Sympathy Card

My sister-in-law wanted some sympathy cards so I looked through my bins of stickers, images, sentiments and scraps and found some great items to use for her her cards. I liked the cards so much that I have to share them with others. I hope she likes the cards I made!

This was a rose I painted with my FAVORITE coloring tool.... Twinkling H2Os.... I had all kinds of eyelets and used the Crocodile, which I named "Ear Tag" to place eyelets on the top, then fiber was woven through.

I hope you like this card as much as I do!

Remember Me

I made this card from images that were given to me. I painted the roses with Twinkling H2Os. The cardstock behind them was made with Shimmering Mist by Lumin Arts. The "Remember" was in my sentiment collection. I really like the way this card turned out.

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.

1, 2, 3...10.... Here are my number cards!

Numbers...they are everywhere. I decided to do a number swap and here are the cards I made for this swap. I looked for images that couldbe repeated for the number they represent.

For Number 1, I used the frog since he was big.

Number 2 is a lighthouse from Wisconsin.
Number 3 are trees... 3 of them.

The roses looked good on number 4.

5 represents mail that we love to receive... 5 times over.

6 represents handpainted ornaments. Do you remember the ornaments on your tree when you were young? They were shiney and pretty.

7 Teacups. I don't drink tea, but I do like my cup of coffee each morning.

How many keys do you have on your keychain? I guess I have 8.

Do you remember the story of the 3 pigs? For this card there are 9 pigs.




10 Windmills. You sure don't see these anymore.

The Rest of the Alphabet

Y and Z....

Y is for "Yesterday." Yesterday never comes again. It is only part of our memory.

Z represents "Zebra."