A quick card. I used a piece of a paper bag I got from the LSS. It just happened to go with the "Hi there" I had in my box of unused stuff. A ribbon and presto! A card.

Cased Card

This an exact case of a Card I saw on SCS. I will look for it and come back and give credit where credit is due, but this card made me rethink River Rock. I wasn't crazy about it but it looks so cool with Navy and with Black.

A KITTYCAT FOR KITTYKAT

This is the card I made for my Pen Pal Connie S. A Kitty Cat for KittyKat! Love those House Mouse Stamps.

Oldies but Goodies

The 1st and 2nd card are examples of my tatted flowers, made years ago. I was watching Carol Duvall one day and there was a lady on there demonstrating how to TAT. Well, thank goodness that it was a recorded segment because I was able to rewind and rewind until I got the hang of doing the flowers. I later ordered a book and got into a little bit more advanced stuff but that was a lot later. The reason I am showing them here is because I sent one of my Pen Pals some of these little tatted flowers and this is a good example of how I used them.

While I was looking through my stuff for those examples I saw the buzzard card. I made this for one of my sisters for her birthday and the reason I liked it was because it was my first attempt at drawing. I was looking at the Stamps by Judith website and really liked that stamp. Well I didn't have the stamps and it was too close to her birthday to order them so I drew them. I have never been able to duplicate the little buzzard, how weird is that? Any way she got a big kick out of it and I was really pleased to discover once I got past my "perfectionist" concept that it had to be EXACTLY like what I was copying I was ok. Thanks for looking!

Yellow TAC card

Well good day everyone. It has been a very hectic day here. I am taking a short break and thought I would upload one of the cards I made this weekend.

I have a pack of TAC Designer Paper. I just love it and I will be sorry when I run out. This is a really simple card which I made for a friend of mine. She sent me a bunch the white flowers with yellow centers and yellow brads in the middle, for my birthday, so I thought it only fitting that I use it to make her a card.

I really need to get out of this flower mode,of course since most of my stamps are flowers, what am I going to do? Hopefully this weekend I can use some of my new Penny Black stamps and some of the fabulous images my Pen Pals have sent me.

Criss Cross Card

This card was made a long time ago when the Criss Cross cards were on one of the challenges. Of course I didn't have time to finish it at the time and it sat in my box of scraps for ages. I FINALLY made the time to finish it and it sat another few weeks doing nothing. I am going to send it out to someone soon! The center portion that pulls out is looking a little blank, however I haven't figured out what to do about it. Do I just write on that portion? Or do I stamp Hi There? We'll see!

Pink Umbrella

I worked on this card this weekend and finally finished it. I had cut out the umbrella and tag a long time ago. Had the idea just couldn't make it work. Finally, it came together. I love PINK! Another scrap used, I love it!!!!

Teapot

My cute little Teapot. Again I am using my already colored images. I drew this little teapot a long time ago and I decided to use it for the Ways to Use it Challenge WT183. Used my Scor Pal to score little squares along the Pink panel. I have a boxful of Business cards that have a missprinted phone number on them. They sent me new ones, but they are printed on really good cardstock. So when ever I see an image I like, I doodle it on an old card and save it. I have a whole boxful now and am slowly using them.

OOOOOH! Nice Buck

Look what was in our yard today! Bill opened the front door and it startled both him and them! I think they were headed to our fountain to drink. The doe went running in the other direction so I didn't get a picture of her but this guy was not camera shy. He even turned so I could see him sideways. Must have known it is not hunting season yet.

Embrace Life Birthday Card

I love this layout. I found the two sided cardstock at the LSS in town. Cameo Coral was a little too dark to match so I watered it down with the Aquabrush. The oval was a leftover from the card I made my mother for her birthday and it worked well with the rest of the colors. Used the slit punch to hold the inner card in place.

Pen Pal Variety

I am still working diligently from my box of already stamped images. I had stamped these SU Petal prints images in different colors to match the chiffon ribbons I have. Then they sat there. And sat there. And sat some more. I used the first one to make Carol's Birthday card, now here are some more.

I still have around eight more to use so I will be producing more. Of course, I TRIED to make them the same. Alas, I could not.

There are close up photos below.

I hope the Pen Pals enjoy them. You don't know which one you'll get !