Get Well Soon...

I made a couple extra Get Well cards to have on hand.

Finished Card size: 5.5" x 4.25"
Stamps: Heart with Swirls (Studio G), Get Well Soon(Stampin Up)
Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa,Cranberry Crisp (SU), White(Georgia Pacific)
Ink: Basic Brown(SU)
Coloring Medium: Prismacolor Pencils
Other: Ribbon (Martha Stewart Crafts), Ticket Corner Punch (SU)

Love Cards 2008

I can't believe I'm almost finished with my Valentine's Day cards. Will I actually mail them as I intend to??? We'll soon see...

Here is my love 2008 collection. I guess you can tell that I'm stuck on this color scheme now. I'm working on cleaning off my desk so I think I'm at the end, but I have a couple more cards to show you before I get sick of it.

"A Friend Loves" Cards
Finished Card size: 5.5"x 4.25"
Stamps: Background Hearts 1 and 2 (The Angel Company), Heart with Swirls (Studio G), Bible Verse(My Sentiments Exactly)
Ink: Basic Brown, Cranberry Crisp (SU)
Other: Scalloped Heart Punch and Ribbon (Martha Stewart Crafts),Heart Punch, Ticket Corner Punch, clear dimensional glue, glitter




"Love is Kind" Cards
Finished Card size:4.25" x 5.5"
Stamps: Heart with Swirls (Studio G), Love is Kind (Stampabilities)
Ink: Basic Brown, Cranberry Crisp (SU)
Other: Scalloped Heart Punch and Ribbon (Martha Stewart Crafts),Paper Edgers Corkscrew, clear dimensional glue, glitter

Here's another tip to lessen the waste and weight of your cards. I always have 1/4 in strips left over from cutting my background cardstock. Sometimes I use them instead of using a full piece of cardstock to create the look of a mat as I did on this last card.




We have a snow day here (nothing sticking). I have new stamps from SU and Cornish Heritage Farms, so I'm going to play. I just might be back with more cards today.

February Card Class

Here's a sneak preview-ish of one of my classes at Michaels in February. The Bear is Penny Black and the other images are Studio G straight from the $1 bin. Colored with Priamacolors. I say "ish"because for the class, I'm going to emboss the brown layer with the CuttleBug embossing folder.

On a personal note:

My printer issue has a temporary fix. My husband reminded me that I have a very nice laser printer. And after talking to my sister today, she is sending me a printer similar to mine except that it doesn't fax. It was my Dad's and it's been sitting in her house since he died in May of 2005. The good news is it will use the same ink I already have. One day soon I'll still get a new printer-- one that does all those things that mine did and have wireless networking capabilities. Then my daughter can take this printer back to college. It's a win/win! I knew God would work it out. Choosing Joy !