Happy Birthday Card and Last Post of the Year...

Well it is nearing the end of 2010 and I am ready for a new year with new beginnings. A lot has happened this last year and we have just recently been blessed by the birth of our new grand-daughter, Delaney. Now we are anxiously awaiting the birth of our grand-son, Westin.

I will be very busy for the month of January so I probably won't have many posts, BUT I am hoping to start a "Thankful" area to help me and others remember the important things in life and not to sweat the small stuff.

Today's card was created with my Cricut and the Cricut Design Studio. The envelope below the card was enhanced with stamps. The cartridge I used for the card is "Life is a Beach".

Thank you for checking in even though the posts have been few!

Merry Christmas to you all.

Angel

Embossed Cards

The Stampin Up/Sizzix embossing folders are beautiful! The detail is spectacular! I took the pictures with the sun to the side so you could see how deep the embossing is!

I hope you have some folders to try this out. I did mist the cardstock very lightly with water before running the embossing folder through my Big Shot. The cardstock is from Stampin Up also.

Thanks for checking in!

Angel

Easy Peasy Thank You Notes

When your plate is full and you're not sure when you can get your creative juices flowing, you can still do something handmade without a lot of pressure to make something new and different! I've had a lot of thank you notes that needed to be created and sometimes there isn't time to color every image that you stamp. In this top example I used a Stampin Up! wheel to make a lot of cards for my daughter. For the cards below I used a DCWV assorted box of cards and just put my own sentiments on top. This way I could make about 20 quick and easy cards and not spend a lot of time on cutting and folding the cardstock and creating a layout.

Thank you for checking in!

Angel

Happy Day

I got this stamp not too long ago and I just realized that I have been using butterflies quite a bit recently. I just LOVE LOVE LOVE the Paris Dusk ink by Memento. The color is so deep. I used it on the stamp, then I punched the lattice border in white cardstock and then covered it with the Paris Dusk ink pad.

Hope you are having a good day.

Angel

Sweet Baby Card

A friend needed a card to send to England along with a beautiful quilt she had made with safari animals on it. I used a piece of the fabric from the quilt on the card and coordinated the colors. The inside has a cute lion down in the corner.

Angel

Safari Baby Shower

These are the cutest safari animals! There were more stamps to the set, but you can't use them all! This was a time consuming project especially when you have to make 60 invitations. Looking at it now, there a couple of things I would have added if there would have been enough time, but that's just how it goes. We are just glad that they are out in the mail.

The next ones will have the additional ideas added!

Thanks for checking in...

Angel

Bee Happy

This was a quick card for my niece Lizzie. I used elements that were already cut out so I literally pulled it together from a pile of scraps. It was one of those things that the card and gift should have gone out days before!

Angel

Rainforest...Butterflies

I call this my rainforest card. I guess it's the embossed background of leaves and things. I have painted part of the background with Twinkling H2O's and also painted the butterflies with them. The background has also been sprayed with glimmer mist. The butterflies are cut and embossed with the Stampin Up embosslit called "beautiful wings". I hope you like it.

Angel

Baby Shower Guest Book

This fall, specifically, November and December we are going to welcome our first grand-children into our family. Both of our daughters are pregnant and due about 6 to 7 weeks apart from each other. Our eldest daughter is expecting a daughter of her own! And our youngest daughter is expecting a son!

We are having a baby shower this weekend and this is the guest book that I've created for our new "little princess". The dresses are for the guests to write well wishes, bible verses or what ever they would like. Then we will mount the dresses in the book along with pictures of the shower. All the other embellishments will go on the pages in the book after the dresses have been put in place. I've used my bind it all to make this book. It was a lot of fun and not too time consuming. I think it took me two full days to really complete the whole thing.
I can't wait to give it to my daughter. I know she will love it!

Thank you for checking in on my creative progress. Have a great week!

Angel

Art Journal Page

The picture of this art journal page doesn't really show you the depth and the "shiney" stuff like gold ink, glimmer mist, or the sparkly black dots at the corners.

I started this in March and haven't been able to work on it until the last couple of weeks.

