Black and White

These are some of my favorite cards I have done. I love the simplicity of the black and white. I love the different ribbons. These are double sided papers and I cut out some of the flowers and matted them for a 3D effect. They are just pretty, that is in my opinion.

Have a great day!

It's Fall...

This was fun! I love fall and the fall holidays. This is a card I did for my brother. He visited me when I was in the hospital and brought me and card and just was very caring to call and check on me regularly. I used several different techniques doing this, I colored with water color pencils, embossed with versa mark and clear embossing powder and then just cut out each piece and applied it to the card with tape or glue dots. I always do the brads and then adhere the paper, i don't like the brads going through the paper so that you can see it when you open it. If I do the brads through because of necessity I always put a new piece of paper on the inside to hide them. These stamps are a combination of 3 stamp sets. Fall Whimsy was one of the sets and the other was the Thankful Thoughts and the final was an independent stamp, the hay bales.

I used the hay bales several years ago to make cards for my best friend when she lost her father-in-law and they were out of town so we had to pull a bunch of people together to unload hay before the rain since the funeral and family stuff all happened at the same time. So I made Thank You cards for her to send to those that helped her. They were cute, I hate I didn't take a picture of them.

Here is another couple of cards that I made with the same set:

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A Bridal Shower Invitation

What you see here is a bridal invitation for my nephew and his new bride in their wedding colors. The odd typing on the right is blurred out as to not show personal information here online. This

This was made using a stamp from SU, not sure what set, it was borrowed from Dawn and we used the color turquoise and coral for stamping and the card stock as well as the coloring of the brides flowers. I used crystal effects to paint the dress and give it a sparkle, used a brad punch to punch the small holes around the hem of her dress and SU's water color pencils and blender pen to color her hair. I added a sheer white ribbon in a white eyelet on the insert that you pull out with the information. We enclosed a 3x5 index card for a recipe.

To the right is what I made for handouts for the guests at the shower, we picked up the paper gift bags at the dollar store, stamped the same bride on the front as we used on the invitations, stuffed with tulle and filled with Hershey Kisses and mints then tied double silver wedding bands to hold the handles closed. These were a huge hit.

I hope you enjoy!

October 18, 2008

Welcome! This is my first post and I am trying to figure this whole thing out so bear with me as I do.



Here you will see and hear about my favorite things and maybe not so favorite but I love these blogs so I hope you will enjoy.

My first card I am going to post is one I did in September 2008 for my daughter's birthday, we loved it.

The stamp is from Stampin Up (Lots of Thoughts), the ribbon from American Crafts Elements, the pattern paper is from me & my BiG ideas (pattern CC-05), the pinks at the bottom are from a generic card stock I had in my scraps pile. I used the scallop punch from Stampin Up (my friend, Dawn K Mills is my enabler!, she'll kill me for saying that but I love her for it!) and I used a paper piercer to make the pattern along the scallop (again, thanks Dawn).

Okay, so there is my first post; Now, let's see how it looks.

Thanks,

Dawn