My Ten Favorite Cards from 2012

 I like the stitching I did on this one, the coordinating papers and how well the dimensional sticker matches the papers. 

 I love this little Asian Girl and the sketch I used to create this design. 

 

 I was playing with my alcohol markers and loved how this Graduation Girl turned out. 

 My daughter loves animals and bright colors.  I had the pretty and bright scrap that I used to pull this card together.  The scrap is much brighter in person and is hot pink, orange and lime green.

 I had this design in mind for years and finally figured out how to create it on my Silhouette Cameo.

 This birds on a wire design was a purchased design from the Silhouette store.  I love the matching ink, paper and ribbon I used from PaperTrey Ink and I love the sentiment which says "God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage."  I think it is a great sentiment for someone going through tough times.  I gave a set of these to my sister who is very active in her church.

 

I loved this bright Get Well card.

 You can't get any cuter than House Mouse stamps.  I like the ribbon like papers stuck out horizontally from the image.

 

This is the cutest little image.  I colored her with alcohol markers and wanted to keep the background rather plain to keep the focus on the image.

I loved coloring the roses with my alcohol markers.  It is the primary focus on this card and I like how well it coordinates with the background paper.

If you have any questions about manufacturers of stamps or papers used in these designs feel free to contact me.  I mentioned most of them on the original posts but I'm happy to look them up for you if you are interested.  I'm not a very active blogger so I only have about 5 or 6 pages of posts for all of 2012.

Confetti Birthday Card

I saw this cute post about adding confetti in a pocket of vellum for a festive birthday card.  Here is my take on it.  The first card was for the Operation Write Home Challenge #143.

Black and White Thinking of You card.

     Here is a black and white Thinking of You card I made using Operation Write Home sketch #80  and a Handmade by Paula Sentiment.  The colors of the sentiment guided my choice in papers.
     The black paper is a little narrower than the sketch because it was my only piece of black, but it still works here.  It is dry embossed with the Sizzix diamonds pattern and the felt heart was from a package I picked up at JoAnns last Valentine's day.  I think it might have been by Darice.

Doodle Pantry Holly Stag kit

     I purchased this Holly Stag kit from Doodle Pantry.  The two matching print papers come with the kit as do several sentiments, all of which I used.  I had fun using several Operation Write Home sketches to design these cards.  I have more paper leftover so I may continue on with the cards, using additional sketches until I find one that is perfection. 
     I tried paper piercing some of the images and sentiments and I added glitter to the holly berries and sections of the antlers.  The glitter on the antlers really brought the images to life.

Birthday Fishes

     Finally, a nice man card using an image and sentiment from Doodle Pantry.  I have my old standby of cars which I typically use for manly cards, but now I have a second option.  I created three different versions of this card before deciding that my favorite version is the last one. 
     The sketches used were from Operation Write Home and the last sketch called for a square image to be used instead of the circle.  When I replaced the square on the sketch with the circle I had already punched out, I was very pleased.  I may try this again with a square instead of a circle for my image though.

Some other cards I made recently

Here are some other cards I made recently.  This last card has a glitter filled 3D "button" that says "I Love You."

Birthday cards for my daughter's Sweet Sixteenth birthday

I created the following cards for my daughter's 16th birthday.  She loves neon colors and dogs and cats.  The first image is the card I gave her, and the 2nd image is the card she received from her younger sister.