CASology Week 83: JUMP

Howdy!  It has been over a month since I have posted and I sure hope I can submit this card without any hiccups.  I have struggled for some time with Yahoo, Blogger, Goggle yada yada.  Hopefully my visit to the computer lab will have helped me get back to submitting cards.  Making the card should be the difficult part and posting should be pretty easy but it is terribly time consuming and frustrating when it does not come together.

The month of February has flown by and I have kept busy with a new card making group I started here at my Active 55 Community.  We began with three members in August and now we are up to 22 ladies age 56 to 82, and each comes with different skills.  Although some may be new to card making they are skilled quilters and jewelry artists.  I have led the majority of our twice a month classes and it will be great for me to give new members a chance to teach us new techniques.  Fortunately for me the past year of entering card challenges and subscribing to many blogs has given me an abundance of new techniques to teach.  We had the most fun with washi tape and Costco had 20 rolls for $20 and many of us (me included) went and purchased this great product.  I taught a class on ombre and paint patches and used various punches and that was a very fun class.  The last two classes has had ten ladies come and that is a good number to work with although a little bit crazy, fun crazy.

So my card for CASology is JUMP.  I chose another stamp set from the now retired Our Craft Lounge, "The Pond."  I positioned three of the stamps on an acrylic block and stamped with Versafine and then heat embossed.  Heat embossing gives a nice crisp line and if I am using copics I don't have to wait for the ink to dry.  I stamped a second frog and then colored all the images with copics.  Then I die cut the colored image.  A cloud was needed to give some additional pizzaz and first I embossed cardstock and then die cut a cloud shape.  Frog number two was fussy cut and adhered with pop-ups but I placed it off-center with the hopes it looks like Froggy Boy was in motion. Lastly I added the sentiment and rounded the edges.

Stamp - Our Craft Lounge "The Pond"
Copics - G12, 82, YG11, 17, 63, N0, N3, BG10
My Favorite Things Die Namics - Pierced Circle STAX and Cloud Trio
Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirl
Other - Neenah paper, corner rounder, pop-ups, Versafine, clear embossing powderhttp://casology.blogspot.com/2014/02/week-83-jump.html

Update: Things were going smoothly and then I forgot to submit the card and when I went to find it, it was hiding.  So with the mister beside me, who knows nothing about blogs or a PC as he is a MAC snob,  the photo was located.  Reviewing my notes (mandatory) I realized I skipped a step and thus could not find the card.  Hopefully this last part of posting will work as often this is my stumbling block.