Getting Older birthday card.

This card is made with Close To My Heart Paper.  The little crochet flower is also CTMH.  I used the Imaginisce Petal Roller tool to burnish the paper flowers.  This made them 3D.  First do the petals and the center.  Then turn the flowers over and just do the tips of the flowers to turn the tips back.  Turn over one more time and do the center of the flowers.  Go easy if the paper is thin.    Beneath is the inside of the card

Love is in the Air.

This card is a test of my new Stampin up embosslits.  They are the little hearts with four different textures on them.  The friendship jar is die cut and covered with CTMH liquid glass.  The stamps are from CTMH. 

Christmas Cards from 2011

This year I want to learn how to blog more efficiently and how to upload pictures that are more bloglike. I also want to organize my scraproom and improve my food diet.  These are some CTMH stamps and the bottom border is with my new CTMH ruler.  It has the zigzag holes in the ruler so all you need to do is poke thru the paper.  The best way to make it look like real sewing or floss is to  use two different color pens.  I use Sakura 3D pens.  I use the Souffle going in one direction and then the Glaze in the opposite.  Everyone thought I used thread.  The sides was a zigzag Sizzix border.  I hope to get better at this blogging this year.  Anyone have any tips for learning please send them to me.  Eve

Feeling Wicked

This is another swap that I made for my CTMH group, Clearly Addicted.  It is the Mischief paper pack and the felt shapes.  Love this time of year.

Playing with the Cricut

These are elements of the Sweet Treats cartridge.  I think it is one of my favs.  I only have a few so a newbie is talking here but I just got a new one from Close to My Heart and i want to try it out on you guys.  It is called Art Philosophy and I am going to try it out this weekend.  Really.  

Playing with the Cricut

This is the Sweetheart Close to my Heart paper.  I am playing with the Cricut expression and using the Sweet Treat cartridge.  Hard to get time these days but if I can get one in every once in a while I am a happy crafter.  

Thank You card

I want to let you know I have not posted in a while.  On Dec. 15th my main computer went down after a totally  full hard drive crashed.  I have since been able to do a few things on it after a major clean out.  Now I am using a little netbook.  I find it limiting but still better than nother at all.  This is a Thank you card I made for a friend and requires a large envelope.  I usually make my own envelope using the Martha Stewart scor board due to the 3D nature of the front of the card. I am looking at new computers so maybe will be posting more soon.

Little Owls Made with CTMH paper and a Fiskars Punch

I saw these little owls in a Crate&Barrel catalog and thought they were so cute.  They were made of fabric and sold for $23.95 for 3.  I copied them with paper and used the Fiskars Chrstmas light bulb punch for the nose.  I double punched the nose with orange and yellow card stock to give it a layered look.  The paper is a sample pack from Close To My Heart. 

Christmas Card done with Fluorescent Copics

Fluorescent copics, CTMH stamp set.  This is the first time I have used these in a while.  I like how bright they are.  I will use them more often. 

Tannenbaum Card from Close To My Heart

I got this set of stamps from my wonderful friend Beth.  This is Tannenbaum from CTMH.  It is a nice one for masking because the inside of the tree is easy to cut.  I stamped the tree seven times on this card and then stamped it again on some card stock and only colored in the card stock.  Then cut out the colored portion of the tree and glued them into the spots.  Easy and fun.  Copics to color the trees.  Love how simple it is and yet very nice. 

Halloween Tag

This tag was made with little CTMH tags and some torn paper.  I used the cuttlebug folder for the web and some Tim Holtz distress ink for coloring

A sip

This is a CTMH ( Close to my Heart ) set.  It is really simple but a nice set if you love Tea. 

Happy Forever Card. One of my Favs

This is the CTMH Stamp of the Month for July.  Happy Forever.  These little Hedgehogs are pretty sweet.  I doodled the border.  Border, Kite and balloons are BV02, YR00 and RV95, 

Strawberries from Close To My Heart

This is a CTMH stamp that comes in a wonderful set full of fruit.  This is my homework for the green lesson, video nine.  I love the strawberries in this set. 

Wedding Card. Tilda and Edwin.

These are elements of my Copic class.  The bride and groom, are from the black and white video.  I used I used all C copics for the plus BG10.  The Bears are CTMH stamps and they were for my fur practice.  I am about halfway done with class 2 and looking forward to class 3 and 4.

Last year, My August swap

This little book was fun to show off some of my favorite recipes from my Aunt Gene.  She has been gone for 25 years but I never had better meat loaf than hers. 

August swap.wmv

Fruitful Delight from Close To My Heart

Close To My Heart Fruitful Delight - Clear Stamps

This stamp set is so nice.  Comes with cherries too.  I used copic markers to color in the fruit and to color in the embossed areas of the cardstock.  Also CTMH.  I used this set as my very first post on this blog.  I really love it. It looks so real.  A great one if you are just starting out with the copics.

Off the edge. Happy Birthday

This card was my first attempt to to have the stamped image go off the page.  I used a CTMH set of stamps and some Pearl Ex Watercolor CD series by Jacuard ( Dark Peach ) to color in the the body parts.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink for the edges.

World's Best Dad

This card and envelope are framed in with a Copic Wide marker B32.  I used the Close To My Heart stamp set.  Even comes with the fishing pole that I used for a border on the card.  I just love the grungy look of the wide markers.  Fish are colored in Prismacolor pencils.  The copics go right over the pencil and do not ruin the pencil work.