I'm back with the last two assignments from the My Favorite Things Summer School: Day 3: Symmetry and Day 5: White Space. The first card for the Symmetry lesson turned out to be difficult to photograph---far too much shiny metallic, but I'm guessing it will go over well with my granddaughter when she turns nine next month.
I knew I wanted a star as the focal point so started with two nested heart dies and cut a frame from some gold metallic 12x12 paper that's been in my stash for a long time. Then I found the metallic gold patterned paper in an old Christmas paper pack by My Mind's Eye and die cut the larger star from the center of the patterned paper after die cutting it with the smaller Gina K Master Layout die. I laid the frame inside and taped it securely from the back before adding a piece of acetate for the shaker portion of the card.
I filled the shaker with a variety of sequins and tiny stars from at least three different collections. After backing the shaker, I die cut the larger of the frames from the Gina K set in gold and layered the two together.
Finally I die cut a banner and silver embossed the greeting from Papertrey Ink's "Ways to Say: Birthday." That proved to be a challenge. The heat from the heat gun melted the gold paper at the same time it melted the embossing powder. The next try worked just fine---need to be very quick.
My card for the White Space lesson is a riff on the piece created for the lesson. I recently purchased the "You Have My Heart" stamp from My Favorite Things on a sale day. The little girl reminds me of Hannah, and she's a dog lover so that made it even better. I'm on a wait list for another set with the same little girl image which can be colored to work with any one of my four granddaughers.
I colored the image with Copic markers and fussy cut it out. Then I die cut the window with the "Rectangle Peek-a-Boo" die---one of my favorites! I backed it with a piece of patterned paper from an older paper pack of MFT's "Watercolor Wash: Brights" and added two die cut clouds from Papertrey Ink.
The pattern in the little girl's dress was added by overlaying a small dotted stencil by Simon Says. The Copics bled through the stencil so the polka dots aren't as even as I would have liked them to be. Too late at that point to start all over! This is clearly a summery setting, but the sentiment came from MFT's "Polar Bear Pals" which seemed just perfect for the card. And this is another card for Darnell's NBUS blog. My goal is to use something new as often as possible this month. So far, I'm doing pretty well.
Making these cards was a great way to spend a quiet Sunday. And now, I can claim the Graduation Badge:
After all that sitting, however, it didn't take much for my husband to talk me into a long bike ride along the Erie Canal.