I made the card for a Sunday Rhymes and Songs challenge at The Outlawz. The images are all from A Day for Daisies. They are colored with Copic markers.
Happy Spring
My huge project is finally done - picture laden post!
My mother was put in a nursing home in New Jersey several months ago. She had saved all the cards I had made her over the years. My mother and I are not close at all. I was abandoned around the age of one. I saw her a few times prior to becoming an adult. I went through many foster homes during my early life. Anyways as an adult I reconnected with her. Needless to say it has not been easy. Anyways, she gave my cousin the box of cards and asked him to send them to me. There were probably between thirty to forty cards (many have been discarded). She then called me and asked me to reuse the cards so that someone else can enjoy them. They are decorated to her liking with lots of flowers and pearls on them. I have since stopped decorating cards in this manner. For one, it cost a fortune to mail them.
Anyways, I finally got the last batch done. I gave them all new card stock, designer papers inside and new sentiments inside and out. I still have no idea who I will send them to.
February Cards for Splitcoast Stampers Christmas Challenge
February's Splitcoast Christmas Card Challenge is Quilt themed cards. I committed to making four cards per month. Here are my four cards I tried to use up a bunch of my scraps on these cards. My husband took over the photography for me. I appeared to forget to tell him I want a border all the way around the card. Next time it will be there! I'm glad he wants to help. I am actually done through April with the Christmas card Challenge. The theme for May is Fancy Folds which is something I don't do. It may take me until May to finish four!
I decided to go with blues for the next card. I really enjoyed making these quilt cards. It was about three years ago that I started quilting. I have at least three quilts in progress. My eldest daughter is expecting in March and I need to get a quilt done by then also. Time to get busy! Maybe, I can teach my husband to quilt. He did design my Thin Blue Line Quilt.
Yellow Roses
Stampin' Up Christmas Cards
I had bought this stamp set from Stampin' Up over a year ago, but never bought the dies so I didn't use it. I finally bought it this month. The frame and paper is also from Stampin' Up. I colored the image with Faber Castell pencils. I am in love with the way they color.
Boy, was this frame die and embossing set difficult to use. I could not get the embossing to line up with the frame no matter what I tried. I checked on You Tube and found what seemed to be a quick fix. Not so! It finally did fix my problem after about an hour of trying to get a mat in the correct spot on the embossing folder. Geez. Now it works fine. I had to permanently attach a piece of cardstock to the embossing folder so that it would line up correctly each time. Now I should be good to go.
This was my second card of the day using Stampin' Up Products. We are in the middle of a snowstorm here in Northern Arizona. I'm glad I have something to do!
Tom's Birthday Card
Dahlias
This card is for the Monday Greetings Challenge at The Outlawz. I used an image from
Fred She Said. I colored the image with Copic markers. The paper is from Stampin' Up.
A Stampin' Up set I couldn't resist
I saw this image done on Pinterest and I needing quite a few male birthday cards couldn't resist it. I had to run right over to EBay and search for it. I should have moved the deer closer to the tree and leveled his feet, but I still like it so what the heck.
The Outlawz Challenges-January 2021-Part 1
I have not gotten my DT cards posted for the Outlawz challenges in quite a while so I thought to catch up I would put them all into one post. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. The next few cards were for The Monday Greetings challenge.
12/7/20 Paper Nest Dolls
12/21/20 Paper Nest Dolls
1/4/21 Paper Nest Dolls
The next three were for the Tuesday Color Challenge
12/15/20 Sherri West Srt
12/29/20 Sherri West Art
1/12/21 Alex Syberia Designs
Festive Friday Challenges
1/8/21 Hetty Clare
Progressive Freebie Challenge
1/1/21 Jan's Digi Challenge
Splitcoast 2021 Christmas Card Challenge-January/Cardinals
This is a pre-colored image from Fred She Said. I found it in one of my folders alreay printed off, I thought it would be great for the January theme.?the "Merry Christmas" greeting was cut from foam. It curves quite easily.
This card uses a stamp from CC Designs. My husband bought me a full set of Faber Castell for Christmas. What a difference between them and Prismacolor pencils. The ?Faber Castell are oil based where as the Prismacolor are wax based. The Faber pencils go on so smoothly! I noticed that even sharpening them was greatly different. It only takes about two turns in the sharpener to get a very fine point. I have a lot of trouble sharpening my Prismacolor. The leads always break. Sometimes I feel like the entire pencil will be gone by the time it's sharp enough to use.
This card uses a digi stamp by Power Poppy. It is also colored with Faber Castell pencils.
This is an image that I have a stamp for. Although, I have no idea who the manufacturer is. I colored this with pencils.
Last one, finally! I committed to four or five a month. This image and sentiment is from an old Stampin' Up set.
Sharing Christmas Warmth
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