Worked on a few things tonight - like how they are coming along, but not quite finished yet. Should be done to post tomorrow. Snowing here right now, not sure if it will stick or not?!?

Ok, so I promised more cards. These 2 cards are made using {ippity} stamps from Unity. I love these new stamps, they are so fun! For the first card (left), I used a the willow tree samp and one of my fav. sentiments - "Live, Laugh, Love." I chose SU rich razzleberry for the base and DP is SU cottage wall, one of my favorites, as you can see from some of my other projects on the blog. I also used SU old olive striped ribbon, my copics, TAC white 100#, Memento rich brown ink and daubed with SU rich razzleberry. I love the colors and the stamps!!

The next card was made with SU real red, soft suede textured, SU DP and TAC white 100#. I stamped the {ippity} snowflake using versa mark and heat embossed in white. Then I daubed SU real red and soft suede over top of the image. I LOVE the effect. I finished off the card with pearls from e.line by Prima. Let me know what you think!! Comments are always welcome.

Busy Day today - Weds., Dec. 16

Wow, I was busy today! I finished 8 cards and one altered item!! Above, you will see my entries for Sew Many Cards challenge #17. The challenge was to use all red on your card although the image could be colored in other colors. So, first I made a gift tag. I covered both sides of SU chipboard circle tag with SU DP. I punched a hole out where the chipboard hole was and ran some cute velvet red rickrack ribbon thru it (think it's from Maya Road). Then placed my colored Sew Many Cards candy cane heart image and wrote "to" and "from." I think it looks nice and can't wait to put it on a present! I'm going to make some more too:) Next is Miki the Monkey holding onto a candy cane (into candy canes today). I colored Miki with copics and put flower soft on the white parts of his Santa hat. I used SU real red and DP and then took another piece of SU real red and ran it through the Big Shot using the Cuttlebug snowflake EF. I mounted Miki on that using dimensionals and finished off the card with The Paper Co. bling and SU grosgrain real red ribbon. I think it turned out great. Thanks for a fun challenge!!

This is my second card of the day! WOOT!! This is another Sassy Studios image - shopping girl. I think she is so cute. One of my favorite techniques is paper piecing and I knew there had to be a way to paper piece a digi image and there was! I printed the image onto SU DP and then cut out her clothes and the bags and pieced them onto the digi image. I colored the parts I wasn't piecing with Copics first. Then, I went to use a QuikKutz window die, but it was too small to fit my image, which I cut out, so I made my own window. When you open the window, you see the sentiment, which is from Inky Antics. Also used SU old olive and razzleberry papers and found some Basic Grey buttons that matched perfectly. I'm very excited how the card turned out!!

I made this card using the free image that Sassy Studios digi stamps gave away last week. I LOVE it, it's soooo SASSY!! It's hard to see all the detail from this picture, but I colored her in with my Copic Spica glitter pens. I'm really thrilled with how it turned out. I used Gold stickles for the buttons on her boot that's up in the air. I cut her out using nesties and found the wonderful background paper from Cloud 9 design that I mounted on Gold Metallic CS from SU. I daubed the edges using Adirondak paint dauber - gold. Then I found the black lace that my friend Grace (SCS gv913) had sent me as a hostess gift for a swap. I thought it fit perfectly with the image. Let me know what you think!

Well, it's Monday, which has its benefits as well as its curses! I'm always tired on Mondays b/c I have to get up early after two mornings of sleeping in. Also, Monday is grocery day, and although I LOVE to cook, I do not enjoy my weekly trip to the grocery. On the bright side, the kids go to school on Mondays after 2 days of ripping the house apart and I get to do some stamping tonight at my SU demo's house for stamp club. Right now I'm working on some more digi images which I plan to post later today.

