OCC Holiday Workshop 2022 Day 9 Cards

 Hi again,

OCC Holiday Workshop 2022 day nine cards here. This day is all about snowflakes. Kristina showed how to make a card with stacked snowflakes. I gave that technique a try using two Gina K Designs snowflake stamp sets and dies with an ink blended background, as well and making a card with a large Gina K Designs snowflake stencil and glitter paste, and a mini-slimline card using a Gina K Designs silhouette stamp and ink blending. 

Here they are.

I believe all of the supplies for these three cards, with the exception of the gems on cards 1 and 2, are from Gina K Designs.

This is as far as I've gotten in making card examples for this two week class.  Not to say I won't go back and do Day 3 and Day 10 projects later, but for now, I'm busy making a quilt for a late November birthday present. 

This is the third On Line Card Class that I've taken and I highly recommend them. The format for the classes is great with two instructors each day. Thanks to all of the instructors for making the time to put this awesome class together and teach each technique.

Colleen

OCC Holiday Workshop 2022 Day 8 Cards

 Hello,

Day eight of the workshop was all about hot foiling. Hot foiling is very addicting to me. It seems when I pull out my Spellbinders Glimmer machine, I just cant stop and end up with many pieces. If you have not tried it, fair warning, but you really should. 

I actually made 20 Holiday cards this year with variations of my four examples in this post. (I really do have a hard time stoping.)

Yana Smakula was the instructor for the Glimmer hot foiling section and she had two tips for us that I absolutely found very helpful. They have to do with foiling the negative foil and oh my gosh, perfect results where before I was getting good foiling only sometimes.

Here are my four card examples. Each pair is made with the positive foiled image and the negative foiled image.

Foiling plates and products from Spellbinders and Pink Fresh Studio. Card stock from Gina K Designs and I used Stampin' Up Glossy white card stock for foiling the negative pieces. Worked perfectly and I have tons of it that I bought years ago. I'm happy to have another use for it. Other background dies and embossing folders from Gina K Designs and Simon Says Stamp. Colored images done with Copic markers.

Thanks all,

Colleen

OCC Holiday 2022 Day 7 Cards

 Hi and here's my Day 7 cards for the OCC Holiday Cards Workshop 2022. 

Day 7 lesson is using embossing folders.

Details for card one. I die cut two sizes of circle dies in mylar to use as a stencil to ink blend several overlapping circles. Inks are several shades of greens, reds, and blues of Distress Oxide. After the panel dried, I ran it through an older SU Quatrefoil Tile embossing folder. The stamped and die cut images are from a recent Holiday stamp set by Simon Says Stamp. It's totally sweet! The images are colored with Copics.

Details for card 2. The large snowflake is a stencil from Gina K Designs. The inks are three shades of blue from Simon Says Stamp. When this panel dried, I ran it through the 3D Layered Snowflake embossing folder from Altenew. This is a very large image, so I cut it down to make an A2 size card.

Thanks,

Colleen

OCC Holiday 2022 Day 6 Cards

 Hi and I'm back with my "homework" cards for Day 6 of the OCC Holiday Workshop 2022. This class is all about using tiny stamps to make cards. Finding the stamps was very easy for me as I have a bunch of old Stampin' Up sets with tiny stamps. I think the most recent date on the three sets I used is 2004. 

Card one is tone on tone. The green panel is SU Shaded Spruce and so is is the ink.This stamp set has 3 images each of a star, a tree and a light. After stamping the panel is die cut with a SSS Arched die. The mat is cut with the next size in the set of dies. It's stamped with a long retired SU Lace background stamp.

The images in card 2 are all stamped in black ink and colored with Copics. The set for card 3 are solid images of candies stamped in various bright shades of ink.

All of the sentiments are Concord and 9th dies. I used some C&9th Sparkly Glossy Accents over the sentiment in card 3.

Supplies today: Papers and inks from Gina K Designs, stamps from Stampin' Up, dies from Gina K Designs, Simon Says Stamp, and Concord & 9th.

Thanks,

Colleen

OCC Holiday 2022 Day 5 Cards

 Hello,

Day 5 "homework" cards. Today's lesson, using saved scraps of card stock or paper. Jennifer McGuire was the instructor today and I totally CASE'd her projects, but I don't think she'll mind. I made four cards for this class, they were just too much fun to stop, LOL.

I actually did use scraps of card stocks. I don't save everything, but if there is enough to stamp a sentiment or cut out a die, I'll save it. If you look closely at the cards, you notice there are images on the card stock pieces. Prior to cutting out the circles and squares, I put pieces together on a sticky mat and used  snowflake and holiday foliage turnabout stamps to add the stamped images.

Again, many products from many companies. Background stamps and arched die are from Simon Says Stamp, embossing folders are Gina K Designs, inks and card stock are GKD and SU, holiday sentiments strips from GKD, wooden snowflakes are SU and the wooden moose are from Paper Source. I've had both of the wooden embellishments in my stash for years and thought they added a little somthin' somthin' to the folk art feel of these cards.

Thanks all,

Colleen

OCC Holiday 2022 Day 4 Cards

 Hi and here's my Day 4 "homework" card for the OCC Holiday Workshop day 4. 

Ink blending was the lesson for day 4. It happens to be one of my favorite things to do. For this card, I started by blending four shades from Gina K Designs, Tranquil Teal, Fresh Asparagus, Jelly Bean Green and Key Lime onto a white card panel. After the ink dried, I cut out small trees from Concord & 9th and the Gina K Designs Master Layouts 6 die set in various areas on the panel.

The background is made with the Master Layouts 11 die set from Gina. I masked off each rectangle and blended red ink up and down from the center. The greeting is from Concord & 9th and I heat embossed it with white EP on black card stock.

Card stock is from Gina K Designs, the Gold Glimmer paper is Stampin' Up, Dies and stamps from Gina K Designs and Concord & 9th, inks and white embossing powder from Gina K Designs.

Thanks,

Colleen

OCC Holiday 2022 Day 2 Cards

 Hello,

OCC Holiday 2022 Day 2 lesson was all about making plaids. I have MANY stamps that make plaid and they are all so much fun to use. I used some single stamps to make my own plaid for card 1 and a plaid Turnabout stamp to make the background for card 2.

For these cards, the card stocks including the glimmer paper are from Gina K Designs and Stampin' Up, the inks from Gina K Designs,  the dies and stamps are from Concord & 9th, and the embossing folder used on the tree in the second card from Stampin' Up.

To make the background on card 1, I used a gold Sharpie pen to draw lines between the stitched diagonal lines to make a more festive background for the ornament. 

Thanks,

Colleen

OCC Holiday 2022 Day 1 Cards

 Hello,

Today, I have day 1 "homework" cards for the 2022 Online Card Classes Holiday 2022 session. 

I've been making cards pretty much every day, but I've not blogged any so far. This morning I took pictures of cards for eight of the classes and got them edited. I had planned to post them to the class galleries through IG instead of my blog, but for some reason I'm not having any luck with getting my pictures to post through IG. I'm sure it's me doing something wrong. Luckily, I can write blog posts and I know the link will work fine.

Day one's class was on Die Cutting. Jennifer McGuire showed a fun faux laser cut technique that I tried out on two cards.

I've used many, many different supplies from many, many different companies through out the two weeks to make my cards. I'm not listing exact products, but listing the general companies used for each day in each blog post. If you would like to know exact supplies I've used for a particular card, just send me an email to cbegley@cox.net.

Todays products are from Concord & 9th, Gina K Designs, and My Favorite Things.

This faux laser cut technique is super fun to do and works with a with a variety of dies.

Thanks,

Colleen