For every card I post on the blog, there are 2 or three that I don’t, usually because reality just doesn’t live up to the idea in my head. I realize that a lot of very creative and artistic people read this blog, so I figured that instead of just throwing out my “crap-fts” as I call them, I’d give …
Confetti Card
There is not any confetti in or on this card. Instead, the card is named for the state of my desk after it was done. Craft punches are messy business. And before my mom, my sister, my aunt, and/or my godmother go nuts, let me explain that my friend Heather asked me to make this card for a friend of …
Fine. Anniversary Card, it is.
It’s a strange anniversary card. I was coloring this adorable Marci stamp from La-La Land Crafts that I got on Wednesday. I took Copic: Skin Tones and Hair Color with La-La’s owner, Irina, and we got to use the new line for practice. While I was coloring, I noticed that an anonymous poster (who I strongly suspect is my mother) …
Girls’ Night Out Card
Posting will be sporadic this week while I direct fun for sales meetings at my husband’s office. Apologies in advance for the lack of crafts. I have a half-finished layout for my Ireland scrapbook sitting here just begging to be finished, but I have to be out the door in under an hour. Anyway, this is a simple card I …
Orange
When I saw that the latest challenge over at Copic Creations was Orange, I was inspired immediately. Not, as I figure most people were, by pumpkins or fall leaves or any of those normal images that people think of in October. When you bleed orange, your mind doesn’t quite work the same as everyone else’s. I had to draw Otto, …
Something Simple
Here’s another thank you note I made, very different from the one I posted yesterday. This is actually the card I made on Saturday (World Cardmaking Day). I actually made two of these–one blue and one green. They’re simple, but they took me about as long to design as the other one took to make. Have you noticed I stopped …