Hannah

Our friends, Gerry and Judy, have a little three-pound yorkie. Judy dropped her yesterday and killed her. She was 6 years old. I can't even imagine what they're going through right now.

I made them a sympathy card. I wish I'd taken a picture of it before I mailed it to them because it's a really nice card. I put a big curlique "H" on the front of it with some nice patterned papers.

Birthday Cards for the 2009 Biggy Iggy Auction

EDIT: The 2009 Biggy Iggy Auction opened May 3, 2009: http://www.biggyiggyauction.com/



I’m having alot of fun making cards to donate for the Biggy Iggy Auction! I hope the organizer isn’t getting sick of me! Actually, I’ve only submitted 4 sets of cards, and that can be one for each week so I don’t think that’s too many. (Plus the handmade scrapbook).


Here is the set of birthday cards I submitted this morning. I used some of the individual elements I’d already made up. I had four birthday elements so I glued them all to kraft-colored cardstock to make them all “match.” Now that I’ve put them on kraft cardstock, I wonder if I should have put them on white instead? Oh well. Too late now.

Even though they’re very simple, I think they're pretty stylish. I hope somebody will bid on them.

Here’s the description:


Set of Four Handmade Birthday Cards

Who doesn’t need birthday cards?! This is a set of simple yet classy birthday cards featuring sweet embellishments such as embossing, vellum, eyelets or brads. One even includes a paper flower and rhinestone! Sentiments are “Celebrate,” “Make a Wish,” “Birthday Wishes,” and “Happy Birthday.” The insides are blank for your special message. All are mounted on 100% recycled kraft-colored cardstock and include cream square-flapped envelopes. Each card measures 4.25 x 5.5 inches. This set is one-of-a-kind (yes, one-of-a-kind! no more will be made like this!)!

Donated by *** for The LaserBeam (http://www.thelaserbeam.etsy.com/)


Opening bid: $10

Mom's Cards and Swap Cards

I've already posted these as I made them, but I like playing with Flickr Toys so here's a mosaic of the swap cards I made my swap partner:


And, here's a mosaic of the cards I've made for Mom:

More Cards for my Mom

I'm not sure my mom's going to like the patterned papers on these cards, but I'm going to send them to her anyway:

My New Swap Partner!

Yesterday, feelix assigned swap partners for the De-Stash swap I'm in. I was soooo upset because my partner asked for a doll blanket or stuffie for her 2-year-old, a reusable grocery bag, polyclay stitch markers or resin jewlery! OH NO! I can't make ANY of those things for her!

I PM'd her last night and told her I was destashing paper, and I can make her handmade cards. Fortunately, she's "quite pleased" with this because she sends her grandmother cards/letters all the time. Oh, YAY! I was really nervous.

I've already made a few cards I know I can send to her, but I'll make her a few more. I think 10 is probably a good number to send plus some mini cards.

Two more cards

I'm still busy, busy, busy making cards, cards, cards! Below are the two newest ones. The top one is made using a new stamping technique I read about in the latest Take Ten magazine (at least the technique is new to me). You ink up your stamp then spritz it with water and stamp it on watercolor paper. The first impression was incredibly vibrant and beautiful, but I made a card for my sick grandmother out of it and didn't get a photo before I sent it to her. The photo below shows what the second impression looks like. I still think it's pretty.




I really like this card. It's loosely based on a Poetic Artistry/Mojo Monday sketch. The sketch doesn't have the ribbon or the scallop, but instead has four pieces of paper behind the center image. If I make this card again, I'll use a square or rectangle for the sentiment rather then the circle. The mats are French Roast dark brown (they look black in the photo, but they're not).



I'll either use these two cards for the swap I'm signed up for or to send to my mom. Not sure which yet.

Poetic Artistry Sketches

Yesterday, I found a set of card sketches by Poetic Artistry called "Mojo Monday" sketches. I played around with them some yesterday. I'm really impressed with the cards people make from sketches, but I'm just not that good at it. My results end up looking cluttered and/or cram-packed on the card.


This first card is almost exactly like the sketch. I think (in the sketch) the little square is more in the center on the right side of the bigger square, but I felt it took up too much space there so I moved it up. Except for the card base and ribbon, this is all scrap materials. I embossed the numbers with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and I laser-cut the "Make a Wish" and scallop.



The first card in the photo below is also from one of the sketches. I used my new K&Company patterned paper, an Offray brown polka-dot ribbon and more recycled cardboard. The bird stamp is K&Company and the "Hello" stamp is Studio G.


The second card is my own design (though with all the sketches floating around out there, I'm POSITIVE there's one that looks like this, and someone will be PO'd that I stole their idea when I certainly didn't!). Again, this is a K&Company stamp and patterned paper. I love using recycled cardboard now!



I will probably use all three of these cards for the De-Stash Swap I signed up for on Craftster.org.

Recycled cardboard card

Here's another card made from recycled cardboard. The bird stamp is from K&Company.

Cardboard Card

I made the little cutie below out of the cardboard I recycled from my new Mary Engelbriet calendar. The piece of cardboard behind it is from a fat quarter I got at Joann's. The dove is a K&Company stamp that I embossed white. Also, the cardstock is from PaperAccents. It's recycled, too.

I submitted this card for publication consideration in the June 2009 issue of Cards magazine. The call is for "stamping" and "birds," and this card fits either category.

Last Five Cards

Here are the last five cards that I made to be submitted for Just Cards! magazine.