Working on St. Patrick’s Day Cards

Second post, scroll down for first! I need to make my St. Patrick’s Day cards as I need to mail some out at the end of this week. I used some of the challenges to make some of my cards. I am going to share one of them with you today. Limelight Papercrafts has a sketch challenge this week. Another added piece to the sketch was to use ric rac. Since I have quite a…

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My Mojo is HOT!!!!

I don’t know what got into me yesterday. I had my workshop and after everyone was gone I checked out some of the blog challenges and ended up making 9 cards and a tag. I will be posting them over the next few days and may even have more than one post a day. The card I have for you today is one I did for the Verve Release Sketch Challenge. I haven’t done one…

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Workshop Samples

Happy Saturday! I thought I would share the last 2 cards from my workshop. You can find the other 2 cards here and here. The first card is one I saw in my Cardmaker magazine. I thought it would be a fun card and it turned out great. I used some retired Stampin’ Up patterned paper for the hat band. Here is my creation. inside of card Stamps: Itty Bitty Buds (hostess) Paper: Glorious Green,…

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Something Out of the Ordinary

Well today’s card is a little out of my ordinary style. I had wanted to do the Cuttlebug challenge on their blog. I checked it out and it was to use watercoloring to emboss or deboss. So I chose my embossing folder and pulled out one of my Kaleidacolor pads and inked up the inside of the folder. I ran my paper in the folder through my Cuttlebug and liked the effect. Then I had…

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Playing Catch Up

Did you think I had fallen off the face of the earth? Did you miss me? I got stuck at a friend’s house in the snowstorm for a few days and I am trying to play catch up. I have missed making cards the past few days. I wanted to catch up in some of the challenges that I missed so I ended up combining 3 challenges in this card. The Flourishes blog has a…

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A Picture Frame

I found a great blog. Samantha has some great ideas using punches. What that girl does with punches is amazing. She had a post that I saw and knew I had the perfect idea for it. Last week she posted a girl in a cap and gown that I thought was so cute. My sister gave me a picture of my youngest and myself at her college graduation in December. It was a good picture…

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