It Feels Good to get Crafty.

I needed a sympathy card and decided to make two.  It felt so good to get crafty, even if it wasn't for a good reason.  It has been WAY too long since I've been able to make anything.  The cards went to the same family, but the one with the leaf went to a teenage girl and the one with the trees went to a teenage boy.

It's been a long time since I posted.

     Aside from the other post from today (my daughter's birthday card), I haven't posted in a long time.  I broke my leg several months ago because I slipped on the ice and fell.  I had changed my craft room around just prior to that and was only about 75% set up.  I still have a few boxes of things stacked in front of my supplies and it was hard today to move things around enough to get just the basics. 
     I could have done more with today's card and would have had some Valentines and Easter cards in there if my craft room were totally set up and/or if my leg was healed enough to move things around easily and finish setting up my craft room.  It sure was nice to get a project done today though.  I couldn't bring myself to purchasing a store bought card or giving my daughter one of the cards from my stash.  It may be a few more months before I am back in the swing again.

My second daughter's 15th birthday card.

This is the card I made for my youngest daughter's 15th birthday.  The colors match her wrapping paper from  her gifts.  I used Georgia Pacific cardstock.  The bakers twine is in two separate colors to match the two shades of blue in the coloring of the stamped image.  The digital image is from Bugaboo stamps and was colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol ink markers.  Blue sheer ribbon was added to the side.  Gina K's black Pure Luxury cardstock was used behind the image.  An orange gem was added to the left of the image.  I used the "Make a Wish" sentiment and I can't find where it came from.  (I made a bunch of them up ahead of time.)   The papers are DCWV Mango Frost Mat Stack.  After I took the picture I noticed that the Elephant wasn't colored smoothly so I filled it in and smoothed it out.  I used a Mojo Monday sketch from May of 2010.

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.