4 cards and a tote

I like this little card tote, and have given away many as gifts. I haven't been able to find any cool designer paper lately, so I've decided to make my own. For these 'special' cards I've been trying to follow a pattern of: Hello, Thank You, Get Well and Happy Birthday! It's almost like a OSW (one sheet wonder) only 4 cards have a matching cardstock/color/theme throughout (instead of 10) I like buying bunches of white daisys, I pop them off their stem, and just smoosh them into an ink pad of color, and voila~ matching flower. I've also used the cuttlebug and nestabilities with:ribbon, brads, punched flowers and stickles.

Sing like a canary

I was sorting through some of my images that I have in my drawing box, and I found this cat in the birdcage. It is one of Marisse Carriers designs. I did a lot of CASE-ing of her images last year when I did cards for a local pet store. I guess the cards didn't go over too well, I never heard back from them!!! Maybe a dog ate them!!! Mmmm, anyhow, what's old is new again to me! This is the SU! guava card stock and I found background paper in the Spring Stack that matched, perfecto... I'm finding simple cards interest me much more these days... kinda down in the dumps because of the lack of warmth and sunshine! I don't see anybody so they don't think of me when they need cards!! Darn it!

Make a birthday wish

Although I'm not totally MIA, the card business is slow, and the inspiration to create is low... but, I have taken pictures of cards that I recently made!! Oh, I want spring to stay here soooo bad.. bask in a warm sunshine, not a cold breeze!!
The first card uses some new background paper I got... it's from one of the 4x6 Spring Stack from J's.... half price. I like matching patterned paper (more or less the colors match)... and this layering was a recipe I followed.

The bottom card is a TAC inspired color combination and the birthday cake image. I think the magazine that had this original card is about 3 years old... I've made this particular card about 1/2 a dozen times, cuz I like the colors!!
Thanks for looking.

Spring - yay

I think spring may have finally arrived. Had two beautiful days in a row... I was just outside soaking up the sunshine. I am so happy, not s.a.d. anymore. Here is a card I made that had a removable bookmark... CASE'd. I used the slit oval punch from SU! to make the slots for the bookmark!

Sketch- The Stamp Shack

Flower pop heart

Oh I know this image was in the SU! Celebration catty, but I'm not going to even attempt to find the name... I, of course drew the image myself (it's just a doodle) and then added glitter to parts of it. I don't mean to be boastful when I say I drew it myself, I'm just stating a fact that it is actually a stamped image created by some other talented artist. I currently am having so much fun casing cards, because they are so abundant on blogs and galleries... too many images and recipes to choose from. Thank you to all (if there are any) lurkers out there that my check out my work. I appreciate Kim and Heather's ego boosting compliments! My two fans!! (swoon) Kim wanted to know how I had time to create so much(or something close to that)... I work on cards at night... I feel that I'm a fairly organized person and get what 'needs' to be done after I come home from school(were I'm an aide). My kids are fairly independent at almost 13 & 15 and I don't have much of a social life outside of carting them off and watching their events. So that's my deep dark secret... I love to create... and love to try duplicate images, because frankly, right now it's so much easier to copy than sit and be original.

Fifty cent

At Target last week in the $1 bins I found these little Disney tins.... teeny tiny!!! I thought I would be able to do something with them... and they were half off... so $1 for 2. I did not realize that gift card tins and nugget containers were the 'in" altering projects. So, I saw potential, and created one, covering all metal surfaces with paper, adding flowers and brads to the sides and ribbon and fiber to the handle. I also papered the inside of the tin.... and then there is a tiny tag... so when I decide who and what to give... the package is complete!