Beautiful Backgrounds

 

Today is the last day of December and I am posting a set of cards for our challenge-The Catch-up Club! A few of my stamping friends, Darlene, Jeanette and Terry along with myself, have signed up for a number of virtual stamping events in the past 4+ years.  One of the benefits of these events are that they are available to rewatch or even watch for the first time at a later date as they are all recorded. The 4 of us "try" to watch live and chat by texting during the event.  But, life steps in and there are times when one or more of us are not participating during the live.  Then, the kits from sponsors sits in our stamping area until we are ready to watch the video and create.  During one of the events, we decided we needed to push ourselves (and each other) to get some of these events done!   So--we all decided to devote one day a month, the last day of the month for the somewhat procrastinators that we are, to post cards we missed making. 

 So--here we are in our 31st month of The Catch Up Club!

Reminder--these are not my own designs!  The cards are the designs of the other instructors from these classes.  I am just recreating the cards from the class. This month the creations are again from Sarah and The Paper Cut in Appleton, WIS!

These 4 shiny cards are from the fall Alcohol Inks class which was held in September during the warehouse sale.  It is called Beautiful Backgrounds.  We were on vacation during the sale and virtual classes held the following week, so I am finally getting to them.

Sarah loves to use alcohol inks and shows us many techniques to use with them.  We also received 3 Brass & Bliss Half Panel dies in the kit and we used two of them on 2 of the cards--the slimline and the thank you card.  For some of the cards, we used blending solution and a blower to move the ink.  On others, we used felt on a blending handle and pounced the colors.

 

Sarah offers many different kinds of classes through the year and kits can be ordered from their website.  I have a few other virtual classes from The Paper Cut that need to be completed, along with the other classes from September.   And, I also have parts of other virtual events and classes from 2024 and 2025, I am already way behind, so more Catch Up to Come in 2026!!!!!!

I hope you enjoyed my cards!  Here are the links to the other of the Catch Up Club.  Please be sure to check out Jeanette's, Terry's, and Darlene's blogs.  They may post today or in the next few days but we have all promised to post cards that we have missed the making along the way!  Come back in January to see what else I am behind on!

Image/Sentiment:  All of the stamps and dies are from Brass & Bliss 

Cardstock:  All included in kit--all are available from The Paper Cut

Ink:  None  

Accessories: Various Colors of Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks, Blending Solution