February Card Workshop

The February card workshop is this Thursday, February 8, 2018, from 5:30PM-7:30PM. Cost is $5 to make 3 cards.  We'll be using the Make Waves card making stamp set and the scrapbooking stamp set.
Here are the cards!  If you can't make it, and love the cards, I've included a few tips to make them at home.

This card is 4" wide by 11" long.  Score the card at 2 3/4" on each end, then fold inward.  The octopus is in Pewter, the heart colored with a Shin-Han.  The circles are from our die set.  The bubbles are from the scrapbooking stamp set, in Glacier.  That's linen paper, with the retired cascading embossing folder, and I scrubbed glacier ink on the folder before pressing.  Be careful when you dot his eyes.  If  you cover up the little bit of white that's near his eyes, it takes him from cute to evil.  Tape the bottom of the octopus circle to the bottom fold and the top of the green circle to the top fold.  The pieces slide into each other.

 

On the inside, I used the seaweed from the scrapbook stamp set in sweet leaf, lagoon and juniper, background octopi in pebble and popped the pewter octopus, cut from the die set that goes with the card making stamp set.  There are some glacier bubbles behind him too, which i colored the inside with the clear shimmer brush.  On the upper and lower folds on the inside, I used the gold heart foil paper from the Silver and Gold Christmas set.  As of today, this paper pack is still available, but I  had it as leftovers.  The bottom panel is stamped with the seaweed and the top panel is stamped with the bubbles.

This has a watercolor panel, which i used water and re-inker.  Let it dry, then tape it down really good to  your background panel.  I popped the whale, but stamped the water spout in sapphire once I knew the placement and before I stuck  him down.  Pop in a few sequins, and add a little clear Stickles to the "water" (can't see that in the photo).

 

 

Using sponge daubers, shade in a circle in the middle of the card with crystal blue and lagoon ink.  Tip - don't use a lot of ink.  I dabbed up my dauber with ink, then stamped off the darkest onto a scrap paper, then started doing the blue/green background.  I suggest a little practice on scrap paper to get that light look, but it won't take you long to figure it out.  Tear your kraft paper, then sponge the edges with desert sand.  The crabs are in ruby and die cut, then tucked or popped as I liked.  I also brushed some gold shimmer pen on the kraft paper, below the desert sand edges, but not all the way to the bottom.  Dot the eyes with your black marker.

 

I used the shimmer brush on both the crabs and the whale - but i don't recommend it.  It does lighten the ink and makes it streaky.  I preferred the shimmer on the bottom white part of the whale. This technique would be good for somethings, but I preferred the darker colors on the animals here.