A COUPLE OF MY RECENT CARDS...

Hi all!

I have been trying to keep busy lately with my card making.  I thought I would show you a couple of my latest cards... The first one was stamped with a very large butterfly image and heat embossed with ultra fine black embossing powder.  I colored it with only 2 Copic markers.  I placed the card front on my Cuttlebug plate and taped each die cut so they would not move.  I cut the entire thing in one passing.  After that, I used pop dots, graduating each layer so that I ended with 5 layers of pop dots on the center piece.  I love the effect of this technique.

The second card was made for my sister's birthday.  I used a digital image and colored it with colored pencils.  I die cut the image and also cut a piece of black card stock with the same die.  I cut the black one in half and made a partial frame with it.  I wanted it to give some contrast against the pink, embossed piece of card stock.  I layered them on a white card base.

I hope you enjoy seeing what else I do (when I am not doing design team work!  ;-)

Until next time...

One More Christmas Card!

Hi all.  I know we are almost halfway into January, but I have one more Christmas card to post.  I am sure this will be my last for quite a while so please indulge me!  I made this card for the Imagine That design team.  I thought this adorable snow angel in the snow globe was just too cute not to use for this project.  After coloring and cutting out the image with Copic and Sharpie markers, I used a brush-on glue and added some white glitter to look like it had snow inside.  I use pop dots to give it dimension.  The sentiment is also from this set.  It is called Snow Globe Angel and you can purchase it from the link.

Be sure to check out the Imagine That challenge blog and see how you can get free digi stamps.

Please don't forget to leave me a comment.  Just click on the word comment at the bottom of this post.  I really would love to hear from you.  That is why I do this!  

Till next time...

Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!

This week's Design Team project was a print only file that comes in PDF or JPG format.
It is called All About Girls.  You can see all of the files here.  I used one of the sentiment digis and added some of the flower digis onto the layout and printed the whole thing together.  After I colored the sentiment and flowers, using Spectrum Noir markers, I used 3 different sizes of a Nestabilities label set.  I highlighted GIRLS with a Clear Star gel pen to give it some sparkle, and a clear Glaze pen, to give a little shine to the flowers.  I colored some small floral elements from my stash and added them to the layout.  I also put some sparkly sticker dots in the flower centers, that I painted black with a Copic marker.  The base yellow card panel was embossed with my Cuttlebug.  The green layer, above that was cut from the same size die as the pink daisy designer paper.  I cut it in half lengthwise and glued it to the pink layer.  As always, I had fun making this card.  Don't forget to check out what the other DT members have up their sleeve, on Wednesday.  There were so many choices of images to choose from.  I am sure you will find 

something that you just have to get!

Girls Just Wanta Have Fun! 

 All About Girls.

Please leave a comment at the bottom of this post.  I just love to hear from you and find 

out what you think of my card!

Till next time...