Category: cardmaking

Kristina Werner CASE – Lucky Leprechaun

I’m on a mission to improve my coloring of images, and lately I’ve been on a watercoloring kick. I’m absolutely in awe of the talent out there when it comes to coloring! I was delighted that Kristina Werner posted a card on her Color Wednesday segment using the cute leprechaun from Paper Smooches in time for Saint Patrick’s Day!

leprechaun

Kristina used Distress Ink markers to color her leprechaun. I used both markers and ink pads for the colors. She had more advanced coloring for the leprechaun’s coat and his beard, combining two colors. I stuck with just one color! I really appreciate having a project to CASE in which the colors are already decided, and I can watch a video to see how the color is applied.

CAS 3: Day Five

Okay, confession time – this isn’t a single layer card! I decided that I’d “cheat” a bit today to get the technique, shown by Jennifer McGuire in today’s Clean & Simple Cardmaking 3 lesson, under my belt without all of the work.

DayFive

I cut the panel out of Distress Watercolor paper, heat embossed the sentiment (from the Hero Arts Fancy Basics set) and then applied Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers Distress Inks with a brush. As instructed, I ironed the sentiment to remove the embossing when the panel was dry. I added some stitching to the panel with Lil’ Inker dies to give it a more finished look. Unfortunately, because the watercolor paper is thicker than cardstock, you can really see the lines from the edge of the die. I’d have to redo my embossing sandwich in order to eliminate those lines. Live and Learn!

I applied the watercolor panel to a panel that was heat-embossed using the Hero Arts Five-Line background stamp. I wanted a little texture for that base panel.

 

CAS3: Day Four

With the new format of the Online Card Classes, we’re given a second day to work on the techniques introduced, along with additional inspiration. So today I moved away from the inlaid die cuts (although I’m still obsessing about them!) and tried out the technique shown in class by Jennifer McGuire.

Day3-4I masked the sides of the card panel and the heart shape with masking paper. I used the Memory Box Rhapsody stencil to apply Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey and Ripe Persimmon Distress Inks. After carefully removing the masking paper, I stamped the sentiment from the Hero Arts Fancy Basics set with Hero Arts dye ink. Normally I stamp my sentiment first, because I often boo-boo the stamping of the sentiment! But in this case, it would have made the process much more difficult, so I practiced stamping the sentiment several times before committing to the card panel!

CAS3: Day Three

In today’s Clean & Simple Cardmaking 3 lesson, we learned about creating optical illusions. Originally, I started out to CASE Julie Ebersole’s scenic stamping example, which involved simple watercoloring. But after half an hour, my anxiety level was off the charts – I like to watercolor, but I’m not good at it, and I stress when watercoloring under pressure.

So, back to square one – I decided to do another inlaid die cut card using optical illusion! Yes, I’m hooked on this technique. In this case, I played with the size of the sun as compared to the cityscape to create illusion.

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CAS3: Day Two

In today’s Clean & Simple Cardmaking 3 lesson, we received more wonderful inspiration using the techniques shown yesterday. I CASEd Heather Campbell‘s card, again using the inlaid die cut technique.

DayTwo

The Thanks die is from Paper Smooches, and the hexagon die is from a Hero Arts set. I really like this technique, although I do find it to be challenging!