I applied gesso, acrylic paint in many layers, stamped images, and paint pens to this page. There are some butterflies in the background that are really hard to see.

Some day I'll get a light box to photograph my work and maybe all those things will show up a little better!

Thank you for checking in today.

Angel

Doodles From A Wandering Mind...

These pages took a lot of time and by that I mean I just watched TV and put a little bit of this on the page and then put a little bit of that on the page. I was in no "hurry" to finish a page in my book. I usually have at least two pages going, (sometimes more!) so if I'm not feeling it on one, I'll go to the other one.

This is a really good way to take the stress off of your mind. You start to focus more on what to do next on the page and less on what is heavy on your mind.

I usually use different sizes of pens when drawing and I use the set of Micron pigment pens that come in a pack of 6.

Get out your journals and start letting your mind wander aimlessly!! Send me a link to your blog to show me what you've created! Thanks for checking in.

Angel

Asian Theme

Well I know my friend Deanna will be surprised to receive this card in the mail from me. I have not EVER made something with this theme. I know she enjoys asian cards and I even bought some special paper for the matting and also used it for the little flower at the bottom.

It was colored with COPIC markers and the bamboo background was stamped with Versamark and then colored with Perfect Pearls powder.

Happy Birthday Deanna!

Angel

4 Square Flowers

Have you see this set yet?? It is by Hero Arts and it's called Peeking Posies! Isn't it wonderful!!
Each image is colored with copic markers and enhanced further with different colored stickles. The card is black and embossed with the dot embossing folder. This is a very versatile set: use one image or use them all!

Thanks for checking in! Have a great week!

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #10

Well this sweet little bird is happy to say thank you. I hope you have started your own card series to spark your creativity!

This has been a wonderful experience and I will try it again sometime soon. I hope you have enjoyed these 10 weeks of ideas.

See you soon!

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #9

Say thank you with a flowery pink card!

Have you tried this type of card series before? If so, send me a link to your ideas!

Have a good one!

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #8

I really enjoyed using these flowers and these blues. I hope you've enjoyed this one too.

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #7

I love, love, love this card! The little bird is so cute and the beaded flower is pretty.

I hope you like it too.

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #6

The embossing folder I used on this card is one of my favorites. There are so many places to add gemstones to make it pretty and simple!

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #5

I am really enjoying this card series. Can you tell?? (smile) Once you get started you come up with more ideas that can be done very simplistically.

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #4

Pink and green and French! There are so many ways to say thank you and they can all be easy to create!

Thank you for checking in!

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #3

I thought this beaded flower was so pretty and I really like it on this card. I used stickles and gemstones on the embossed area.

I hope you like it!

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #2

On this card #2 I used Stampin Up's embosslits die to make the butterflies and I made a second set in pink. I mounted the first patterned set on top of the solid pink set to give it dimension.

It was all pretty quick and easy!

Angel

Thank You Card Series~Card #1

The "thank you card series" was created to be an experiment in creating design ideas utilizing a particular format of card. I decided to make the series a total of 10 cards.

They are all cut basically the same and embossed with cuttlebug embossing folders. I did all the cutting first and embossing second. Then I started with the first card and said "ok how quickly can you dress this up without too much time being involved." Then I proceeded to the second through tenth card in the same way.

This card #1 turned out so pretty. The picture doesn't really show how I used the blue on the border punch to darken the edges. I love this blue and green together.


Thanks for checking in again!

Angel

Friends Card

This "friends" card is really more subtle in color. I had a hard time trying to get the color to show correctly with Adobe Photoshop. It is more of a "shabby chic" style without the vibrant color on the flowers and the green is more subdued also.

This set is from Stampin Up and I used a vanilla twill ribbon with some green ink swiped along the edges of the ribbon. I also stamped the background with a pale pink ink.

I used some Nestabilities and a couple of border punches to finish it up.

Hope you are all doing well. Thanks for checking in!

Angel

Joy's Art Doll

My friend Joy created this adorable french art doll! She is involved in a monthly art doll swap and I was so excited to receive this beauty in the mail. You'll have to look closely at the french details she added. I especially love the cancelled stamp that she has at her left hip. This stamp is a Paula Best stamp.

