Coastal Christmas Card Class

1. Coastal Card Class Introduction: Hi there. I'm Cheryl. Welcome to the coastal Christmas card class. I absolutely love having little spins with Christmas classes. I love doing cards that are a bit coastal themed, but then creating them as a Christmas spin just for something a little bit different and unexpected in this class we're going to do just that. Let's go take a look at what we're doing. Now. These are the three cars that were going to be creating in this class. Now I live on the West Coast and love anything coastal. And I just thought it would be a fun play on Coastal to create cards that have it a bit more of a Christmas theme. So all of them have little Christmas elements to them. This one, little ornaments, this one a wreath, this one sentence. You could take those elements often have year-round cards, change up the sentiments or put the sentiment on the inside. But these are the cars that were going to create. The class comes with a supply list that will list all the supplies for each of the cars as well as having pictures of the finished sample. Those supplies are linked to where you can purchase them if you choose. Now let's go create some coastal Christmas cards. 2. Heron Card: Watercolour Background: Alright, this is the very first card that we're going to create in the class. It's the most simple. So the very first step, we're going to take our die and we're going to die cut our black piece of card stock here. My card stock is bigger than the die and it actually cuts out the entire frame. So I don't actually need to worry about centering it on the paper just as long as all of the blade bits are centered within that piece of paper and I can't see it. Run it right through. I absolutely love this die. I love Blue Herons. We happen to live on alongside a creek and we have a blue heron that comes to visit every winter and it gets its meals out. Or Greek. So yeah, I love watching them. So I'm going to take this paper out of the die cut here. Most of it is going to come out easily. You have a little bit that likes to stick in there, just be gentle while you're taking it out. Typically happens with some of the leaves and stuff like that. Alright, took that to the side. Now on these little grass and bull rushes bits, I kinda waved my finger in and out. I don't try to pull it because those little stems and grasses are really quite thin. So I don't want to thin by that. I mean narrow, so I don't want to risk ripping them. There we go. That bid is out. Then I'm going to take a die pick and pick out any remaining bits. We want all of these pieces out because we wanna be able to see or watercolor background behind it. One little bit. Just hanging on there. There we go. Alright, that is all done. So now I've got my piece of watercolor paper here. Now it is a little bit bigger than the die cut because I want it to have that frame of it around there. I thought it looked a little bit more interesting and I thought it looked pretty. If you don't want that, you can cut your piece of watercolor the same size as your die cut. I'll have the measurements in our supply list. So first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to take a pencil and I'm just going to draw a line here where that basically where the horizon is. So before I did that, I made sure to have my jacket centered in there so that I know when I go to put it together, I'm going to have that line where I want it to be. I'm going to put my die cut to the side because I don't need it right now. Then I'm watercolor and with some distress rate thinkers, I like them because they're nice and translucent. And I already have three anchors for creating my cards anyways, or sorry for filling my dy is the one I want a great English for refilling my ink pads when I want to create cards. So this is a great way to use the same supply for two different uses. So this is just a palette tray. I've got my reinforce, I've got them all filled the ones that I want. And I'll list all the colors that we're using on the supply list as well. But we're using abandoned coral, tumble glass, broken China, and then some chips, sapphire. I'm going to start with my coral color. And I'm gonna go just a little bit above that line. I'm just going to go back and forth from edge to edge. And then work my way down to fade it out. And then I'm going to turn my paper around, tip that corner. And again, I've got a wide watercolor brush here. And I like it for things like this because you get a nice fan out of it and it's easier to blend colors, especially when you're doing something like this along a full width of card stock, if you find your brushes dry, just squeeze it onto a piece of paper towel and that'll get some of the water flowing there. Alright, that's good for the coral to clean it off. Just rub it on the water, on the paper towel. Now I'm going to go glass, which is my next color. And I've got the paint dipped in one corner of the brush and I'm starting with a clean edge of the brush towards my abandoned coral because I don't really want to get muddy colors. And those two colors being somewhat opposite sides of the color wheel would get a little bit muddy. I'm going to do the same thing again for this guy. Actually, this part is the water. I think. This is this guy. Alright, once that's done, I'm just going to clean my brush out again, although it's not as necessary to clean the brush off for this one just because I'm going into another blue color. So this one is the broken China. I'm just trying to get some nice gradation to the sky. If by chance you get a little bit of coral in their coral streaks, that's totally fine. That's how it would be in the actual sky too. So