More results from craft day

Here are two more cards I made while catching up with a friend (and eating yummy mac and cheese).

I wanted to have something easy to make on hand that I could send out to people who buy my stuff on Etsy, just as a special gift.  I used Kristina Werner's offset-stamping technique, and I stamp I got as a free gift from Lawn Fawn to make this simple Thank You card:

And, ever since Simon Says Stamp sent me kraft cardstock with my card kit, I'm totally in love with it.  So here's another Easter card:

The ducks are actually one stamp that I cut up, the dots are from Paper Smooches, and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Thanks for reading and please let me know what you think!

...more new cards...

I've been using my card kits and techniques learned in Clean and Simple Card Making 2, and here are some more I came up with.  These mostly use that gradient technique that I am kind of in love with... but I'm also just starting to experiment with embossing, so here you go.

Please leave me a comment if you enjoyed it, or if you have any tips on how to improve these designs.

Clean and Simple Card Making, back to basics.

I keep going back to those sketches and designs from the first few days of class, so I made a couple more.

Here's one using that same sketch from day 1:

For this next one, I used one of the layouts from the gradient stamping day, but I wanted to see if I could something with my Spirograph!  (What?  It was on sale at The Paper Source.)  After many attempts, this was the best I could do... I think it's kind of cute.

Clean and Simple Card Making - back to day 1

I finally got around to trying out another technique demonstrated in Day 1 of our class.  I'd been itching to use this stencil, and I needed some Mother's Day Cards, so here's what I came up with:

I used another DIY supply - instead of those misting sprays you can buy, which I don't have any of, I mixed some watercolor paint with a bunch of water in a little spray bottle and used that to spritz the paper.  It worked beautifully!  That's actually orange paint mixed with water.  

I also made another card using a variation on the same technique.  I don't love this card, the stamping is a little messy, and the ink I used over the stencil didn't dry properly since I don't have a heat tool (other than my hair straightener!).  But I love the idea of the grey sky/trees with the red birds.

CAS Card Making, Day 6

It's late, so here's what I got for today:

My friend asked me to make new baby cards for her, so I used today's technique to make one of them.

I also made this Jewish-themed get well card for a relative, using that gradient technique from last week.

See you tomorrow!

CAS card making, day 4, and other things

I don't have much to say today other than I love the way these new cards turned out, so here they are.

This first one sort of utilizes some of the techniques we've learned in class so far, but mostly it's just cute!

This second one is my very broad interpretation of the white on black technique:

That's all I got for today, but I did love that I got to use purple a lot in these cards.

Clean and Simple Card Making, Day 3

I was excited to see today's lesson, because it was all about using different stamping techniques.  I'm a beginning stamper, so it was great to learn about some new techniques.

When I went to use my own ideas and supplies for a card, it was a little challenging, as I didn't have the "recommended" supplies for the class.  But I was able to make it work, and this is what I came up with, using a gradient technique:

This was made using hand made stamps I bought from StudioMo on Etsy.  I'd been itching to use them, and so glad I finally found an excuse!  Also, I didn't have embossing powder or materials, so I stamped the "Miss You" lightly with white pigment ink, and then just traced over it with my white Signo pen.

I'm off to try some more of the techniques we learned today!