Week One Homework

I haven't been able to do much card making lately.  Life has gotten in the way and I lost energy and creativity.  Even though I was excited to take the online card class Summer Camp 2, I just watched the videos and dreamed of what I would do.  If you've never taken one of these classes, I highly recommend it.  The instructors are so talented and their instructions clear and easy to follow.

I did a little work in my craft room yesterday and finished up a couple of cards today, so I'm finally getting a blog post in.

Day 1 was all about a color combo for the week and three sketches. Here's my take.

Day 2 was stamping techniques.

I loved the dragged gelato look.  I don't have gelato, or any glossy cardstock, so I did mine with Distress Inks.  I ended up making two cards, each one on a different card stock.  I think a gloss card stock would have worked much better.  I cut the opening with my Cricut, and used a sentiment from My Craft Spot, masking off the "you".  The die cut "you" is from Papertrey Ink and the stars from Simon Says Stamp.

Day 5 (yes, 5.  I skipped 3 and 4 for now.)  introduced some alternate color combos.  I ended up using the original ones with a technique shared by Jennifer McGuire.

I must say that this card was WAY out of my comfort zone.  Not because I have difficulty with the design but because I don't do much image stamping and have very few stamps.  I just happened to pick up a flower stamp set from Inkadinkadoo on clearance at Marshall's last spring, and another small set at WalMart from Studio G yesterday.  

I just hope I don't get addicted to stamping now because this was actually fun.  Part of the idea was to use vellum to tone down the bright colors on the card but I actually like them.  This is a double layer of vellum, stamped with a sentiment from Hero Arts and embossed with silver.  I stamped and cut out a couple of the flowers to add on top of the vellum.  That is definitely NOT my strong suit.  With all the quilt making I've done, I have a difficult time cutting paper with scissors.  Go figure.  

 Here's a picture of the plain card front.

FYI: You should take a look at some of your other stamps for small images. The little yellow flower came as part of a My Craft Spot stamp set. The same Hero Arts set that the sentiment is from had a tiny flower that looked a lot like the image I call Queen Anne's Lace that I used to fill in.  All the inks are from Hero Arts.

Now that I have finally posted for the first time in over a week, I'm getting anxious to get back to my paper.  I have a couple of challenges that look interesting and more class homework.  Next challenge:  a 10 minute card.  Wish me luck.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your day is full of creativity in one form or another.