you could, if you wanted, add some streaks in there, but I'm just going to keep it nice and simple. Once again, make sure to go from edge to edge because we're seeing those edges on our card here. If by chance you cut yours down because you didn't want to see that edge, then you don't necessarily have to go to edge to edge, but you only have about an eighth of an inch there that gets covered. So you want to go pretty close to the edge. Now the last one is my chip Sapphire, which is the dark blue. And because it's the last color, I'm starting at the edge of my card. I'm working my way in so that I don't have a really harsh line between the darker blue and the lighter blue. Go. Repeat that on the other side. Once again, if your brush gets a little bit dry than just squeeze it onto the paper towel, get some water flowing in there. There we go. Make sure your brush is completely clean. Once you're done. Alright, this needs to dry completely before we carry on. And make sure that because I was going off of my paper there, make sure to clean that up because otherwise some future things might pick up that blue there. So I am going to let that dry completely and I will see you in the next video and we will start to assemble our card. 3. Heron Card: Assembly & Accents: Alright, our background is completely dry and we're ready to start assembling. So the first thing I'm going to do is glue down my watercolor background ground onto the card base. I'm using distress collage media. And what I like about it is it dries nice and quickly. It also, if by chance some of it seeps out, it dries completely clear and match, so you don't even see where the glue has saved out. And this is especially true for when you're gluing intricate dies. Sometimes you just can't get the line of glue thin enough. So it's nice to know that you're not gonna be able to see any little bits that happened to ooze out. So I'm gonna put a little bit of glue on each one of the leaves and it basically anything that could possibly catch on something. It doesn't need to be a lot, just a tiny little bit on the hair in the grass. There we go. Now my pencil line is still there. I can see it to line things up. If that bothers you, you can erase it. But you actually don't even notice it unless someone was to pointed out to you. Once you have it lined up and centered, you can let that dry. I'm going to put a little block on it so that it just has something holding it down. While I'm waiting for that to dry, I'm gonna do the stamping and embossing for the Silent Night part here. So we've got some silver card stock. We're gonna do some ornaments in the trees, and those are silver to coordinate with the rest of the cards in the class. If you didn't want to create this as a Christmas card, you can put whatever sentiment you want. And if this wasn't a Christmas card in wanting to tie in with those, I probably choose some colors from the background to do the sentiment. But for this, I've got silver card stock and I'm going to emboss it with black. Now before I do that, I want to get a scrap piece of paper for to catch excess embossing powder. Now, because my silver card stock here is coded, it's a little bit slick. So you want to be extra careful when you're stamping. And I specifically chose a piece of card stock that was bigger than what I needed so that if by chance I had a little slippage of the stamp, I could redo another one. That one is good. The very first time I did it I had it was really bad. So you want to redo that you can typically tell right away when you put the powder on it. If it needs to be redone, you typically don't need to heat it up to know that. Let's put the lid back on things and then this will be a heat gun. Just because I realized he didn't say it. The stamp pad that I used was aversive mark pad. It's a clear pad, but it is a sticky ink. So our embossing powder sticks really nicely to the powder or to the pack. Or embossing powder sticks really nicely to the ink. I'm just going to trim it down so that my piece of silver isn't super, super big. I'm using the mines on the ruler to line up my sentiment to make sure that it is straight. And then I'm going to do the ends to make sure that those are Street as well. There we go. Let's move this rest of this out of the way here. I'm going to put some foam tape on the back of my sentiment. I want it to pop out a little bit. You could glue it down flat. But because there's dimension in those ornaments, I like the sentiment to have a tiny bit of dimension as well. Kind of play off each other. The form dots I'm using for these are not super, super thick either, so they're not, it's not going to pop out a lot. Here we go. The backing off, this is likely dry enough to work with now. The sentiment down there. So the little strings I have my ornaments hanging from. I just did it with a silver gel pen. I've done some in the past where I used some I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought there where I've used some really fine string, but it's kinda hard to glue down. So I just chose to do this with a gel pen. Gives the same effect, but little bit easier on the patient's level. I'm just trying to do straight lines. And then I'm trying to make sure they're coming from those branches. Now I have some glitter card stock here that I punched out some circles with a hole punch. I'm actually only going to use three. This particular card stock that I chose, it ties in with them. One of the other cards, you could use more Christmas colors if you wanted, like gold and that sort of thing. I chose silver because I didn't want anything to compete with the the background, the sky. I chose something that was a little bit more neutral. A rose gold might look actually really pretty too. I'm going to glue couple of those circles. And then the other ornaments are done with Nouveau Crystal. Crystal drops there like liquid pearls. You could use just the half pearls as well. What I like about this though, is I can make my ornaments different sizes if I want to show kinda different dimensions are different distances. We go. So that's going to take several hours for the pearls to dry there. So set your card aside anywhere where you're not going to be touching it? For awhile? I typically put it out of reach and not on my craft table because if it's in reach, Murphy's Law, I put something on it. There we go. There's our first card completed. 