The winner of the seat in A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 is:
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Category: CreativityGrowsHere
Trendy Holiday 2.0
A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 is now open to everyone. StampNation members save $10 on the registration fee, but you don’t need to be a member to enroll in the class.
Here’s a peek at a few of the cards I contributed to the class:
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Trendy Holiday 2.0 Registration + Giveaway
I am thrilled to be one of the contributors to A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 – the newest online card class with Catherine Pooler and 9 other amazing designers.
The doors to A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 are open to StampNation Members with a $10 off coupon code.
Through video tutorials, written tutorials, and more than 50 samples to inspire you, you’ll learn: creative uses for dies, faux watercoloring with Distress Markers, inlaid die cutting techniques, advanced stenciling techniques and more!
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Ahoy!: Cards for Him
As a counterpoint to the watercoloring I’ve been doing, I’ve been creating masculine cards using inspiration from Catherine Pooler’s Creativity Grows Here Cards for Him Online Class
I really like to make variations when I’m putting ideas into practice, so starting with inspiration from the Nautical section of the class and adding a CAS lesson from Maureen Merritt, who’s part of the Stamp Nation Design Team, I created three cards!
With three men in my life (my husband and two sons), I’m often in need of masculine cards. I’ve always had a thing for anything nautical, starting with my first trip to the Pacific Ocean. I guess we didn’t pack a suitcase for me, so we went to May & Co. in San Diego and bought a nautical switsuit. I still remember it quite vividly, including its anchor belt! And I always like anything red, white and blue, especially this time of year.
Supplies:
WPlus9 Design Dockside, Dockside Background
Wplus9 Design Tag Die
Impression Obsession Thin Line Background
My Favorite Things Wood Plank Background
Sizzix embossing folders
Cards for Him
I’m sharing a few more cards from Catherine Pooler’s online class Cards for Him. The first two are variations of a card Catherine showed in a lesson on Nautical-themed cards. I used a border from WPlus9’s Dockside set with sentiments from the WPlus9 Super Star set. For the first card, I stamped “Dad” with Ranger green ink and on the second one I stamped it with VersaMagic navy ink.
The next card, also by Catherine, is a variation of one in the Graphics and Grunge section of the class.
I really like this card design and see myself using it again and again.
The top and bottom panels are stamped with white ink on navy cardstock with a border from Avery Elle. I used a different Avery Elle set for the sentiment, stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I added a couple of die cut stars for embellishment. This would be a fun graduation or birthday card. Navy and silver just happen to be my eldest son’s college colors.
I had quite the “a ha” with these card design, realizing the huge potential with border stamps and strong sentiments!