Marked Birthday card

The stamping on this has a lot more layers that it looks in the picture. Each flower is two stamps. One background in Summer Sun and then a upper layer in More Mustard. Then they are masked before leaves and stems. Last I inked the edges. The flower is partly created with the scallop punch and a flower punch from Stampin Up. The flower and leaves are from the Happiness Always Stampin Up set.

Magnolia Image

I was busy last night and stayed up most of the night making cards. It was lovely to lose myself in card making. Here is one of the cards I did. I used copics on the skin and yellow. The rest is done with colored pencils and OMS (orderless Mineral Spirits) It will be a birthday card for a co-worker. The image was a gift from a friend.

More pictures from hike.

Here are a couple more pictures from our walk on the AIM trail. The bird is a magpie.



This pictures was taken in partly of the trail that is in a collapsed lava flow. I love these trees. So much character.


This one was on the flat area. It is a plateau in the center of the valley. Very odd really. People rock climb on the sides of it.

Not Cards but beautiful

I have been trying hard to lose weight. This morning we took a long walk on a trail in town. It is unique as it is on top of a lava flow and ends in an area that is a collapsed part of the flow. It is right in the center of the valley but there are no buildings. Just nature. I loved it. Here are some pictures.

This is my son and husband....

The cactus weren't in bloom but close.

He stood real still thinking we couldn't see him but it made for easy picture taking.

Tomorrow it will be back to making cards but this was a nice activity for today.

Father;s Day Card

I did this card for my Father in Law today. The stamps except the words are from I Brake for Stamps. I used the cracked glass technique on the image. I shaped it to fit in a business envelope because the gift card we are sending said it can't be folded and it was that size. I think it's my first card in this shape.

One sheet wonder

I was looking for a way to do a lot of card with my card class and decided to try the one sheet wonder technique. To do this technique, you stamp a full sheet of paper or use a patterned paper and cut it in such a way to get the focus pieces for many cards. In my case, I used the pattern from this website:
http://mutchtostamp.blogspot.com/2007/03/one-sheet-wonder-template.html

She does have an error or two on the template. One measurement is 4.25 when it is listed as 4.5.

I had problems when I cut card 7 pieces so I didn't do that card. I also combined a couple pieces on one card. Finally, I used one card piece for the cover of the card holder. I will be using the 4 cards pictured individually as part of the class and card holder set. The other two are for me and I will be having the class members take those pieces home and doing the last couple of cards there.

Most of the supplies are from Stampin Up. The larger flower is from Stampendous. The crackle background was from I Brake for Stamps. Inks were from Stampin Up, I used Kiwi Kiss and Tempting Turquoise.

I think this technique would be wonderful with a precious piece of printed papers. One of those you loved and couldn't resist. I hope you felt inspired.

Images from Sweden

A sweet friend in Sweden sent these images to me to play with. I have more I will post in the days to come.

Thsi first one is from hAnglar & stAnglar I colored her with colored pencils and blended with mineral spirits. Her dace was colored with copics. The background is from cuttlebug. I was really happy how she turned out.

The second card is from Sugar Nellie. The stamp is Gorguss by Susan Wolcott. I used the same technique to color her as the other card. I chose the colors to use from the papers I was going to use so it is a perfect match. The inside has some cordinated papers as well. The scalloped circles are cut with nestabilities. And finally I had a cute matching ribbon. Hope you will enjoy them as much as I did making them.