Hi everyone! I hope you are well and enjoying December. I am happy to have posted a new online class on
Skillshare. I've been working with it for a while and had hoped to have it up earlier, but things have been a little too busy (and as you can maybe hear on the videos, I've had a bit of a cold).
As a papercrafter, I like to make my own gift tags for parcels, but very often when I need to wrap a parcel, I don't have any gift tags at hand, and end up cutting one quickly from patterned paper. Does anyone else recognize that? So for this class, I thought I would make myself a big stash of gift tags, which are suitable for many different occasions. In
the class, you'll learn a very easy resist technique using acrylic gels and watercolour paint. I am also showing you the same technique with Distress Inks and spray mist.
Here is the introduction video to the class (you can also
watch it on YouTube), showing you a bit about what the class is about. I sat too close to the camera for this video, but didn't have time to redo it one more time (I had already shot it quite a few times). So I decided to let it be, even though I am not totally happy with it.
Tags are a fun surface to try out new techniques on, since they are so small and it doesn't matter if something doesn't work out as planned. But, as with all my classes, you can use the techniques on any type of project. It will work great for card making, art journaling, scrapbooking, 3-D items, or as a background for a mixed media piece.
I stamped sentiments on some of the tags, but left most of them blank, so that I can use them for any occasion.
I am using stencils in the class. If you don't have any, you can cut your own, or use a die to die cut your own stencils. Check out my
Frosty Deer Clipboard, for an example of the latter.
As you will see in the class, almost any acrylic gel will work, and I will show you a whole bunch of different ones, glossy and matte.
Although some of the tags have Christmas sentiments, this is not at all a Christmas crafting class, but the techniques and tags work for any theme or occasion.
Skillshare is a subscription service, which gives you access to a wide range of classes. If you want to try it out, you can try it out for three months for $0.99 by following
this link. I particularly like that the classes are divided into chapters, so you can watch one chapter and try out that particularly technique and then proceed with the following chapter when you have time. My class, for instance, consists of eight different videos and it is easy to follow along. I hope it is almost like taking a real life class with me.
Since it is almost Christmas, I decided to make the class free as a Christmas gift to you all, but only for a week (until 27 December). After that it will become a premium class (for Skillshare subscribers). So if you hurry, you can watch it for free.
I am linking the products I used for the class below, as a resource for the class.
Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope that you will enroll in
my class. I would really love to see you there.
If I don't see you again before Christmas, I hope you will all have a very Merry Christmas!!
Happy crafting!!
Anna-Karin
Supplies (affiliate links):
Additional supplies:
Watercolor paint: Daler & Rowney Artists Watercolours
Mediums: Golden Artist Colors: Regular Gel (Gloss), Molding Paste, High Solid Gel (Gloss), Light Molding Paste
