November Birthdays

A lot of my friends have November birthdays, so last weekend I spent making cards for each of their special days. First up is my friend, Kelly. This year is one of those monumental birthdays, and I wanted to make her card classy and fabulous, just like her! I've had this image from Hampton Art Stamps for quite awhile, but this is the first time I've made a card with it. I'm pleased with how it turned out. I colored the image in with Copics and Prismacolor pencils, and added a few glittery touches with Spica pens (on her dress and shoes). The "celebrate in style" is part of a larger sentiment from Rubber Soul, and I just inked the one portion of it, stamped it on red cardstock, and punched it out with the SU! word window punch.

Thanks for looking! I'll be back next week with another birthday card!

Thank you, Cupcake!

When Rhonda came over last week, we participated in the week's Addicts challenges. I was moving slow that day, so I only got one card done. This one works for the stamp of the week, which is the party set, and it also applies to the weekly challenge, which is to make a thank you card. I plan to send this to Linda after Friday's Cupcake Social! Have a great week!

All stamps, note card, pretty little paper, heart twinkle stickers and ribbon by A Muse. Accessories: Stickles, Copics, SU! scallop border punch

Happy Halloween!

For the grand finale, I leave you with my favorite of all of the Halloween cards I made this year. The witchy woman image is from Ducks in a Row. I believe this stamp has been discontinued. I colored in the giant moon with a fluorescent yellow Copic maker. The rest of the image was colored in with Prismacolor pencils. The background paper is from Memory Box's Halloween collection, which is also discontinued. Thanks for looking, and have a safe and Happy Halloween!

I'll be back in a few days with a picture of my card I made during my last play date with Rhonda.

Count Down to Halloween--1 day to go!

This will be a quick post. These three three cards all use paper from this year's Memory Box Sparkle collection and stamps from this year's Halloween release. I love them all! Back tomorrow with my final card!

Count Down to Halloween--2 days to go!

Back with my next installment of Halloween cards. This first card uses stamps from the Fright Night clear set by My Favorite Things. The dot cardstock is from the Memory Box Spooky collection. I colored in the trick-or-treaters with fluorescent Copics. The oval was cut out with a standard oval Nestabilities die.

The second card features the new Cuttlebug Spider Web embossing folder. I love the effect it created with that silver cardstock. I punched out a spider from black paper with a Punch Bunch punch, then spread glue over the top and covered it with black flock. I finished it off with two eyes using orange Stickles. The ovals were cut with standard and scalloped Nestabilities dies. The "eeek" sentiment is from A Muse.

Back tomorrow with more!

Count Down to Halloween--3 days to go!

Well, I intended to start my count down to Halloween yesterday, but the time escaped me, so I'll have to start today. I decided to post pictures of the cards I'm sending to my family and friends. Some people pick one design that they like and make multiples to send out to everyone, but I like variety, so I make each card different. Besides, I have so many great stamps to play with, I need to make sure I use them!

Today I'm posting my "ghoul" friend cards. This first card I'm sending to my sister. My sister and I may share a great resemblance, but the similarity pretty much ends there! I'm the calm, quiet one, she's the drama queen. I'm perfectly content occupying myself with reading, stamping, etc. She has to be with someone and doing something all of the time. She is the fashion plate, and I'm happy with the basic classics. Despite our differences and the fact that we drive each other nuts some times, I love her to pieces, and I know she thinks I'm okay too! So, this card is for her. Black kitchen note card, orange sheer ribbon, cat woman and Sabrina stamps by A Muse. Ghouls rule sentiment is from a Studio G clear set.

The second card is for my good friend Kelly. Kelly is my beautiful, tall, blond, blue-eyed, stylish girlfriend. She looks amazing no matter what she puts on, and because she's so tall and trim, she can pretty much wear anything! The stamps are from this year's My Favorite Things release, Totally Witchin'. This is an awesome set! The dot paper is from Memory Box, the Spooky collection. There are three Robin's Nest dew drops from the Halloween collection. I punched out the standard and scalloped ovals with my Nestabilities dies. The witches images are colored in with Copics, some fluorescent. Inside, the greeting is "Hanging out with my ghoulfriend."

Back tomorrow with the next installment!

Fall Greetings

Happy Friday! Yesterday I met up with Rhonda and her friend Kim for a stamping day. We had a lot of fun! (Just check out Rhonda's blog for evidence of how much fun we had!) I worked on a couple of the A Muse Addicts challenges and started another card just for fun, but didn't get it finished. So, I'm just posting the two challenge cards I made.

Both cards work for the Stamp of the Week challenge and the Weekly Challenge--use tree stamps and make a fall card. The first one uses a tree and the sentiment from the Trees 2 clear set. I colored the tree image with Koh-I-Noor pencils. See the two frond punch outs on the left side? I punched those out with my new Martha Stewart frond punch! I like that a lot!

The second card features naked tree. I was just playing around with different paper scraps and was inspired by a card Kim made with four different patterned squares mounted on top of her card. This card is testament that it is better to cut your paper first and then stamp the image using a stamp positioner than it is to stamp the image first and then cut the paper (hence my not so uniform squares!). The more I look at the card the more this bugs me, so I may have to peel off the trees and start over!

Now, off to make some naughty cards so I can catch up with Rhonda!