Catching Up - Birthday and Thank You Cards

I made a huge assortment of these Queen Bee cards for birthdays in 2008-2009:

 

I had a blast making these cat birthday cards for 2010-2011!

 

I made a large variety of owl birthday cards for 2011-2012. 

These are a couple of my favorites!

 

 

Here are a bunch of miscellaneous thank you cards that I've made:

 

This was my first time using Smooch Inks. I was so pleased with how Smooch worked to edge my newly purchased felt flowers!

 

I am pretty sure that I cased all these thank you card ideas from wonderful artists over at SplitCoastStampers.

 

 

 

Thank YOU for looking! 

Only two more posts before I am caught up!

Catching Up - A Few Mini Books!

I made several of these mini flip books for some friends:

 

When you remove each clip, a page flips open.

 

 

I used different paper designs for each book to personalize them a bit.

 

 

 

 

Next is the butterfly book that I made in 2011 for my friend's birthday. She has an adorable little grandson and I thought that a mini brag book make a great gift for her that year. 

 

To make this purse album, lay two gifts bags one atop the other making sure the handles are at opposite ends from each other. Fold the bags in half and then stitch them together down the middle of the fold. Super simple!

 

I love that this album has lots of blank cards and tags for adding pictures and journaling!
 

 

 

I also love that some of the blank cards even have clips on them to hold the photos. This allows for pictures to be easily swapped out for new ones so that my friend will continually be able to share new photos of her grandson as he grows up. 

More catching up....

We switched our monthly swap from Art dolls to Chubby book pages:

 

 

YIKES!

Has it really been three whole years since I have posted??? Sorry about that... I had good intentions, really I did! I have an obscene number of artwork scans on my computer just begging me to be uploaded. Therefore I probably should put them out of their misery and begin by catching you up on my creations.

Here are the rest of the art dolls that I made for the 2010 swap:

 

I just realized that the scan makes the shadowing on the stamp look like she has a beard!

I will try and post more catch-up updates this week. I'd post more tonight, but it has taken me almost three hours to upload this one post (God bless dial-up connections) and it is nearing midnight...

Art Dolls and a Card

Our inchie swap group decided to switch to making art dolls this year. I am so very excited about this as I will be able to finally use my collection of Art doll part stamps!!!

I adore the lovely and elegant dolls that my three swap partners sent me this month! I'm afraid my January doll turned out to be more wacky and whimsical than lovely...

I originally planned to make a jester doll for this month's theme.. Then I saw a picture of a cute bulldog online and wanted an excuse to try and color my new bulldog stamp to match it. I then decided to make my jester doll a jester dog. However, once I got the googley eyes on the dog and the pearls on the hat, I had another change of plans... I realized that instead of looking like a jester, he looked like one of those over-dressed, crazy little old ladies you see at the all-you-can-eat buffets on Sunday afternoons after church lets out. (I know you know which little old ladies I'm talking about... The ones with the maniacal glint in their eyes who look like they wouldn't hesitate to smack you with their handbags if you got between them and the fried chicken ...) Anyway, I decided to go with this new look and accessorize my dog doll accordingly.

I've also finished my February art doll:

Week #1 Swap cardThe card this week had to have either a basket or a vase of flowers on it.

I had a difficult time with this theme as none of our flower vase/basket stamps seemed to inspire me. I finally ended up making a shabby chic type card but I still am not really sure if I liked the flowers I stamped in the vase.