Give Thanks

It is Thanksgiving Day 2020 and while I know many in the country are wondering why give thanks, I have much to be grateful: family, friends, and my faith. Here is a card I made for a friend using paper I had forgotten I had in my stash and a new die from Hero Arts. I applied some white pigment ink in the center to diffuse the print before glueing the pumpkin and stamping the sentiment.

Summer Cards

 I just realized I meant to put these cards up on this blog but for some reason, I didn't until now.

Anniversary Card for Tim's parents, this year's was their last together.

September Cards

 I know, it is now October, but I didn't realize it has been over a month since I posted here. So here's some pix of cards I made in September.

inside of the card on the left below

I made the pink one first, then decided to make one a little bigger with a ribbon to close the folds. Both cards have been mounted onto a folded base.

Months of Cards

well it has been a few months since my last post and I would have thought I would have made a pile of cards, because there's not much else to do during this "virus time", but if it weren't for the times I needed a particular card for someone or my group Sisters in Stamping who still meet weekly in a zoom meeting, I wouldn't have much to show I am afraid. In our zoom meetings we choose a theme or material to use for cards to "show n tell" the following week. Anyways here's a small collection of cards I have made (and remembered to photograph before sending out).

On the ship one below, you pull up to reveal a colored image and the words stamped: OH SHIP I forgot your birthday. And I forgot to take a photo showing that. We were to make cards with acetate.

The cards below cards were all made with vellum.  

The card on the left was made by running the vellum piece through an embossing folder, turning raised parts white. The sentiment and leaves were glued on top of the vellum and then adhered to a blue panel before adding to the base card.. 

The cone flower was stamped with FSJ inks, giving it sufficient dry times, then splattered with black silk ink and NUVO drops in the center. Not crazy about the black splats, but there's no going back. That stamp set is FSJ Beautiful Friendship, btw. 

I am not really happy with the coloring behind the pink flower. I think it would look better behind a beach scene or lighthouse. Those stamps are from Gina K Designs Best Flowers, stamped with Versamak and embossed in white before coloring with COPIC markers on the back. I used a border die cut to hide the glue behind the vellum piece.

aLLAMA love

I made this for my granddaughter to go in a package with some little gifts including a pillowcase with llamas printed on it.

I hand wrote the sentiment and then took the photo. But before sending it, I added a lowercase a in front of the word llama. So it is a pun for “all of my” instead of  “lotta” get it? 

This is a stamp set from FSJ and I colored it with Copics. The sunglasses were stamped alone, colored, cut out and glued on, then covered with glaze. I also used a fine pen to add lines on the blanket.

My Easter Card 2020

Thanks to Laura Williams, a designer at Spellbinders/FSJ, for this card design. I also made some with purple  base card.

Here’s a photo from my friend Julie that she put on her Facebook page to wish her friends a Happy Easter.

A little ducky

Just putting up a card I made for the SCC Audubon Club to send to a generous donor.

I used pan pastels to color the image after Stamping with brown ink. The sentiment was heat embossed in black. Now that I have to stay home, I will try to get more pics up of cards I am making.

Clean and Simple Card

I keep my printed paper in empty dvd cases cut to card front size, which makes it simple to put together a card like this. This paper is from the FSJ Good Life collection, the die is by Catherine Pooler, and the stamp is old TAC one.