I am a hands-on learner and I also like to have memory aids (my school texts were soooo color coded). Last year I started using technique rolodex cards (an idea shared by a fellow TAC angel…thanks Rita). I now have almost 30 technique rolodex cards and it’s definitely a colorful tool for my work space. [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by kellyrae
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Okay, I am trying to post more often that I was (so sorry about August). I don’t want to post the class cards yet though because I still have one more September class this Saturday. So…I am pulling a card from my archive. The chalk embossing technique was one of the class projects from July [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2009 by kellyrae
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A week after I taught this technique in a class, I received this card from the class hostess (my sassy gal pal, Kay). I absolutely LOVE how she took the faux herringbone technique and used it with her Coluzzle balloon letters (can’t remember the official name of that font). This is the first sample I’ve seen using [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2009 by kellyrae
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This was the third of the three faux fabric techniques from my August classes. Remember when I posted the treasure chests here to show you all what I made for some convention swaps? Well that was using the faux alligator technique as well. But for this class project, I wanted to make a masculine card [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2009 by kellyrae
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(aka faux felt aka faux suede, depending on whose blog or tutorial you see…lol)
What it really looks like to me is cordorouy.
So you might ask…why the patriotic theme now (actually it was one of the three August class projects). Well, here’s the thing. To actually make the faux cordorouy, one must run cardstock through a [...]
Posted on September 13th, 2009 by kellyrae
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