I would close with something french, but I don't know any french...except the basics..!

Thank you Joy for sharing with me!

Bonjour!

Angel

Cute Little Rabbit in a Basket

Don't you just love rabbits!!?? They are another sure sign of spring and Easter! This cute little guy is from Stampin Up. It is one of my last two swap cards for this go-around. I used quite a few COPIC markers for this card: E11, E15, E17, E25, E31, E33, E35, E47, E71, G000, G05, G09, R32, R35, Y000, RV32, 0 colorless blender. I also used one of my new Nestabilities for the mat.

My last swap card is actually the Wendy Vecchi tulip card below.

I hope that you've enjoyed my swap as much as I have. I'm involved in two cricut classes right now so I won't being doing another swap for a while.

Angel

Wishing for Spring with Wendy Vecchi Stamps

Everything outdoors is still dead looking but at least we now have sunshine!! Yippee!! I know spring is on the way because the birds just started singing on Monday. It is time for everthing to begin a new. I'd rather have allergies than miss out on the beauty of spring!

This card is a watercolor paper card. I painted the background with my new Derwent Inktense pencils. After it was dry, I started stamping with my "Wendy" stamps. I also used distress inks on the edges. This card is for one of my swaps for "spring".

Angel

Copic Class Examples With Wendy Vecchi Stamps

I taught a COPIC coloring class last week and thought I'd share a few examples of what we were practicing during class.

The tulip on the far left was with just one base color on the leaves and tulip flower.

In this example I used: G40, G24, G28, R30, R32, R37 and the blue is Pale Porcelain Blue.

This photo the reds used on the left tulip were R30 &R32. The right tulip were R30,R32 and R35. The greens were the same as above.

I am going to cut these out and use them on a card or scrapbook page.

Sunshine On the Hills...

I guess if I named this piece of art it would be "sunshine on the hills".

Swap Topic: Button Card

I had to make this quickly since it's due in California by Friday and it will take at least 4 days to get there from here! I used nesties circles and one oval. I think next time I would just use my scissors so the hills didn't look so pre-formed. Oh well, it still came out sorta cute don't you think?

Have a great week!

Angel

Black and White and New Nestabilities

Swap Topic: Black and White

I have a black and white swap coming up with one of my groups and I really wanted to use some of my new nestabilities for my swap. I also needed an anniversary card, so I decided to make two cards with different sentiments.

Angel

Just a Little Note and a Valentine...

Swap Topic: Die Cut

Utilizing a die cut somewhere on your card is not too difficult especially when you own a GOB of them! Also, I used gold "Smooch" on the top of the embossing on the background mat.


This adorable squirrel valentine came from Joy and I just had to share her artwork! Thanks for stopping by and for the emails!

Angel

Happy **Heart** Day

This year while making these cards, my mind went WAY, WAY back to 7th grade when we would have a Valentine's Day Lunch Box Social. The girls would make a yummy lunch, put the lunch into an oversized shoe box and then decorate the box. The boys would bring a couple of dollars, mostly in coins, and they would bid on the boxes. Now, the boys were not supposed to know which girl decorated which box, but you know how that usually works! **wink** Then they would enjoy the lunch together. And somehow the boy always knew what kind of lunch he was getting....hmmm...wonder how he knew that too??!! Anway it was a lot of fun during lunch hour.

These cards were a lot of fun and all the center hearts are watercolor paper cut with Nesties, watercolored, then doodled and embellished.
Of course, the cute owl was for my friend Joy since she loves to use them in her artwork!

I hope your V-owl-entine's Day is special.

Angel

Copic Colored Rooster

Swap Topic: Animal

I think my swap partner will like the farm animal I sent to her this week. I used 13 copic markers to color this guy. I started off with light colors so it wouldn't be so dark from the beginning since you can't easily add highlights back in. I practiced on three examples and I printed a photo off the internet to help with the color choices.
Don't you love the french script mat layer behind it??!!

Angel