Go For The Gold

This card is for the Go for the Gold! by Sandy Allnook where she is giving 7 days of inspiration and lessons in all things gold.

My card is from Day One and how to make an Ornament Card.   I used supplies I have on hand and have a complete list of what I used below.  The cross is much brighter and sparklier in real life (I am NOT a photographer--haha!)   I really love how this turned out!  Thank you Sandy for the inspiration!!

I sprinkled some gold glitter into the paste for even more sparkle and shine!

Here is a close up of the cross with the star stamped into the paste.

My supplies were:
Heidi Swapp Metallic Texture Paste--Gold
Stickles Dry Fine Glitter--Gold
Our Daily Bread, Grunge Cross Die
Hero Arts, Holiday Pine Branches
Hero Arts Ombre green ink
Ranger Super Fine Detail gold embossing powder
VersaMark
Maya Road, star stamp

Thank you so much for looking at my card.  I love hearing from you and what you think about my card!

Online Card Classes, Watercolor for Card Makers, Day 2

I have had as much time to try out the techniques in this class as I have others, but I have managed to use the background that Laura Bassen showed us on day 2.

This background took me several tries to get it close to Laura's, but I figured out that at first I was using too much water!!

I cut down the watercolor background to use with an Impression Obsession frame.  I just couldn't leave all of the ink on my craft mat, so I spritzed it with water and laid the frame into the inks.  I like how it turned out!

I've used the Tim Holtz Crazy Birds stamps and dies and things to create this card.  I used Distress Inks and markers to watercolor the bird and balloons too.  I added some clear Wink of Stella to the balloons before adding Glossy Accents to them and the eyes.

Here's a closeup showing the Wink of Stella under the Glossy Accents.

This class has been a good one and has helped me feel more comfortable using watercolors!

Thank you for looking at my card, and a big thank you for your comments!

Online Card Classes, Watercolor for Cardmakers

Here is my card inspired by Jennifer McGuire's from the first day of class.  I have a grand total of eight Distress Markers!  Haha!  I was happy that I could learn to use them to watercolor.  It only took three of the markers to color this card.

I used Abandoned Coral, Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon for the coloring.   I was also happy that I had one stamp set from Clearly Besotted that had this floral stamp and sentiment.

Jennifer sure made it look easy to color the blue background.  That was my struggle and I will be giving it some more practice.

Thank you for taking a look!  My thanks to you for any comments too!

Carol :)

Create With Heart

Here is a card I made for a Facebook group called Crafting with Darsie.  She posts weekly challenges for us.  The Wednesday challenge that began last Wednesday is a clean and simple inspirational card. I struggle mightily with this style.

I used a stamp set that I received at a Fun Stampers Journey make and take at the Scrapbook Expo last February.  The inks are Abandoned Coral Distress Ink and Leaf Green Archival Ink by Wendy Vecchi.  The sentiment is stamped in black with my favorite Versafine Onyx Black.

It was the most difficult thing to stop at this point!  I so wanted to add glitter, some ink splatters or SOMEthing!  LOL!

Please say hello if you are here & thanks for looking!

Celebrate

I have had this stamp set from JustRite called Multi-Step Lilac Bouquet for a few months now.  I've loved it ever since it came out and bought it on sale as JustRite was closing.

I used various inks from Hero Arts, Momento, and Distress Inks.  I should have written the exact one down.  Oh well, next time.  I stamped the sentiment from Spellbinders onto velum and heat embossed with Recollections Pearl embossing powder in Eggplant.

I did lots of masking for the orange flowers and the butterfly which is from Heartfelt Creations.  I covered the butterfly in Glossy Accents and sprinkled a little Crystal Ultrafine Transparent glitter by Art Glitter.  More masking was done for the blue around it all using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

I really don't know if anyone ever looks at the things I post that aren't related to a blog hop or Online Card Class.  Would love for you to say hello if you are here!  Thanks for looking!

Eyelash Lines

I've recently started following Kathy at The Daily Marker and she showed us how to add "eyelash" lines to stamped elements.

I'm back to making scrapbook pages after making more cards than I need.  I wanted a tag for my page and I used a manilla tag swiped with some Distress Stain in Fossilized Amber.  I stamped the flower and leaves with a Wendy Vecchi Stamp-it Stencil-it called Build a Blossom.  I used the stencil to add some color with Fired Brick, Mowed Lawn, and Forest Moss Distress Inks.

I remembered the "eyelash" lines and added them to the flower.  I have to say I am just AMAZED at what effect it has!  I love it!!  Thank you Kathy for this technique!!

Kathy said if we added popcorn to our photo we could win a goody bag.  As it's almost time to fix dinner, I didn't want to pop a bag, so what you see is my crude popcorn drawing.  LOL!

I added larger "eyelash" lines around the edge of the tag.

I will definitely be using this technique many more times!!

Anniversary Card

This is an anniversary card I made for my sister's 30th wedding anniversary!  I thought 30 years deserved a special card.

I used velum for the flowers, Spellbinders dies, and SEI paper.

I like how this turned out!