Latest Cards

My sister, Tricia, recently held a CTMH Hosted Party. She wanted me to do a few cards with different themes. Thank You, Thinking of You, and a Happy Birthday card. I used the Moon Doggie paper, Extreme Happiness and Dainty Thoughts stamp sets to create these cards and it was alot of fun!

May Card Swap Artwork

I've been busy...as you can see, its been about a month since I last posted something.

I'm finally getting around to posting May's card swap artwork. The theme for May was to create a 4"x4" bag front using any "summer" stamp set and embellishments. These 4"x4" creations can be added to the front of a bag to use as "gift bag".

Thanks Mom (yellow flower w/brown ribbon), Tricia (slippers "fun in the sun"), Nickalli (fishy in jar), and Jenniffer (duck "fun in the sun") for participating! Mine is the plumeria paradise one.

Calgary Regionals Goodies and Artwork

I've finally gotten around to taking pictures of all the fun stuff that I got from this year's CTMH event called Regionals. If you remember, I attended a Regionals in Vegas and that was so much fun! This year, it was in Calgary. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it to Canada but I was able to still get all the fun and exciting projects that everyone who went received. When the box came, it was Christmas in May!!

I received a commemorative Regional Celebrations bag, 4 brand new stamp sets, paper pre-cut to make 3 different 2-page layouts and 2 greeting cards, a My Creations Memory Box w/supplies to decorate it, and Sparkles, Hemp, cardstock Hodge Podge letters, and instructions on how to put everything together. Over the past few days, I've been putting together the projects. Here are some pictures. As soon as I finish the other projects, I'll post pics of them.

All my goodies and the bag which is really cool - I'll be using this bag alot!!

Back Country WOTG - It called for Brown Bag stamp pad but that's the only color that I don't have (funny, seeing as I have pretty much every other color, haha!) So, I improvised and used 2nd generation stamping with Autumn Terracotta and Chocolate stamp pads. The color came out pretty good! Also, on the close-up shot, I had to add liquid glass (to add some umph!) to the 4 My Stickease stickers.

Four brand new stamp sets: Dainty Thoughts, Connections, Priceless Love Word Puzzle, Campin Fever.

I heard that Jeanette herself led the instructions for this techniques sampler.

If you click on the picture, it will enlarge so you can see the actual technique. But, starting from the hearts and going clockwise, here are the techniques: 2nd and 3rd Generation Stamping, Masking, Arching Stamps, Creating Backgrounds.

Again going clockwise: Paper Piecing, Stamping with Two Colors, Using a Blending Pen, Rock and Roll.

Random Stamping and Stamp Kissing

This card was fun to make, although it took me about 30 minutes to put together. Haha, don't get me wrong, I love this card; however there's alot of technique to it.

1) For the very first time, I used our Color Ready Alphabet letters. The instructions said to sponge the color onto these card stock letters. So, I used removeable tape and taped off the surrounding letters. Then I used a sponge dauber and applied sorbet ink to them. I think these letters are my new favorite and I'll need to get more soon because they are SO easy to use. They are limitless because they soak up the ink color wonderfully and you can make them match any of your papers.

2) This card had 2 little stamped images that needed to be cut out, which was easy.

3) Sponging...every single piece of paper for this card is distressed using the sponging technique.

4) Hemp...the lower left side of the card has this really cute hemp decoration. This took a few tries because hemp is just a bit thicker than our paper piercing tool. Next time, I think I'll use a very tinyhole-puncher and that will work much better.

5) Lastly, my favorite of embellishments are sparkles. They add so much to a card design and give the card a "finished" look.