Happy Birthday Card

Balloons are great fun. For this card I used Stampin' Up markers to color my balloons. I added squiggly lines around the edge of the card and a couple of presents that are lifted from the page with dimensionals.

The Eagle has Landed

Look what my boys saw in the tree in front of our house? They said the eagle sat in the tree over a half hour. When they were walking home from school the eagle was there, so they ran into the house, grabbed the camera and took pictures from the living room.

My Favorite Lady

This lady was done by decorating the outline of a lady. I had to add the hat, jewelry, clothing and makeup.

Layered Flower Card

I made this layered flower using templates. There were 4 templates. Large outer petals, medium petals, inner decorative layer and the circle in the middle.

I also stamped inspirational sayings to be placed on the petals. Then punched some small flowers for the final touches of decorating. The flower folds down to a tiny card and once open it is truly stunning.

Clear Season Book

This clear acrylic season album was made for one of the exchanges I was doing this summer. It contains 5 pages of different sized acrylic sheets. The front she was approximately 3/4 inch small then the next, which was 3/4 in small then the next sheet. After minimal consideration I decided to have a season theme. Everything I used in my album came from the stash of supplies. I used square punches of 1 inch and 1 1/4 inches. To fill in openings I used my oval punches. The challenging part of this project was figuring out what showed from one layer to the next when the book was open to each page. Colors and shapes had to be coordinated.

Since I started the book with punch outs with the letters "SEASONS" I then had to use the same sized punch out for each subsequent page. Each square had to lined up with the page before it.

For Spring I went with the green color theme for most the colors. I also used some pastels. My images came from small stamped spring images and stickers. When the book is open the work "SPRING" is on the left page and a variety of images on the right.

For the "SUMMER" layout I utilized "Card Candy" that had been given to me in a swap. These images were already layered in coordinating colors and fit perfectly onto the square punches. I used. I also had some beach stickers and silver flowers to complete the pages.

"FALL" is one of the easiest seasons to make cards from. It is very colorful and my stash is full if stickers, images, and "fall card candy." Since my pages are getting wide as the seasons progress I get to utilize more of my supplies and creativity. It becomes fun to line up the card stock so they are hidden from the top layers and surprise the viewer when they get to the latter seasons. I even found images that I had sent in a swap to use for fall.

My main color for Winter is blue to represent snow. Winter also has Christmas colors so they are included in the layout. I found some great snowflake rubons and shiny stickers. I also had some snowman designer paper. The Winter pages are the widest of all the pages in this album. This allows additional creativity.

To finish my album I found some heavy duty stickers made by Stampin' Up. They express the unique and creative spirit of this album. Their colors were also quite different from all the pages. These stickers aligned perfectly with my punched squares used throughout.

I hope you enjoy looking at my album as much as I did making it.

Now I have to give it up to a friend.

Let's Party

Time to party, winter is FINALLY over (we think)! 100 inches of snow in Wisconsin, record was shattered by over 25 inches. Time to celebrate the warmer weather!

Cuttlebug Card

I recently purchased a Cuttlebut to add a little dimension to my cards. It has been great fun using it!!

For this card I used the flower embossing plate for the background. Then I cut flowers and a swirly border with the Cuttlebug. I used other punches to punch circles and additional flowers.