To and From Tags

Lots of gift tags for my upcoming craft show.

Gift Card Holders Galore

I have 2 craft shows coming up and thought I would try gift card holders.

These were fun to make except for the Velcro. That was tedious!!!

Enjoy!

Mitten gift card holders

My friend Lori came over and we made gift card holders.

She created a monster, because after she left, I made 20 of these!

I cut all these free hand, and they were not fun!  LOL

I am planning on hanging them on a tree for my craft show.

Sympathy Calla Lillies

I had this die forever and today is the first day I have ever used it.

It was quite a challenge to put it together like a puzzle.

I loved the way it turned out.

I don't use grey much in my card making but I thought it would

look perfect with this die.

I am loving these material cards.  

This one is way more beautiful in person.

I love those gold flowers. They are so pretty

all I did was add a sentiment.

Material Christmas Cards

My friend Debbie gave me a bunch of Christmas material

and I turned them in to cards.

I love how they turned out.

Christmas cards for June

I made these 7 simple Christmas cards today.

I am trying to make a few each month and

these are my cards for June.

A mixture of embossing folders,

die cuts and sequins and

there you have it!!!!!

Mom in Action

Today is Mother's Day and my daughter put this on her Instagram.

The caption was "My Mom in Action!"

I thought it was just adorable 

and so fitting.

She knows me well!

Bubble wrap technique

Gina K. inspired me to try the bubble wrap technique.

I like how it turned out.

They look like little roses to me.

I was so happy with how it worked

I did it in several different colors.

Christmas cards for the month of May

I am trying to make some Christmas cards each month

so I am not bogged down around the holidays.

Here are my cards for May.

I found some material that my friend Debbie

had cut for me, so I used all that up

on these cards.

A couple of them have paper backgrounds too.

I thought they turned out nice.

I put away all my Christmas stamps and paper till June.

More Christmas Cards

My friend Ann sent me some die cuts.

I have had them for a while and I was bound

and determined to use them up this morning,

making Christmas cards.

I thought they came out really cute.

I got 18 done in total.

To this day I have 40 Christmas cards done!

Graduation cards

The girls at the beauty shop want tons of graduations cards.

Here are a few I made today.

Christmas cards for March

I am trying to make 5 Christmas cards a month

so I am not in a big crunch time

come the holidays.

These are my five cards for March.

The poinsettia die is from Spellbinders

and I have had it forever.

10th Anniversary card

My friend asked me to make her a simple

10th anniversary card for her to

give to her daughter and son in law.

She wanted it a little fancy, but simple.

I like how this turned out.

Birthday Candles

Lani was here visiting from Boston

and we crafted together.

This is the card we came up with.

This is a new die I got in the mail.

We decided to use it and make a colorful card.

It was fun as two heads are better than one.

I wish Lani lived closer so we could craft together

more often!

Lace Die

I got this new lace die and decided

to play with it.

I think it would make a beautiful

wedding card.

As I cut it in black, I am not sure

I like the pink layer.

Probably just should have made that 

layer black.

Oh well, live and learn.

Alcohol Markers on Silver Paper

My friend Ann taught me how to do this technique this morning.

You take alcohol markers and color randomly 

on silver paper.  You then run it through an embossing folder.

I made a bunch of these backgrounds as I loved how they turned out.

I need to practice a little as I don't like the stripe look.

They are still beautiful though and I am sure

I will be using this technique for a while.

Scrappy Backgrounds

Whenever I use a 6x6 pad, I save all the extra pieces

and make scrappy background cards.

I made some birthday cards with this pad

and had all these scraps left

so I made these 6 scrappy backgrounds.

It is good use of scraps and the cards

come out colorful but all matching

at the same time.

Material Christmas cards

My friend Ann challenged me to

make 5 Christmas cards in January.

Debbie gave me this material

so I used it to make 6 cards.

They were fun to make and a little challenging 

with the colors.  With John's help, I got it right.

He is a second pair of eyes for me.

Hope you like them too!

Enjoy!!!

Material cards

My friend Debbie sews a lot 

and she asked me if I wanted her scraps

to make cards with.  Of course I said yes.

She was even nice enough to sew a design around them.

Here is the first card I did with the blue denim like material.

Debbie cut the edges with pinking shears and some 

are not perfect, but that is the joy of home made cards.

I put two die cuts on this one and some brads.

This one is probably my favorite as I love this background material.

I put dies on all the backgrounds as I don't know

what else to do with material cards.

Hope you enjoyed as much as I have.

I guess it is just the newness of material

that has me jolly!!!!

For military card drive

My friend is assembling some boxes of cards to send

to her daughter's unit in Afghanistan.

I got this new stamp before Christmas and have never used it.

I thought this would be a good time.

I stamped the image in black and then

embossed with clear embossing powder.

I colored it with my Studio 71 alcohol markers.

To finish it off I added a border and

used a "miss you" die.

I am thinking the die gets a little lost and if 

I make another one the "miss you" should be matted.