Sunday, November 18, 2018

Clean and Simple Holiday Homework

Happy Sunday everyone!! I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!!

I have been busy this week with after school activities, preparing for my daughter's homecoming from college (tomorrow) and taking the Clean and Simple Holiday 2018 online card class. 

I know, I know, there are a ton of videos on YouTube to see but the online card classes are SO MUCH FUN!! I love the forum and being able to learn new techniques that I would never even think to search for online. 

Anyhow, I am posting the homework that I did for Day 3 of the class. I haven't gotten to the homework for Day 1 or 2 yet because I have to do a bit of digging to find the right stamp sets and I didn't feel like it. 


Kristina Werner did a video for this class with a cool watercolor technique. I chose to make two trees-one in red and one in green.


As usual, watercolor and I do not always have a copacetic relationship, I had to cut my watercolor paper at the bottom when I placed it on the card front and so to make it an A2 sized card, I added a strip of glitter tape. 

These were SO FUN to make and I have it in my head to try to do this technique with a different shape.


On a different note, I also had to create two sympathy cards. It seems that is all I make these days!!


I did some experimenting with watercolor AGAIN on this but I did not use the correct ink. However, I refused to throw the panel away and made it into a sympathy card. The flowers are from WPlus9's Beautiful Boquet: Ranunculus stamp set and the sentiment is MFT's Deepest Sympathy stamp set.


I used Altenew Garden Treasures set to create this card, combined with my favorite PaperTrey Ink Words of Comfort set. 

Well, that is all for me today. I hope you all have a FABULOUS day!!



Supplies
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Stamps: WPlus9's Beautiful Bouquet: RanunculusAltenew Garden Treasures, PaperTrey Ink Words Of Comfort, My Favorite Things Deepest Sympathy and Snow Globe Sentiments
Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink, Altenew Rock Collection, Cherry Blossom and Tropical Forest Mini Ink Cube Sets, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Strathmore Watercolor Paper, Stampin Up! Basic Gray and PaperTrey Ink Soft Stone
Other: Nuvo Crystal Drops-Pale Gold, Rhubarb Crumble, Woodland Green, Nuvo Glitter Drops Ruby Slipper, Nuvo Jewel Drops Sea Breeze, Prima Spray Mist Chrome, Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry Distress Spray Stain, Sizzix Big Shot, American Crafts Glitter Tape, Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor, Zig Watercolor Markers

7 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

I like your modern artsy trees, they're so cool! And your sympathy cards are amazing. The flowers are gorgeous!

Cornelia (fun stamping) said...

I wish I'd have time for this class - alone this tree seems to make it worthwhile! Gorgeous cards!!!

Kim Heggins said...

Gorgeous trees...just love how you made them, the colors are fabulous!

Karen Letchworth said...

WOW, Nora...Your cards are stunning. I really struggle with CAS cards. I tend to pile on more than I should (seriously). Your art inspires me. I need to look around some more.
Blessings,
Karen Letchworth

P.S. I hope you will stop by Word Art Wednesday to share some of your cards with us. Great prizes, always Anything Goes. www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com

Ivana Camdzic said...

Nora, these are ALL so beautiful! First though, I can't even imagine how exciting it must be that your daughter is coming home :) I remember the first time I headed home after moving away, it was such a crazy feeling, but so exciting! I wish you all lots of fun and a super Happy Thanksgiving! And as for the cards, what can I say - they are FABULOUS! I love the CAS class idea - I'm trying SO hard to work on this department. Even trying a new CAS series on the blog - fingers crossed I can keep up with it! lol

Diane said...

Fabulous trees and card designs Nora. You have really been busy.

Hugs diane

Susanne Vargas said...

These Christmas trees look spectacular! What a cool looking technique! And your sympathy cards are so pretty!