Well I spent the weekend putting away Christmas and organizing my craft room. I got the samples made for the workshop this week. I will post them later this week for you to see. Today’s card was a simple easy card. I used this card to base the box on as I liked the way it turned out. Not much to explain. Here is my creation. Stamps: Garden Silhouettes Paper: Bordering Blue, white, Le Jardin…
Well I spent some time in my craft room yesterday trying to get organized. I need to make my cards for my workshop this week and need to get things ready to use that room. I also started taking down my Christmas decorations. When I left last week I just left everything in the house as it was for the holidays but need to get things down and put away before the workshop. I also…
I wanted a simple one layer card for one in the set. I went to the Stampin’ Up set with simple flowers. Although there are no embellishments on this card I think it is very pretty. I used markers to ink the stamp then stamped it one and then again without reinking to get a softer image also. Like the effect but need to work on my image placement a little. Here is my creation.…
Michaela and I are headed home today. It has been a good week. She has visited a lot of the surrounding towns to get to know the area. She has hit some really good sales (how about silk fabric for curtains that was originally $50 a yard on sale for $6 or a $70 mirror on sale for $17). That girl really has the luck when it comes to shopping! We have visited several local…
This is the last card from my fun and funky card set. I wanted to create a colorful butterfly so I pulled out my Kaleidacolor pads and choose this one to ink the image. I had this colorful knitting ribbon I had picked up at Michael’s that matched the ink so I decided to use it. I used the Kaleidacolor pad to ink the edges of the card. I also added the pink bling flowers…
I try and participate in sketch challenges quite often as I feel it increases my skills. The Card Sketch A Day blog puts up a sketch each day and everyone is welcome to give them a try. I volunteered to create a card for one of her sketches. I liked the sketch so much that I created 2 cards. Here is the sketch and my creations. I decorated the inside also and here is a…
