SOS - what's bugging you

 

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use a bug of any sort on your project....nothing is much cuter than a little inch worm wishing you a happy birthday, so that is what I chose to do.  I was playing with my ink blending and masking for the background and some storybook colouring to finish it off.  Play along with us, will you/

Altenew Educators Course - Impressive Heat Embossing

 

I loved this Impressive Heat Embossing class from Altenew.  Heat embossing is one of my favourite techniques and I really enjoyed revisiting some techniques I haven't used in a while.

I forgot how much I liked making clear watermark backgrounds and this little camping scene was absolutely perfect for it.  The clear embossing powder gives it some texture and the repeating pattern was fun to do.

I liked the way this card turned out so much that I made 6 of them to try and stock up on my masculine cards.

I also learned that some of of my embossing powders stick way better than other ones.  The bright pink one on the bottom of this card refused to stick even after heating it up three times.  I covered up on the oopsie by adding some flowers to the bottom corner.

I love the look of the emboss resist on the tye dye looking paper.  I made this with several layers of colour burst.  This one and the cupcake one had multiples made because I always need masculine cards and never have enough in my stash.

Thanks for looking....only two classes to go and I have completed level 2...if you were ever thinking of taking this course, there is a wealth of knowledge available to you...just saying.

Altenew Educator Certification Class - Colour Your Day

 So, I just finished the card class from Altenew called Colour Your Day and it was an awesome class.  There were several uses of colour that were explained in the class that lead you to more colour balanced cards that are visually pleasing.  I truly loved the triad colour wheel lesson and decided that would be my focus card for this class.

I chose the green, orange and purple triad in the colour wheel and watercolored some flowers to get a few different of the triad of colours.  I love the way it turned out.  There is so much texture and dimension to it and the white background really makes the flower colours stand out more dramatically.

I also did a card for each of the other classes to complete the course.  I really like doing a card or two for each class to really cement the techniques being presented.  Sometimes it is new information for me and sometimes it is just a refresher from an older technique that I have forgotten about.  Either way each class has me making at least 6 cards and I am sure gathering a nice collection.

The 70/20/10 proportion for colour blocking is a new technique for me.  I found that I have generally done that naturally, but did not know that is was an actual thing.  Now that I am aware of it, I have gone back and looked at some of my past projects and realized I do it quite often....who knew?

Anyway, thanks for looking and stay tuned for my cards from the next completed class...

SOS - Christmas in July

 This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is Christmas in July.  It's a self-explanatory challenge of a Christmas project....easy peasy right?  I used up a complete kit for this challenge that I purchased last year.  I figured I may as well use the whole thing instead of just make one card....the kit was supposed to make 8 cards but I easily got 20 out of it.  These will be donated to our local nursing homes in a card making challenge that I am a part of in our city.  Not bad for a quick two hours of assembly.  Play along with us, will you?