Cards received

Top: from Sharon. The red bird is all sparkly with Stickles.
Middle: from Gwen (not an Inkstainer, alas) who hand draws her cards.
Bottom: from Deborah, also not an ISer. The ornaments are popped up.

This year I am displaying all our cards on the arch (does it count as an arch if it isn't curved?) between the dining room and the living room. I had to hold the camera at an odd angle, which is why the cards look as if they are bulging.

Christmas 2009

TADA! This year's cards. As usual, I had and awesome idea but when I tried to put it on paper . . . well, let's just say . . . NO. So I was looking through my box of cards that people have sent and saw a gorgeous card Holly had sent as part of an exchange. Resist technique. Ah, I said to myself, I can do this. And thus were the cards created. I used the Cuttlebug on some for a simple textured card with stamping only inside. But they are done and in the envelopes, ready to be mailed.

Birthday Card

This one is for my son (my baby will be 27 on October 8 - he and I are the same age this year, LOL).

My muse is still far away and she better get her ass back to my craft table!

Weekly Challenge

Sandie posted a good one this week. Layers, and no adhesive!

Wedding Card

A friend of my son is being married today. Here is the card I made. The inside sentiment says "Wishing you bouquets of happiness.

50th Wedding Anniversary

RAKs

Sharon sent the beautiful card on top.  The flower looks like it was spritzed.  Thanks for the thank you, Sharon.

The middle card is from Lori and the bottom one is from Heather.  Thanks to you two - I laughed out loud!

Catching up

Bad, bad blogger, I am.

I am in a creative blackout and haven't had ideas or inclination.  I think I may be coming out of it though:  This is a combination of two challenges.  Heather's son Liam challenged us to make a card using complimentary colors.  I chose red and green and made this gift card holder, which was Lori's challenge.

More Cards

All righty. The purpose of the top card should be obvious. I embossed the wreath by first stamping it in Versa Mark, the SU Creamy Caramel and using clear powder.

The birdbath card is one of my soot stamping experiments. I lightly sponged a few areas of the card (took FOREVER to dry) . Used some gold swirlies and sponging on the base paper.

Weekly Challenge

Sandie challenged us to try paper pieRcing. The image is watercolored.

Funny Crows

I buy bread that's past it's freshness date at an outlet down the road from where we live (1.00 for a tray of ten or twelve bags of bread). It's for a family of crows that has been hanging around for several years. They have lookouts to the east and west of the house so they always know when I throw out bread. One of their outposts is halfway between our house and Mom and Dad's place. They can see both houses and there are always goodies one place or the other. It's kind of funny because the two houses are out of sight of each other.

Yesterday morning I threw out some old burger buns and the next thing I knew there were four deer chowing down. One black bird was not impressed but you can see he/she triumphed in the end and made off with a mouthful of bun.

Weekly Challenge

The challenge this week was sketchy ;)

The bunny is an acrylic sent to me by Ms. Flower. SU paper and ink but the dark green paper looks grey in the picture.

Telephone Swap

Heather organized another telephone swap over at Inkstainers. They are so much fun! It's like the game we used to play when we were kids, sitting cross legged in a circle. One person whispers a phrase into the ear of the person next to him/her and it goes around the circle. It rarely ended up sounding like the original! LOL. The card making version is simple: Heather made a card and sent it to the next person on the list, who had to copy it as closely as possible WITH MATERIALS ON HAND. No running out to buy special. Holly sent to me. My card is on top. Can't wait to play again!

More Birthday

A couple more birthday cards, which arrived late NOT because they weren't mailed in time. Snail mail is sometimes just that. Thank you Holly (top) anad Sandie.

Birthday Cards

Tomorrow (31st) is my birthday. OMG! My son and I are the same age this year. 27.


From the top:

Wanda

Sharon

Marilyn

Gwen

Aren't they wonderful? LOL. The friends and the card, that is.

Just Because

I was experimenting with alcohol inks and shimmer paper. Clear embossed the seashell randomly.

Weekly Challenge

Flea's turn this week: "Lets use the "KISS" principal Keep it Simple (with Scraps) -- now we all have scraps of cardstock and paper so grab card stock to make three cards -- one scrap of pp that well do them all and a basic saying and put them together quickly. "

RAK from Kim

This gorgeous card arrived in the mail a couple days ago. The picture doesn't show the true beauty of this card. It's shiny and sparkly! Thanks Kim!

Weekly Challenge

Lori challenged us to make a Christmas card in non traditional colors - no red or green. I'm feeling kind of springy today so chose the SU Plummy colors.

Two challenges

I forgot to post last week. *GASP* Probably because we had a houseful of company.

The top one is from two weeks ago when Heather challenged us to draw inspiration from a tissue bok.

The second one is from Lori. Make a card in blue and yellow and use a punch or a die cut.

RAK

Here is a card for a friend of a friend. He smashed himself up quite badly and she asked if we (Inkstainers) would send him cards.

RAK

Happy Spring

Playing with alcohol inks. I need more colors. LOL. It's always something, isn't it?

Sketch Challenge

Sharon challenged us with a sketch and we mingled, always fun. I was the lucky recipient of Sharon's clever card. Beneath it is the one I made.

Weekly Challenge

Fiona challenged us to create a spotlight card. I probably could have made better use of the white space (it horrifies our Sandie) but I like the crisp look of the card. SU CS (in colors) and I used watercolor pencils in the spot.

Weekly Challenge

Miss Sandie challenged us to make a Valentine with NO PINK, RED, OR WHITE! The pink and red didn't seem too bad, but no white? Sandie! So here it is, using a stamp I have used before but it always makes me smile (and sometimes laugh out loud!)

Snow Angel Birthday

This card is for my son's girlfriend. She was born in Arizona and has live many warm places in the world so snow is a huge treat for her. When they were home for Christmas she was making snow angels. The Hambo stamp is perfect for her! I even colored the hair the same shade as hers. The second picture shows the Dazzling Diamonds effect. I am seriously considering using the stamp for this year's Christmas cards (with more seasonal colors, of course). All CS is SU (Tempting Turquoise and Whisper White) and I think the snowflakes are Hambo also.

UMs

Not, um, er, ah . . . but I finally reorganized my unmounted stamps (UMs). I had been storinng them in CD cases but they were 'out of sight, out of mind'. It's pretty hard to ignore the binder now! I bought these, and a D-ring binder, some page protectors and tabs and here is the finished effort. It took about a week all together, simply because I didn't do it all at once.

While I was at it I counted them and I have 290, give or take. Some of those are single word stamps.

I have lots more sheets so . . . but I'll probably need another binder if I use them all.