If you missed out the first time...

Julie's offering her Simply Great Card Design class again!!! This class is offered online through My Creative Classroom.

Let me tell you, this class has been wonderful! Not only is Julie a fantabulous gal, she is super talented and has passed her wonderful teachings on to us through this class!

Run and sign up today for it! I have loved this class and it has definitely benefitted my card making and papercrafting skills. I only wish it had lasted longer...*sigh*

Check out the details here

Birthday card

Here's the card I made for Jeff's birthday. He is bigtime into baseball! As well as softball, soccer...sports in general!

This was a fun card to make, the little baseball took the longest to make. I probably went through about 5 or 6 before I got to this one! To make the little baseball I punched out the circle using a 1/4" cicle punch on white paper. Then I punched another one to use a my guide for applying the red "stitching" on the baseball. This is the part that took me some time. At first I was using the wrong kind of marker...Copics do not work well for this! They kept bleeding onto the paper. I ended up using my real red marker from SU. This worked quite well for making a fine line with no feathering. After I got the red lines on, I added the black stitches with a very fine black marker. I think its a Millenium.

I chose blue because it's not only masculine, but just happens to be the color of DH's baseball team...go Brooklyn Dodgers! If you look closely, you'll see the ground that the baseball player is standing is not perfectly grey. I meant it to be this way...so that it would resemble the dirtiness of home plate! I did this with a mix of using a light grey shadow marker and a beige one to get that "dirty" effect.

Recipe:
Stamps-Amuse Batter, Fun Star, Karen Foster Snap Stamps
Ink-Pallette Noir, Real Red (SU)
Accessories-Copic markers, 1/4" circle punch, scalloped oval punches (giga & mega)
Paper-Amuse cards

Searching for Cupcakes...

Don't you just love A Muse images? They are some of the cutest little stamps out there! And there sentiments...don't get me started!!!

I have had this idea floating around in my head for some time and I finally got around to giving life. Don't you love it when what you're creating turns out how you've pictured it in your head? That's how this was! I wanted to have the little dog sniffing for the cupcakes...like he was on the trail of them. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

On another note, I'm seriously thinking of starting a webstore to sell some of my creations and crafts. I'd have a lot of the same things available as I do at my craft shows. What I'm thinking is that I would add the store in with my blog. I'm still mulling over all the details right now. I'd love the hear some great ideas for a store name. I have some I'm thinking about right now, but more heads are better than one! If I pick a name you suggest I'll send a little goodie package your way!

I'm also thinking about having a store to sell the doll clothes that my mother and I make. We have a variety of dolls that we sew for. We make doll clothes for American Girl dolls as well as selling shoes for them. In addition to the American Girl we also sew for a cute little doll named Riley Kish, you can see her here, and then we've also been recently sewing for Ball Jointed Dolls. These are a fairly new doll to the whole doll scene. These new style Ball Jointed Dolls originated from Asia and have become the latest craze in the doll world. Here is a sampling of some BJD's.

A couple more random thoughts...has anyone else noticed that some of the posting options have disappeared,or is it just me? I don't see the option to change the color of text or to change the size. I know that some of the other toolbar options seem to be missing. Hope you're having a spectacular week!

Recipe:
Stamps-Sniffer, Cupcake, Leafy Tree, Grass, Hey Cupcake sentiment
Ink-Pallette Noir, Chocolate Chip (SU), Versamagic Spanish Olive
Copics, Amuse Twinkle rhinestones

Cards!

I'm finally posting some cards...can you believe it?!?! I'm amazed myself *hehehehe* It felt so good to actually take the time and create a card! Recently I've not been feeling my creative for card making. I know it's one of those things that will come back as I start to create...it's just so hard to get it started!

Some of you will recognize these cards...they've already been sent and received! These colors have been floating around in my head for some time. I've been wanting to play with these pastel colors and actually see what they look like when they've been "put down" into a card. I'm pretty pleased with the results...simple, clean, fun. I think these colors remind me of a whimsical winter feel.

I've been really into Amuse images recently and these cards are made using their stamps. I did three different cards that all use the same images, cardstock and colors, but I felt like mixing it up a bit with each card so they are all a little different.

Card details:

Amuse images: Just sittin' here sentiment, Snow Angel

Marvy scalloped square punches in Giga & Mega

Pallette Noir ink, Copic markers, assorted ribbon, eyelet