OCC BONUS DAY

Have you ever lain in the grass as a kid and looked up at the sky and made things out of the clouds. When I was a kid we went to the river every summer. This was part of my every summer ritual. I would lay on the deck of the boat or on a inner tube or even just float in the water. It was very peaceful. That is what todays class reminded me of. Getting back to being a kid and play... with color and your stuff. Outline stamps is the focus. Which immediately reminded me that when I got this set it is kind of sketchy outline. When I was finished watercoloring it reminded me of those clouds I was talking about and what this lady would see if she were to look up from her bible ( that is what I think she is holding and writing in ). I believe God would spell it out for her. That she is BEAUTIFUL just the way she is, in that peaceful moment of worship. Details won't be included in this description of the products I used today, go and use your imagination and lay in the grass under a tree and see what God will whisper to you through the clouds. 

OCC Day 6

For today's class Debby suggested to stamp on anything but paper. I die cut 2 pears of different sizes by Spellbinders, out of cork sheet (which I am embarrassed to say I have had in my stash for a long long time and have never used it till now). Inked it up with Memento LUXE PEAR TART ink, the stems in Color Box Chalk Chestnut Roan. Distressed the sides in Gathered Twigs and Rusty Hinge. The background is by Stamping up CANVAS, inked in TYE DYE (distress). Spritzed it in water. Water colored the shadow under the pears in Gathered Twig. The sentiment is one I have had in my stash for a while and I never saved the wrapper. I thought it was appropriate since all my blessings come from God and food is one of them. I really like how the ink on the cork settles in and makes it look real. Hope you enJOY. I am going to have a snack.... a pair of pares LOL

OCC Day 5

Today's class was about outline stamps, and debossing. For todays card I cut out Tim Holt.. I call him the man out of thick cardboard to make a deboss impression when I ran it through my vagabond machine. Now the stamp set and the image does not line up so I tried to make it look like a shadow behind his feet with watered down black soot. I just ran over the image that i stamped with my water brush. I had in my stash some of Inky Antics Rainbow Honey comb paper. I had seen a video that Tim Holtz did with the umbrella and black paper. I wanted to make it a little more colorful. I stamped my sentiment in dusty concord. I like the fact that the sentiment talks about light and darkness and thought it was fitting with this card. It is a Shakespeare quote. I went to my stash and found purple card stock to match my sentiment color. Well that is my take on the class today. Hope you enJOY.

OCC day 4

Today's class was about using your alphabet stamp in just not the obvious ways.  Kelly's card inspired me. I thought about how God speaks to us. It feels sometimes like it just comes right from heaven. So I thought I would create a card so it seemed like the words were coming from on angel. I know I need a lot of practice and that is the fun part about the coloring and blending, but I really like how it came out. Hope you enJOY.

Online Card class Day #3

On day 3 we are working on getting the most out of our Alphabet and Sentiment Stamps. I have so many alphabet stamps I got overwhelmed so I walked away got a cup of joe and came back and saw my new Tim Holtz  birthday blueprint set and die cut different color card stock out of each peace. Stamped the sentiment on each peace with distress ink in various shades to try and match the card stock. Clear embossed the icing candle and flame and popped it up off water color paper after stamping the background part of the stamp set,  tied some string and adhered to brown card stock the same as the cupcake base . I am really enjoying this class. I have noticed I am really trying to use what I have in my stash already. BUT I STILL HAVE MY WISH LIST. (grinning)

 I used perfect medium and perfect pearls on this  background stamp on a piece of black paper that I tore out of an old journal I had. Die cut the & and Dream with 3 layers of clear embossing powder on  the same color card stock that I used of my card base. The Be and Still is from Tim Holtz ideology chit chat verbiages. This goes along with my favorite verse in the bible Psalm 46:10 be still and Know that I am God.  Hope you EnJOY.

Online card class

This is my take on the Online Card Class using a back ground from Hero Arts and BASICGREY. I clear embossed, then water colored my piece. Then popped up my saying cut out from the back ground  and water color from another piece of paper. Coating it with a wink of Stella on the saying and the large flower.