Thank You

Big Shot - Love

Late August my husband encouraged me to purchase a Big Shot machine after showing him other card blogs. What fun it is creating more texture and adding new toys to the crowded craft room!  I like making different sized cards and thought this would be fun to show the colors of autumn leaves.  The leaves were stamped with various Distress Inks and then further enhanced by distressing the edges.  They were also mounted on pop dots before adhering to the embossed Cuttlebug swirl designed kraft paper.  The cardstock for the card is a creamy ivory that I stamped with Hero Arts amazing envelope pattern background stamp using HA sage shadow ink.

Merriest Wishes

Holiday Card Boot Camp 2011

It's November so that means Christmas isn't too far off.  I've enrolled in the Holiday Card Boot Camp and just now got to creating some stuff.

Materials Used:

Hero Arts Sizzix Holly Stamp & Embossing Folder 657769

Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eight Die

Hero Arts Cling Christmas stamp set CL 113

Basic Grey Nordic Holiday paper pad for tree & labels

Pearls colored with copic 'Lipstick Red' R29

My Mind's Eye Lime Twist twine

Paper Zone Facets green card stock A2 card

August Cards

Three cards plus this year's anniversary card.

This is my anniversary card for Jim - #38 on Aug. 19.

celebrate - It's Your Day

Cards from my pile of latest creations!

home sweet home

Week 4  Card #3

Fun Stuff

Week 4, Card #2

Using my square scalloped Marvy punch, I punched four different prints and lined them along the middle of a business envelope size card. The dragonfly was stamped in VersaMark ink and embossed with white powder. The green polka-dot square has a Making Memories green printed strip and baker's twine bow.  The 3rd square used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch; the butterfly was laid on the VersaMark pad and then embossed with platinum tinsel powder. The last sq. has a Paper House daisy sticker.  I used 3 round platinum brads under the 1st square. The bottom corners of the card were rounded off.

Sea, Sun, Sail

Week 4, Card #1

I used a corner punch on all four corners to secure the paper square, backed it with dimensional tape and then placed it over nautically stamped stripes and a strip of corrugated paper.  A small shell would be a nice touch but all my shells looked to large.