March 2023 Crop & Create Cards

Meghann's set is one of my favorites from the whole C&C. I agree that a full sheet of stencil of the "big three" designs would've been nice. I dislike masking and cleaning each time. It was probably to keep the cost at a certain price point.

I always love how easy Angie Blom's cards are to watercolor. DH even commented my shading on the pitcher to make it look round. {insert high-five here}

The CC classes were just OK for me. I always think she goes too fast and I'm an experienced card maker. I thought the paper piecing product was very useful. I def will buy more of that.

Looking forward to today.

Love your watercolour, MDscrapaholic. Would love to see your qhatrefoils in your chosen colours.

The only class I actually completed was the Crafters Companion one. My dgs is arriving this morning, so I will be watching the rest of the classes later on YT. Have fun!

For cleaning stencils, I put a folded paper towel on the table, open it up and put the used stencil on half. Spritz lightly with hand sanitizer, close the towel and pat. The stencil comes out clean and the towel can be reused for the next one.

I love Meghann’s projects too and cannot wait to play with the designs more. I skipped the Hero Arts class this morning (too early), but will watch it later. Love Sara from CC - she is adorable and I wish I could bottle her energy, but am not a fan of the CC aesthetic. I skipped making the projects last time and TBH will likely skip making the ones from this class too.

So I still haven't opened up my box (thanks, Covid), but I'm feeling well enough to shop using the discount codes.


So far I've purchased a couple things:

Honey Bee Stamps - Daisy Layers Bouquet stamps & stencils
LDRS - MacKenna Christmas paper and ephemera



What has everyone else picked up?

I started the first class as soon as it was over so I was able to stop the YT and catch up. I think this worked best for me and I'll consider doing it for future events. There was no pressure (self induced) to keep up. It was a long day but I did take a 30 minute or so break for lunch and dinner (West Coast here).

I always like Libby. My favorite HA card was the one with the fence that opened. I also loved her snake story.

The TE cards were really cute. I did change up one sentiment and left one blank to add later.

I thought the berry cards were cute and different.

I love Simons bonus card and will use the foam on scoreboard.

A good day of cards.

I finished one berry card. I can probably finish the HA pop-up and the first SB this morning before the first class. I thought I had the stencil aligned properly for TE, but didn’t, so that quickly became a watch-only experience.

I did better than I expected layering the bitty Spellbinders die cuts, but I haven’t attempted the skinny little letters yet.

Ink-blending makes sense to me with stencils bor for backgrounds like the HA ones, with sky and grass on the same panel. I grabbed pink and brown card stock from my stash for background and basket for the berries card.

I am for sure on Team Coloring! I’m looking very forward to the third SB card. I see that in addition to many Glimmer plates, they another outline stamp in that collection which tempts me. As near as I can tell, the collection is not among the products our code works on. But they have them at SB.C as well.

I think I might try playing with the TE stamp with brown or dark green ink, something really easily visible, before attempting those cards again. And then maybe try darkening the etching as she suggested. Very gratifying to see my ancient embossing powder is still good!

I made one card kinda mix & matching Gina's supplies and ideas. I stenciled first before cutting. Then I decided to cut the overlay. It is a bit wonky, but I still like the effect. I lightly brushed some green around the edges: it smoothed the leaf outlines a bit, and gave the whole diecut a bit of shadow.

GinaK layered stencils & dies by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

I think in the fall I will just go with the papercrafting. Or if they have another Holiday crafting weekend I might sign up for that. I still have $50 in gc's from Christmas gifts to burn, so...

I’m glad I took Stephanie’s class to see how those fold-it’s are supposed to work.

Gina’s class was awesome — she is an amazing teacher.

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I finished things! Well, the berry card I finished yesterday. The Spellbinders and one Gina K are without sentiments. And I die the present for the cat’s hand and didn’t realize I hadn’t adhered it until I was taking the photo.

I think…



(wait for it, it’s going to be a shocker)




….that I’m going to color the Altenew stamped card.