Sending Hugs with Concord & 9th!
/Hey there, friends! Two weekends ago, I had the pleasure of teaching at Crop & Create Moncton with a lovely group of friends for my FIRST in-person card class!
I was definitely nervous, but this lovely group of ladies put me at ease as I shared my tips and tricks for ink blending, and we created three beautiful cards! Take a look!
The Concord & 9th Sending Hugs stencils are SO easy to use to create BIG, bold sentiments, in your favorite colorway! In this class, we created three different sentiments, making the ink-blending process the focus of the class.
We started out with this beauty, featuring some of my favorite Concord & 9th hues: Grapefruit, Sorbet and Peacock! Did you ever guess that this combination could be so striking together? Gotta love contrasting colors! To add a bit of something extra, we backed the big sentiment, cut using the Sending Hugs dies with cardstock strips. I love the possibilities that 1/4” strips add to your cards. Another sentiment in the center and a few hearts finished off the card beautifully.
Fun fact: Myself, along with help from the SCT Crop & Create team of Virginia Nebel and Jess Forster, cut all 40 bundles of white die-cuts for the class so that they could focus on their blending instead of die cutting. Dream team!
On our second card, I took full advantage of my love for all things teal! I used Sea Glass, Peacock and Stardust to create the big sentiment, and even showed the class how to ink-blend their white die cuts if they don’t have the same color of cardstock on hand. It’s a great tip for any cardmaker!
I also taught the class the joy of double die-cutting, or cutting the center out from your die-cut shape. On this card, we cut the smaller heart out of the center of the medium heart to fill it with a different color.
Our final card was by far my favorite, and I showed the class the beauty of blending multiple colors in one single stencil to create this rainbow sentiment using Grapefruit, Stardust and Sea Glass inks, shadowed with Peacock ink. We also did a bit more blending on our die cuts since we didn’t have yellow cardstock. How perfect did that rainbow heart turn out? This just shows the amazing possibilities using blending techniques!
As much fun as I had teaching this class, the best part was by far having the attendees come up to me afterward to show me their finished designs and tell me how much they learned. That is what teaching is all about to me, and I can’t wait to do it in-person again! Who’s with me?
