Birthday Picnic

  • Cards
  • Essentials

Celebrate birthdays with heart! Join cardmaker extraordinaire Lisa Spangler for the second in a quarterly series of birthday card classes. In each class, you'll explore ideas that go beyond your ordinary "happy birthday" cards. Lisa shows you how to stretch your cardmaking supplies by reusing stamps and design elements from other holidays on your birthday cards while sharing clever techniques and tips that will add to your creative toolbox. 

In Birthday Picnic, Lisa shares how to get the most out of your stamp sets while creating cards for Mom, Dad, and kids of all ages.

  • What you'll learn +
    • How to get more from your Mother's Day and Father's Day stamps by using them on birthday cards
    • What to look for in your stamps so that they'll pull double duty
    • How to make cards for moms, dads, and kids of all ages
    • Watercolor techniques for painting backgrounds and coloring stamped images, including an easy shading technique to add a "beary" nice depth to your cards
    • A technique for coloring floral images with colored pencils
    • How to plan your cardmaking time so that you'll be able to get those awesome cards in the mail and have them arrive before the big day
    • How to make a cute pencil topper that would make a super fun birthday party activity

Lessons

  1. 1. Plan It Out
  2. 2. Burger Slider
  3. 3. Mom, You Take the Cake
  4. 4. Dad, You're the Beary Best
  5. 5. Insider Secrets
  6. 6. Pencil Topper

Related Classes

Birthday Picnic

  • Cards
  • Essentials

Celebrate birthdays with heart! Join cardmaker extraordinaire Lisa Spangler for the second in a quarterly series of birthday card classes. In each class, you'll explore ideas that go beyond your ordinary "happy birthday" cards. Lisa shows you how to stretch your cardmaking supplies by reusing stamps and design elements from other holidays on your birthday cards while sharing clever techniques and tips that will add to your creative toolbox. 

In Birthday Picnic, Lisa shares how to get the most out of your stamp sets while creating cards for Mom, Dad, and kids of all ages.

  • What you'll learn +
    • How to get more from your Mother's Day and Father's Day stamps by using them on birthday cards
    • What to look for in your stamps so that they'll pull double duty
    • How to make cards for moms, dads, and kids of all ages
    • Watercolor techniques for painting backgrounds and coloring stamped images, including an easy shading technique to add a "beary" nice depth to your cards
    • A technique for coloring floral images with colored pencils
    • How to plan your cardmaking time so that you'll be able to get those awesome cards in the mail and have them arrive before the big day
    • How to make a cute pencil topper that would make a super fun birthday party activity
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