Happy Cat in the Hat Day!

I used the scetch below for Cupcake Monday Challenge to make the card above. I am rather pleased with it and sent the card to all of my grand-children!

more Graduation and birthday

This is the second graduation card. I used a journey stamp with rainbow ink pad, embossed black metalic cardstock for the cap and black tassel, and of course the wave cut on black metalic cardstock. Very effective looking card.

This si the birthday card for the same girl below, whose birthday is the day after graduation.I made a half circle of the dark pink metalic card stock, blue embosing powder with fern stamp.punched two daisies and a gemstone brad in the vcenter. The pink fairy (hard to see here) was stamped them the outlines of the wings and hair and all of the flowing dress were covered with a clear glue and pink flocking powder sprinkled on. I scanned it too soon and it looks blurry now. When it dries I will take a soft brush and remove the flocking that did not stick to glue.

Graduations

I have a couple of graduations coming up so I began working on the card for the one in March. her birthday is the next day so I will have to make another for that.

With this one I was playing with a new system I recieved to try along with their new shiny surface card stock. I felt it was a bit much for the base of the card but it works great for embelishing.

I used the wave edge cutter to create the side piece. Then I ran it through my printer (up side down so it would print on the white side) then I used my embossing to trace the outlines of the girl and congratulations. It is kind of hard to see the embossing on here, but it looks good on the card. I cut them out and then attach them to pink card stock and added a black tassel. The school colors are hot pink and black (a beauty school).

Birthday Cards

This card was created for Don's youngest son, Chris, who is a Boy Scout leader and probably will be for a very long time. He has 4 boys the youngest is 5 now. I used a Norman Rockwell painting for the front. Mr. Rockwell did a great many Boy Scout paintings. the inside had the following quote:
"Leaders are the ones who
keep the faith with the past,
Keep step with the present,
and keep the promise to posterity."-unknown

This card was created for my Son, Jason, who's birthday was last week.

This card was created for Don's daughter, April who's birthday is next week.

Starting Valentine's Day Cards

This is my first challenge from Cupcake Craft Challenges. I figured it is time to start Valentine's ay cards because I have 12 grand-children and a grand-nephew and niece so 14 cards should be mailed out by the first of February.

The bottom is red cardstock (No idea which company).I used a scan of an antique Valentine's day card (I horad those things!) for the picture, framing it white stark white card stock. Silver embossing using a flourish stamp from Stampology. White paper doily trimed to fit under happy Valentine's Day strip. Three heart shaped "jewels" from Hobby Lobby.

Kelsey

I created this card for a challenge. I quilled a red hat lady snoman and a dapper snoman to escort her. they are set off by an oval frame. Next to them is a quilled poinessta. I love to mix techniques so I used a square of checkered fabric layered with jeans fabric and embroidered a pattern on them I added a button then glued the whole thing to the card.

This was a last minute guift for a special girl in my life. Her name is Brandy and she works with me during the summer as a Nun during the Civil War. These designs are also quilled then glued to an egg that has been blown out. a loop is added in the smallest end of the egg (I put the larger hole there for egg to come out of and a tiny hole at the large end to blow through) and covered the hole with lots of glue and a coiled paper.

Happy Christmas everybody!

holiday cards

This is the first of many cards I am making. The graphic I used for it is from antique card I had scanned the front of. I have loads of them to pick from. I will place the graphic below so you can capture it to use as well. Happy Holidays!