Here are my latest card creations. I kinda took a break for a while...got a little overdone with crafts after the holidays so I needed to take a break and go do something else...like hmmmm maybe some housework or cooking so that my son and DH did not get upset and starve.

I went to take pictures of my hard work and could not figure out why they were so blurry. So I started looking around the camera and saw fingerprints. I forgot that the last person to use my camera was my son...and he got fingerprints all over it. So I cleaned them off and Viola! my pictures came out normal, LOL

Enough of them...back to what I am here for. The first card is a Valentines day card for my mother in law. I know it seems like I send her a lot, but she is a widow, lives alone and none of her children live close by. Just thought I would let her know she has family that cares about her. I also crochet her scarf with Steelers colors. We are a Steelers family and we are beyond excited that we are about to win our 7th superbowl title.


I modpodged crinkled up wax paper onto this card, then put a coat of modpodge on top of the wax paper and embossed it using my cuttlebug, rubbed over the embossing and then took some sandpaper to it to give it the worn look. I glued and stamped the hearts which I used my slice to cut with.

The second is a baby shower gift for the music pastor and his wife at my church. This will be their 3rd child and they are having a difficult last few weeks of this pregnancy. I thought a last min baby gift with a really cute card would make a bright spot in this point of the pregnancy.

The last is a birthday card. My niece turned 12. For both this card and the baby shower card I used my new Irock tool. Michaels coupons go far if you use them wisely. That is how I got the jewels to stay on the card. Of course I used stamps and chalk to color the graphics on the front and then embossed the birthday card using the cuttlebug. If you want to know the exact names of the products, colors and parts I used, drop me a line and I will be more than happy to let you know. I may also post them on Splitcoaststampers tomorrow, depends on how I feel. It is supposed to be 70 and I need to vacuum out my car.

So I know I just posted a card that I made my mother in law for Thanksgiving, but I decided not to wait til the last minute to do the Christmas one.
So I am done with it and it is sitting here on my desk drying and staring at me and it is saying to me...something is missing.
Me and the card come to the conclusion that it needs gold stars...and they need to be sparkling. So I look through my stuff and the best thing I can come up with was to make my own. So I draw the stars from a stencil I have, cut them out and then emboss them...how cute did they come out !

So the paper I got out of the dollar bin at Jo-Ann's, the ribbon came from the dollar bin at Target, the punch I got at Jo-Ann's on the black friday discount weekend. and the letters I cut out with a mat paper that is sticky. and cut it out using the slice machine. I am still shaking my head at the fact that on a Friday night, with some time to myself...I choose to make sparkling stars. Well that is not the only thing I did. I made some lunch sacks for my customers who ordered Avon from me this last campaign. Those were cute and fun, but not nearly as much as the card with the sparkly stars.

I made this card for a friend at church whose daughter had a birthday last week. I had so much fun making this and it came out so pretty that I had a hard time giving it to her.

Because my creativity is always going to be bigger than my budget I have learned to shop in the dollar bin's for craft stuff as much as I can.

The green ink show is a new ink that is made by Studo G.  The pink one is made by rubber stampede named fuschia. The butterflies are stamped in Archival Brilliance Platinum and then cut out. All of my ink I purchased at Michael's.
I glued them on using a 1' in rectangular shaped glue dot and then after it set folded the wings so that the would pop out 3-d.

The background is embossed using a Cuttlebug folder named swirls. The stamp set I used was from Stampin'Up and it is called priceless. I will have more projects to post very soon.

This is my first Thanksgiving Card. I made this to send to my Mother in Law in Pennsylvania.
I used the acrylic block background technique.  To do this I used Stampin'Up creamy caramel, sprayed lightly with water and smeared it when I put it on the paper.
I used close to cocoa to stamp the turkey's.
I used chocolate chip for the leaves and the edges. When I stamped the leaves I stamped the first one on a blank piece of paper and then a few on the paper to get the faded effect for the background.
The sliver leaves I embossed with the Cuttlebug using the swirl background and then cut them out with the leaf I found in Microsoft clipart.