Day 5 was hosted by the wonderful Jennifer McGuire who showed us how easy it is to do colour blocking with Tim Holtz Distress Inks on watercolour paper. Now I didn't have watercolour paper so I tried my hand at it using cardstock--I would not recommend using cardstock! Sometimes we need to share the good and the not so good. Day 5 was not so good for me. :( I ended up cutting the blocks out from the cardstock and mounting them on to another card base. Overall wasn't happening but if you don't try you will never know. So I will share a tiny picture. LOL
Day 6, hosted by Kristina Werner, was about creating simple embellishments for your CAS cards. I have had this Heart Winged Butterfly from hero Arts for a few years and thought it was the perfect time to dust it off and create a black embossed butterfly. There are so many ways to create your own simple embellishments.
Cardstock: White, Summer Sunrise (PRI)
Stamps: Heart Messages, Heart Winged Butterfly (Hero Arts), Think Big Favorites #2 (PTI)
Ink: Canyon Clay (PTI), VersaMark (Tsukineko), Fired Brick, Spun Sugar (Ranger)
Dies: Mat Stack 1 (PTI)
other: orange pearls (Prima), black embossing powder
Gorgeous cards, Tracey! My favourite card is the butterfly one. Big, bold and beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are cute Tracey! I SO KNOW what you mean about HAVING to use the water color paper...been there myself LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteOk, I love the colors in the first card,and think it turned out just fine, I had to laugh that you used such a small picture. Something I would do. Might not be as grand as your other cards but still very pretty. :) Love the simplicity of the second card and the butterfly . Also love the large sentiment , I'm going to buy more of those.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to see you plugging away at this class. I finally finished my card sets for I don't remember what day, and just have to post them. Still have a couple more videos to watch. Anyway, I really like both of your cards. I think cutting those water color images worked great. And that butterfly window--gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteok i feel better--day 5 did not work for me at all. i just couldn't do it!
ReplyDeletegreat job on the cards!
Lovely! That butterfly looks gorgeous! :) Lucky you did this class...missed it this time. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteFantastic cards! I love those pop through window cards! They are just so neat I think and the recipient likes them too! Looks like you enjoyed the class.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! A simple but stunning design!
ReplyDeleteLOL about the tiny photo. ;-) That sounds like something I would do!! Way to brave and try the watercolor blocking - I didn't even bother (sigh).
ReplyDeleteLove your handmade embellishment card. ;-) Nice job!