Author: Jean Manis

The focus of today’s  Online Card Classes “His & Hers” course was Father’s Day and Mother’s Day cards. This lesson couldn’t have come at a more opportune time as neither of our sons will be around on Father’s Day, and I need both to sign a card in the next several days.

My Father’s Day card follows a design shown by Kelly Rasmussen.

I took a couple of shortcuts. For example I used a Studio Calico/American Crafts alpha for the “DAD” whereas Kelly’s cards used letters die-cut and adhered to one another. I will definitely give this design another try. I learned quite a bit in its assembly! The woodgrain section is actually a flap that is held in place by the wood veneer arrow.

Supplies: Hero Arts Tweed Pattern Background Stamp;  Simon Says Stamp You Clear Stamps; Hero Arts Cup O’ Joe Shadow Ink Mid-Tone; Studio Calico Wood Veneer; Stampin’ Up cardstock; Avery Elle woodgrain cardstock

The focus of today’s  Online Card Classes course “His & Hers” was sympathy cards. I know that I’ve been unimpressed with the store bought choices for sympathy cards, so I welcomed the opportunity to handcraft these cards.

I crafted my cards with the same design and colors, simply varying my stamp choices. For the “Hers” card, I paired the Hero Arts/Basic Grey Flower Dot Pattern background stamp with a sentiment from the Hero Arts “Remember” stamp set. I really like this sentiment set, and “Cry, Laugh, Remember” aptly expresses my feelings about the death of a loved one.

For the “His” version I paired the Hero Arts/Basic Grey Tartan Background with a sentiment from Hero Arts “Say It All.” For both cards, I used Memory Box “Dove Gray” cardstock, Hero Arts Soft Granite ink, Hero Arts dye ink and ribbon from Ellen Hutson.

Today is the first day of the latest Online Card Classes course “His & Hers.” I created two cards, which technically qualify as “hers.” That being said, I feel that the second one is more masculine (probably because there’s no pink in it) than the first. 🙂

I loosely followed the cards shown by Kristina Werner in class today. For the first card, I colored the flower stamp with distress inks and a water brush. The texture of the watercolor paper gives this card a distinct look.

For the second card I colored the flowers with Copics. I have more Copic experience than watercolor experience, so I was more comfortable coloring this card. I felt I had more control with the coloring than I did with the watercolors.

Something I particularly liked with Kristina’s cards, which I did on my cards as well, was to cut the panel at 3 3/4″ x 5″ giving a 1/4″ border on the card base.

Supplies: Hero Arts “Antique Flowers and Butterflies”; Hero Arts “Good Friends”; Copics: YR31, YR15, YR18, YG13, YG17, Y19; Distress Markers “Barn Door”, “Spiced Marmalade”, “Peeled Paint”