Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 10

I cannot believe that today is the last day of the Clean & Simple Card Making 2 lessons. Good times seem to always fly by faster. Today's lesson (well, it's past midnight, so I should say yesterday's lesson) was about using 1 stamp in multiple ways. I didn't have time to make 3 cards again so I focused on one I've always wanted to make, an interactive card. Jennifer Rzasa gave a great lesson on how to make one. I followed her instructions and this is what I made...
(Daddy, if you are seeing this post please pretend you're not seeing it and act surprise when you receive this card for Father's Day! Kekeke =P)

That is what the card looks like before you pull the tab. 

And this is what it looks like after you pull the tab...

I added a touch of colour by colouring all the hearts red. I also picked a washi tape that would go well with the colour and it also points to the direction of the tab/focus of the card. I couldn't find the right sentiments for this card, so I wrote everything myself. Explains why the letters are a bit crooked and wonky, hahaha.

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 9

I skipped lesson 7 & 8 because I wasn't getting any ideas on how to make my cards. So after watching today's lessons I decided that I'll make one based on the pleated card that Jennifer McGuire made. It took me many hours to finish this card and this is the final product.

The pleats are difficult to see in this picture.

You can see them better in real life and in this picture.

I added a bit of establishments. I didn't have blue crystals so I took a Copic marker and coloured on some white crystals. 

The Chinese/Japanese character on the fan says "love". I coloured the fan with a gold Gelly Roll Metallic pen by Sakura. The gold ink wasn't flowing out properly. I tried everything to get it out and finally my husband had whack the pen several times before the ink would start to flow again. @_@ This was one of the reasons why this card took so long to make.

The other reason I took so long was I just couldn't decide on what colour the kimono should be. I finally decided to go with the bright orangey-yellow.

Next time I would not use such a colourful paper to make the pleats. Or I would choose a kimono that's plain and doesn't have little flowers on it. The kimono against this background seems way too busy and cluttered. I will remember that for next time. = )

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making - Lesson 6, Card 2

Here is the second card I made for this lesson.

Out of the two which one do you like more?

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 6, Card 1

I learned how to create tone-on-tone backgrounds on Monday's card making lesson. I really like the effect it creates. This is one of the cards I made. I also made another version of this card (click here to view).

The background is not a single stamp, I created it by put them all the little stamps together to create one big background stamp. I really like how it turned out.

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Bonus Days

First of all I want to thank all of the teachers over at Clean & Simple Card Making 2 for sharing and complimenting on the card I made on Friday. I was really surprised to find my name on the list and felt really honored to be mentioned. And what made me even happier was to see all the sweet and encouraging comments everyone had left on my blog. Thank you so much!!

I love die cutting, but I've always had trouble incorporating them into my cards. So when I had to come up with a design for Saturday's Bonus Class I was stumped! A couple of days ago I bought a wafer die that cuts out the word Paradise. I really want to use it in my card but what could go with that? I went through my stamps and found this little Mermaid Anya by The Greeting Farm. This is the card I ended up with...

That is where you'd normally find a mermaid right? In a paradise? Especially one this cute, hehehe!

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 5 (Card 3)

This is the third and last card

For this card I stamped the flower over and over using clear embossing ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Afterwards, I watercoloured the background and all the spaces that wasn't embossed and this is what I got. The sentiment says "You are special to me". It's a little difficult to see in the pictures. The sentiment was also stamped and heat embossed to create a resist for the orange watercolour.

Here are the three cards together

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 5 (Card 2)

Here is the second card

I learned from one of the instructors, Kristina, that floral stamps doesn't always have to stand up straight. So I put the stem side ways as she did in her demo and I think this card turned out pretty cute!

*Please continue to the next post to see the last card I made for this lesson.

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 5 (Card 1)

Friday's lesson was all about using 1 stamp 3 different ways. I'm not sure if I did it right, but here are 3 cards made using the same floral stamp. I also purposely used the same brown card base to give myself an extra challenge. I hope I got the right idea for this lesson.

Here is the first card

I used the stamp as a border and then trimmed around it. I also stamped the flower in light pink to give the card a foreground and a background.

*Please continue to the next two posts to see the other two cards.

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 4

Thursday's lesson was all about white/blank spaces. I tend to fill up my cards with as many things as I possibly can, but I'm really starting to like this clean and simple look.

The stamped images didn't turn out very nicely on the watercolour paper because of the texture. So to fix it I watercoloured on top of the images and added some red to it. I'm happy with how it turned out.

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 3

Today's topic (well, Wednesday's topic) was Inking and Stamping Techniques. I love stamping on my cards and I was excited to learn new techniques. This is what I learned in Wednesday's lesson, gradient stamping.

Since we have company staying at our house I thought making a tag would be faster, but this actually took way longer than it usually takes me to make a simple card. @_@ I like how it turned out though. I used a border stamp to create the pattern in the background. I masked the side leaving a blank space for the "thinking of you" message. Then I added a button, some twine, and I made some faux enmeshment by punching out some dots, colouring them, and adding a coat of Diamond Glaze. Maybe later I will make a card to match this tag.

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Cheryl ~

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 - Lesson 2

It's already day 5 of the online card making course, but I've only had time to make a card for the second lesson. Actually I made two cards. The first one turned out so awful that I'm too embarrassed to share it. But I didn't want to give up so I gave it a second try.

I made this card for my hubby to thank him for the wonderful job he did on my craft room. I made this card the similar aqua colour as the walls of my room. I also used purple because I thought it would be a nice complimenting colour. This card is actually a combination of the techniques I learned in lesson 1 and 2. I thought it turned out pretty nice. = )

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Cheryl ~

How many fingers are you?

Welcome to my blog. I'm Cheryl and I hope to use this blog to "Cher" the "Ryl" me with everyone. = )

I recently enrolled in an online card making course called Clean & Simple Card Making 2. We had lesson 1 today and I've already learned a bunch of new techniques. Here's the card I made for today's homework.

The card didn't turn out as nice as I hoped, but I will continue to work on my techniques.

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Cheryl ~