I Will Always

I'm behind on my blog posts so hopefully in the next few days I can get caught up. I have been creating just not posting. :(

Here is a card I did over the last couple of days. Is it sad that it takes me that long to create something. 

 The flower is done on specialty stamping paper by Ranger. First I wet the paper then dabbed Tim Holtz wild honey distress paint and some forest moss distress paint on the paper. Then I took a wet paper towel and swirled it around. After it dried I stamped a Studio 490 Daisy Art flower stamp on it. I cut out just the flower. Then I stamped the stamp on a scrap piece of basic grey green dp so I would have green leaves. I colored accents on the leaves with copic markers. I glued the flower over the leaves and put some yellow stickles in the middle of the flower. The black swirl dp is from basic grey. The swirls stamped on the yellow is from the same stamp set with a couple of black nailhead stickers for accents. There is black and green organza ribbon under the flower. The words are also from the same stamp set. The die cut is from nestabilities. You can barely see but I stamped the words on the yellow card stock with yellow brilliance ink.

Here is the inside:

This card was lots of fun to make as I used a different technique and not much coloring. Hope you enjoy and are inspired.

Baseball Girl

I was going to make this card for a girl but I didn't get it done in time for her birthday so I sent another one. This one will go into my stash for another time. How often do you  do that? :)

The image is a digi from Saturated Canary here called Spring ball.

She is colored with copics. The glitter paper is from Target as is the baseball. The dp is from bo bunny. The swirls are from Spellbinders Shapeabilities Twisted Metal Tags and Accents. The black dots are nailhead stickers and the gray pearls are from Queen & Co. Then the black organza ribbon bow tops it all off.

Hope you enjoy!

Baby Boy

The wife of a lawyer who works in my office had a baby this last week. Of course, that calls for a card. So here it is.

I used this Magnolia baby for the image and colored it with copics. The lace has frosted stickles and the wings star dust stickles and the star crystal stickles. The image is cut out with scalloped nestabilities and edged with sky blue brilliance ink. The star dp is from Basic Grey and the gray is from Bo Bunny. The rocking horse and teddy bear are Daisy Kingdom buttons are years and years old. The flowers and star have blue rhinestones in the middle. And the blue organza bow is tied with a smaller organza ribbon and topped with a star and flower.

Here is the inside.

The feet are from a punch. 

I am entering this in the Color Me Creative Challenge  - show some skin here http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup

What sweeter skin is there than a baby's.

Green Edwin

My son-in-law's birthday is on St. Patrick's Day so I try to make him a card with a green theme. This year I used Edwin.

I stamped Edwin on a glitter kraft card stock and then colored him with prisma colored pencils. I The background around him is done with copic markers. The little shamrock was stamped on green paper, cut out and glued on. The punch at the bottom is from Martha Stewart. A gold layer and a green layer and the card was done. Pretty Simple!

I am entering this in the Clean and Simple Challenge over at Magnolia-licous Challenge Blog here.

Rose

This is one of those sad occasions for a card. I needed a card for the husband of a friend who died recently. I made it a bit bright for cheer because the friend is now in heaven so we shouldn't grieve too much. Of course with her passing we have a hole in our lives.

The image is from Red Rubber Designs and is colored with copics and has stickles on the petals. The dp is from basic grey. A yellow organza ribbon is around the card with half pearls on top. The blue ribbon is iridescent although it doesn't really show in the picture. The butterfly is a paper charm from Amy's Magic and is colored with copics. Here is a close-up.

And here is the inside.

Enjoy!

Treasure Tree

I have never used this stamp in a way that I liked before. This is the best I have come up with. All other tries have ended in the garbage. I guess the motto here is "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

It is an stamp set from the angel company (now out of business). The tree itself is stamped with burnt sienna palette ink and the leaves are stamped with various green versa color  inks. Everything is colored with prisma color pencils. The sky is done with blue versa magic ink. I tore a piece of paper and then used a cosmetic sponge over the edge to create a cloudy appearance. 

There circle charm with a washer glued in it. The washer says treasure on it. Then there is a double sided ribbon tied around the charm loop. Here is a close-up.

The dotted paper is done by running an embossing folder with white core dcwv paper and then sanding the raised layer of dots. 

Here is the inside.

I stamped leaves in all the corners.

Hope you enjoyed.

Warmest Wishes

Spring is coming. I just know it is coming. I know it is still freezing outside but spring is coming. So for spring here is a springy card.

I used the stamp set pressed flowers from Red Rubber Designs. The words are from an old angel company set. I used Versa color ink for everything except the yellow which is from Brilliance. There are brads in the middle of the two end flowers and the strip is raised with mounting tape. The dp is from basic grey. 

I am entering this in Red Rubber Inspiration challenge to use two or more inks. There are six here so I think it qualifies. 

Here is wishing you some warm weather along with the warm wishes.

Pug

One of my Sunday School students said today she liked pugs and wanted a couple. Her mother said, "no." I told her I would send her one. Here is the pug I am sending her.

The pug is colored with copics. Layere paper. The one is a corrugated paper by DCWV. The gray dp is from bo bunny. I don't know where the red dp is from. The twill tape had the paw prints printed on it. The button is tied with scrapper's floss. The black dots are nail head stickers. 

I may have to make this card for my son-in-law as he likes pugs, too.

Bicycle Tilda

What inspires you to make a card? For me this time it was washi tape. I found some 3M washi tape at Target and knew I had to have it and what stamp I would use with it.

Tilda is colored with copic markers, a bit of white pen and some stickles. Lots of sequin flowers are used as well as glitter dots, pearls and nail head stickers. The dp is from bo bunny. The fancy frame is from nestabilities. To make the bow I tied the white ribbon around the loops and added a sequin flower. 

Hope you enjoyed the card.

Just Dance

I love silhouettes so I just had to get this digi from Pickled Potpourri.

This is a pretty simple card but sometimes that is just what is needed.

The frame is from a die from memory box. I tied a couple of fibers and added those at the bottom. There are mini brads in the corners. and the corners were shaped with a punch.

That's about it but it lets the dancing girl show her stuff.