Hello friends! Can you believe it? Me blogging two days in a row! Ok, so I enroled in the latest class by Online Card Classes, Clean and Simple Card Making II. And as I have this week off work, I hope I can follow up, or at least that's my intention :)
Day 1 is about the craftsmanship of CAS cards, and I managed to complete two cards following the sketches by Julie Ebersole and Amber Kemp Gerstel. Here's a look at my stamping place...
First I challenged myself to make a very inky card without splotches. Lots of therapeutical stamping here. Who needs therapy when you can stamp thousands of little dots and end up completely relaxed and in peace with the world?
The arrow was colored with a silver marker.
Now, card number 2 inspired by my admired Julie Ebersole. I used her sketch turning it upside down.
I also "stole" the gold ink idea. Pretty!
That's all for today, unless I can steal a bit more time to give a try to one more sketch.
Thanks for visiting!
Card 1: Stamps: (sentiment by Technique Tuesday, assorted dots form various companies); Ink: Fresh (Tomato Red, Mango, Pool, Limeade), Versafine (black); Die: Lil' Inker; Other: rhinestones, silver marker.
Card 2: Stamps: (striped line by Hero Arts, big snowflake and sentiment by PTI); Ink: Fresh (Turquoise), Brilliance (Rocket Gold), Versafine (black); Other: rhinestones.
These are both gorgeous! LOVE the polka dot bullseye!!
Posted by: Lea Lawson | 01/29/2013 at 12:26 AM
Great cards Lorena, so bright and fun! I love the gold sun and your circle composition is awesome! I am taking this class too and will be posting my Day 1 card tomorrow! :-)
Posted by: Taheerah | 01/29/2013 at 12:37 AM
wow, these look AWESOME!
Posted by: Sharon Underwood | 01/29/2013 at 12:55 AM
These cards are fabulous - so glad you shared.
Posted by: Meg McGarry | 01/29/2013 at 01:55 AM
Love the polka dot card and I really like how you turned the other card layout upside down - it works so well... Thanks for sharing with us.
Posted by: Kylie Adams | 01/29/2013 at 02:42 AM
Absolutely brilliant Lorena. Wow.
Posted by: Lisa Lara | 01/29/2013 at 04:06 AM
I LOVE the fist card. That is very clever, Lorena! Great job as always:)
Posted by: scrapawayg3 | 01/29/2013 at 04:20 AM
Lorena both of your cards are fantastic! So inspiring.
Posted by: Tracey McNeely | 01/29/2013 at 05:22 AM
Lorena, these are great! I really love your colourful, dotty target!
Posted by: Michelle W | 01/29/2013 at 05:31 AM
Wow -- really cute cards! Love the target idea. You took the class to another level!
Posted by: Donna Nuce (Crafty Colonel) | 01/29/2013 at 05:42 AM
Love both of your cards. I was so surprised to see you in this class. I would have thought you'd be teaching it. It's a good class, don't you think? I really love what you did with those dots.
Posted by: Joyce M. | 01/29/2013 at 05:51 AM
Cool cards!
Posted by: Michelle Lupton | 01/29/2013 at 11:01 AM
Love them both...especially the first one!
Posted by: ~amy~ | 01/29/2013 at 12:55 PM
Absolutely fantastic!
Posted by: Jaclyn Miller | 01/29/2013 at 05:14 PM
Dang, girlie!! These are amazing but I REALLY love the first one.... all that work paid off.... that card is *swoon* worthy!!
Posted by: Yuki | 01/29/2013 at 08:28 PM
Wow, this is perfection!
Posted by: Avital | 01/30/2013 at 02:12 AM
Both these cards are just lovely. I really like the dots on your first card.
Posted by: Deborah Frings | 02/03/2013 at 04:19 AM