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