I am so sorry I have been absent from the blog world a little bit this week. I know that many of you like to check in each day to see what projects I have been working on. I have been really busy but it's been a good kind of busy!!! LOL I think I mentioned here before that I have been organizing my craft space downstairs and it's coming along so well! It feels great to be able to find what I need in no time at all! I love it! It's been hard work and it takes a LOT of time but I am getting there and I am very excited. I may post some pictures this weekend to show you my progress.
I have some fun cards to share with you! I think they are fun anyway! LOL So, let me just start off by saying that Saturday afternoon I went to Carolyn's house for a FunShop. Carolyn is Shelly's mom (Hi, Shelly!!) and so it was a lot of fun to see everyone again and meet one of Shelly's sisters that I hadn't met before and her father, too. Carolyn has a beautiful home and made some yummy food! It was snowy and slick with ice and rain mixed in some but we all made it safe to the FunShop and back home again! I want to show you the hostess gift and card I made Carolyn. She really liked it so that made me really happy!
This is just a small basket made from the Winterberry paper pack that I love so much! The handle is the same paper with a white cardstock base. The chick is from the HEY CHICK stamp set and is stamped in Burnt Sienna, colored in with my yellow Tombow marker from the Brights collection and then I added a little bit of yellow Fun Flock to make the chick fluffy! I used my Clever Lever Scalloped Square punch with Premium White Cardstock and added yellow doodle dots with my Stardust Glitter Gel Pen.
This is the waterfall card I made Carolyn to thank her for being the hostess. She loves pink and so I tried to go all out with the pink paper! This is also from the Winterberry paper! The stamp is Fantasy Flourishes with Prisma Glitter added for more bling! I stamped it in Belle Rose first then adhered the glitter! The "pull" sentiments are from the Interact stamp set. This is a really fun set!
This is the card, opened some to show how the waterfall card looks when you pull it down! Carolyn really liked this! Yay!!! I hope you do, too!
Carolyn wanted to make a St. Patrick's Day card and an Easter card for her party so I came up with two cards that were really simple and easy to make more than one since she wants to make cards and give them out. Here is the Easter card I made to demonstrate:
This is the waterfall card I made Carolyn to thank her for being the hostess. She loves pink and so I tried to go all out with the pink paper! This is also from the Winterberry paper! The stamp is Fantasy Flourishes with Prisma Glitter added for more bling! I stamped it in Belle Rose first then adhered the glitter! The "pull" sentiments are from the Interact stamp set. This is a really fun set!This is the card, opened some to show how the waterfall card looks when you pull it down! Carolyn really liked this! Yay!!! I hope you do, too!Carolyn wanted to make a St. Patrick's Day card and an Easter card for her party so I came up with two cards that were really simple and easy to make more than one since she wants to make cards and give them out. Here is the Easter card I made to demonstrate:
The yellow patterned paper is from the Gentle Beginnings set. I love, love, love that paper! I bought it to use with baby papers but I have used it for so many other things since! The "Easter" sentiment is one of our current Gift With Purchase stamps you get FREE with any $30 purchase. The chick and "Peep, Peep" sentiment is stamped in Burnt Sienna. The "corn" is using the Speckles stamp set and Sunflower ink. Then I added my yellow Stardust Glitter Gel Pen to each speckle for some bling. This chick got some yellow Fun Flock also. It was so much fun to see everyone trying to use the Fun Flock for the first time! My, what fuzzy chicks! LOL I love it!!!
I know it's kind of blurry but this is a close-up so you can see the glitter corn, LOL, and the fuzzy chick!This is the St. Patrick's Day card I made to demonstrate:
I stamped the 4 leaf clover from the Celtic Images stamp set. The horseshoes I stamped on the Willoughby cardstock using the Wild West stamp set in VersaMark. I used the green Stardust Glitter Gel Pen for the clovers and the horseshoes. The white doodle dots on the black scalloped circle were made with my Extreme White Gel Pen. I added some Prisma Glitter to the main 4 leaf clover image. I think it came together well! It was so fun to see everyone's ideas on how to make this card! So fun!!
I didn't add a sentiment but I will later! The GWP stamp we have in our catalog right now would work great, but so would the Trendy Greetings stamp set. Of course, you could always make your own!I had some kits left over from the FunShop because I always try to make extras. Kadesia asked me if she could make a card, so how could I say no? LOL She had so much fun and I think she did a really great job! My daughter just got accepted into a new pen pal group over at SplitCoastStampers and she already has one pen pal that she loves dearly so you know who will be getting some of these cards! This is my daughter's version of this card for her pen pals:
She didn't want hers to open like a book, she said. She wanted it to open a "different way" so this is her version! I think it is really sweet!
She loves that glitter, can you tell? LOLThere's one more thing to share with you....a fun surprise! The Angel Company has come up with a fun new idea for Angels and our customers! I am so excited to share this with you all. You can get FREE downloads to print and enjoy! I love it!!!! Take a look at what you can download right now...aren't these awesome?
You can click on the photo above to download these fun candy bar wrappers! They are combining my two favorites: Dove Chocolates and St. Patrick's Day! What could be better? LOL Go download yours now and have fun with it! Let me know if you use yours soon! I want to see!!! Thanks for coming to hang out with me today! I am excited about the new March specials. You may see them posted on other Angel blogs if you get the chance to browse around! There are some really fun stamps and specials coming your way and I can hardly wait!!! Oh, and don't forget! The person who showed me the most love this month will get a really special BLOG CANDY prize! I will post a picture of the prize along with the winner's name on February 28.Hugs,
The next thing I want to share with you is my attempt at making a love-themed ATC. I am very new to the world of Artist Trading Cards as far as trying to make them. I know about them from when I wrote to my pen pals several years ago. I have had pen pals since grade school and the best pen pal ever, that I absolutely love to pieces, has been my pen pal since I was in the 10th grade! She lives in Italy, though, and I am here in America so we have never met but I would love to meet her someday! I got paired up with a girl in my SBS18 sisterhood to swap friendship ATC's and sadly I have not been able to make one to save my life! I get as far as the base card measurements of 2.5" x 3.5" and that's it! So I came up with this idea...using my fun little triple heart stamp that I don't even remember where I purchased it from but most likely Michael's $1 bin! The rhinestone brad is from Hobby Lobby. I punched the image using my new scalloped square punch that I traded another Angel some catalogs for! I added a few white doodle dots with my gel pen. It's simple and kind of cute... It does seem rather plain to me...but I think I will leave it as it is.
Thanks for looking at my projects with me. It's been fun blogging about it and I hope you will share a link with me to see all of your ATC creations! Take care and have a great day!
