Get Well Card

Here's a get well card I made using an image from a SCS swap; I believe it is from Whipper Snapper.

Image colored with watercolor pencils and blended with gamsol; paper is all DCWV.

Card Candy - Travel

I've joined a swap on Splitcoaststampers forSpring and Summer Card Candy. This batch is for the travel category.

Card Candy is a piece you could put straight on a card/scrapbook page without having to do anything to it. An image, a saying, etc. and usually consists of a minimum of 2 layers and possibly an embellishment. There are usually 4/5 pieces of candy in a package.

The first piece is an interstate sign. The die is from ProvoCraft and was cut out of white, blue and red paper and put together. The "66" is cut from white paper using Sizzix's Playground sizzlets.

The next piece uses white and navy paper and the ink is Adirondack Denim. The base layer has little passport stamps - the stamp is an ATC stamp from either Lost Coast Designs or Stamp Camp. I don't recall which - they are generally together at the conventions I go to - and I can't find it on either web page and punched with SU's small oval, large oval and scalloped oval.

The Traveler stamp is from a set of travel words from Impression Obsession.

The round piece is a stamp from Inkadinkado, stamped with Adirondak Cabin Fever on ivory paper from Office ??? and matted on DCWV paper.

The elephant stamp is from SU's Balmy Breezes and stamped with Color Box Antique Pewter on grey paper, cut with Fisker's stamp scissors, matted on white and matted again on the grey, once again cut with the stamp scissors.

The tag is SU's Hiways and Byways background stamp, colored with copics and matted with red paper and punched with SU's tag punches. I left the interstate sign blank so the user can add their favorite highway number.

Graduation Thank You cards

Last night I was making thank you cards to give to my nephew at his high school graduation; I'd cut out 20 diplomas, colored the ribbon on them, rolled the background for all 20 and cut out the paper to finish them when my husband comments to me, "Do you think a teen-aged boy will use these?" Argggggghhhhhh! Really, 4 hours into the project (the cutting and coloring were done while we were watching TV) he says this???? Why not 10 minutes into it, when we were sitting 10 feet apart and I was cutting? Well, here they are, he better use them!!! His school colors are red and black.

The diploma is an Ellison thin die (like a Slizzlet) and the background is rolled using SU's "Graduation Day" wheel, the ink and paper are SU's "Real Red" and the diploma is cut out of American Crafts cardstock.

Dustin Pike's Blog-iversary

I've been out of town, so I don't have any new cards for you, but Dustin Pike is celebrating his "Blog-iversary" with a fabulous sale of his digi-stamps. Go check it out!!! He also has some freebies!!!!

Actually, here is an older card using one of Dustin's images. I love his dragons!!! The photo of the card isn't the greatest. I used the Cuttlebug embossing folder "Tiny Mosaics" for the green background, I thought it looked like scales! I colored in the dragon with watercolor pencils and then used gamsol to blend.

Travel Inspired Cards, Take 2

Here are a couple more travel inspired cards I created last week. They both use pictures from the Fodor's Page-a-day calendar I have.

This one is of London at night, with Big Ben, Parliament and the Millennium Bridge. I used a variety of postmark stamps; one from Stampabilities, Seaside Stampin Ink, Inkadinkado, SU's World Traveler and Office Ephemera and the London Cube from Judikins. The paper is from Big Lots, I used my Deckle nesties and Adirondack "Denium" ink.

This one features a picture of Ponte Vecchio over the Arno river in Florence, Italy. I used paper from DCWV and my deckle nesties. The stamps I used are from Seaside Stampin Ink, Inkadinkado, SU's World Traveler and Office Ephemera and a little (ATC sized) background stamp from either Lost Coast Designs or Stamp Camp. The "Journey of the Heart" stamp is from a PSX Pixie set.

Card Remake

One of the Splitcoaststampers forums that I occasionally participate in is for Clean and Simple (CAS) Cards and one of the regular weekly challenges is to give a card a makeover. I chose a card I made that I didn't like. I was trying a monochromatic theme, but just didn't like the end result. Here's the original card:

For this Makeover challenge, I colored the leaves with orange and yellow watercolor pencils and used gamsol to blend the colors. I then matted the card on a matching orange/yellow paper. Here is the end result:

I'm much happier with this version and will save it for fall and send it to someone.

Cat Card

Here is a card I made for a kitty person. The Southwestern cat is from After Midnight Art Stamps and with it's complex design I like to use it on simple backgrounds. This cat was colored with copics and put on a textured black cardstock.

Cat Card

Here is a card I made for a kitty person. The Southwestern cat is from After Midnight Art Stamps and with it's complex design I like to use it on simple backgrounds. This cat was colored with copics and put on a textured black cardstock.

Glitter!!!!

This is the card that introduced me to glitter. I'd been given some pink glitter in a swap and thought I give it a try...and I loved it! So, of course, I had to buy some more at the next convention. I think I now have at least 15 colors of glitter. I made this card for a friend who stamps and knits. We used to stamp together until she moved to DC.