May 18, 2016

Hi all.  I haven't posted for a month and I thought it was about time...Here are some of my most recent cards.

This card is being entered into the Art Impressions Blog Challenge, Laughing With You

 I made this get well card with card stock that I sponged to make it

look like the color of a band-Aid.  I embossed it with the Swiss dots 

folder from Cuttlebug.

 This card was made using a mask in the center and I used peg stamps from

Rubber Stamp Tapestry.

 This is a Zentangle card that I made.  The gem in the 

middle is called a Zen Gem and is done with colored pencils.

I love how the gem looks so real!

 This card was done with colored pencils. I matted it on to

embossed card stock.

I made this card for the husband of a friend that just

passed away from ovarian cancer.

This is another Zentangle stamp that was gifted to me.

I am going to a wedding next week for our former

associate pastor who got his own church last July.  I wove ribbon and

added the tiny pearls as well as the other embelishments.  It

is an easel card.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my latest work.  Please feel free to leave 

me a message and let me know what you think.

Till next time...

New Cards...

Hi all.  I have 2 new cards to show you today.  The first one is for the Imagine That design team.  I used the Love Lifts You set.  After printing the image, I colored it all with glitter gel pens.  I have not actually done this before but I really like the effect that it gives.  It looks more vibrant and sparkly in person.  The balloon and basket were cut out and I used embroidery floss to attach them and a Micron pen to put the black curly lines on the sides.  I printed the cloud background paper from the same set and pop dotted the image on a red card base.  This card can be used for either a sympathy or get well card. 

My next card is one that I made for a special order.  I had to make quite a few of them.  It is a stamped image that I tangled, shaded and colored with watercolor pencils.  They were each die cut and framed in a scalloped die cut.  Since I had to make so many,  I decided not to shade them and just colored and painted them.  

I hope you enjoy my cards.  Please leave me a comment and let me know!

Till next time...

Rainy Day Fun

Hi all.  Today I am posting a Throwback Thursday (even though it is Sunday).  I live in Florida and we get tremendous amounts of rain in the summer.  This particular image was from a while back, but I thought it was appropriate to make it now.  The name of the file is Rainy Day Fun.  My medium, this time, was colored pencils.  I decided to give the markers a break.  I wanted to do something different, so I used Nestabilities dies to cut 2 windows showing the face of the girl and the duck.  I used the larger, positive piece to pop up on the top with hello stamped on it.  I used an embossing folder of clouds as well as an edge folder and scored some lines.  When you open the card, you can see the entire image.  This is not my usual style and I thought it turned out very cute, however, it is not easy lining up the image with the windows.  Don't try this at home, boys and girls!  ;-)

Outside of card

Inside of card

Unfortunately, the pic of the front looks like it was debossed instead of embossed.  It really looks better in person than it does in the pictures.

I will be posting some more cards real soon, so don't forget to check back.  Also, it is not too late to enter the progressive digi challenge here.  You can get a free digi.  see the blog for details.

Till next time...

Imagine That Birthday Blog Hop

Imagine That! Digis by Kris is celebrating it's 1st Birthday with a Blog Hop!! There are lots of prizes to win. If you comment on all the DT's blogs, you will have 12 chances of winning a digi set of your choice at the store. PLUS, if you grab the highlighted letter on each DT blog and email the phrase to Kris at imaginethat.digisbykris@yahoo.com by March 17th, you will be entered to win the whole March Release!!  You can see all the fabulous March sets HERE.

If you didn't start at the beginning of our challenge blog, you can start here.  Welcome to my stop on the Birthday Hop!  Kris has created 6 new Birthday themed Critter Sets, plus 2 "KD-Kits" which not only have colored images but digi papers, journal cards, photo frames, brads, etc - a great value, so be sure to check those out in the store!  I've created a card using the "Sweet Deer" digi set.  The letter you need to grab on my blog is "a".

Your next stop on this birthday hop is Linda.  See what great things she has in store for you!  Be sure to check all of the blogs and maybe you will be a winner!  

 Good luck!

CHALLENGE BLOG 

Edwina

Karon

Tania

Kathy

Jenn

Jerusha

Tara

Barb - That's me!

Linda

Kelly

Helen

Silvi

Untill Next time...

Chinese Take Out Anyone?

Boy, did I have fun last week!  I was working on a wonderful project from The Cutting Cafe.  We were to use the Chinese Take Out Box template which also included a template for making fortune cookies, fortunes and all!  I wanted to make mine rather authentic looking so I used a heavy base weight card stock to cut out the box on my Silouhette.  I followed the directions and folded and glued it.  I decided to stamp all four sides with some of my Oriental stamps (I have a lot!)  The one big mistake I made was stamping AFTER I put the box together instead of BEFORE!   Oops... It turned out fine, anyway.  I made the handle with some bling type ribbon that is stiff.  I wanted it to stay up like the wire handle on the real boxes.  By the way, this box is only 2 1/4 " high.  You can make it larger, but my Silhouette machine will only use paper up to 8 1/2 X 11" so I had to use what I had.  It could have also been cut by hand, but I wasn't into doing that so much.  To make the fortune cookies, I printed out the sayings that were included in the set and followed the directions on how to put them together.  After they were together, I sponged them to make them look real.

 Take out box front (opened)

Take out box side and back (closed)

If you want to have a great gift for someone who loves Chinese food, you simply must go to The Cutting Cafe and buy this set!   If you don't want to make your own,  I can take orders for these sets.

Please leave me a comment and tell me what you think!   

Till next time...