Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Happy Fall

This is a card I sent for a fall exchange.


The scarecrow is a napkin.  There are some wonderful napkins out there that you can use to make cards with.  You just need to remove all the layers of paper so you have the image as a single layer.  There are different ways of adhering your napkin.  I prefer Wonder Under Lite but many people use Mod Podge.

The sentiment sticker is from SRM Stickers.  The bow is fabric.  I love to use fabric on my cards.

I hope the recipient loves the card.  I have two more scarecrows laying on my table waiting to be made into cards.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Spooky Scary Halloween


I am in a private group on Facebook and each month we do an exchange - this is the card I sent for Halloween.

The focal point is fabric.  When I use fabric I fuse Wonder Under Lite to it and then adhere to card stock to give it some stability.  Don't you love the wiggle eye on the house.  I couldn't resist adding one.

I hope the person who receives the card likes it.  It was fun to make.

Monday, October 19, 2015

Oldie Moldie Monday

Monday - time to show some love for your old supplies.  I am working on some Halloween cards.  All the paper is from the Halloween/Fall folder.  The little mummy is a new stamp from Michael's for $1.  Sometimes you find the cutest stamps in that bin.  He is stamped in black and embossed with clear embossing powder.  The Trick or Treat stickers are from SRM Stickers.



Remember to show some love for your old supplies.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Happy Birthday Annie

Recently, when I attended Bella Crafts Connection in the Twin Cities, Cindy Shepard inspired us to try and draw a bird.  Well she did inspire me, I was so surprised that I could kinda draw and I just keep drawing birds.  I look on Pinterest for inspiration and then go from there.  This particular bird started with a curved arrow.

I decided to make the bird into a birthday card for my friend Annie.  Annie I became online friends many years ago and luckily we are close enough that we can be friends in real life and create, shop and inspire each other.  If you look closely there is a little Zentangle on the bird and then just some doodling.



I added some embossing paste dots to the background and decided to make them stand out more, I outlined them with a fine black pen.  The sentiment seemed perfect for a bird.

Be brave, try to draw.  Can you find the original arrow that starts the bird?

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Halloween Card

Gee another great title for a blog post.  Sometimes I think the hardest thing for a post is to title it.

This card started out as an ATC for a challenge.  You can see the post about this here.  I have been trying to get a few Halloween cards made to send out this year so decided to use the ATC on a card.  I dug into my folder of Halloween/Fall papers and found these scraps of paper.  The purple card base is more recycled card stock.  Slowly I am using up this purple. I am thinking maybe I should make some purple Christmas cards this year.  Stay tuned.



The cat and pumpkin were fussy cut from patterned paper and layered over the stamped background.  On the stamped background, the Happy Halloween was at the bottom of the background.  I cut it off and glued it to the top so that you could see the sentiment.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Halloween ATC

I decided to make an ATC for the challenge on Wicked Wednesday ATC which is Trick or Treat.  I have my folder of Halloween/Fall out and found the cat and pumpkin image on a sheet of paper.  I thought they would make a cute ATC.  The background was also in the folder.


The background was colored green with an Inkintense Pencil.  The cat and pumpkin were fussy cut out of a sheet of paper and glued down.  Stickles were added to the eyes of the cat and pumpkin.  I fingered on an edging of purple Dylusions paint.

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Monday, October 12, 2015

Oldie Moldie Monday - Halloween

Decided I needed to make some quick Halloween cards.  I have several elderly special women in my life so I thought I would make some quick cards so I had something to send them.  I still have a couple more to make.  Hopefully that will be next Monday's post.

I keep a folder of all my Halloween and fall papers in so it is pretty easy to make something.  Both of these images were in the folder.  I believe I had printed them from somewhere but they sure helped make the cards come together very quickly.  I am always happy when I can find a use for my recycled purple card stock.



I did add some Wink of Stella to the teeth of the cat and the moon.  On the pumpkin I added it to the spider web, the eyes, nose and teeth.

Remember to show some love for your old supplies.