My Nephew's Wedding
My nephew and his bride got married a couple of weeks ago. The best part about this wedding? It was a destination wedding on the beach at Coco Beach Florida. It was beautiful!! This was the first beach wedding I have been to and I did enjoy it. Of coarse I wanted to make a card for this special couple, but decided I was going to make it with papers and embellishments that I already had. That is not always easy. But I decided to make a black and white card and looking through all my stuff, I found this silhouette that I had won many years ago and I though, perfect. I can't give brand names on the silhouette or the bling, but similar things can be found in any stamp/scrapbooking store. It is hard to see, but the dp paper is layered on top of a black strip of paper. It was a very easy card to make, once I figured what I was going to make. The card is an A6 card. The base white card stock. There are two strips of black paper, one with the dp paper layered on it and the other has the gems on it.  Enjoy the card. Tip: if you don't have a stamp with the words you want to put either on the outside or inside, decide what you want to say and print it off you computer printer. Most printers will print on card stock.

Paper - black, white, and dp paper
Accessories - three gems, laser cut silhouette

Red Flowers on Brick Wall

Red Flowers

First, I did not use Copics on this card, I just put the card on top of the copics to get a good picture of it.This card was made using Elizabeth Craft Designs Outline Stickers. They are so fun and easy to use! I made this card a few weeks ago. I had just gotten back from our yearly trip to South Carlina, called my sister, and told her I needed to stamp. She said "Come on over!" I got this outline sticker from her for Christmas, although I also bought a few of them when I was in South Carolina. Ellen gave me a tip to using these outline stickers, she told me to peel the sticker off the sheet and lay it on the table, sticky side up. Then go and lay your paper on top of the sticker. This prevents the sticker from being stretched out of shape. I used white water color paper, since I was going to water color the flowers, and then cut the image out. The background is made with gold metallic mylar, also from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I ran it through a brick embossing folder by Sizzix and then went over it with red alcohol ink. It was a very easy card to make. Try these outline stickers out, you will like them!

Inks - Red alcohol ink, Stampin' Up - Real Red, Celery Green
Papers - White Water Color paper, black scrap paper, Elizabeth Craft Designs - Gold Metallic Mylar
Accessories - Sizzix - Brick embossing folder

Hersey's Kisses Valentine Card

I made this Valentine card for my sister, she let me borrow the punch to make the Hersey's Kisses. Now I made this card once at a Stampin Up party, but I didn't like the colors that were used at the party. We used a shade of red and I have never gotten used to red and brown. It was an easy card to make, if you haven't figured it out, it is the three stages of a Hersey's Kiss. Again, I used cardstock from my scrap bin, I love using that up. The Kisses are made from a punch from SU, Blooming Pedals. They are made by punching out the big petal and cutting off the upper part of the petal. I have found that you can also use the smaller petal and cut it off and it makes a good small Kiss. The candy that is bitten off is made my taking the whole Kiss and cutting off part of it with a scalloped round punch. On the cards we made at the SU party, we did stamp a sentiment on the vellum paper coming out of the Kiss, but I didn't have anything small enough to use. Enjoy

Stamp - unknown

Paper - pink, brown, and white cardstock; nonshed glitter paper, vellum paper.

Ink - soft suede, SU

tools - Cuttlebug, bubble embossing folder, Blooming Petals punch by SU, deckle ovals by Spellbinders

My Husband's Valentine card

This is another card I had to make for SC, my husband's Valentine Card. I didn't want to make a pink lovey dovey card for him, so I came up with this one and I thought it work perfectly! I wanted to use a variety of colors, he isn't a pink person. It is colored with copics and then I used flocking on the robe so it was nice and fuzzy. If you haven't tried flocking yet, get some and try it. Flocking comes in many colors and it adds a texture onto you card. The picture on the front is two different stamps, the woman with the mug is one stamp and the balloons are another stamp. I took and fine black multiliner pen and extended the strings of the balloons down to her wrist.The words on the card are computer generated. The funny thing about this was, I got up on Valentine's Day and gave him the card. I had on red pj's. He looked at the card, looked at me, looked at the card, and said " looks just like you, all you're missing are the bunny slippers". I love him anyway....

Stamps - Old Lady, Art Impressions; Balloons, unknown

Ink - Tuxedo Black, Memento

Paper - From my scrap bin, white and red cardstock; the printed paper was from a package of paper I got   a long time ago

Embellishments - Bling, buttons on robe; red flocking

Techniques - copic markers

Livvy's Valentine Card

This is the Valentine card I made for my little 3 year old granddaughter. We just got back from SC, where I gave it to her along with a birthday card for her. I won't post the birthday card because, although it was hand crafted, it wasn't hand made by me. I had six cards I had to take to SC this time, some I made and some I didn't make. This card was made using a Sillouette Cameo. Do I own on? No, it's my sister's but it will be one of my next toys. The papers are simple, white, black, pink, and red card stock. I ran a piece of velum through my Cuttlebug, using a heart embossing folder, and glued it on top of the pink to soften it. I used lift tape for a couple of the hearts and the head. The eyes are google eyes. You know how kids are with cards, they are more interested in what comes with the card. But she did like the fact that the eyes moved. Enjoy the card.

Paper - white, black, red, and pink cardstock, white vellum paper

Embellishments - google eyes

Tools - Sillouette Cameo, Cuttlebug, heart embossing folder