The next class I took for AECP Level 2 was “In the Mood for Color.” We explored the way color can enhance the mood of your card. I decided to use blue, meaning quiet, reflective, sad. I made a sympathy card using pearlized cardstock I […]
Today I took the Beyond Basic Backgrounds class. What great ideas they had. My favorite technique was bleaching with water using Distress Inks. I started by inking a background using distress inks on watercolor paper. Then, I took the small flower cluster from the Grateful […]
Finally finished my Masculine card set. Just like for the feminine cards the first thing I did was choose a color scheme. For this set I chose blues and browns. The next thing was to choose the techniques I was going to use for these […]
I’ve finished all the required classes for AECP Level 1. My final project is to create 2 sets of cards, one Feminine and one Masculine, 4 to 6 cards in each set that coordinate. I also had to choose 3 techniques that I learned in […]
I just finished the last class for part one of AECP. YEA! Now I think I’ll be given a final project to do before I move on to part 2. I am learning so much and having so much fine, (I might have mentioned that […]
I’ve got one more class I need to do for the first part of AECP. As soon as I am able to get both my COVID vaccine shots I’ll be off to Michigan for a month. My mom and sisters live out there and I’ll […]
This class was a challenge for me because I didn’t think I had any stamps that I could build a scene with. However the instructor of this class did show an example with the Vintage Flowers stamp and die set which I own. So I […]
The second card I did for this class uses the Grateful Heart stamp and die set. The instructor was talking about using glitter pens, but I didn’t have the kind she was using but I did have some “glitter” or “metallic” water colors which I […]
Wow, another favorite class. This class focused on shine, glitter, metallic elements and such. I worked on two cards for this. The first one I used gold paper. I got this at Michael’s by mistake. I ordered, what I thought was gold shinny paper and […]
