This spooky card was extra fun for me to make because this color combination is one of my favorites for the Halloween season. I love the contrast the purple, green, and black create. It's very witches-brew-esque.
My favorite part of the card is the green puff paint on the green paper. It makes the paper look dimensional with the monochromatic scheme.
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It's that time of year again, my favorite year in fact, and I'm so excited! I'm starting off with this funky (and extremely heavy weight-wise) card. That spider and cauldron are metal and suspiciously hefty. I used a bunch of bits and pieces I had from Halloween cards past and I love how it turned out.
I swear these felt skulls I bought a couple years ago are going to haunt me for forever because just when I think I'm about done with them I find more. I've always wanted a good ghost story, but this one isn't good so much as sad.
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I hope this little Santa makes you smile just as much as he made me smile! I had time to kill while I was at my parent's house last year and decided to play with my mom's large collection of markers. I stamped this little Santa and after one previous "practice" Santa, I made him. He's so cute and I absolutely love him. I think that I did him justice and really like how he turned out.
I wanted Santa to be the star (he's a diva nd deserves it) so I kept the rest of the card very simple. I also kept up my quest to purge the button stash as well, so that was a bonus. I really like this card and I love that Santa gets to spread the joy he gave me.
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This card was completely inspired by my desire to color. I stamped the wreath before I'd even cut the card stock for the base of the card itself. I was relaxing to color it in and add the pearlescent dots. Afterwards, I just let the other elements fall into place.
The buttons are more from that massive stash of thousands of button I bought from an estate sale 2 years ago. I feel like I've barely made a dent in the stash, but progress is progress. I conservatively estimated the number of remaining buttons and figured out that I only need to make 400 more 5 button cards to be free of them. At a pace of 7 cards a month I'll be done in 4.76 years...
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This Christmas in July card is very simple, but I like it because of how versatile it is. Simply swapping out the greeting and perhaps the color palette, and you could have a pretty quick and simple Valentine's Day card. I try to not duplicate cards often, because I really do enjoy the creative process of coming up with something new, but sometimes I don't have a choice and any card that I can quickly replicate appeals to me.
Working through these cards, I have come to realize that I don't have as many holiday themed stamp sets as I thought I did. I could've sworn that I had more, but I took all of my sets out and dug through them and came up shorter than I thought. Because of this, I'm glad I had these chipboard hearts that look vaguely seasonal to help pick up the slack.
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Today's card was an unexpected struggle. The stamp I used for the red pattern on the white strips absolutely did not want to cooperate. It was patchy every single time I stamped it so eventually after trying and failing about 6 times to get a clean image I just decided to cut some of the "better" parts out to make the strips. This is definitely one of those times where mishap turns into "artistic choice".
Despite not being my first choice for card design, I do like how it turned out. It was quick and simple to make which means I can make a few duplicates rather quickly if I find myself in a pinch come December.
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We're kicking of Christmas in July with an adorable little kitty cat! I bought this little guy from our local scrapbooking shop because he was just too cute to pass up.
My hope is to get some of my Christmas cards done and out of the way so the holiday season becomes a little less stressful for me come December. I really cut it close last year and I refuse to have a repeat this year.
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I know it's been awhile since I've been able to post on this blog and I completely missed the rest of my Crazy Love series. I made the bad decisions to take too many online classes, but now that I've let two of them go (by choice...there are some professors that just aren't cut out for online learning) I've finally had time to get back to creating. I purchased some new markers to try out and I made this little card.
I don't really care for the way they look (particularly in the balloon). They remind me a bit too much of Crayola and kindergarten mishaps. I still like the card although my phone's camera really had trouble accurately picking up the pink. It looks way more neon than what it really is.
The stamp set is adorable, however, and I want to experiment with it further. Wish me luck!
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Today's page was mostly inspired by my desire to get this exceptionally large photo off of my desk. The photo is from a stage makeup class where my professor took photos of our "neutral" faces so that we could use tracing paper to plan out makeup designs for the class. While I found this photo very helpful at the time I can't help but think it is also what I would look like should I ever decide to take a more nefarious path in life.
I got to use more buttons from the stash I purchased at an estate sale last year as well as these arrow paperclips I'd been holding on to. It's a super simple page since the photo really is huge. I really like how it turned out and I'm glad it's now in an album hidden from my everyday line of sight.
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The start to the New Year has been a chaotic one for me as I just started a new job in a tax office for the tax season, but I still managed to make this lovely thank you card. I didn't realize how low my stash of them was until I needed some and I now only have one thank you card left in my arsenal. January might be my month of churning out thank you cards for the peace of mind.
