Pattern Play - Day 5

Today's card idea was presented by Kristina Werner in the Pattern Play class offered by Online Card Classes.  She called it a Quilt Block card - it was a great way to use up scraps of paper.  I will definitely be making more of these!

If you want to learn this technique or any of the others you've seen on my blog this week, it's never too late to take the class.  All of the Online Card Classes are offered as independent classes once the live interactive classes have concluded.

Supplies:
My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Happy Go Lucky collection - 6 x 6 paper and twine
Swiss Dots embossing folder
Hero Arts Essential Messages stamp

Pattern Play - Day 4

Today I CASE'd a card by Shari Carroll from the Pattern Play class at Online Card Classes.  The technique is to distress a pattern onto patterned paper.  I really liked this technique - it was simple yet had an interesting effect.  I look forward to doing this again and perhaps distressing a different pattern onto the patterned paper - maybe diagonal lines?!

In my effort to try to mix and match papers, I used two different Echo Park 6 x 6 collections.

Supplies:
paper - Echo Park Splash and Hello Summer collections
sentiment - Hero Arts Year Round Sentiments
tools - Creative Memories 1" square punch, SU! 3/4" circle punch, SU! scoring board

Pattern Play - Day 3

Welcome to my card for Pattern Play Day 3 - a class I took at Online Card Classes.  If you like what you see, you can always sign up to take the class independently!

I chose to CASE Debby Hughes's card.  Her lesson was to use Bold Pattern for Accents - clean and simple cards with just a touch of one pattern.  

Supplies:

paper - Echo Park Splash collection, SU! Blushing Bride and Baja Breeze cardstock

ink - SU! Pumpkin Pie and Crumb Cake

stamps - Hero Arts Essential Messages, Bo Bunny Gabrielle (butterfly)

bling - from stash

Pattern Play - Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of cards made from the Pattern Play class I took from Online Card Classes.  Today I used two of the techniques demonstrated in the class.  The first is resist on patterned paper.  The second is stamping on patterned paper.  I really needed a stamp with a larger open area than the one I chose but just made do with what I had.  Yesterday I said that my goal was to combine papers from different companies, but I didn't do that on these cards.  All of the patterned paper is from Authentique Uncommon collection.  Why?  I was too busy focusing on the techniques this time.  Anyone who knows me knows that I don't really love to do wet embossing which is what the resist technique called for - so I had to focus on the technique this time and not the paper!

Challenges: Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown - use stripes (2nd card)

Resist on Patterned Paper

 Supplies: Hero Arts Zig Zag background stamp

Ultra Thick Clear Embossing Powder

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - fired brick

Really Reasonable Ribbon

SRM sticker

Stamping on Patterned Paper

Supplies: Hero Arts Year Round Sentiments

SU! Quint-Essential Flower

SU! Punches:

2-3/8" scalloped circle

1-3/4" scalloped circle

1-1/4" circle

3/4" circle

Pattern Play - Day 1

WINNERS OF MY FAVORITE THINGS STAMP SETS:

Only 4 people commented which was their favorite card and why by the Saturday deadline, so you are ALL winners - Congratulations!

rscholz - voted for card #2

Susan - voted for card #1

Jennifer Scull - voted for card #2

Linda - voted for card #2

My favorite layout was actually card #3, but Linda made a valid point.  With the image so close to the top of the card, it looks like that's why the lady is headless.  The winner was card #2!

You will each receive a "headless" stamp set courtesy of My Favorite Things and Operation Write Home.  Just email your mailing address to allison (at) operationwritehome (dot) org!

PATTERN PLAY - DAY 1

From March 18-March 22 I was enrolled in a class called Pattern Play at Online Card Classes.  The last time I did an Online Card Classes class (Holiday Card Bootcamp 2011), I didn't play along.  However, the class is open to me FOREVER and I printed and bound the PDFs into a book, so it's not too late.

This time I was determined that I would follow through.  I wasn't able to play along each day, but I caught up by making all the cards the weekend after the class ended.  If you are interested, you can take the class even though the interactive portion has ended.  I may go back and take some other ones, especially the two Clean & Simple classes.  I'd really like to get better at the Clean & Simple design style.  So, EVERY DAY this week I will be showing you the cards I made from each day of the class.  I would LOVE your feedback - Let me what you think!

Day 1 was dedicated to some basic concepts like choosing a large, medium and tone-on-tone pattern to mix together.  Here's my paper combo for my first set of cards.  My goal in this class is to mix patterns from different companies. (Anyone can combine patterns from the same collection!  That's what I've been doing for years.)  The two red papers are from Authentique's Glory collection and the two blues are from We R Memory Keepers Yankee Doodles.

I decided to do a version of Jennifer McGuire's cards that used heart shaped dies and several different techniques to "break up" the patterns.  I chose to use stars instead.

I love this banner but didn't use it on all the cards like Jennifer did because I made smaller cards.  She used 5 x 5 inch patterned paper and I used 4 x 4.  My banner seemed to overwhelm my smaller cards.
Papertrey Ink banner die, Hero Arts Year Round Sentiments

This one was my favorite card because it uses dimensional adhesive to create 

the "separation" between the patterned papers.

Inspired Stamps 1" Circle Sentiments with SU! 3/4" circle punch

Inking edges to create boundaries between patterns
Inspired Stamps 1" Circle Sentiments and Tim Holtz Distress Ink fired brick

Inspired Stamps 1" Circle Sentiments and SU! 3/4" circle punch