Flower Fairy Card

love flowers on cards, so when I saw this fairy, I fell in love with her. I believe she is from Stamping Bella, so correct me if I'm wrong. I colored her with Copics, gave her a little glitz with Liquid Glass, then cut her out and placed her on a very large flower. I also cut up a small flower and adhered the petals to her petal skirt. She looks like she has a secret that is just bursting to come out any second now, don't you think?

scrapbook retreat results #2

I don't know what's up with Blogger, but now everytime I upload photos, I get a bunch of "computer-speak" i/o pics, until I publish the post. So I don't know which photo will pop up first.
Anyway, Sunday morning when the craft opened, there really wasn't much time to do more than make a few cards. The materials for these cards was in a card kit. I love the House Mouse images, but I don't have a good handle on coloring animals yet. But you know what they say, practice makes perfect!
The Halloween page is from 2008, which was my daughter's last night of trick-or-treating. (sigh)
I am now up-to-date on both Christmases and Halloweens. And I broke into my stash of old paper photos from eons ago, organized a bunch and scrapped them this weekend. So not only are my 2010 numbers on track for my goals, but I am finally getting control over those old photos that I can't "enhance" digitally.
I'm feeling empowered!

Cropping Weekend Results

I love this page I just made this weekend. My crafting group gets together for a weekend away, and I just unpacked my bags and took pics of everything I made. I finished 30 pages and made 4 cards, ate lots of good food, laughed until my belly hurt, shopped until I dropped, learned a new technique, caught up my 365 Days of Me album, and had a blast with my sister.
All in all, a great Mom's Day weekend, topped off with my family picking me up from the crop location and taking me out to lunch at the Sushi Station (yum).
Hope everyone had an equally enjoyable Mother's Day!

50 Fast and Furious Cards

I had to open my big mouth and tell my boss I would love to make thank you cards for all the volunteers by Monday. I wonder if she realizes that at the very least I'm getting reimbursed for supplies. I did it, though. I used my Cricut "Walk in the Garden" cartridge to cut a card front with a window saying Thanks. I used all my leftover pieces of patterned papers for the face, and bought a new pack of black cardstock for the front under the face. Then all I had to do was cut and fold fifty white cardstock cards, and finish them all off with whatever bling I cound find lying around.
I'll bring them into the office tomorrow to stuff into envies (also on her dime)and label. Meanwhile. nback to my craftroom to clean out more extraneous items to give away!

Gorjuss Girl Card

I recently purchased my first Gorjuss Girl after salivating over some of the images i've seen on other blogs. She is so ethereal and there are so many ways to color her with my Copics. I'm having so much fun! I'll have to save up more pennies to order again soonest.
Meanwhile, I made these cards from a design I scraplifted from Cards magazine March 2010 issue. I used papers from HobbyLobby, Cosmo Cricket and Bazill. I colored my Sitting Gorjuss girl with Copics and cut her out, adhering her with dimensional dots over a piece of yellow cloth binding tape and a shape cut with my Epic Six and a Spellbinders Nestability die. I added very subtle glitz with a metallic gel pen and a couple jewels. The card measures 6x6 and is undecorated in the inside because I gave it away to a fellow crafter to use as she pleases, for a birthday, a get weel or a friendship card.
I can't wait until the weekend. I don't have to work, and I hope to put my craft room to rights. I have a couple new ideas on how to roganize the room and my projects, after taking a seminar on Multi Tasking and Organizational Skills today. If they work, I will share with you.

Orphan Cards

I think from now on I must insist that all stamped images sent to crafters from other crafters be identified. This is a lovely image of a monarch butterfly, but I don't know whose stamp it is, and I would love to get my hands on it!
I colored with copics, and used liquid glass to give it dimension. I also glitzed the flowers a touch with stickles. The sentiment is in the same boat as the image, sent by a friend but not ID'd. I used my leftover stash of papers to make these cards, as well. Poor little orphan card, with no parents to claim them!!

Long Time, No Post

Work is so crazy busy with the last classes this week, the end of the year dinner to plan, and first communions for 90 kids. I have only just been able to steal a few minutes here, a few minutes there. Tomorrow I don't get my usual time free in the morning. We're going to an Organizational Workshop from 9-4, and classes start at 5!
Anyway, I took some time to make a few cards. Above I used some leftover images from a PIF I received. I wanted to give the cake some dimension so I colored the frosting twice and attached the second layer using dimensional dots. Add some stickles and Liquid Glass and I like the way they turned out.