Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Card: End of your rope....


I just love this stamp! I got such a kick out of it when I saw it at the Rubber Stamp Comvention I knew I had to have it....'specially since I'm such a fan of monkies! This was obviously stamped and colored with my Prisma pencils and matted on a card blank...a little ribbon and believe it or not the small charm is made with shrinky dink material. I stamped on it and shrunk it with my heat embossing gun! Thanks for looking...

Thinking of You


This card was much simpler to make than it looks. The patterned paper was matted on a card blank, the edges distressed with ink and the photo corners cut with my Expressions machine using the Jasmine cartridge. The bottom edge of the card was punched using a Fiskars border punch--Viola'!!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Stamps, Stickles and Nesties....


This card was created using Nestabilities Dies, layered and edged with inks. The background of this card was stamped with a versamark pad for an obscure looking background and then I enhanced it "just a bit", LOL with some stickles. This card looked much prettier in person.....thanks for looking!

Lattice card - A different look...


This is another look at the same type of card that I posted previously. Such a different look, I think. This time using regular cardstock and colored embossing powder I am very happy with how this turned out!

Mother-in-Law Mothers' Day Card.


This card was made for my MIL, Joan...she's the best! The card blank was bought at the stamp convention here in town last year. The flower and leave stamps have coordinating punches! These were stamped on vellum, versamark with Ivory embossing powder. Then I punched them with the coordinating punch--man does this make things easy! The only thing I'm not crazy about is vellum adhesive. I have some that is OK, not great though. I could sure use some advice for what others use for vellum. The sentiment was stamped (Michael's dollar bin) and punched with my Marvy giga scallop punch and pop-dotted. This card was so much prettier in person. Thanks for looking!

More Coasters.......


This set was prepared with alcohol inks and then stamped. I just love flourishes!

This set of 4 was also stamped with Staz-on and colored with Prisma's. The background stamp is french script, the gardenia stamp is one of my all time favorites. Katey always tells me, "Not that stamp again"....But, I like it! I did add a little shading around the outside edges and of course the same felt pads. Sorry folks, the following pictures didn't come out too well and I don't know why....enjoy!

Ceramic Tile Coasters


I made several sets (of 4) of ceramic tile coasters for a craft show I displayed at last fall that I wanted to share. While most of these are gone (thanks to my best customer, my mother-in-law Joan) I still have photo's to share. The grape cluster set was stamped with Staz-on, then colored with my Prismacolor pencils. After coloring, I baked these in the oven at low temp and then sealed with a spray matte sealer. These also have felt pads on the bottom to protect the furniture and are sealed well enough to wash! Thanks for looking, leave a comment if you see something you like....