Challenge

The first challenge of the new year on Card Camp was to use a stamp three times or more on your card. This is the card I made for that challenge.

I kinda went overboard with the number of times I stamped the same image! I realized that when it came to coloring  the images. LOL I stamped the image on a piece of copy paper twice and cut them out for masks. I then cut a 1-1/2" inche strip of copy paper  for a mask for the middle strip. With the strip mask in place I stamped the middle and end flowers. Then I used the flower masks and stamped the other flowers. With the strip mask still in place I colored the flowers with Prismacolor pencils and OMS. The mask was removed and replaced with the brown strip and the greeting strip.

Sweetpeas

I bought myself some stamps from Flourishes when they had a 25% off sale. I bought the three Year In Flowers sets and the Sweet  Peas set. This card is made with the small sweet peas image.

The image was stamped and colored with Prismacolor pencils and then cut and embossed with Nestabilities  Labels 4. I used the next larger size to cut and emboss a window  in the white panel. The window panel and the image panel are raised with dimensional tape.I used a Martha Stewart punch and vellum for the butterfly. After punching it out I colored it on the back with pencils and then used a stylus and needle tool for the white shading and lines. A couple of small half pearls for the body and the card was done!

Another birthday card

This is the card I made for my second granddaughter. She is 2 years younger than her sister. I used the same digi stamp from Sassy Cheryl's.

 I could have used my Silhouette cutting machine for the word SIX but I don't use it very often so I cannot do things quickly with it. Instead I opted to cut the word out the old fashioned way.....with a craft knife and scissors! After coloring the image with Prismacolor pencils and OMS I cut her out and perched her on the word then used dimensional tape to raise them both up.

Last swap card for this month

For this swap we had to follow a sketch. Yet again I used a digi stamp. This lovely Peony was a freebie offered by Emag-e-nation. I found it by following this blog freedigitalstamps.blogspot.com where all the searching for free digi stamps is done for you and posted on the blog every day!

Another Swap Card

This is another card I did for a swap. The theme is Girly Girl. To me pink and flowers is very girly.

The image I used is a digi image but I have no idea where I got it. Probably by doing a search for 'coloring pages roses'. You will be surprised at what comes up that is not roses but very interesting all the same.

Another card tomorrow!

For a birthday girl

My granddaughters both have birthdays later this month one week apart. This is the card I made for the oldest who will be 8.

The image is a digi stamp from Sassy Cheryl's. I cut a slit in her hand for the circle with her age so that it looks like she is holding it.
I used the same image for my other granddaughter but with a different layout. I will share that card tomorrow.

Happy New Year!

I know I am a little late but I am so far behind! I started re-arranging/ re-organizing my craft room and oh boy what a mess! Why is it that when you do that you always end up with a bigger mess than you started with. LOL

I did manage to get some cards made in the last few days for some swaps and a couple of birthdays so these are the cards I will be sharing in the next few days.

This card, that I made for a swap, is prettier than it shows in the picture. The color of the word 'snow' actually matches the background paper but it has glitter on it so I guess that is what makes it look a different color. I also put a dab of diamond Stickles on the dots but that doesn't show up well either!

I will have another card to share tomorrow.