White on White 1

This is my first white on white card. I was a little dubious of my ability to make one. I hope you enjoy looking at this.

Simple Cards

I took some quick pix of these cards in the back of Hannah's Tahoe so I could remember what I had given to Aunt Lisa. :D

Post-It Note Holder for Talitha

I made this for Talitha because I thought she would like it. The direction is different from the one I made for Hannah and the background is not changeable b/c I had to tie the ribbon around the acrylic frame in order to make it stay together properly. I used pink paper and a dark brown rub-on.

Post-It Note Holder for HJ

I created this post-it note holder for Hannah (after she asked me) she requested pink or black and this is what I came up with. One side is pink with a stamped flouish and one side is black with a white rubon. I liked the way especially the black one turned out. :D

More Cards II

These are the cards I made using a card kit I put together.

I have recently become involoved with Splitcoast Stampers. (Well more than I have ever been in the 3 years I have been a member/ known about it.) Some of these cards you are seeing are products of my work on swaps or random-acts-of-kindness cards that I send out to various people who then mail them on to someone else. (ie: people who have recently lost a baby, cancer patients, nursing home patients....the list can go on and on.)

New card. Yes, I can hear those of you who are not card makers out there groan. Sorry. I just want somewhere to post my pix so that I can look at them quickly and easily.

So this is another guy card. This time I used a hunter green for the base. I also colored the trees so it looked kind-of like fall. I like it.

These are some projects I picked up after Valentine's day at Joann's for 70% off. Josiah did three. I did three. Abbi did six. She loved it. These were so easy it was just peel and stick. The kids had a great time.

Invitations for Josiah's 6th Birthday Party!

We (Josiah and I) are pretty excited about these cards. Josiah was not convinced at first that they would be very nice looking, but I think I managed to convince him that they would be ok. Then when I made them he got very excited. There are two colors because there are two birthday parties. We have one in Waco for Jonathan's family and our close friends up there and then we have one at our house. I really didn't like the idea much when I was a kid and some of my cousins would have two parties one for us and one for the other family. I almost felt like my cousins would feel the other party was more fun than the one I had gone to. So, because of that I didn't want to have two parties for my kids. Now, however, we live further away than we did when the kids were born and some of the family can't travel this far, so we do it. I am going to have to re-write the party info for the Austin party becuase I have been forced to reschedule it. A meeting came up unexpectedly on the weekend I had his party scheduled for. Josiah is a little sad about that, but I think that actually it will stretch out the fun of birthday longer.

Another masculine card. I am trying to stock up on cards as I think you can see. The scalloped medallion on the inside (see below) is just the perfect size to hold a stamped sentiment that I have punched out with a 1 1/4" circle punch. All I need to do now is choose the appropriate phrase and adhere it to the middle of the circle. Easy b/c most of the work has already been done.

This is two cards I made that have the same layout, they are just color opposites of each other. I really like the colors together and the hearts!

Ok. This card is really cute in real life, but the lighting and the colors just didn't want to cooperate very well, but I decided to post it anyway.

This is a card I copied from the Stampin' Up! catalog. I changed the type of flower and the color scheme, but otherwise it is the same.

The picture to the right here is the front. Below is the inside of the card. This card didn't quite turn out how I wanted it to, but well, I guess I am ok with it. :)

Baby card

A baby card I made. I did this one in pinks, and I am thinking about trying to make a blue one (for a boy).

This is yet another 'guy' card that I have put together. One of the ladies whose blog I follow does beautiful, elaborate insides to her cards. So I am trying to do a little bit on the inside of my cards. Like I have said before, I love to use the Lovely as a Tree set. I also used another technique that I really like. On the image on the front of the card, I rounded two corners and left two square. I also used two colors of ribbon which I think was fun. :)

The inside and the front of one of my most recent cards. I dug out my Lovely as a Tree stamp set and have been going to town . I really like the trees for guy cards. I wasn't sure about the color combo, but Esther said that it wouldn't be too bad for a guy card if it only had a little bit of apricot. I hope I didn't over do it too much with the apricot on the inside, but I figured that something was needed to make it fancy and to make it easier to write on and to read what is written. :)

For the stampers this is made using Apricot Appeal, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red, Bella Rose DP, two brads, the Print Pattern bkgd stamp and the watercolor wonder crayons. ( I really like those)

Some more papercraft projects I have done lately. The bag is made from one piece of 12x12 paper with some snazzy folds, a little adhesive, four punched holes, four eyelets and two pieces of ribbon. It is pretty easy to do. The hardest thing for me was to get the stripes running the right way.

The blue project is a little holder to put a package of candies in or maybe some sticky notes to give as a gift.

The last project is an altered notebook. I found this book at target in their dollar section. I added some patterned paper, a stamped butterfly, some hearts stamped on the front in white ink, and a binder clip that I had attached some patterned paper to also.

I decorated some cheap pens the other day. I bought a package of pens 12/ $1.00. I already had most of the flowers and the floral tape. So I went to town and decorated all twelve. I had lots of fun and now I have all these pretty pens that I need to give away....

This second picture is of one of my favs. I love those roses because of the variation in the shading. I know these are kind-of large pens, but that is part of the beauty of them, next to nobody will walk off with them because they are large and won't easily fit in a pocket or a purse. :)