4. Lighthouse Circle Card: Watercolour Background: Alright, so here is the second card that we're gonna do. We're gonna do a similar ear sky to the heroine card. But then we also want to color the bits between or behind the lighthouse die cut and the rocks. So very first step is, this is the dye that we're going to use. Very first step is to die cut that lighthouse. Now when I got this die, I put a line on the back of the die so that I could always make sure that that lighthouse was straight. And I did it by paying attention to where the holes were, to judge where to put that line. So I'm trying to center it between the sides of the card and towards the top. Now, for this particular card, I made an A2 afford a quarter by 5.5 inch card. You could also, if you didn't wanna put that chair on the bottom, you could do a foreigner quarter by four and a quarter inch card as well. It works beautiful for either one. And typically I do the smaller square cards, but this one, I decided to change it up a little bit. So I've got some glitter card stock here that we're die cutting. It die cuts beautifully. I do run it through a couple of times. I go one way and then the other way, just to give that laid a little bit more of a chance to go through the card stock. And you can see it cut all the way through. Now, there may be the odd bit that isn't cut 100% through. But when I take my card stock pieces out, I push them towards the back so that if anything isn't quite cut and paper rips, it'll be on the backside, the card stock and no one will ever know there's a couple of ribs in there and there's a couple on the other one. And you'd never know because this is really, really thick glitter card stock. I get it at my local store. And there has been the odd time where they have a thin one, but it doesn't always cut properly. There's a certain thing one that's got a plastic coating to it that it just doesn't cut. So this is the one that they have regularly and other than the odd time where I have to rip the back to get a piece out. I never had an issue with it. So this is the one I typically get because I know I'll have success and I know I won't have issues. So you can see like I just ripped the back there. But this current stock is so thick, it's thicker than some regular card stock because of the glitter coatings. So I don't mind the issues that I sometimes have to deal with with it. And most of them will come out. This particular die cut is a little bit more intricate than a lot of the ones that I typically will die cut with. But I just think it looks really, really pretty with this dye cut in the glitter stock. To me, it kinda makes the, the wavy lines look like the white of the crashing water. Then especially by doing this as a seasonal card, making it a little bit Christmas, this I typically will keep and use it for die cutting smaller little bits. Alright, same as the last one. What I'm going to do is line up my piece of watercolor card stock. I've got them cut the same size. Where did my pencil go? And I'm going to put a line where the top of the water is. I'm gonna put a line where the side of my lighthouse is. Once again, if by chance you don't like to see that line, you can erase it before before you put your car together. For me, it tends to be light enough that I don't actually see it. Alright, I'm gonna get my wide brush again to do the first part. And then I'm going to use a narrower or watercolor, watercolor brush to do the next part. So my lighthouse bit up there. For the sky and water bits. I'm gonna do it in the same sequence as the last one. I'm going to do the coral first and the tumble glass and the broken China. And then ship Sapphire. I do it from edge to edge, simply out of habit. There's my there's my piece of a piece of paper towel. I do it to edge to edge. Basically at a habit. For this particular card, you actually don't see the sides, the outside quarter-inch. So you don't necessarily need to for this for the sky. I'm not painting through the lighthouse because of I painted through the lighthouse. You would see the coral and the blue through those windows on the lighthouse. I'm stopping it. Those edges there. There we go. I'll get a little bit at the tumble glass in there. And once again, I'm doing when I go from the coral to the tumble glass, I dip my brush in here and I have that blew away from the coral just to prevent it from being getting muddy. Go repeat that on the water. Now I typically do the water in straight lines, but if you wanted to do it a little bit wavy because those the dicot has a little bit of waves in it. You absolutely could. There's no reason why you couldn't. Keep in mind. We're not going to see a lot of the bottom part there, so we don't need to do too much there. If you wanted, you could draw your circle so that you knew where it ended. But I typically don't bother. I do try to go a little bit inside my lighthouse there to make sure that I don't have a line of white. There we go. And then the last color that