Acid Wash Happiness

I made this card at someone else's house, and I thought it so tacky I "forgot" it there. I thought the slightly "acid wash looking" background was hilarious though. I made it simply by pressing the paper onto a multi-coloured stamp pad. This morning this card showed up in the office as a going-away card for a co-worker. People loved it! I still think it's tacky.

Katie Card

I made this card a little while ago, but only just used it this week. The first letter I made with red cardstock, drawing the "K" on with a pen, and then used a clear sticker overtop that came with a whole punched out. It was then sewn onto the white cardstock. The other letters came as letter stickers, and were simply stuck onto the white cardstock. The different layers were adhered using double-sided tape.

Lace Galaxy

I made this card with a piece of lace sewn onto the mulberry paper, then secured to the blue galaxy cardstock with double-sided scrapbooking adhesive tape. I'm not sure I'm entirely satisfied with the design. I think I'll play around some more with the lace idea, but currently my craft table is overrun with a sewing machine instead of paper as is normally the case, so cardmaking is on hold for a bit until I sew a shirt I have on the go.

The lace, btw, I got for 50 cents a meter.

Tiny Toque

I wanted to knit a baby cardigan for an upcoming baby shower, so I went to the library and got a brand new library card and signed out a few knitting books that looked somewhat promising.

I also went to the local thrift store and got a steal of a deal on a whole bunch of nice (but very fine/thin) acrylic/wool/mohair blend yarn in pink, off-white, and a pale peacock blue. And some smaller knitting needles.

When I got home, I really wasn't satisfied with any of the cardigan or sweater patterns, but noticed a Debbie Bliss cashmere baby "beanie" hat pattern that I thought I would give a try.

I ended up altering it, because I didn't like the garter stitch it recommended (takes too long, and on 3mm needles it already takes forever!). And I think there was clearly a large error in the pattern instructions anyways (it said to keep knitting for 7 inches, which would have produced a super long rather odd-looking sleeping cap rather than a beanie!)

It did take foever, I would say at least 8, if not 10 hours of knitting.




I wasn't sure how long to knit for, so thus it has this "convertibleness" built in with a flip-up brim-mie type thing. I've never knit anything for a baby before, and I don't have too much experience with baby-sized heads, and the pattern was weird.




So I hope it fits! :)

Baby Laundry

I made this card for a group gift at a baby shower to be held today.

The letters were cut free hand, and the bottoms are taped down so that things don't get all wild and crazy in the envelope. I made a removeable blue paper lining so that people could take it out when signing as the mini clothespins were a bit bulky to be signing over.

Baby Booties

To begin this card, I first drew out a baby bootie on a piece of cardstock and cut it out. I also cut out two bootie outlines, and then embossed them using the template. The bows were stitched on with thread. The interior of the card is lined with the same blue paper, and is held together by the ribbon at the top threaded through two punched holes. The blue beads add a nice accent touch.

Touch of Asia

This is another attempt at a card with my new "Touch of Asia" stamps. I am not really satisfied with the result.

A Little More Oriental

This is the first card I made with the set of oriental "Acrylix" stamps my parents sent me for my birthday. They come from Close to My Heart.


This is my second attempt, this time on a smaller card. I think I like the other one better.

Butterfly of Another Colour

This card I made for my parents using a rubber stamp and Laurentian pencil crayons, and accenting with coloured cardstock. It's a close-up, this is in the centre of the card.

Blue Butterfly

This card I made for my sister. The butterfly outline was made with a rubber stamp and then was coloured in with pencil crayons. The lighter blue cardstock was ripped and placed upon a "galaxy" spotted navy cardstock.

Baby Pink, Baby Blue

This weekend I suddenly realized that oh gosh, all these weddings are coming up on my calendar! So, I spend yesterday afternoon crafting a few wedding cards up. I made a similar style before for a couple of friends who got married last year, and I love the way they turn out. Unfortunately the scans do not do them justice!

The dresses are embossed with a Fiskars embossing thingy that my roommate has. Sometimes I make my own template and emboss them that way, but yesterday I took the easy route.




My friend Leanne from Bible college is getting married in May on Vancouver Island. Unfortunately I cannot make it to either her shower or her wedding, but this card is what I am sending in lieu of my attendance at the shower. I think their wedding colours are baby pink and baby blue, so thus the card colours. The interior is lined in baby blue.

Lovely Green

This is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad scan, but this is a fun green card I made for my friend Mike's fiancee Monica to congratulate her on their engagement. The background is this neat speckled "mosaic" paper from Staples. I love the green vellum.

Lavendar Wedding

This is a wedding card I made for my friend Beth who is marrying her long-time friend Greg this weekend (finallyl!!!). I don't know what their wedding colours are, but I do know she likes purple, so this creation resulted. I love the look of the grape vellum crinoline.