Online Card Classes - New Class

I think I have come to the conclusion that classes like this don't land in my brain the same way that one of the online kitted events does. When I get a kit of specific products with homework and instructions for specific demoed projects, it lands like an assigned project that I'm driven to finish, eventually, once I've started.

These more open-ended, buy these products or use your own, here are some projects the instructor designed that you can adapt to what you have deals seem to be much harder to complete. Maybe I'm not even sure how to define complete? I don't know. Last spring's HA Stamp-Along is the oldest "open loop" still in my craft room, and this one seems like it's heading the same way.

Maybe I'll spend some time this morning trying to work the kinks out of the balloon shaker deal. I have two young ladies in my circle turing 7 next month.

I'm glad it's not just a "me thing" gmcwife1! Though I had such high hopes that this thread would add some of the camaraderie of a more structured event even without the structure and make it easier. Maybe it did, a little.

So, I pulled out the stuff I had been working with, looked at my first attempts, didn't like them, attempted to invent my own technique (might take another stab at that at some point), walked away. Noodled around on the internet, set up a cat recurring order on Chewy.com, sulked, thought about other ways to do a balloon shaker card, thought about selling the embossing folder on FB, did a wider search on the internet for the actual correct die set....

Eventually, I returned to the craft room and figured it wouldn't hurt to give it one more try. I got tired and timed out before the actual shaker assembly, which generally takes alertness and dexterity. But I'm kinda hoping to finish a couple cards in the morning before adulting time starts!

I also finished the greenery card front from the class into a Father's Day card for the single dad in the dog walk group Sundays. Didn't have time to take a pic before I left. Then he didn't show. I am debating whether I need to steam the envelope open so I can share before sealing it back up to give him next week....

LOVE your happy balloon card, Shakti! Fun fun FUN!

So, the technique that as far as I know I made up (because I've never heard of it) was to color the well/innie side of the embossing folder with water-based markers and emboss onto misted watercolor paper. Well, the first time I used regular card stock and decided it didn't work because I didn't have enough water. So today I tried watercolor paper (panel on the left):



It looks better in the photo, I think, than real life, but it didn't work nearly as well as I had hoped. I was wondering if actual watercolor paint might work better. Or a simpler embossing folder. Part me figures I'm not the first person to think of it, so if I've never seen, it's probably because someone else already figured out it doesn't work....

Thanks, grammadee. I was semi-giving up. Maybe I’ll give it one more try with paints instead of markers and maybe a simpler color scheme.