ship stuff fire for the sky and the water. And I also did the chip sapphire for the lighthouse top. So well. By going back-and-forth and then moving a little bit this way, you get a little bit of that blue. It helps to blend the two blues is basically what I'm trying to say. Here we go a little bit on the top of the lighthouse. Then let's do the water. You're probably only going to see a tiny little bit of this blue. If you want more, you can just move your brush up a little bit. Go now completely clean our brush so that when we go to use it next time We don't have paint in it. These brushes have water rate in the handle, so it's super easy to clean it. You just squeezed the handle and get some water out and wait ago. Alright, so here we go for that. I'm going to use pumice stone for the rocks because it has a rock names so I think it fits. You could also use hickory smoke. It's another gray as well. Then clean the brush. And then I'm using some squeezed Lemonade, which is just a really bright yellow for the lights and the lighthouse. And I paint pretty much the whole thing. Try to keep a little bit away from that blue. I didn't see on this one and I got some bleeding there, which to me it looks a little bit like late coming out of the windows. But if that's the look that you don't want them keep aware to stay away from the blue. To avoid that. There we go. Once again, I need to let that completely dry. And I will see you in the next video and we will know Actually before I see you in the next one, I'm going to die cut the chair. That's the same as the background. Put my die on the paper, and then run it through. There we go. And then you want to, this one comes out of the die really, really easily. There we go. So now when we go to the next part of the video, this is completely ready for us. I'll see you there. 5. Lighthouse Circle Card: Assembly & Accents: Alright, the background is dried. So instead of gluing this onto the card base and then this on, I'm going to glue that die cut on first so that I can make sure that I line everything up the way that I would like. I've got a little bit of white in there. I'm going to leave it to me. It looks a little bit like a little bit of street with Cloud. But this way, this is actually up a little bit higher than I think I put the lines in, but I just like the way it's placed. So I'm going to go with scissors and trim that. Once I've got it glued down, I pretty much only put the glue around the edges of the circle and the edges of the rectangle. Tiny little bit on the lighthouse, but I don't necessarily worry about each one of those leaves because leaves waves because they're really not to me. Going to catch on anything. I'm just going to hold this down in place for a few seconds. Here we go. And then you use a scissors and trim the sides. You could have in the beginning when you cut your watercolor paper, cut it just slightly smaller so you didn't end up having to train it. But by doing it this way, it was just easier to line up the lighthouse or this the piece with the lighthouse die cut and the watercolor paper. Now I'm going to glue this to the background here. And really trimming a sliver off with your scissors is not that big a deal. Line that up on the card. My acrylic block on that while I'm doing the next piece. So I'm going to put some foam tape on the back of my chair here. This particular one has a little thin strip on the side that I'm gonna be using. The other thing that I did off-camera was I have this die cut that has teeny tiny little leaves. We're going to put a little wreath on the lighthouse. So I bought that already dicot ready to go. And I don't need to put this tape on the entire die cut. Just some of the external parts is where I'm going with it. Once again, I just liked the look of it being popped out a little bit. But you could absolutely glue it flat if you wanted. The one thing you wanna do though, is if you have, like they're right there, there's a tiny little bit of the tape popped out. You do want to glue it or cut it off because even though this is white, you do see if there's bits of tape. They're going to put one up here. This one, this one. I know I'm going to have to trim the sides because it's a little bit wider than tape. We go, alright, this is probably stuck down enough to be able to continue to work on it. So I'm just gonna glue my chair die cut down. This would even be really cute with just like a San enslaved dicot little beach chair. Once again, if you didn't want to make this a Christmas card, you can just put a sentiment on the bottom. I would put it on a different piece of card stock and then have it popped up. You put a couple of shell die cuts on there. That would be really cute to all sorts of options there. Alright, let's glue that down, take off that piece there. And then I want to put my little wreath on the lighthouse. I'm going to take off cut tape backing all over. I'm going to take my glue and I'm gonna put a really generous amount in the shape of a wreath. Now, once again, this is going to dry completely clear and it's going to dry mat. So you're not gonna be able to see anything that's sticking out. But because these dye cuts are so tiny, you want to have a generous amount of glue on there for them to stick into, artistic them into. I'm just going to take my leaves and make a wreath shape. I actually have two different shades of green here. Just to add a little bit of variety. I'm using a fine tip tweezers to place them. These leaf die cuts are just a little bit tiny to try to do it with your fingers. There is a point here and that looks like it's the stem of the leaf. So I am trying to put that on the inside. But if you get one backwards, I