Vespers and Pretty Postage Quilt Card

This card is a case from Sharon Field....the top part of the card.  Sharon has so much talent....unbelievable.  Before reading her blog, I had never attempted using the watercolor crayons on darker paper.  I was so surprised that the vanilla came out on the blue paper....you may have to add more than one coat...but the result is so worth the effort....

I did a quilt class within the last year.....I love how this came out....I found the pattern online and just used my incolor and Pretty Postage set with it...the way I had my customers do it was to use a piece of our graph paper (which I printed on our whisper white).   When they finished, they emossed it with the Houndstooth embossing folder.   Have a wonderful blessed day.....

The Open Sea

As you can see by the paper...this card was made awhile ago...but absolutely LOVE this set ...so masculine and fun....both the compass and the anchor have crystal effects on them...most items on this card are current .....Have a great and blessed day...

Mother's Day card, Father's Day card and skirt card

These petals were made from the now retired heart punch...the small piece of paper is folded....but they could be done with the blossom punch....the centers are using the button emblosslit.

This was my BBQ dad using  punch art...the handle for the spatula is the bird punch..with the jewelry tag punch used at the end.

I am sure you have seen this many times but I loved that paper when it was here...this is using the large square scalloped die....the rose is made using the 1 1/4 circle with the scalloped circle  and making the flower by wrapping it around a thin bamboo thingie used for BBQing...sorry the name of it slipped my mind....Have a great day.....

So sorry for the error

Can you tell I am new at this?   Gheez....will post some older cards on here as an apology....too bad you can't erase...that is what happens when you post from two computers....the one above is a card I made for a friend...was trying to do some punch art....challenging myself...lol

This is another punch art design I came up with...was sort of proud of this one...lol...have a nice evening...

Autumn Days Share and one from preconvention

Not sure if I am ever going to get to go on another bike ride....got a bike rack and it took me forever to figure it out and put in on my car. Then I spent another hour or two trying to get my bike on the rack..I even got a ladder as the hybrid is heavier than my former racer bike.  I waited until I saw my friends , Nita and Mike on Sunday and then asked them to look at it...Mike is so handy...even though I hate to ask ....I had no clue.  Well, I found out yesterday that Dick's gave me the wrong bike rack.  That figures..lol....will have to take it back (40 miles away) in the morning...bummer!!  Well, enough of the mechanical stuff...lol...onto the better stuff....making cards.....

This was one of the cards that we did during the year for the FROM OUR HEARTS ministries....we do three cards ....10 each of 3 designs.  Martie Shea runs the group...the cards are blank on the inside so that the soldiers can write inside and send them back to their loved ones.  Martie started this ministry a number of years ago...after her son had served his sixth tour in Iraq and mentioned that it was too bad that cards like she made were not available where they were....I have lost count as far as the number of bases the cards are shipping to in Iraq and Afganistan.  If you would like additional information, go to fromourhearts.info 

This was one of the cards that we did last year in the shoebox swap last year...I believe the woman that created this card was Tamara...isn't it gorgeous!!  Love the use of the refills...have a great evening....

Flower Fest. Fabulous Florets and metal embossing

The flower fest set was embossed using the white embossing powder.  The second card is using the ribbon punch and cherry cobbler embossing powder.   The third one is using the faux metal technique using the silver embossing powder

Love the Apothecary set

This apothecary set was done with a blender pen and the ribbon was put under the first layer..used and exacto knife to cut the two ends of paper to insert  the ribbon