Mother's Day cards...

A day of stamping with a new order from SU! Lots of fun and messy... The little bee was certainly a fun addition! I made three new cards from the Pinterest ideas that I've been watching, putting my own spin on things... Scary!

The Eastern Blossoms SU set, made this so beautiful! I love the different embossing folders and the colors with the pearls to add on the flowers. I am really waiting to get some new folders to add to my stash... I am loving this new hobby...

Love You Much...

Getting ready for Mother's Day and would like to use different cards to celebrate. I like the idea of flowers and the watercolor effect after inking, but I'm also loving the blender tool. So I'll try a little of each... Problem for this one was matching the ribbon to the ink. Next time... Also maybe embossing the sentiment before blending?

Thinking of you...

This card I cased and used the Thoughts and Prayers SU stamp set. I masked a circle front with the blender tool and inks,  then stamped the tree and sentiment on the front. Sent it to Mom at the nursing home. I liked the pink ribbon instead of the yellow... but it did end up matching the blended colors with both.

Embossed Water-Resist

This water-resist technique is from the C&S class. I embossed the hearts after stamping in red on naturals white CS. Then using Distress Inkpads with a spritz of Perfect Pearls and water, "water- colored" the background colors, making the resist work on the hearts. Used the layer over a white CS with 1/4" ribbon. Love the final outcome ... will practice this more...


Sent this to my cousin who thinks to send a card at least twice a week to my mother. Sooo thoughtful! My cousin has no idea the smile that I see when Mom gets the card. And those smiles are difficult to feel right now...

Watercolor technique

This is my try at the watercolor technique from the Tim Holtz class. I am attempting to make his ideas work in my style (clean and simple) and again using many of the retired colors from SU paper. I really like the final result but it took a lot of trials!  I am getting the hang of taking and posting pictures...

Baby card... for the new grandparents!

Friends just let us know they had a new granddaughter... a chance to make a baby card! I tried using some of the old retired colors from SU and the stockings punch and stamp set... results are ok...

A New Beginning

Just completed my second online cardmaking class. The first class was Clean & Simple Cardmaking. This one was Creative Chemistry 101 with Ranger's Tim Holtz.  Amazing!  I found that I have many of the materials so I can now try these techniques for hours. 

Family and friends might rue this day, because they will be receiving all kinds of cards that I have created! They'll have to come up with appropriate responses to encourage my new-found hobby without giving me a sense of lack of genius on the creative side :}  After all I did state that I am a retired teacher that really never embellished that artistic gene...

I found myself unable to post technique experiments. I have cased so many others... it's only fair that I continue this journey on a blog of my own! SO here goes...