Well, it's been a roller coaster ride this past week with 5 classes in as many days. I am plumb tired. I have one more class this week at the Scrapbook Cupboard (it's full as they all have been) and my LAST class forever at the store will be next Monday (big sad sigh!). Since I just got the product to work with, I had to throw something together really fast in order to advertise this class.
The product I'm using is a new set of heart dies from Cheery Lynn Designs and it was worth the wait. I just wish I'd had more time to put something together and not be rushed. I really have lots of ideas for these dies, but time has been my enemy with all these classes and late product arrival. So, without further ado, here are the two cards I put together. How fitting that they are hearts as my heart will miss my students in a very big way. We've had 8 years together and have had more fun than I can ever tell you.
This first card is a cupboard fold (how appropriate) to which I added some designer panels to jazz it up and then edged them using a gold leaf pen. I then put a very different twist on the smallest of the heart dies and created this flower and decided to push it toward the holiday look. The large white heart is the largest of the dies and after cutting it out, I ran it through a holly leaf embossing folder and edged it in gold leaf. Next was die cutting the hearts for the petals and constructing it in a flower shape. It went a lot faster than I thought. A few die cut holly leaves, a little glitter and it was done!
The product I'm using is a new set of heart dies from Cheery Lynn Designs and it was worth the wait. I just wish I'd had more time to put something together and not be rushed. I really have lots of ideas for these dies, but time has been my enemy with all these classes and late product arrival. So, without further ado, here are the two cards I put together. How fitting that they are hearts as my heart will miss my students in a very big way. We've had 8 years together and have had more fun than I can ever tell you.
This first card is a cupboard fold (how appropriate) to which I added some designer panels to jazz it up and then edged them using a gold leaf pen. I then put a very different twist on the smallest of the heart dies and created this flower and decided to push it toward the holiday look. The large white heart is the largest of the dies and after cutting it out, I ran it through a holly leaf embossing folder and edged it in gold leaf. Next was die cutting the hearts for the petals and constructing it in a flower shape. It went a lot faster than I thought. A few die cut holly leaves, a little glitter and it was done!
The second card was based solely on this beautiful designer paper. It just begged me to use it. So I constructed this card using the various dies in the set. I knew I wanted to use silver mirror paper, but gee, I seem to have run out of it. What do to? Aha! Go grab the tin foil, glue it to a piece of cardstock and die cut the heart. It worked great and continued the inspiration for the remainder of the card. I topped the entire image off with a triple-loop silver bow made with my E-Z BowZ of course!
Well, if you haven't signed up for this class, you'd better pick up the phone! It's bound to be a full and fun last night for me and my students.
That's it for now -- all but the crying part, that is. Ciao for now!
Ciao Bella!
4 comments:
As usual your creativity is amazing! Don't cry, just look forward to the next opportunity!!
Cuz
It must be sad leaving all your students who, it sounds like, have really become your friends. I know that something good is waiting around the corner for you. After all, we wouldn't want to waste your talent! These cards are lovely by the way.
Donna, these cards are gorgeous!!
These cards are beautiful, Donna! I especially love what you did with the "heart flower". Very creative!
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