"Sarah's Sunshine" Card...

Morning all, hope you are well on this mid-week day...My niece asked me to make a card for her girlfriend which she described as always positive and smiling, supportive, and loves sports, I came out with this card.


 
 

I love making easel cards because the card can stand upright for a long time.

 The two main papers used are Bo Bunny Gypsy Henna and K and Co. I crimped my paper and added twine for the side; cut wings out of Bo Bunny Love Shack Party , crimped them and inked the edges.

 I embossed the greeting with Stampendous Jeweled Gold on a Prima chipboard.

 I did the same on the edges of the card.

 I used a Basic Grey brad, and beads from my stash ( using beads on my cards is one of my favorite things ! ); glimmer misted the whole card with Tattered Angels Iredescent gold; finished it off with some feathers at the base....Bright, cheery, glittery and solid....just like her friend...

"Spring Breeze" Card

Allo tout le monde, so I joined a color challenge today. Aren't these colors pretty? I find they go so well together, it was very easy to create with these three colors. Here is the link http://cr84fncolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/cr84fn17.html

I tried to keep it simple; my hubby tells me I may have a small tendency to over do it LOL...

The flowers are from BoBunny and I am Roses...

The stickpin I made myself...

I added some Martha Stewart glitter...

I love the way this cord looks, I undid the knots and curled it at the ends...

Added some beautiful lace from my beautiful girlfriend Elisa...

Ummm...love the Mariposa paper...

The background paper is a Japanese paper I had in my stash, same for the charm and  Prima chipboard.

Well, it certainly feels fresh and spring like....

"Half Moon Feather" Card

Hello all, my oh my, the day has slipped right by me...I have been reading blogs all day; I decided yesterday that I was going to start doing challenges., so I started following about 20 new ones as of today, and I will see down the road which ones I prefer. I am doing this to improve on my designs, work with new color combinations, meet new people, and get exposure. I have never used a sketch or color combos from the net before, and I really feel that this will be a very good learning process; will work my creativity in different ways.

Yesterday I made a card for a friend who asked me to make a card that was happy and full of love.

The main paper is BoBunny, Peacock.

I made tags using the DCWV Colorful life, Donna Estabrooks http://www.donnaestabrooks.com/

 My hubby Richard bought this for me about 2 months ago, and I find it very hard to work with.

It's not that I dont like it, I do, but there is so much of her personnality on the papers, that it feels weird and difficult to add to it or alter it.

I know the man she is giving it to and I just know he will get a kick out of the quote "Walking Masterpiece".

Tks for visiting.   Gros bec. G.

"ladies of the 1920's"

Hey all, My niece asked me to make a card for her friend who is turning 27 and loves the color green, fashion, art and photography. I made her this card , well its quite big for a card, 9 X 8 inches....

I used the graphic 45 Haute Couture paper as the main image, distressed the edges, added some Websters pages ruffled rubban, some beads that I had. I glued it down to some Basic Grey Curio paper ( love this paper!!!) and added a old earing piece that I had. I rather use my jewelry in my cards than wear it !!!LOL

 Inked up some lace with my Ranger wild honey distressed ink; I cant believe how well the lace takes the ink.  Added 3 old buttons ( gifted to me), and glued it down  on a different piece of BG Curio paper.

Cut out a corner piece of a Websters Pages paper that has a camera on it and applied glossy accents to it.

For the greeting I used a buckle and slipped this textured paper through it, inked it up a bit, cut out letters and numbers from Websters Pages, inked those up a bit, and added a few Recollections flowers.

Added a bit of Prima bling ....I think she will be happy !!!

I was featured on the ETSY orient express treasury !!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d499c073f2a6d911188bf5d/orient-express?ref=pr_treasury


My card  "Tea for Two" was featured on the orient express treasury on ETSY...how cool is that !!!

Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it...

My niece asked me to make a card for her mother's friend; her only request was that it contained a link to her Pisces sign. So, this is the end result...

I really enjoyed making this card and I love the outcome...I made a fish body, cut out a bunch of K and Co. Jubilee paper strips and used a scalloped edged punch to make all the scales...I cut out some beautiful lace
that a friend gave to me and used it for the fins and the tail. I silver embossed the head, put a BoBunny  brad for the eye, and some glossy accents for the lips....

Cut out some of the same paper, ripped and distressed the sides, added a Happy Birthday sticker. Used 3 shell beads and wired them up on the paper.

 I used another BoBunny paper with little fishies on it, used a scalloped circle punch to create the waves, layered them up, put a few dots as bubbles... What d'you think ?

Winner of the OWOH event

I enjoyed this event so much, I am sad it's over. A big thank you again to Lisa, who did such an amazing job putting all of this together. Thank you to all the bloggers who left very sweet and encouraging comments, and a special thanks to the people who are now my followers. So,my winner of 3 of my handmade cards is Pea's Corner http://peascorner.blogspot.com/
amazingly enough a fellow Canadian....