Card exhange cards

I was busy in my scraproom last night making 4 cards for a monthly card exchange and this is what I came up with.

I like the different size of this card and it was really quick to do. My first goal in making this card was to use some paper that I have had for a long time and wasn't in love with anymore. All the papers used on this card are from a Fiskars pack that I got from a Scrapbook and Rubber Stamping convention. I used an acrylic stamped sentiment from Inkadinkado as well as a Martha Stewart border punch. The flowers and brad used in this card was also from the Fiskars pack that I got at the convention.

Thanks for looking! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

What a fun weekend

This past weekend was so much, I just didn't want it to end!! My best friend Amy and I took off to The Cities to do a little outlet shopping and stocking up her new apartment shopping! It was just a blast!

One of our favorite places that we visited this weekend was Joe's Crab Shack!! We enjoyed King Crab legs and just relaxed and had fun!

In the pic below we are wearing our crab bibs!! lol

Amy in the Ikea Parking garage after we unloaded all her stuff!

The back seat was quite full from our shopping expedition and so was her trunk! We will definitely do this trip again! (with a bigger car!!)

Lots of birthdays coming up!

Last night I got crafty and got a start on a lot of Summer birthday cards that need to get done. It seems like each month has at least 5 birthdays in it, so I better get busy! :) I took a photo of one of the cards I made last night. (I'm saving pics of others for when I have a creative dry spell and need some pics for my blog! lol).

This card used Webster's Pages papers, a vintage newspaper from 1900 (yes, I tore the original, but in my defense, I have a lot of them!!) I made a copy of a vintage pattern girl (this one is one of my favorites and I paid almost $10 for her on ebay! Yikes!!) and I glued her on with Yes Glue! Oh, I did attempt to stitch with my sewing machine before I put her on the card, but I was having problems because I did not let the glue dry first and my needle was sticking. So, the sewing is a bit rough! LOL! I still liked it though so I added the pattern girl, a ribbon and the Happy Birthday sentiment (Elizabeth Craft Designs) to the card to complete it. The inside of the card is also stitched (I didn't glue first that time!! lol)

Have a wonderful day!!

A new stamped card

Last week I had browsed the Hero Arts website and I found this cling stamp and had to order it!! I just love my vintage patterns and this couldn't have been any more made for me! I made 4 of these cards for a monthly card exchange and while I am not totally loving this card (It might be too monochromatic for my liking or something isn't quite right...I made them at midnight so that might be part of it), I still like this card a bit and I thought I would share it today. Supplies Used:
Hero Arts Cling Stamp
Hero Arts and Kaiser Kraft flowers
Hero Arts gemstones
DCWV papers
Bazzill Kraft cardstock
Fiskars border Punch
Vintage Buttons


Thanks for looking!

Art Journal Page: Change

Good morning! With our garage sales I fell behind on some challenges that I really enjoy taking part in. One of them is the art journal challenge on THE SCRAPPY TREE. The journal page was
to be about change and I loved the quote "Without Change There'd Be No Butterflies," so I put that quote on the page.

I used various paints and a permanent marker to do the background and I cut out the butterfly pieces from an old book. It was fun to do!

Some new ebay finds

Okay, old patterns are my absolute favorite things to look at and use in my projects. I was scouring ebay one day out of boredom and I came across these pattern books from the 50s and I begged my husband to buy them for me. He did! :)

I love the fashions of this time period! I think it would be just wonderful to wear some of these outfits!

Another look at one of the inside pages! So glamorous!!

Now, I have to figure out if I am going to use them or just look at them!! :)

Hi

I had to do a little scrambling today to make a card for tonight. Each month, the owner of R' Impressions (Blue Earth, MN) does a card making challenge where you MUST use certain given supplies and I left it until the last minute! Yikes!! Anyway, I got this card done here at naptime today. Now I think it's got a bit more going on in it than a lot of my cards do (especially the one I posted yesterday), but it was a fun challenge.

I was given the two orange cardstocks, green tag, brad and turn, as well as vellum in the card challenge packet from R' Impressions. I wasn't sure what to do with those colors at first, all I could think of was Halloween. Then it hit me that Cosmo Cricket would go perfectly with it. I distressed the edges of the dark orange cardstock, crumpled and distressed the light orange card stock piec and roughed up a piece of the inside cardstock with a sentiment on it (no pic of that). I will let it go on record that I hate vellum and I did not like trying to stick the stuff down. I used glue on part of it that I covered with Cosmo Cricket and used a clip to keep another part of it down. I know they make Vellum tape and I had some until this past weekend's garage sale when I sold it. :) I pretty much layered the heck out of the card until I had no open space, but I hope it's okay!

Hope you are having a wonderful day!!!

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