My first card class - what fun!

Kylie and I went to our first ever card class yesterday.  It was run by a really nice lady, Lorraine, who works for Kaiser Craft and designed the three cards we made.  It was supposed to be a two hour class but went over time - the first class took more than an hour by itself but she did all three anyway.

Here is the first card - it was specially designed to feature copic pens and to teach us blending techniques.  

Card #1

Card #1

It is the first time I have used the pens, and the reason I really wanted to do the class.  I need to expand my repertoire of techniques, as I've said before.  I bought the two sets of pens we used for the class, since they were on sale at a reduced price. And of course I also bought the transparent one, to erase any mistakes I make when going over into areas I shouldn't!  I also bought several stamps featuring the little girl in different poses with different things - flowers etc.   I didn't realise at the time that you also have to buy a specific kind of ink for the stamps and the special copic paper too.  Nothing is straightforward, is it?

The second card has parts of a zipper, and again uses several layers of paper and card on the cover. The paper used lends itself to making lots of cards, and after we went to all the trouble of cutting out the robot Lorraine told us that there was also a sheet of robot stickers available lol!

Card #2

Card #2

The inside of my card wasn't very successful - I messed up the 'happy birthday' stamp and overdid the smudging around the edges.  I loved the tool that Lorraine called 'the chopper', it punches the holes and puts the eyelets in beautifully - except that I pressed too hard for the first one and squished it somewhat.

The third card is simpler, and more practical if you are making a large number of cards because it doesn't involve so many layers.  It also used copic pens, but this time it was more straightforward, just colouring in the robot.  

Front card #3

Inside card #3

We both enjoyed the class immensely, though we felt rather rushed.  We didn't finish the cards, but brought them home to complete.  I took photos of each of them so that we knew what we had to do, and it didn't take long to finish them off at home.


We're looking forward to the next class!  And in the meantime there's lots of practise needed to improve our blending techniques.