Category: Online Card Classes

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Giveaway

I’m delighted to be one of the guest artists in the upcoming Stretch Your Stamps 2 class at Online Card Classes, and I have one seat in the class to giveaway.

Here’s a bit about the class:

Look at your stamps in a whole new way! Back by popular demand, join Online Card Classes for another great installment of Stretch Your Stamps!

Join instructors Kristina Werner, Jennifer McGuire, Debby Hughes, and friends (including me!), to discover just how far you can stretch your stamps—whether you’re an expert stamper or just getting started. In Stretch Your Stamps 2, you’ll learn how particular styles of stamps can be used in a variety of creative ways to expand your card-making skills. Over the course of this two-week session, you’ll be introduced to techniques and concepts through expert instructor videos, and then build on your new knowledge with the help of inspiring guest artist examples. Stretch Your Stamps 2 includes over 30 videos and 40 card ideas, along with instructional PDFs, a forum, galleries, shopping discounts, prizes and more.

For more information Stretch Your Stamps 2 from Online Card Classes, click HERE. Class starts August 4, 2014, but you will have lifetime access to the content.

In order to enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment here on my blog. You have until 11:59pm EDT on Wednesday, July 30, 2014, to enter.

Online Card Classes FLASH SALE

It’s a Flash Sale – $5 off all of the previous Online Card Classes! 

For the first time ever, you can take any (or all) past Online Card Classes at a discount! The savings? $5 off each of any previous independent card classes — no coupon code needed, just register for the classes of your choice. Tell your friends! Now is the perfect time to stock up on inspiration!

Penny Black Poppy Trio: Two Approaches

Today I’m sharing two cards using the Penny Black Poppy Trio stamp [#40-311] .

For the first card, I stamped and heat embossed the image four times – on green, yellow, orange and dark orange cardstock. I then fussy cut the blossoms and adhered them to the green card panel. I finished the card with a sentiment from the Friendship Flowers set [#30-223].

PoppyTrio

For the next card, I stamped and heat embossed the image on Strathmore 140lb coldpress watercolor paper and colored the image with Distress Inks – Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey, Dried Marigold, Ripe Persimmon, Peeled Paint, and Tumbled Glass. I die cut the watercolored image and added a sentiment from the Penny Black Kind Words [#30-226] set, which was stamped and heat embossed on vellum.

WatercoloredPoppies

OCC Watercolor – Not Handpainted

The recent lessons in the Online Card Classes Watercolor class have been phenomenal! I’m amazed by the talent in the cardmaking community! However, after I “painted” a cardinal and a flower today using some of the recent lessons, and pouted a bit, I realized I needed to put my training wheels back on! So I’m sharing a card that’s technically from Day Six in class.

LovelyMums

For me, the training wheels are heat embossed lines to help hold the water. I heat embossed the flowers from the Mama Elephant Lovely Mums set with white embossing powder on Strathmore 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. I colored them with Distress Inks and then fussy cut them. The die cut circle was stamped with a sentiment from Penny Black Special Wishes and  heat embossed in gold powder. This card draws on the design shown by Jennifer McGuire in the Day Six lesson.

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OCC Day Six, In Detail and a Sale

Lots going on in the papercrafting world this weekend! First up, I CASEd my card in today’s Online Card Classes Watercolor class.

OCC Day Six

I watercolored a heat-embossed image from the Penny Black Blooming Garden set with Ranger Distress inks. I finished the card with a sentiment from Penny Black Special Wishes stamped in VersaFine ink. Even though I talk about “fail safe” sentiments in my video in class, I decided to “go for it” and stamp this sentiment directly on the Strathmore watercolor panel. VersaFine ink is so forgiving!

Next, I’m over in the CLASSroom today with an In Detail post covering Adhesives.

Finally, while you’re over at Ellen Hutson’s, don’t forget to check out the Mother’s Day Sale!

Happy Mother’s Day!