CASED

I was visiting Michelle Zindorf's blog today. (Michelle's tut)

I usually go there everyday because she does great tutorials.  T

oday I completely CASE'd her tutorial and I love the result. visit her blog for details, you'll be there awhile looking around.

Makes me want a cupa hot chocolate! Perhaps if we are lucky here in Southern Ohio we will finally have spring, so this may be the last cup of season. For me hot chocolate is so soothing on a winter's afternoon. I remember coming in from school and being greeted by my mother and a loving cup of hot chocolate. Gotta run, have some fun today!

Firsts

This is my first scrapbook layout!  I am learning how to digitally scrapbook and this is my first attempt.  The other first is the subject; my first granddaughter who spoke for the first time at age 5 months.

Isn't she just the Cutest! I know I am biased being a new Grammy, but I'm entitled and you'd be too!

QueenPam

In Sympathy

Sadly we will all need to make and send a sympathy card at one time or another.  I made this one for a friend whose mother passed away, my heart goes out to her. 

 I used a beautiful stamp from the Thomas Kincaid collection from Cornish Heritage Farms ; I stamped it in Sepia Versafine on glossy cardstock that had been brayered with Autumn Leaves Kaleidacolor pad.  I then cut some satin ribbon and stamped on it “With Sympathy”. Since the Versafine would not dry on the glossy cardstock I covered it with a acetate sticker and added the “dew drops”

 

The inside verse says:

 I pray that in a very special way the Lord will comfort you today.

Birthday times 3

Today I needed 3 birthday cards...well actually I needed 2 of them before today. A good friend and 2 of my great-neices will be the recipients.

I love the elegance of this card. It has silver foil vellum that is tied on with silver edged ribbon. The vellum was in a clearance bin at Craft 2000 and has a friends theme. The dark paper is actual silver mirror paper which goes dark in the scanner.

One niece is turning 16 and the other 12. I thought these cards would be fun to make with them in mind. I also wanted to try out the Digital Stamps I downloaded from Pink Petticoat. This is new to me as I am a stamper who uses physical stamps but these digital ones were economically and fed my need to have it now. I colored these cards with Copic Markers.
 

 February 12, 2008 5:17 PM

Be Love

To have a friend be a friend. 

  If you want a love be love.

That's the card I made tonight.  Thinking about what I want most in my life and realizing that to get it I need to be it. What we send out is what comes back to us...both the good and the bad.

This is card is for my club meeting this Sunday and theme is Valentine and use flocking. The heart and the words are flocked. The ribbon is actually held in place so it looks like it is flowing.

A Good Goose

Today I have the day off from work due to Martin Luther King's holiday. My plan for the day is just to spend it how I want. Got my work done on Friday evening! No guilt here. So I want to get started on my valentine cards. I got some cute stamps from Rosie's Roadshow that are male and female geese. I made this card for my guy.



I used Versafine Onyx Black ink to stamp on to Cougar Opaque card stock.






I colored the stamped images in with Copic markers I used R39, G24,Y17, Y11,B9a, E33 and V12. I punched the corners with the ticket punch from Stampin Up and embellished the card with puffy heart stickers from K & Company.

I free-hand stamped the inside:
"Aren't you glad you found me!"

Club Cards

I am a member of Cincinnati Ink, a group of Rubber Stampers who meet twice a month out of Stamp Your Art Out in Cincinnati Ohio. Each meeting we trade 2 cards, one themed and one no theme. This meetings' theme was snow with glitter.

Here is what I made. I used my cuttlebug for the black and white one (no Theme), I love this toy. I can't take credit for the idea I saw it on some one's blog and finally had a use for the tiny embossing folder! Thanks!

The theme card is created on StarDream with Glitter Embossing Powder. Enjoy!