I've been sharing my cards and coloring on Instagram as part of the #100DayProject (coloring) and the #30DayColoringChallenge, but it's time to share one of finished projects here. I wasn't quite sure ink blending counted as a coloring technique, so I'll catch up today with that. I'm definitely counting these as part of my 100 Day Project.
Yesterday's lesson by Cathy Zielski was one of my favorites. (Today's lesson with Laura Bassett is equally great; there will be more on that later.) One of Jennifer and Kristina's objectives in creating this card class was to showcase techniques that create multiple cards. Cathy's resulted in four cards---one of them went in the mail this morning to Caleb and Hannah!
Cathy used a "Thanks" die cut for her cards, but once I found the Papertrey Ink "Big Hugs" stamp and die set in my collection I knew exactly what I wanted to do. After ink blending a piece of cardstock to put behind the die cut word, I stamped the sentiments, and then mounted it on a Limeaid Ice card (PTI),
For the next card I found a piece of glittery cardstock I purchased at the Broadstreet Paper store in Milwaukee during our last trip to Wisconsin. The second sentiment on the next two cards is slightly different as they'll be mailed locally.
This is another piece of the glittery cardstock.
After die cutting three pieces for these cards, you're left with three die cut "HUGS" which I stacked together for the fourth card. Cathy used a piece of patterned paper for her's, and despite my rather extensive collection of patterned paper, I couldn't find just what I wanted, so I returned to an earlier class by Kristina Werner who provided two patterns for paper piecing, and found three sheets of coordinating colors from Sunnyside Studio's pack of "Gingham Jewel Tones." I have two more backgrounds from that process to use on future cards as well.
I have a couple more projects completed to share here soon, and a list of several more I hope to try. Spring Card Camp has been a good diversion during these unsettled times.
