Sweet Tea Card

This Sweet Tea card was inspired by my daughter's love of sweet tea and the January Sketch Challenge at Mema's Crafts and the Show Me Something Sweet Color Challenge at Card-d-ology.  This is my first time entering a challenge, so I am very excited.  I have been trying to find ways to push me to create more often and this was a great boost.

Another Purse Card

I made this card for my sister to give to a very close friend and I love it! She didn't want it to have the obvious Happy Birthday on the front so I cut out "happpy bday" with the Cuttlebug Birthday Wishes die and used it as part of the charms on the hang tag. I also used a book closure as the hardware and replaced the screws with brads. The paper line is Anna Griffith Peyton Place. Her friend loves purses with a lot of hardware so that was the inspiration for the card. I used my Gypsy to weld her initials from the Winter Woodland cartridge to a frame from the Elegant Edges cartridge to resemble a nameplate necklace and she put that on the envelope. My sister put a lot of love into this design. I hope her friend loves it

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Mini Album to go with the Vintage Card

Here is the toilet paper mini album I made to go with my friend's card.  This is my first video so it's a little (ok - a lot) off in so many ways.  The one thing I looooove about making things for scrappy friends is that they ALWAYS appreciate the effort and you don't have to drive yourself nuts to make it perfect.  This was so much fun to make, and even though its pretty small, it took me almost a week to complete.  I can't wait until I can say I made a mini in a couple of hours.  I think I'm waaay to analytical for that.  LOL

Supplies:
Tim Holtz Lost and Found Paper, distress inks and gears
Iamroses flowers
Recollections flowers
Mon Ami Gabby trims

60th Birthday Card

This a card I made for one of my best friends. We met when I was but a wee lad in college. She has been a great friend and mentor.

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Inside of the card

I used WRMK rub-ons and flocking for the top sentiment and a rubber stamp for the bottom

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Purse Card

So, I'm catching up on my posts. A lot of these cards were made a while ago but I never got a chance to post. This purse card was cut by hand. The closure has a faux skin technique by using embossing powder and then dragging my bone folder through it to create an animal skin look before heat drying it. The handle is a piece of boa. The PP actually has a black velvet flocking so the card had a lot of texture just like a real purse.

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Tim Holtz Vintage card

I made this card for a scrappy teacher-turned-friend who not only shares my love for cards but also the same birthday as me. She is a totally vintage girl, so I made this "Jeannette" style. It was so hard not to reach for bling or glitter but I love the way it turned out. I used the Tattered Florals die for the flowers, distriss inks, glimmer mist, masks, and UTEE on the crown. The challenge was to use techniques and products I don't normally use. The back of this card was a hot inky mess by the time I finished but I think she can appreciate the effort. Lol.

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