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Adding Liquid Sunshine/Rain (Sparkle & Shine: Day 3)

In Day 3 Online Card Classes: Sparkle & Shine, we learned more about liquid applications. One of the classes taught us about making rain and raindrops on our project. I was intrigued by adding colored pencil to the raindrop, then adding glossy accents to the rain. I tried that technique on my project here:

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I colored in the bottom of each raindrop with a bright blue colored pencil, and added some gray too. Then I topped them all off with glossy accents. It is dimensional and glossy in real life, and looks like great rain!

I’m looking forward to finding some Pico Embellisher to making long raindrops on a card…that will be my next challenge.

Another great day of classes! Thank you, Jennifer & Kristina!

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Adding Foil to a Sentiment (Sparkle & Shine: Day 2)

I love the idea of adding foil to my cards! So when I saw that Day 2 was all about foiling I was very excited! But then I found that, while I had a lot of foil in my collection, I didn’t have a lot of WAYS to add my foil to my projects. But I did have Scor-Tape and that will work for now.

Here’s my card, where I added foil to my sentiment and to some of the polka dots.

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I used sparkle embossing powder on the stamps…it’s a fun look in real life, but tough to photograph! The stamps and dies are from Essentials by Ellen Hutson. I hope you enjoy.

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Adding shadows to Glitter Paper (Sparkle & Shine: Day 1)

Another technique from the Online Card Class, Sparkle & Shine is to add color to pre-made glitter paper. I tried adding a gray shadow to silver glitter paper. I thought it looked really pretty, but so subtle in real life. So I kept adding more & more gray. In this picture it looks a lot more noticeable than it does in real life. But I still love the way it turned out!

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I used distress inks to make a simple background for this beautiful Magical Flower Die (from Waffle Flower). Another sentiment for the way I feel about this new technique! Lol.

 

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Snowflakes!

This card is for the Holiday Online Card Class soft and subtle cards.

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I used distress inks as watercolor (that twisted citron is a new favorite) behind those snowflakes. That snowflake die is from Simon Says Stamp “Eliza” and it’s one of my favorites, too!

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I used some glitter embossing powder on the snowflake and it looks so pretty, don’t you think?

That sentiment is from Mama Elephant. Such a pretty font! I hope you enjoy this card.

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Tis the Season to be Jolly

Well, this card was a bunch of firsts for me. A first with all that masking (thanks to Laura Bassen), and a first using EMBOSSING PASTE!! Wow. I might just be addicted to adding embossing paste. I need to play with this more.

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Isn’t this card fun? I used the gnome from Paper Smooches and some gifts from another Paper Smooches stamp set. The gnome and all those presents had to be masked first before I stamped another one. I thought this gnome was a Santa look-alike.

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See the snow there…that’s the embossing paste. It’s actually Ferro in the color “Pearl” because I don’t actually own any white embossing paste yet. Isn’t that funny? I have some silver and gold to play with and haven’t used those yet, either. Next time.

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Here you can see the shine from the pearl snow! And I added some stickles glitter to those gifts…in both platinum and gun smoke. I love a glittery bow.
You can also see a bit of Wink of Stella added to his beard.

But you want to know the best part? I took this picture at night in my new light studio box!! Yeow…that looks so bright and light! I think I’m going to have fun with this new present (it’s for Christmas, but I was forced to open it early! Lol.)

This is such a fun card class…see you with another card tomorrow!

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