I created with lessons from Dana Joy. She showed how she watercolors flowers with layers. I own a die set from Lawn Fawn, so I die cut many pieces of watercolor paper with this set. I made several poppies. I used Stampin Up inks and refills for the coloring. Poppy Red was used for the flowers and Granny Apple Green for the leaves. I added a bit of Gina K Designs Fresh Asparagus with the apple green for a bit of variation. I finished the flower centers with a bit of sparkly Nuvo drops. I chose the greeting from a Paper Smooches set.
I really enjoyed Day 8 lesson. I enjoyed coloring the large petals of this flower.
I created a card with Day 7 where the focus is on stacked die cuts.
Day 7 with Victoria Calvin.
I chose to use punches for my stacked die cuts. I layered thin Hobby Lobby white paper. My punches are very old as they are the whale type punch from EK Success. I was thrilled to come up with a reason to actually use the punches. I decided to use the birthday greeting as well as the gift box. The patterned paper is Echo Park from a few years ago. I used a scrap with the gift box. The gift box is a Sizzix/Stephanie Bernard die. The greeting is from The Stamps of Life, so a lot of Stephanie is on this card.
I really struggled with week 1 of the class, so I was thrilled with Day 7. I knew I had supplies for the technique being taught.
Gina K Designs Sketched Flowers, SimonSaysStamp Hello die and shadow, Spellbinder’s Large Classic Ovals, Martha Stweart butterfly punch
Day 9 classes at Spring CardCamp 2022 was led my Jennifer McGuire and we learned an in-lay diecutting technique which ends up with the image panel having no raised dies but flat and smooth. I made a woodgrained background by swiping GDK honey mustard and dark sage over my scored background then die cut one image at a time.
Frantic Stamper’s Good Friends Daisy Frame, Gina K Designs Leaf Stencit, Stamperia stencil
Yana Smakula continued the lesson and we went from flat to stacked and off set. I cut my frame and word dies from 4 different shades of light weight cardstock and off set them slightly for dimesion. The background is a combination of a GKD leaf stencil and one from Stamperia.
Two different looks but came together nicely.
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Day 8 at Spring CardCamp 2022 was to create “realistic 3D flowers using die cut flowers. The lesson was taught by Caly Person and an alternate lesson by Dana Joy creating watercolored die cut flowers. So this was the only stand alone flower and leaf die in my stock of goodies and I opted for a more non-realistic grouping of flowers for my card. I like the background so I may try again but this time with flower stamps and dies.
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Hero Arts Seashells Fancy Dies, Gina K Designs Gifts from the Sea sentiment, Distress Oxide Inks
Our class today at the Spring CardCamp 2022 was Faux Letterpress die cuts. Cut your die 3 times from heavy cardstock and once from vellum, glue together and ink the vellum layer in a pigment ink and run through your machine on emboss mode. Kristina Werner was the instructor on this class and our background was supposed to be water colored. Kristina used DO reinkers, however, as I do not own reinkers, I used the ink pads with water and a brush to achieve my background. If you look closely you can hopefully see my seashells faux letterpress. This was like following a Martha Stewart recipe…..looked good but didn’t turn out quite right. I do like my inked (water colored) background though.
Here’s my other attempt:
Hero Arts Jungle Frame Fancy Die, My Monthly Hero Jungle set, Taylored Expressions A2 thin cutting frame.
After die cutting the jungle frame 3 times from heavy cardstock and once from vellum, I inked the vellum in black soot distress ink. Well that made pretty much of a mess because my sandwich slid a little bit so I wiped off the black soot and cut another piece of vellum which I should have added to the back of my stack but decided to add to the top and the result gave me more of a raised embossed look. The other side which was watercolored didn’t really look that great so I added some more ink and water to this side. I like this look even though it didn’t fit the homework assignment.
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Pinkfresh Studios Simply Blooms die, Hero Arts Smile Stamp and Cut, Taylored Expressions Lollipop, Gina K Designs Sweet Mango, Wilk Dandelion and Moonlit Fog inks.SimonSaysStamp Detail Pincushion Plate die, Momenta flourish die, Taylored Expressions On Occasion Stamp & Die, Gina K Designs Navy, Dusty Rose and Hero Arts Grape Juice inks.
Today’s lesson at Spring CardCamp 2022 was Color Blocking using die cut cards. I was able to create the card using the same die and colors as the presenter Keisha Charles. Used press n seal after die cutting to keep all the pieces in order then chosing certain ones to color and then glue in place. The large pink flower petals are popped up on foam squares…clever….to give extra dimension. It did get a little confusing when I took all of the petals for the same color to be ink blended then forgot where they belonged. I had to fit some of them back in the die for the proper location. LOL.
The second card in the class uses color blocking by cutting apart the coverplate die. Angles were not my friend even with a diagram from Keisha, I couldn’t get it quite right but it’s better than horrible!!!! I even used a scrap template! I dry embossed the pincushion die before cutting it apart for a little more detail.
It was a fun day in class.
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Finally, I got a card done for the Double D challenge.
Light blue squares were run through the tiny bubbles ef by Cuttlebug. The only blue brad I had was a flower, but I think it works. Sentiment stamp is from Gina K’s Dazzling Dahlias set.
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Today’s card is for a very dear longtime friend (at our age I hate to say ‘old’ friend).
Border, image and sentiment were all found online. Sentiment: “Whining about getting old won’t help. But WINE-ing will.” I also printed the border on the inside. Another very quick & simple card.
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Yes, that is a mouthful! I spent a little time stamping. It has been a while since I just stamped because I wanted to. I chose to create a monochromatic card using ink colors in the same color family.
I used the ink colors Tranquil Teal, Tempting Turquoise, and Ocean Mist, all from Gina K Designs. These are basically a light, medium, and dark in the same color family. I used a set from Stampin Up called Delicate Dahlias for the floral portion of this card. There is an outline of the flower and a solid to fill it in. There is also a leaf in both outline and solid that matches this small flower image. The greeting came from a different Stampin Up set called Happy Thoughts. I decided to add a bit of bling and placed sequins on each flower center and a few near the greeting.
I need to remember to just sit down and stamp and create for the enjoyment rather than for a specific reason. Thanks for stopping by!
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