Lady in a Hat

I made this card for a swap I am doing. The lady image was e-mailed to me and I printed it onto cardstock. Then I decorated. First I used a gold doily with the circles trimmed for her hat and dress. I mounted the circles onto 1 inch designer paper for the dress and mulberry paper for the hat. The jewelry was made from little beads and wire. The eye shadow and cheek color was chalks and the lip color was a red marker. She looked like a princess, so that is the title of the card "Princess." I did sponge the background in a light brown color. The card is mounted on corregated black paper.

Valentine's

Valentine's, love is in the are. Here is a card and book mark I made for a swap. The images were given to me in an image exchange ages ago. I finally used them. I think they look rather nice on these items.

Birthday Collection

Here are my creations for a birthday kit swapped. I used items from my scrap bins to for the this collection. First I found candle images from a previous image exchange. There were enough images to create six of each of the three items requested in the swap. I then used Twinkling H2Os to give a background color wash for the candle which were painted with darker H2Os. Colors were chosen based on the background color wash I did for each item. For example the topper was color washed in light green and blue, so I used this as my theme colors for the topper. Blue became the main color.

For the topper I layered the image then added a ribbon. Since it did not lay flat and there was extra room I decided to punch flowers from the remnant cardstock and paper I used in the topper. I then attached the flowers and added glitter along with a baggie for items to be placed in.

For the card I wanted a different color combination from the topper, so I went with yellows, rusts, and browns. I found a vintage paper for the background and again punched flowers. I had some wide ribbon with lace to add to the card, then finished it off with glitter in the middle of the flowers.

The bookmark also used the candles and flowers, but with a purple color theme. For this I used a large flower image. Flowers were also punched for the back of the bookmark. Fibers in the color theme was added.

The three items for this kit relate to each other with the flower punches, color wash and the candles. I hope you like my creations. I do.