highly doubt anyone's going to notice. And you absolutely have to use liquid glue on this. You can't use a double-sided tape because you want to be able to have the flexibility of moving your leaves a little bit to make sure that your wreath is looking good and a little bit on the rounder side. You could also take say, two circle punches, have a small circle and then a larger circle around it and make a wreath that way. I just don't happen to have two circle punches that are good size is for that. These leaves are just a great way to add that texture. If you did what I just did and use your tweezers and moved one out of the way. You can just lay another one on top because you've got enough glue there. So having that liquid glue, they're just gives you that flexibility. Then I have some ribbon. I'm just gonna do a quick bot with it. So I want to make it as small as possible. But to try to get a small bow from the beginning is going to be very frustrating. So I'm doing a regular size bot was bigger bow and then I'm just going to pull the tails to make it smaller. So in the end I'm going to have a bit of a waste there, but I typically save that and sometimes they'll make cars where I just have a knot and I'll use that piece for that. These are not good ribbon cutting scissors. They're good little snips, but they're not good for cutting. So there we go. Let's get that. And then even though I've got a lot of glue in the center, I'm going to put some glue on that top there to put my bot in. If you have some really pretty thread, you could do that there too. This one's actually even bigger than that one. There we go. So that is this glue is all still really wet, so that needs to sit aside to dry as well. So once again, I'm gonna put that somewhere where I'm not going to touch it. But there we go. There is our second coastal Christmas card. And once again, you can leave those elements, the Christmas the elements off and have it just EBT card. 6. Santa & Sleigh Lighthouse Card: Watercolour Background: Alright, for our third card, this is the one that we're going to create. So very first step, we're going to die cut our lighthouse. I've got some Matt Silver card stock that I'm doing that with our machine right here. Once again, this die cuts the edge of the dicot as well, so I don't need to center it within the card stock. Just as long as they don't see any blades, we're good to go. I'm just going to tuck that to the side. And I'm going to grab my Santa and sleep because I might as well die cut down at the same time. Just got scrap a black card stock here to do that with. Typically when I'm cutting down my card stock, I keep keep these thin strips and they're perfect for things like this. We go move my machine out of the way. Most of this will come right out. Typically start by t using that spell binders tool and one to take some of the little bits out. I also like to use my depict together the corners. Any of these bits can be thrown out and bigger ones you can probably save for some smaller dicots. Then most of these will just fall right out of the die cut. So this one is somewhat similar to the circle one. There's a little bit more to block off into detail, watercolor a little bit, but actually a little bit more detailed because we've got the light from the lighthouse here. This one, just like the first one, we're going to the piece that we're watercolor. He has a little bit bigger than the die cut. And once again, if you would prefer that the colored part and with a die cut, you can just color your or cut your watercolor piece a little bit smaller. And then once again, if you didn't want it to be a Christmas card, you can just leave the Santa and slay off of it and put it different sentiments on it. Or just leave the sentiment for the inside of the card. Completely your choice. This one, I'll just leave that in there. I'll take it off, Take it out offscreen. Just because it's not the most exciting thing to watch. Alright, now once again, we're going to lay our dicot on the watercolor piece until it's centered. Take your pencil. I'm going to mark where the top of my rocks are here, the outside of my lighthouse. And then I also want to mark where that stream of light from the lighthouse is because I want to make sure that that is not sky colored. You could even die, cut this and gold and then leave that sky. Sky color didn't have the gold is in the light, but I chose to go a little bit more neutral. Alright, there we go. I'm going to cut mark where some of these waves are. Chicken to try to get some blue at the bottom of the waves there. I think I have all of it. There we go. So tuck this to the side. Grab or watercolors and our piece of paper towel. Once again, we're using the same colors for the background. I just liked them because it makes just a nice a nice sunset sky. You could definitely alter the colors if you prefer different colors for your sunset sky. Then I'm also coloring all the way to the edges because I want to see the color outside my die cut. Then just a little bit inside the lighthouse is because I want to make sure I don't have a little bit of a halo on. They're gonna do just a tiny bit of this coral for where the water is, just as a reflection on the top of the water. Because this water is a little bit more rough than the other ones. I don't necessarily want a whole lot. Now, into the tempered glass. I'm working fairly quick when I'm doing this background. So I'm not really worried about my watercolor drawing on me. If it did dry on you, you'd want to rehydrate the part that is dry just because you're gonna get some weird watermarks. If you don't know my broken China. I'm going to follow the line of where that light beam