Online Card Classes, Holiday Style, Card 2

I really had fun with this! Because I do love sparkle and shine I made another card with the same stencil.

See my previous post for the details.  The only difference is that I used Ranger Transparent Matte texture paste.  For the spray on the white card stock I used Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Mint Green.  I love this color!!

Thanks for taking a look!  I love to hear what you think and really appreciate your comments!

Online Card Classes, Holiday Style

Day 7 was just amazing!!!!  The instructors, Kristina Werner, Yana Smakula, and Carissa Wiley showed us how to make some beautiful cards!

As it happens, my supplies aren't quite as well rounded as I thought.  No stencils to use with the embossing paste, no dies for holiday sentiments.

I started making cards several years ago with the brass templates, stylus and light box.  Anyone remember those?  Somehow I had the idea to use some brass stencils with the embossing paste.  It works fantastically!!!

Some Wendi Vecchi embossing paste and Martha Stewart coarse crystal glitter and here you go!

The stamped with Wplus9's Hand Lettered Holiday stamps and heat embossed with Simon Says Stamp white embossing powder.  Added Perfect Pearls spray mist and done!!

My photography skill are zero and this looks so pretty in real life!

Thank you so much for looking.  I love your comments and thank you!

Online Card Classes, Clean & Simple

Clean and simple is a challenge for me as I continually want to add some bling!!!  Haha!  I suppose that's why it's taken me six days to get this card done!   Also, I had to CASE Laurie Willison's  beautiful card that she did in the Day One class.

I oriented my embossed lines differently on a top folding A2 card.  I used Hero Arts Holiday Pine Branches stamps and dies for the leaves and berries.  I blended Distress Ink in Fired Brick on the bottom.  The sentiment is two different stamp sets.  I don't know what the Merry is from as it was given to me.  The word Christmas is from Wplus9's Hand Lettered Holiday set.

I did manage to get in a bit of sparkle with some Christmas Red Stickles on the berries!

Thank you for looking.  Any comments are so appreciated and loved!

Online Card Classes, Holiday Style, Merry & Bright

What a fabulous 5th day the instructors have given us!  I love all of the cards!

I have two stamp sets with any animals in them. Wplus9 Happy Mail and Tim Holtz Crazy Birds.  So I went with the cute little bear from the Happy Mail set.   (Maybe I need to do some shopping?) ;)

I didn't have a santa hat stamp so....with much anxiety, I drew it myself!!  Not bad I think!  I also created a mask for the hat and bear to do the ink blending on the background.

I used the little stamp of snow from Hero Arts Color Layering Christmas tree to stamp repeatedly on the background with VersaMark before embossing with clear embossing powder.  And then inked the background using Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and a bit of Blueprint Sketch.

I love Simon Says Stamp's Stitched Slopes and Hills dies!  I used a couple of them to for the hill, popping up the top one with some foam tape.  I die cut the snowflakes with Impression Obsession's tiny snowflakes.

It doesn't show in the photo, but I used clear Wink of Stella on the hat and snowflakes for a bit of sparkle!

Thanks so much for taking a look!  Also thanks for your comments which are so nice to get!

Online Card Classes, Holiday Style

I've certainly enjoyed all of the videos that we've been shown in the Online Card Classes this week!  Totally makes me want to shop for specific stamps!  LOL!

I haven't had much time to make a card, but I did have a bit of time today and took my inspiration from Kristina Werner's beautiful card.

Thank you for taking a look & a big hug to you for any and all comments!

Most of the supplies I used:
Hero Arts Color Layering Christmas Tree stamps
Wplus9 Hand Lettered Holiday
Ranger Stickles Dry Fine Glitter Gold
Sparkle 'n' Sprinkle Christmas Green EP,  3/4" Tear-iffic tape
Distress Inks: Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain

My Monthly Hero Poinsettias

I received the October My Monthly Hero kit this week.  When I opened the box, I was surprised by the sweet packaging for the bundle!  Wish I'd taken a picture!  I couldn't wait to have time to play with these layered poinsettia stamps and coordinating dies!  I'll be entering this into their Holiday Cardmaking Challenge.

I used nothing but the products in the kit:  stamps, dies, bling, and five different inks in cute little cubes!  I really like how my card turned out!

I heat embossed the sentiment on vellum using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and Simon Says Stamp clear embossing powder.  I popped up the small poinsettia and added a few leaves under it.

I'm looking forward to trying other ways to use these awesome stamps!  Thank you for taking a look!

Hero Arts Color Layering Christmas Tree

Hi!  I finished this card yesterday with my new stamps and coordinating dies from Hero Arts.  I just love this set!

A blogger I follow had a comment about this contest by Hero Arts called Holiday Cardmaking Challenge so I decided I would enter my card.  Why not, right?

I love to make sparkly cards and I like how this turned out!   Thank you so much for taking a look!

Supplies:

Inks: Hero Arts Ombre Lime to Forever Green; Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass, Broken China; VersaMark, Tsukineko Encore! Metallic Silver

Embossing Powder:  Simon Says Stamp white

Liquid Applique in white

Stampendous Fuzzy Fun Flock in white