His and Hers cards from HCW

Hi there... back with a couple of cards I made from the HCW Day 5  ~ His and Hers cards.



First one  - my feminine card.  I had a go at making a plaid background.  I don't have any suitable stamps so with this one I tried using a stencil

I used some distress inks in Festive Berries and Broken China and a silver gel pen.  I then cut the Simon Says die.  It has two parts so I used the blue ink on the little frame.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment in the circle space.  I added some little fussy cut Holly leaves (Inkadinkado)  Was just getting ready to take a photo when I noticed that I had smudged some black ink onto the card... so big save with a larger fussy cut Holly ~ this time a Kaisercraft stamp.   Added some glossy accents on the berries.

My masculine card follows the same design and sentiment,

This time I used a ruler to draw my plaid with a gold calligraphy pen, a Kaiser marker and a white gel pen on a pale blue card.  I die cut the panel and added the gold pen on the outer frame.  My base is some Kraft card.

I'm really enjoying the warm weather we are having and that we live so close to the beach.  I did a lovely walk along the shore line today... dodging a few waves over the pipeline I was walking along.  High tide had been about an hour before.  It's a great place to live.

Have a great week and Happy Thanksgiving for Thursday to all my American friends.

More Christmas cards inspired by the Workshop

The Holiday Workshop has now finished, but I have still a few cards to share and I haven't even started on the Wrap Up day.  So today I have some cards to share. 

First up a card from Day 3

Day three was all about CAS.  This one uses a Hero Arts tree stamped in a variety of Hero Arts Inks. -note the final colour - I didn't clean the stamp properly after the Punch ink and then inked up the Soft Pool... made a bit of a purple colour!  I used some of the ink to colour the stars and baubles and added some Glossy accents.  The PP is from American Crafts and the sentiment is from a Lawn Fawn set, stamped and embossed.  

I used the same tree stamp to make a card inspired by Shari from Day 5

I loved Shari's soft blues and greens so used those.  The trees were stamped and coloured with Distress Inks.  I coloured the baubles with a Sukura Glitter Pen.  I made the little blue stared piece of card by stamping and white embossing a Simon Says Stamp border and did a resist technique using some Broken China distress stain.  The  green is a scrap of PP.  Finished with some blue, green and white bakers twine and some green and blue sequins   

and finally another card inspired by Shari's on Day 4

I CASE'd the card from Shari using stamps I had on hand... the lights are from Inkadinkado and the sentiment from Hero Arts  as is the little bird.  I stamped it with HA ink - Punch and then coloured with a Copic.  The edges were cut with a Spellbinders die.

Thanks for bearing with me while I've shown off the cards I've made.  This class is probably one of the best I've done... so much inspiration!  

Summer is here now in NZ...  we've just had an amazing weekend weather-wise. So warm and sunny both days.  Just loving it.  

                                                                   

Lots of homework being done.

I have been really busy doing homework for the online class.  I have a few to share today...

This is from Day 2 using Jennifer's inlaid die technique.  It uses a Spellbinders wreath die and some MME paper.   The sentiment is from Kaisercraft.  

The next two cards are a variation of the same technique.  From Day 3, this is a technique uses masking and stencils. 

I used Memento ink ~ Bamboo Leaves and VersaMagic ~ Key Lime and a Mister Huey's stencil to make my tree.  Added some green sequins and a star sequin together with a Hero Arts sentiment.    My second card is almost identical except I used a Simon Says Stamp stencil called Peppermint Stripe.   Another sentiment from the same Hero Arts set.

If you want a quick peek at the rest of my homework pop over to my Flickr page

HERE.  I will try and share over the next few days.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Holiday Cards Workshop ~ Day 1

I was lucky enough to win a spot in the latest Online  card class called "Holiday Card Workshop"  Day one had 4 different cards to inspire us.  I've used the inspiration to make two cards.

First up a card inspired by Kristina's card



Using an embossing folder and a sentiment stamp from Kaisercraft and a cute little reindeer from Mygrafico  (by Zenware) printed, coloured and fussy cut.  Some washi tape and bakers twine finish it off.

second card is inspired by Jennifer's Z fold card with long banner...

I used some white ink to stamp a Hero Arts background all over the card.  The candle is from Kaisercraft as are the sentiments.  Inside it reads "'this the season to be jolly" 

Day 2 is up now so more inspiration for me.  Using die cuts which I can't wait to try.

Enjoy your week.