I made this card for Sew Many Cards weekly challenge. This week the challenge was to make a card with a winter theme. I chose Sew Many Card Eris the Elephant digi image with him sitting in a mug of cocoa. I used copics to color him and the rest of the image. I used Doodlebug glitter on the poinsettia and liquid applique to make the marshmallows look nice and fluffy. Then I cut the image out and mounted it using Zots 3D dots otno Lizzie Anne designs paper cut with SU topnote die and mounted on SU old olive paper. I used some QueenCat pearls on the bottom.

Well, time to alter something! I decided to use this clear plastic flip frame from Maya Arts. I used the Faux Mosaic technique that was recently posted on SCS. I used SU Razzleberry Cotttage DP, orxhid opulance and elegant eggplant ink from SU, SU courdoroy button in crushed curry, offray pink satin ribbon and this adorable image from Sew Many Cards digi stamps which I colored with copics. I'm really excited about how this turned out and think it would make a great Valentine's gift!

The DP I chose for this one is from K and Company's wild raspberry paper stacks. I used it on the back and also to paper piece the chair that Riley is seated on. The rest of the image was colored with copics after being cut out using Nesties. I used dew drops on the far right. The other paper used is SU soft suede and pink passion, The Angel Co. white 100#. I really like this fold as well.

This is my first go at a spinning wheel card (not sure if that's what they are even called). My motivation for this one came from Paola, SCS Sama, who's swap asked us to make a card that had a moving part. I had seen this technique done

before and thought I'd give it a try. I am happy with the results. I used SU pink passion, & old olive, The Angel Co. white 100# and Heidi Grace dp for this one. The stamps are from Unity Ippity, SU, and Fiskars. The brad is part of a set from Taylored Expressions. I used nesties to cut out both the circle that you turn as well as the circle you see the stamped image in. I used my EK Success scallop circle punch to cut out the area where you spin the circle/wheel.

My friend Jeanette, SCS Forest Ranger, held a swap to create a card depicting a scene from winter in the forest. I found this AWESOME paper from Imaginescense that worked perfectly. Cut a tree from Unity's new Ippity stamps collection out of glittery paper that I found at my local scrapbook store. Then, using my nesties, some clear clue, Darcie's transparency sheets and distress Stickles, I created a frozen lake. Sentiment is from SU set. I'm really pleased at how it all came together.

I created this card a few months ago for a Goddess swap - challenge was to bring out your inner goddess. I chose to do a peek-a-boo card using this adorable image and inner sentiment from Stamping Bella. Happy birthday sentiment is from SU. I saw this technique done at the SU regional in Cincinnati, that I was able to attend as a guest with my SU demo friends (thanks Debbie and Janine!) I love the way it just looks plain until you pull out the inner part and voila, color:)

Where I grew up card

I made this card for MiamiKel4/Kelly's swap. The challenge was to create a card depicting where you grew up. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio in a neighborgood of 2 story houses that were basically stacked on top of each other (very small yards). My house is the brown one in the middle. Also, there's a lot of snow in Cleveland, so I decided a shaker card where I could put snow in would be perfect. I used flower soft polar white for the snow. The houses are from an old SU set. I colored using copics and added the bricks on the red house b/c it was a red brick house in my neighborhood. The patterned paper is from Cloud 9 Design and the white is The Angel Co. 100#. The base paper is SU.

Still trying to get this going

Wow, it has been at least 6 months since I added anything to this. If I want to start showcasing my work, I need to get going!! My goal for the coming year is to do something with a stamp company, whether it's as a DT or a GDT, I would like to do something like that. I will start this quest in 2010 b/c right now I'm just too crazy with the holidays, etc. and wouldn't be able to put forth my best work. Here's some of my recent work that I'm pretty proud of.

This is a card I made for Kate's (celestial_stamper) Girls Night In swap. I used this great image from DeNami designs and the sentiment is from Clear and Simple stamps. I just love the tri-fold technique and added a few extras using MFT ribbon, Cloud 9 designs stickers, nesties and a Cuttlebug embossing folder.