March 2023 Crop & Create Cards

Thank you MichyM; that helps!

That is a great place to be! And yes, you get to define when "finished" is

I'm in a similar phase. I made a list of all of the projects I have to finish from various events or even inspiration I've seen on Instagram or blogs and liked, and I'm checking them off one by one as they get done.

My last two Hero Arts:


And Honey Bee:


I stamped the inside sentiment on the Father's Day card on the wrong side -- the top or inside of the front. Trying to decide whether to cover with a die cut (couple dark blue stars maybe?) or rip the background and sentiment strip off and add them to a new card base.

This is why I'm a morning crafter. Once it's past noon and I do something completely boneheaded like that, it's usually time to pivot to something easier, like groceries.

Lining up the die with the stamped image and the crease of the card and hanging it off the cutting plate and all that? Yes, it was a major PITA. I mis-cut or mis-somthinged the one I did in class; I don't remember how. But I don't remember the first one as being as difficult as it seemed today for some reason.



Thanks!

And S&CT:

Thank you! There's a teal "oopsy" under the "HELLO"...

I really like the set, but don't love the cards they designed. I'm looking forward to playing with it some more.

But I really popped back in to say O! M! G! I finally ordered and just received the Honey Bee Adventure Awaits paper pad like the papers in our kit and it is even more fabulous than I had anticipated!

Back when this event happened live, I was completely convinced I would never do a shaker wedding card. Now that I am actually completing the class, the idea of one is kind of growing on me. Unfortunately, it looks like the acetate in my kit has gotten irreparably marred in storage for four months. I've tried cleaning it, but it still has flaws big enough to make shadows.

I am debating the infamous run to Michael's to get new acetate vs. completing the card without the shaker element. I think the shaker thing might actually be growing on me a little; otherwise, it would be a no-brainer to complete the card without it rather than buying more acetate.

Well, I got all the die cuts assembled and all that, then set it aside and worked on card #3 for that class, which I finished:



Took a break. Remembered I put the last of our paper in the printer yesterday and started a cart at OfficeSupply.com. Thinner, newer foam tape and a pack of SB acetate sheets jumped into my cart to help get free shipping.

The sentiment for this card is inside the shaker window, so I'm not sure the vellum I have in the house would have been transparent enough anyway. But thank you fro the ideas!

Finally watched the Brutus Monroe class. I finished the first card, except for the sentiment. Made good progress on the second, except for the sentiment. By the third one I was kind of fried. He seemed disorganized and I didn't like all the skipping around between stamping, embossing and stenciling. But I came to see how others did with that class and I don't see any completed cards from it in the thread, unless I missed some?

Also, while I have basic embossing powders -- gold, silver, clear, white -- I don't have anything glittery or sparkly and see-through or whatever his criteria were. I have opalescent, but I don't think that's all that close. For the sentiment for the first card, I figure it doesn't matter all that much, but for the final card where you emboss the black squares, it didn't seem worthwhile to even bother unless you had something very close to what he used.

Thanks for the reply, MichyM .

If I'm remembering correctly, wasn't he subbed in last minute as the instructor? I seem to have some dim recollection, maybe from the meet 'n' greet, of him saying the original instructor had moved on. I don't know how much that was responsible for the frazzle.

The sets seemed fine. I like that (more forgiving) kind of stencil set. I'm thinking that there are probably some interesting things that could be done with the SB ovals and that easel die. I'm very irked that there aren't good illustrations/instructions of how to fold and assemble the easel mechanism on/in the packaging (or even in the book). It seems ludicrous to expect me to have to keep watching the video for a refresher....or to try to find a video demo if you paid good money for the set on BM.com or the like!

I now have P&M glitter embossing powder in a SB.C cart, but maybe I'll just let the third card go...though I could also see rejiggering it as an A2 with 6 squares instead of 4.

Are there also folks who skipped his class for other reasons? Anyone still sore over the kerfuffle I read about on another thread or anything like that?

So I have some time this morning and was thinking I'd try to tackle some of this. Taylored Expressions and Altenew were two classes I started and got very frustrated with. I have one Brutus Monroe card to finish. I was going to do the Simon Hurley class at all, but MDscrapaholic's cards make me reconsider.

I find myself utterly uninspired by the TE cards and I only noticed that the only completed cards from that class I see posted here are pinklady's. I have now collected a couple of CiQ sets and they are both bold geometrics. I don't hate florals, but the daintiness of these florals I'm finding just kind of twee. Am I just late to this conclusion? Is that why I'm not seeing other card photos?

Loving your C&C cards, Shakti. Kudos to you for finishing even the ones that frustrated you.

And done:


Another zipper bag in the class bin emptied!