New Zig Markers

I got new Zig Markers for Christmas and wanted to try them out.  I wanted to try many of the colors so I colored all these flowers. (Of course I did flowers!)  I turned them all into cards today and thought I would share with you.  Enjoy!

Christmas Cards

I have always made the same Christmas cards

every year.  This year I decided to make them different.

My friend Cindy has always challenged herself to make 5 a month so I decided

to follow her lead and try to get 10 a month made.

I made these 5 tonight.  

Cindy and I were creating Christmas cards at the same time

and we were sharing ideas and pictures on Facebook.

It was really fun and we are going to do it again next month.

I think I will make 5 different ones tomorrow to have my 10

for this month done.  I never realized how fun making different

cards are.  Last year I made 128 cards and they were all the same.

Talk about tedious and boring.

I really think I am going to like this challenge and I definitely

liked crafting at the same time as Cindy.

Blue snowman

This is another snowman card to send to my card group.

One of the members is having some problems and could

not make her card this month.  I offered to make a card

and send it to the person she was supposed to send it to.

I like how it came out.

Snowflakes

I am in a card group and the theme this month is snow.

That being snowflakes, snowmen, etc.

I had this purple paper and did not want to cut it up

to much so I made this simple card letting the

paper do the job.  

The big silver snowflake is from a punch and I put

a snowflake brad in the middle of that.

I mounted it on a silver lattice die cut and put

purple paper under that to give it an accent.

Kitty Cats

I made this card for my little nephew Kai's birthday.

He lives in Portland and I only get to see him 

when he comes to Ohio to visit his grandparents.

I colored the cats with Spectrum Noir markers.

I die cut them and then adhered them

to the card.

Enjoy!

Zig Clean Color Markers

I got some Zig Markers for Christmas from my hubby and

I decided to try them out today.

I colored these two cards.

I have a lot to learn and if you

look close you can see my mistakes.

I thought they came out pretty good for my first try.

I love the new markers and cannot wait to

play with them again.

One Stamp, two cards

I am trying to get more use out of my stamps.  I have decided to 

use each stamp in several ways if possible.

This first card I stamped the flower on patterned paper.

I heat embossed it in white.  I fussy cut the flowers

and then made the card.

This second card, I stamped right on my white cardstock and then

heat embossed the flowers in black.  I colored the middle of the

flowers with my Spectrum Noir markers and then put this card 

together.  I thought it needed something so I faux stitched around the 

yellow piece.

I like how these two turned out and I am going to try to "stretch" my

stamps more often.  Each time I get out a stamp, I am going to try

to make at least two cards from it in different ways.