Friday Night virtual card class

These are the cards we made in a virtual card class offered by my LSS, Everything Scrapbook and Stamps. I didn't finish during the FB Live class, so I worked on them today.

Far left - I stamped Hero Arts background on kraft in Brushed Corduroy Distress ink. The ornament is a Sizzix cut and emboss folder. How cool that it does that in one pass! The ornament has pop dots on the back but the left and right edges are glued down to give it a rounded dimension.

Middle - A really pretty Creative Expressions die! We were sent the die cut. We blended the card front with blueprint sketch distress. I didn't like how it roughed up the top fold of my card so I trimmed it off and adhered to a new card front. I had the brilliant idea that the star/dot over the "i" in night would be easier to color if I left it in the die cut. Oops! I got yellow pearlescent paint on my pristine white die cut. I erased with a Tombow sand eraser and then wanted to lift more, so I tried to lift the paint with a wet brush and blistered the card stock a bit. I remedied that the best I could by outlining the star with a gold gel pen and then coloring the star punch out and another tiny star under the angel with the same gold gel pen. Ugh! I'm taking a poll ... do you think the other two stars should also be gold? or left white?

Far right - I love the tropical feel of this card. The ornaments are from Sparkle N Sprinkle, which were sent to us gold embossed. We did the fussiest of fussy cutting so we could save the pretty hangers and hang them off a die cut branch. The pp is Heidi Swapp. I really like the tropical vibe of this card. I added Class A Peel sticker gems in turquoise and green. We inked the branch with brown distress and added white opal liquid pearls to the top. My pearl turned brownish/gold. I bet it reacted with the brown distress ink. I should have used archival ... but then I just realized, if this is a tropical card it shouldn't have snow on it anyway! TFL!