 Well, hello there, my friends. I am Sandy Olmock and today I'm gonna talk about a card-making fiesta that I've just completed. Oh my gosh craziness. I had so many colored images that I had made for the favorite things classes that just released. I promised I was gonna make them into cards and so I did and I did so using some crazy funky folds as you're seeing and Let's talk about that. All right. If you're anything like me, you love a good funky fold interactive fun card. I Love getting them in the mail. I love things that have a tab that you pull or a flap that you open or Something other than a folded piece of card stock. I love getting those in the mail I will play with the mechanism till it falls apart So fair warning if you don't want it to fall apart don't send it to me Because I'm like a little kid with them But I don't really make those kind of cards anymore. I used to I used to have all the stuff to do it with But when I started focusing more on my art side, I got rid of a bunch of that other stuff I just have room for everything Which means I haven't been able to make like crazy fun cards And a lot of mine are just panel cards and they're nice panel cards because my coloring is good And by panel cards I mean something with either a single image that I've drawn or a Stamp or something and it can have a scene or it can just be the image itself I really want all of that beautiful coloring that I spent all my time on to be the focus I don't want a whole lot more going on in it, but I want something for some cards That's going to be a little bit fancier and for Years now, I guess I've been thinking I need to put together some templates Just gather them from wherever they are or adapt from ones that are out there that don't really work for me and Put some together that are going to work from my kind of cards And if you make these kind of cards like I do this might be helpful I have put together a funky fold card class And that class is over at art venture. It's not an art dash classes. It's an art venture And in that class, I'll show you how to make five different templates some of them have both the horizontal and vertical versions and I give you all the measurements and everything and In each one of those templates I have used the template four times and I did four different adaptations of the template within that You know, what if you put the image on this part rather than on that part? What if you attach it here rather than there? What if you put a different base on it, etc and so You know, it's a fun little class where you can use any image you've got. There's no coloring in the class itself It's just about the engineering and you can use whatever colors whatever supplies you can embellish as you desire But I'll give you some ideas on how I did with these cards and I'll show you all the cards in a few minutes and You know kind of show you how they open and flip-flap and all that good stuff If you're interested in the coloring of these images these are all from the favorite things classes that launched a couple weeks ago and they are all in blue colors because I was working on them right when the war started in Israel and between that and my heart going out to the people who were still at war in Ukraine where the colors are blue and yellow I thought blue and white would be really great as a little art therapy for myself But I realized that I don't have any blue card stock or blue patterned paper To make my funky fold cards with So I had to order some in it took me a while. That's why the Funky phone card class didn't come out at the same time as favorite things But the favorite things classes are in four mediums There's a watercolor alcohol marker colored pencil and gouache and Within each class there's five lessons and you get all the images So the classes are a little more expensive than a normal mini class But you get all the images and not only do you get them four up so you can color four of them in one go and get Four cards made but you can also You have the full JPEG so you can make it as big or as small as you want and adapt it for whatever you want your design to be and So those are all over on one page at art-classes on the holiday page a brand-new holiday page with all the holiday and winter classes in one spot and I will link you to that in the doobly-doo Which is the area down below this video because I know some people haven't heard me say the doobly-doo before so that is where The links will be So that class is at art-classes The funky fold is over at art-venture And it's free to get into art-venture become a member of one of our thousands of people that are there Share your work and all that sort of thing And then sign up for the class now the stuff I use was card stock I finally had ordered some blue card stock from lawn one who love their box It just makes me feel super special even if they send it to everybody. I feel like this one is from me You're gonna need some kind of bone folder and scoring board I recommend a big one just because some of these pieces of paper are gonna be a little larger So 12 by 12 is helpful, but you can kind of cobble together something with your small one if you need to and Then some adhesive I use some dimensional adhesive as well as a tape runner This is my old old red was her name during operation right home days. She's still kicking I Added some ribbon to a few of mine and you'll need some scissors to cut it with some hole punchers To attach it with etc. If you want to use it, but no requirement to use it The missties are for stamping sentiments because I just drew the pictures I didn't have any sentiments on them and I grabbed a bunch of stamps from my holiday stash Just happened to grab the Trinity and the Colorado craft, which are the more recent ones They just happen to be on top so you can use whatever sentiments you like and then we've got some hole punchers because I Didn't feel like getting all the dies and everything I just wanted to sit at my desk and just get through all the cards and use those I Didn't have to get some pattern paper because I don't keep pattern paper around anymore either and I got some blue stuff that will go with the blue card bases that I got from Lawn Fawn and then you'll need a knife of some kind either Exacto blade or fingertip knife or something like I'll be using So the favorite things holiday cards are all in those those four different mediums And I've broken up the showing of the cards by which class they're in those images So the alcohol markers has these five images in them And then this is what I did with them to turn them into cards So you can see there's like little things that flip out and belly bands and different designs like that and They're just lots of fun for these classes And in each one of them I'm also doing something a little extra special fun to throughout October and November There's been a couple of them already that's happened I am doing some zoom calls with people at art venture and I'm taking an image from one of these classes say the alcohol marker class and I'm gonna color it in colored pencil or I'm gonna Take one some something from the watercolor class and color it in alcohol markers and that sort of thing so I'm doing that once a week and if you would like to Join one of those calls you can go to our adventure and just look in the events tab throughout November So I'll be doing more of them and if you want to see the past ones There is a class where I'm collecting all of these in one place. So if you want to sit through a bunch of zoom calls It's just a couple of bucks for that but if you Catch it within a week of when the zoom goes live, then they're free for the replay for the first week If you're math challenged like I am when I became an artist my art teacher said there would be no math She lied because there's math in everything However, I want you to know that these are not those templates that Require you to measure everything down to an eighth inch or a sixteenth or a thirty-second of an inch No The smallest measurement that I'm gonna be giving you is a quarter of an inch. That's it It's not gonna be these tiny measurements Now if you're gonna add panels if you're gonna decorate with pattern paper panels And you'll have to do your own Measurements to figure that out what you want it to look like do you want to have a wider border or a thinner border and Figure that out for yourself. I'll give you my measurements for my main image panels and and the big elements But I'm not gonna give you all the little tiny bits because it really depends on what you want yours to look like But the main ones like when I start measuring things off and like okay We're gonna cut the paper down to this so the measurements can be two and four and eight and ten We're not we're not going any smaller than we have to Unless it's absolutely necessary and even that it's gonna go only down to like a quarter of an inch type of measurement Cuz I don't want to mess with that But these cards were a lot of fun to make and even by the time I made the third or fourth one in each one of these I Didn't have to look back at my paper anymore to see what my notes said about What the size was for my scores because they were so simple that it kind of just landed in my head And I could just make you know the third and fourth one without following like super literal instructions anymore So that was a good thing And you may find the same as well There's no date for when you have to watch the videos by and you also can revisit as many times as you like The favorite things classes are linked down below in the holiday class page So you can see all of the wintry offerings in one spot and then on art venture There's a funky folds class that should be in the list of classes in the menu on the left hand side However, if you're on Apple devices, it might take them a few days to get that approved So you can buy it on the web and you can still see it on your Apple device There's gonna be a whole post there about why that is So look for that if you're signing up right away, but otherwise it should be in that menu on the left-hand side Then there is also a swap that we're doing right now If you would like to join in the deadline is coming up right away October 31st to sign up And everything has to be to your recipient by November 12th to 18th So get on it. And then there's also the zoom colorings. Go check the events tab to see when the next one is All right, that is it for me get out there and create something every day And I will see you again in my next video. So have a great week. Ta ta for now