” as in using them in less obvious or unusual ways. It’s a drizzly, cold November Monday here in the Pacific Northwest, so I’m a bit on auto-pilot. 🙂 I followed one of the cards shown by Shari Carroll almost to a “T.”
I loved the colors Shari chose for the tree line – and they make me happy! I heat set the stamped trees before I heat embossed the sentiment in silver across them. I tried stamping the sentiment without heat setting the trees, and the trees picked up quite a bit of the embossing powder, even though I used an “embossing buddy.” I used papers from October Afternoon’s “Midway” collection.
There were more terrific cards shown using the Lawn Fawn “Peace, Love, Joy” stamp set in today’s lesson that I plan to craft in the upcoming weeks.
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Great take on Shari’s card, Jean! I love your sparkly ribbon and bow, and your snowflake is so pretty! Thanks for the tip on embossing the sentiment 🙂
The card looks great. I agree, great stamp set for next year!
Super card!
Great colours in your card. Love the twine and sequins. Can’t believe that so many different styles of cards could come from one small stamp sheet. I am going to have to change my outlook in the future. I was wishing that I had the tree stamp as I had to use a freebie from a magazine. I have bought some simon says stamp in the past but the cost of shipping to the UK can be a bit costly. Love Helen
Love your card! I wondered about embossing after stamping the trees…..think I’ll do my embossing first! Thanks for the tip!
I had to do the same thing, Jean. My ink didn’t dry completely until I heat set it–then, I could finally emboss a sentiment on top. I love seeing that you have the same materials that Shari has, so you could create the same card, almost exactly. I really like this, and especially like the colors you used. Looks great!
Pretty stinkin’ cute, Jean! Those colors make me happy, too! Sorry about the rain . . . you can always come down to AZ and dry out for a few days! LOL Love your take on today’s lesson. I’ll be doing my homework tomorrow. 😉
Love it Jean! The colors remind me of some Christmas ornaments I have.
Love it! I think I need that stamp set LOL
Lovely take on Shari’s card. I have an order in for this stamp set. So versatile.