Crafting Ida's Card Class Project 1

Our little card group met yesterday under the skillful tutorage of Crafting Ida. It is a fine thing to have a really skilled artist to teach us. This Stampin Up demonstrator KNOWS what she is doing. We are blessed in that.

I meant to take another picture of our group, but I got so busy working that I forgot. That thought just went out the window of my mind. I was engrossed, busy, learning, doing, and I just didn't think about pictures. Don't color me a photographer.


So, on with the show.
Our first project yesterday was this wonderful bookmark. I really think I've fallen in love with this one as it is just unlimited. So, here is the recipe:

• We started with a 2 1/2" x 6 1/4" piece of glossy paper. Photograph paper will do nicely. Using black StazOn, we stamped this pretty flower from SU Embrace Life.
• Using a white crayon, we colored in areas on the flower that we wanted to remain white. Mostly those were areas around the middle of the flower and on some of the petal edges.
• Next we used SU dye ink and sponge daubers to lightly color the pink and yellow areas of the flower.
• We then laid a mask of the flower over our flower and sponged the green lightly around the edges. (The mask was made from stamping the flower on a paper, then cutting it out and covering our work with it. I'll bet you knew that. )
• Taking some soft toilet paper, we gently rubbed the areas that we had colored white with the crayon. We wanted to remove that.
• We used the SU corner rounder to trim the corners.
  
• Out came that fabulous Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole at the top and insert a brad.
  
• We inserted ribbon and now have a great bookmark.

I must say that Ida let us flounder around a bit on the ribbon. Then Lindy came up with the idea of folding the ribbon in half and inserting it from the backside to the front. Then you can pull the loose edges through the loop. It makes a nice neat way to do the ribbon.

Of course, I was trying to get the ribbon out of the way to take a picture of the bookmark. I really love the technique and can't wait to get more made. I'm thinking they would be great to tuck in other cards... a little something for a gift.

I asked Ida about who thinks these up. She said our work yesterday was hers. Go, Ida!