Week #3 Card

This week's Swap card had to use die cuts or punches. I didn't do anything too exciting, just used Nestabilities. (I do LOVE my Nestabilities!!!)

Catching Up!

I am so behind on my blogging!

These are my January Inchies. The theme is "Just one color". Technically this was February's theme, but I got my months mixed up... OOPS! No worries, I will make January's inchies next month. :-)

Here is my week #2 swap card, which had to use gold foil, glitter or leafing:

This is my first Design Team card for Croppinsville. We had to make a project using a sketch from the latest issue of Scrapbook's Etc. We also had to use black chipboard, Prima flowers and a Prima transparency somewhere in the design. Sadly, the lovely transparency doesn't show up in my scan...

Dark Colors & Layers

For week one of the swap, we had to make a card using dark colors. Since I had used a Hero Arts stamp, I decided to also enter it in this week's layers challenge on the Hero Arts blog . Just getting a useable photo was a challenge in itself. I took over 100 photos with our digital camera and couldn't get even one clear picture to use. (Either I am a lousy photographer or our camera is a piece of crap!) I managed to finally get a decent (albeit very dark) scan, but it didn't really show the layers...

Anyway, my friend Allie saved the day by taking a picture for me! Thanks Allie!!!

Finally!

It has taken me a month to recover from my flu shot or whatever bug I picked up while I was at the clinic getting said shot. Thankfully, my creative muse has finally returned and hopefully won't run off again when reminded that I still haven't started my Christmas cards yet...

Here are my very late November inchies (Theme: Fashion and/or Bling) and my December inchies (Theme: Snowman and/or Winter).

2008 Birthday Card Design

I mailed the last of these cards out a couple of days ago, so will go ahead and post a picture now. The bird was made using designs that I cut out of the Cuttlebug Paisley embossing folder.

I made a bunch of these cards up in all different color schemes, but I forgot to scan the other color combinations before I mailed them all off, LOL.

Bad Dog!

I actually remembered to make some Halloween cards this year! I also used this card design for my week #6 swap card, which had to use something 3D on it. I used foam dogs to pop up the dogs ears and tail as well as the moon and bats.

The stamp is my favorite dog image from Penny Black and is colored with Copics (of course!) The tombstones and moon were cut out of the Vintage (pre-sanded) papers by Coordinations.

Week #5 Swap Card

This week we had to make a card with two buttons on it.

October Inchies!

The theme is Halloween.

Swap Card Week #3

We had to use chalks for this card. I was brave and tried a Cuttlebug technique that a friend had told me about. I applied some blue chalk ink directly to the inside of the Cuttlebug folder before running it through my machine. The scary part was when I went to try and clean the ink off the folder, LOL.

I ran a Versamark pad over the embossed part of the image and then colored it with my Stampin Up! chalks.

Unfortunately this next step didn't show up in the scan... To seal it, I sprayed it with some leftover homemade glimmer spray consisting of Pearl colored Perfect Pearls mixed with unscented hairspray. You technically don't have to mix the Perfect Pearls with hairspray to make a glimmer spray- you could just use water... However, if you used water then your mist wouldn't work as a sealer for your chalks, LOL. Anyway, this card is VERY shimmery in real life!

Card Swap Week#1

The challenge for this week's card was to use both lime green and pink.

The gorgeous Spirelli card on the left is the one that Mom made for the swap. I made the card on the right. I used Copics to color the image and finished it off with lace ribbon and flowers from Prima.