goes. By, follow it. I mean, just slightly inside of it. I want to be able to I don't want to have a white mark sitting on my card here. There is quite a bit between part that's going to be yellow and the parts that's gonna be blue. We go and then a little bit of broken China at the bottom here. Let me go. Brush was getting a little bit dry. Then lastly for the sky, a little bit of the chip sapphire. Touch the corner in it and then just kinda go along some of those little marks that I made. You're not going to see a ton of this detail because the main focus is the dye cut. But I do like seeing some of it. Here we go. I want to see some more dark on that top. There. There we go. Now I'm going to switch to my more detailed water brush. A little bit of blue there. I want to make sure that I don't pick up before I grabbed my yellow, I'm gonna do the color for the rocks, which is the pumice stone. And make sure that you go all the way to the edge and you don't have a white mark there because you will see it. There we go. And now yellow for the light beams out of the lighthouse. That's another spot. You don't want it to be white. And it's really the white part. You don't want it to be white along the edges here. I've gotten inside my pencil lines enough that I don't think it's gonna be white alongside my die cut. If you're ever unsure, you could take your dichotomy. You can lay it alongside of it just to check. There we go. Perfect. So now I'm going to let that dry completely and I'll see you in the next video. And we will do the assembly and add the different accents to it. 7. Santa & Sleigh Lighthouse Card: Assembly & Accents: Alright, the watercolor background is derived and ready for assembly. So once again, we're going to glue it to the front of our card, center it. And then glue the die cut. When I put a little bit behind the lighthouse in any of these points where the waves go up, put them there little bit behind those beams of light, but those aren't as necessary. Alright, I'm going to set that aside and put my acrylic block on it for a few minutes. So the die cut with the reindeer actually has four range here, but it ends up being too long. As well as the fact that I prefer it with three reindeer. So I'm going to cut one of them off. You can keep it for another project. I tend to toss them out, but if you can think of something to use it for, always better to reuse it. And then the reindeer, I put a tiny little bit of glue on their bodies and then legs and horns. Rains. Alright, now I'm going to put this on here. Hold it for a second, and then put my acrylic block back down to hold that in place. Now I'm going to stamp the sentiment. I thought it special delivery, it was perfect for this one. So let me grab my scrap piece of paper. And then where did my pad go? You can see my pad is quite stained when you're doing stuff with opaque embossing powder as well as on dark card stock, you don't see that. So if your pad gets stained, I just save it for things like this where it start card stock or I'm using metallic powder. Wouldn't want to necessarily use it on something that has clear powder just because it's a little bit if it looks a little bit dirty when stamping, you're going to see that through clear powder, but absolutely perfect for this. Let's emboss this. There we go. You can typically see it go from a Matt Silver, too, shiny, glossy silver when we're using the heat gun. And it has to be a heat gun. You can't use a blow dryer or a flowchart will just dry the income below the powder off. A heat gun emits heat and will melt the powder, which is what we're going for. Once again, I put my piece under the ruler and just use the edges of the ruler. Guide myself to cut to them street. We go and then let's put the ends off those bits aside. I'm going to put some form Pop-Tarts on again because I want to pop that out just a little bit. I always love it when cards have a touch of dimension to them. We go pop that in the corner. Basically wherever you want it. I thought it looked best just a little bit outside of the frame and up, but wherever you like it is good. Next or last thing I'm going to do is just going to add some silver accents to the reindeer and the sleigh. Just to tie them in a little bit. You could use like a clear glitter pen as well. That would be nice. My die cut actually moves, so it's clearly not glued down quite yet, but that's okay. Let's put some on this lay here. And by doing it with a gel pen, you've got a lot of control over where it goes. And you definitely want something that's fine point you wouldn't want to try do that detail with something that had wide point to it. I'm going to leave this one like this, my sample card, I ended up putting some Glossy Accents in the windows of the lighthouse. But I actually don't really like how it turned out. I'm not sure if you'll be able to see it. It was really hard because those parts are so narrow, is really hard to keep all of the Glossy Accents in there, so it kinda floods over a little bit. And personally, I don't necessarily love that. Look. So I'm going to leave this one just like this. I think that looks much better. But there you go. Our third coastal card, again, if you didn't want it to be Christmas, to just take the Santa and slay off, put a different sentiment or leave the sentiment for the inside. 8. Coastal Card Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the coastal Christmas class. I hope you enjoyed having fun with a fun little twist on coastal cards by creating them with the Christmas theme. Remember, they don't have to be Christmas. You could leave those elements off and just have every day year-round cards. I hope to see you soon in another class.