Insider Card Class

The most recent installment for Online Card Classes is Insider. They're teaching ideas to decorate the inside of cards. I leave all my Operation Write Home cards blank inside, but I like to add a sentiment or an image to cards I give to friends and family. This class is packed with good stuff!

I'm entering this card in this month's Design Bootcamp: Drawing a Blank (White Space as a Design Element). It's all about the white space!

And the inside...

Technique Tuesday - Bright Idea stamp set

Neenah - white card stock

Stampin' Up - black card stock

Copics

Wink of Sella - clear

Now That's Odd (Using Odd numbers in Design)

Here's my card for April's OWH Design Bootcamp! And it's still April!

I CASEd a card Lisa Spangler did for Hero Arts over a year ago. A picture of it had been hanging out on my "Inspiring Cards" Pinterest board. You can find her card HERE.

To start, I used white embossing powder and the Lattice background stamp. Lisa used distress inks for her background, but I chose to use Gelatos. They're fun!

Hero Arts/Studio Calico - Lattice background stamp

Memory Box - Puffy Clouds

MFT Stamps - Umbrella and Stamp Set

Faber-Castell - Gelatos

Marvy Uchida - sun punch

EK - 1" circle punch

Stash - gems

Anyway You Slice It (Composition and the Rule of Thirds)

A while back, I CASEd a card created by Julie Ebersole. I couldn't figure out why I didn't like my version. It's been sitting on a shelf staring at me.

Today, I remembered I hadn't been doing my homework for Operation Write Home's Design Boot Camp. Well, lo and behold, the lesson for March solved my card problem! It's all about the thirds, people!

Here's the new and improved version. I changed one of the ink colors and the sentiment. I also have a different card base. I'm much happier now.

Hero Arts - Newspaper Skyline, Tide Pool and Pale Tomato inks, pool layering paper

Savvy Stamps - Cityscape

Hero Arts/Studio Calico - Oh Snap stamp set

Memento - Pear Tart ink

Neenah - card stock

Get to the Point!

The second class of Operation Write Home's Design Bootcamp taught us about creating a focal point on our cards. Paula's lessons are terrific, and I always learn something new.

I needed a masculine birthday card, so I incorporated some woodgrain onto the card. I wonder if I took the title of this month's class too literally? Hahaha! I got the idea for this design from Kelly Rasmussen's card sample in Studio Calico's online class, You've Got Mail.

This card fits the March Challenge for ODBD, use scallops.

My Mind's Eye - Dilly Dally 6x6 paper pad

Neenah - white card stock

Silhouette - cut files (scallop and arrows)

Hero Arts - Birthday Sayings, white embossing powder

Clean & Simple 2, Day 5

Day 5 of the Online Card Class was to use a stamp in a different way. This is very different for me because yellow and orange aren't my "go to" colors. I mixed up the colors so I could also check off another color combination in Operation Write Home Design Boot Camp: The ABCs of Color.

 Hero Arts - white embossing powder, "Paris" and "Newspaper Eiffel Tower"

Ranger - distress inks

Neenah - white card stock

Three in One

I combined 3 Operation Write Home/Stars and Stamps challenges.

1. The ABCs of Color (Basic Color Theory) OWH Design Bootcamp

2. Sketch Challenge #156

3. Midweek Throw Down: Show Us Your Green

I didn't realize how hard a monochromatic card would prove to be. I wanted to add another color, but I restrained myself.

Layering the print die onto 2 layers of the same die cut from card stock and adding Glossy Accents makes the flower pop on the card. To lift the top of the flower a bit more, I used "Power Tabs" from Tombow. They're clear! I use these tabs when the white of regular pop dots is easy to see.

Stampin' Up - Brights Collection, Old Olive

Glossy Accents

Hero Arts - Classic Messages, white embossing powder

Tombow - Power Tabs