I have a new card to share today. I made this as an End-of-the-Year Thank You for my daughter's teacher. I also made an envelope box to match. It is a center step card using Split Coast Stamper's tutorial of the week.

I used Magnolia's Mermaid colored with Copics and embellished with Stickles. The shell wave behind her is a Jolee's sticker. I use some generic  skittles as bubbles on the center panel and the side panels are embossed and sanded using Sizzix summer embossing set. The "Ocean Floor" is tan card stock with super sticky tape over top and real sand pressed on. I made the pearl stick pins and the beaded sprays. The flowers and "sea weed" are both organza ribbon that I melted with my heat gun.

I made the box using the tutorial from Pop'sPlace Blog, If you have a chance, check out her blog, she is incredibly talented.  I stamped the lid before gluing the corners with some shell stamps and put some white tulle around the card. 

I've been feeling Patriotic lately and started some red,white and blue cards. This one was sweet and simple. I had picked up the paper a long time ago but the red had a metallic sheen and the white I used for the stars was glitter. The rest was plain old cardstock. I cut the stars out with my Cricut and the lacy border was a MS punch. You can't really tell but I used stickles on Tilda's shoes and flowers.

This one I am really proud of. Again I used my Cricut for the stars out of the white glitter paper as well as the white circle. The red circle is a holographic paper from Targets $1 scrapbook supplies. I made all the flowers except for the tiny buds.

Here's a better look of Tilda and the Flowers. I used one of my favorite hair combos, Copic E97, E99 and Y21. I really love the golden blond. The red and blue flowers were made from small and medium retro flower punches and the white flower was Spellbinders Rose Creations. All flowers were spritzed with glimmer mists and the centers of the blue flowers was Distressed Stickles in Walnut Stain. 

Hope you enjoy! 

I'm so excited. I just got the Spellbinders Rose Creations dies. I've been making my own paper roses using Retro Flower punches but my size was limited to1/2 and 3/4 inch and I have been dying to buy this set.

There was one problem, NO DIRECTIONS ON PUTTING THE FLOWERS TOGETHER!! YouTube to the rescue. There were two really great videos on making 3D flowers using this set. First by Donna Salazar herself (here). She had two ways on making the flowers. I tried both. First, her Easy Peazy.

Then the more complicated one.

Both were really quite easy though the second definitely took more time with glue.
The other video was by Carolynne1982. This one was a little like the second Donna Salazar one.

I need to glue the center of mine a little more but I am very happy with the results of all three flowers. No more buying bigger flowers for me with these new dies.  Definitely check out the videos.

Wow, it has been a while. Time has gotten away from me. This is the card I made for my grandmother for her birthday.  I got the original stair step card desigin from Expressions with Heart. I fell in love with her Native American Tilda stair step card. Anyway, I took Make a Wish Tilda, colored with my Copics, used Stickles for her "Fairy Dust" and have her sitting on a Jolie's border I had picked up on clearance a while ago. The papers were just from Target's dollar bins. I cut out  a "Make a Wish" from one of my Cuttlebug dies and used Stickles on that too. I made the envelope box from the Split Coast Stampers tutorial here.  Hope you enjoy.

Febuary is a Birthday month in my house, my sister and my grandmother, so I decided to make a couple cards.

This one is preaty simple. Modeled off a SplitCoastStampers' card sketch, SC303, I started with a plain, white card and embossed the front with a Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder. Then I cut the vertical and horizontal strips, the circle and Spellbinders Beaded Oval from some fabulous hand-crafted paper that I had got at Michaels on clearence. Tilda that I colored, some pale blue pearls and a couple tissue paper flowers completed things.

Wow, it has been a while. Between the holidays and the business of the new year I hven't been able to do much crafting, other than a little coloring in the evenings. I LOVE Magnolia's Tilda stamps. I have quite a few images now and I have really improved (I feel anyways) in coloring the little things. I got hooked on Tilda stamps a few months back and tried starting with Prismacolor markers. They could be purchased locally and were cheaper than Copics and I didn't know if I really wanted to make leap since I already had alot of markers that didn't get that muck use. Well I didn't like the results I got with Prismacolors. Don't get me wrong they are great markers but not for what I wanted them for. I decided to make a small investment in Copics to start, just reds and flesh tones, a total of 6 markers. Needless to say I was addicted and I've increased my collection greatly.
To compare how my coloring technique has improved, I've found some of the original images I've done and then recolored them using teh same color scheme.

 You can really see my improvement from the old ones on the left compared to the new on the right. Too bad my date is wrong... got to remember to fix the date on my camera.  

Crafting my Christmas cards and havin' fun. I don't have many that I send out but these are the ones I have finished. I got great blank shape cards at Michaels for $1.00. I love Magnolia Stamps and colored these with Copics.

 This one I cut the light strand from Cricut's Wild Card, glued glitter over each bulb and then used Inkssentials Glossy Accents over the glitter. I glittered the Christmas ornament the same way. This was Michaels $1 card.

 This was another $1 card, it is acutually a metallic silver. The snow flakes are confetti also from the dollar section. I used MS mica flake glitter to add snow to the tree.

 I had just bought some Spellbinders Nestabilities and Impressabilities when I made this card. I like it so much that I may have to make another to keep. I embossed the card and another white sheet and then left the templet  in place and went over everything with distressing ink. Cut out a navy tag and emobossed tag with the inverted scallop square. The snowman is from Magnolia stamps and has a gem in the center of his snowflake and three more gems in the corner. MS mica flakes make the snow underneath him.

This one's my sister's favorite. I cut the stamped image out with an oval and taped fan-folded mulberry paper underneath it. Hard to see but I used metalic gold marker to color in the package. So simple.