Cocoa & Crafts Grassy Grove 4

Well, July, where did you go?!? I just realized I am a week late in getting this posted! To be fair, hubby and I spent the last two weeks working with other church members to renovate the parsonage for our new Pastor and his family, so the weeks have kind of just flown by. We painted, put in a new floor, cleaned, repaired, etc. Most afternoons when we got home I pretty much collapsed on the sofa and didn't move till bedtime. It was tiring, but so glad to be able to welcome our new Pastor and his family to a well-cared-for house. 

So, today's card is a 3D scene that stands on its own. It does fit in an envelope for mailing. I think this would be a special sympathy card to send to someone. 

The measurements are actually pretty easy. 

• Card base: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
• Watercolor background: 4 1/8 x 5 3/8
• 1 3/4 x 5 1/2 scored at 3/8, 7/8, 1 3/8

Thankfully there are 5 Tuesdays in August, so I will be back next week with the first of our next Cocoa & Crafts videos. Hope to see you then! 

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Cocoa & Crafts Grassy Grove 3

 

Hello there! How has your week been? Our daughter and family came out for a visit last week and we had so much fun! I enjoyed getting to explore our property with my grandson and letting him help in the garden and pick berries. He's 5, which is such a fun age. Of course I also got lots of snuggles in with his little sister. 

Exploring the creek in our woods

I hope you enjoy making this week's project. Once again we're going to do a bit of water coloring. I absolutely love just watching the color flow around on the paper. It's kind of magical! 

The measurements for this card are super simple, just a basic card base with 4 x 5 1/4 watercolor panel on the front and another one inside. Super easy. 

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Cocoa & Crafts Grassy Grove 2

Hello there! Welcome to my crafty corner of the web. Today we are working on the second project in this month's Cocoa & Crafts class. As I mentioned before, this is World Watercolor Month and we are going to play with some watercoloring techniques. You will find that no matter how many times you do this, none of your results will look the same. 

This card has a little bit of a fun fold to it that almost makes you feel like you just walked out of the woods onto a beautiful lakeshore. Once you open it all the way, there is plenty of room to write a note to someone. I think this would work especially well as a sympathy card. 

Measurements: 

• Black base 4 1/4 x 11 scored at 5 1/2
• White base 4 1/8 x 10 3/4 scored at 5 3/8
• Watercolor layer 4 x 5 1/4

Supplies:

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A Wonderful World Faux Fabric Card

 

Hello there! I'm here to share a pretty card I made last week. I saw this technique online and thought it went perfectly with the Wonderful World Sale-a-bration set. I also added in greenery and splotches from the Nature's Prints set. I think that is one of my favorite all around sets as it has versatile sentiments in a beautiful font, and some simple greenery and images that can be used for just about any card. 

The background texture was made by adhering a crumpled piece of tissue paper over a stamped background. I'm not sure if there is a name for the technique, but it does give it the look and feel of wrinkled fabric. 

I realized after I finished the video that I forgot to adhere the inside panel. This is what it looks like inside the card. 

Here are the items I used to make this card. 

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Cocoa & Crafts Grassy Grove 1

Hello there! I'm excited to start another round of Cocoa & Crafts today. I opted for the Grassy Grove stamp set for this class as I had special requests for either masculine or sympathy cards, and I thought this set could work well for both of those. You will notice as we go through the projects this month that each one uses a watercolor technique. When I designed the projects I had no idea that this month is World Watercolor Month. How cool is that? 

We're going to start off with a pretty simple card. The additional step of using a little water on the stamped image helps give it a watercolored look and also fills in the image making it look fuller. I kept my card blank, but there is space in the upper right to add a sentiment of your choice. 

Measurements:

• Card Base 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
• Soft Suede layer 4 1/2 x 3 1/2
• Watercolor layer 4 1/4 x 2 5/8

Supplies:

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A Hand-Penned Partial Die Cut

Hello there! I have been having fun in the crafty space lately. I said I wanted to go through my sets, alphabetically, but that didn't work. Instead, I found some technique inspirations and then found a stamp set that would work with it. 

This card uses the partial die cut technique. Basically, you stamp the image on your card front, and then when you make your die cut "sandwich", you simply don't place the top plate across the whole image. The machine will only cut whatever is under the top plate, so by putting the plate across only part of the image, you will cut out only part of it. Then it's just a matter of using your paper trimmer or scissors to cut from the edge of your card to the die cut. Here's a link to a tutorial if you need a visual. 

The paper strip I used on the inside is 1 inch wide and comes from the Symbols of Fortune Designer Series Paper. It's on sale right now, but it retires in a couple days, so if you like it, don't wait! One other tip, I stamped the larger flowers in Calypso Coral, but I stamped onto scrap paper first to give me a lighter color. 

Here's what I used for this card: 

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Cocoa & Crafts Blessings of Home 4

 Hello there! Today we are finishing up this round of Cocoa & Crafts. I think this is one of my favorite sets to work with. These flowers are so pretty, and so fun to color. Speaking of coloring, you get to color yours with whatever medium you wish for this card, but I do have links below to the Blends that I used to color mine. 

Using the Basic Black marker to color the edges of the die cut really helps to make the flowers pop off the card. It's a rather simple trick that makes a huge difference. 

The measurements are pretty simple as it's just a basic card base (5 1/2 x 8 1/2) and the black card front is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 with about 3/4 of an inch trimmed off with the scallop die.

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