Why is it that when I set out to make a card, I think well I'm going to do something simple a few punches and a computer generated sentiment and I'm done....well 3 hours later I'm still tweaking this one. It is for my brother and it had to be just right. As you will see by my sidebar, his book, an anthology that he edited called Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform won the gold medal for anthologies from the Military Writers Society of America. He received the award at their convention Saturday night and I am very proud of him. Please check out the book by clicking on the link on the sidebar. When you click on the link, you can also elect to send a book to a soldier. You may designate a soldier or have one sent to a random soldier. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book is donated to USACares. It will make a good Christmas gift also.
Okay, about the card: The sketch is from the May 2009 Card Maker magazine. I was flipping through some old magazines and was reminded of this sketch and thought I would give it a try. I stamped some circles from the SU Simply Circles set and then cut them out with Spellbinders Nestabilities. I then sponged some color on a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock and used the large and small SU Star punches. The finished size of the card is 4.25 x 4.25 I paper pierced the green DP and the large stars and did the faux stitching technique with the white gel pen. The DP is 2 sided paper by Dream Street Papers LLC. The design is called Clubhouse stripe. The sentiment was made using Microsoft Word WordArt. I then doodled around the circle, which I'm not thrilled about and wish I could take back. I added the semicircle of green peral stickers to hopefully detract from the bad doodling.
Recipe:
PAPER: Dream Street Papers Club House Stripe (2-sided paper); SU Very Vanilla
INK: SU Certainly Celery, Bravo Burgundy, and Night of Navy
TOOLS: Spellbinders Nestabilities, SU Circle Punch, SU Star punches, paper piercing tool, white gel pen.
EMBELLISHMENTS: Green pearl stickers by Recollections from Michael's.
Thanksgiving blessings to all....I made these to have a few cards to send to relatives. The paper is from a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey's Indian Summer line. The tan panel is Bazzill. The stamped images are from an IO clear set. The sentiment is a digital sentiment. 
I made this for my brother and SIL for their anniversary. I went clean and simple (CAS) with it because along with the black and white I thought it gave it an elegant feel. I also added little rhinestone stickers to the image for a little bling. The White paper is by Bazzill and the black and white DP is from a pack of paper I got at Target a while back. The image is by Cornish Heritage Farms called George and Esther Love Birds. 
y Cosmo Cricket. I have gotten a lot of use out of this batch of paper I bought a while ago for cards on the younger side. Since my son plays baseball with his friend who had surgery, I added the baseball and glove image from Cornish Heritage Farm's Athletic Hands set. The sentiment was created on the computer because I didn't have a stamp with a font to match the feel of the card. The inside says "to see how you are doing." On the second card I used a stamp from the Stampin Up Classic Convertibles set. No sentiment yet so I can add it later depending on the need. The stars on both cards were made with the SU big and small star punches.
This is a new November release by KLM Digital Designs called Quilting Snowman. I paper pieced the blanket, scarf, and hat. The paper is Basic Grey Wassail paper from a 6x6 paper pad. To print the digital image on the patterned paper, I had pasted my image in Microsoft publisher and sized it down to about 3-1/4" x 2-1/2" and then had 4 of them laid out on the page. I then adhered a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of the patterned paper to a corner of an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of white card stock and ran it through the printer. I had the 3 white snowman and one snow man on the patterned paper. I trimmed out one snow man and cut it out with the oval Nestie and trimmed out the one on the patterned paper for the paper paper piecing technique. I cut out the blanket, scarf, and hat. The little poinsettia is also a from the DP that I closely trimmed to put over the image's flower on the hat. I enjoy taking these digital images and seeing how they work with some of my favorite stamping techniques. For example last week I posted a card on which I did an alcohol ink background technique and printed the image on a piece of that. See October 27 post.
Got the idea for these acetate tags from a tag designed by Laura O'Donnell for Cornish Heritage Farms. It was posted on their blog and I thought it was a fabulous idea. I made these as samples for my friends to make during our weekly dinner and card making meeting. This week. I'm hosting and have to come up with a couple of projects.
Why is it that when I set out to make a card, I think well I'm going to do something simple a few punches and a computer generated sentiment and I'm done....well 3 hours later I'm still tweaking this one. It is for my brother and it had to be just right. As you will see by my sidebar, his book, an anthology that he edited called Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform won the gold medal for anthologies from the Military Writers Society of America. He received the award at their convention Saturday night and I am very proud of him. Please check out the book by clicking on the link on the sidebar. When you click on the link, you can also elect to send a book to a soldier. You may designate a soldier or have one sent to a random soldier. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book is donated to USACares. It will make a good Christmas gift also.
