Imagine

I love this card, the simplicity is nice. The little stick-on jewel is neat too.

Salt Water Taffy

This is another "thanks for the candy" card. I love the way it turned out. The vellum looks great.

Sunny Side Up

This egg shaped card (here shown on a green background), was to thank someone who gave me a bunch of candies (including those gummy eggs) for my birthday.

Let It Snow

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's not winter, but I thought I should get this up before winter is so far away in our memories that we're excited for it to come again. I made this card with some scraps left over from using a "Sizzlix" machine at a scrapbooking night I went to a long long time ago. I wrote "Let it Snow" with some nice "crappy typewriter" font rubber stamps that a former roommate owns. I think I will pick up some for myself though, I rather like them.

Vellum Flowers

This is a close-up of a card I made my Mom for Mother's Day this year. The flowers are vellum, and stitched to the white squares. I tied the card and it's lining together with this see-through white ribbon that I particularly like. :)

Butterfly Flower

The red, light green, and butterfly wings in this card are all vellum. The butterfly body was made with wire, one seed bead, and two longer-type beads. The beads were threaded through one piece of wire, and then the wire wraps around the back of the butterfly. I stitched it onto the wings with thread and a sewing needle, and then through the blue flower. The flower and leaves and squares are stuck together with scrapbooking tape.

I sent this to my Gramma. :)

Bamboo

I made this card with one of the acrylix stamps my Mom sent for my birthday. The ribbon was actually from the wrapping of the package. Inside the card is lined with the same spotted paper as the bamboo is printed on. I love that paper. It's from the "mosaic" line that you can buy at Staples, I'm not sure who buys it. This particular kind is called "confetti" I believe.

Aspire

These rubber stamps are tricky to use, because they're little magneticky ones and there's not much to grip on to.

Discover

I was going to use this as a graduation card, but I used another one instead. The rubber stamps are a part of a series. They're not mine, I used them at some else's house.

Live

I don't normally make too many cards that don't have a white background. I'm not sure yet what I'll do with this card.

Little Buggy Way

I love this card! I made it a couple of months ago. The wooden ladybug is from a pack I bought at Dollarama. The poem is one from Lois Simmie's book "An Armadillo is Not a Pillow," which my Gramma gave me for my birthday or Christmas sometime around the time I was in grade three.<

Screen Printing

In junior high and high school, at the school I went to from grades 5-12, we were able to do screen printing in Industrial Arts class. I thought it was so fun, and I am sure that somewhere I still have a piece of fabric emblazoned with a screen print of Joey Lawrence's head that I did in grade 10. And I always wanted to get back into screen printing, because really what could be cooler than printing your own t-shirts, but the process I learned it on was a little more complex than my little craft table would ever allow for.

So I was thrilled to see Beth post about a simpler method, and see a link to a tutorial on how to do it. But, the only embroidery hoops I could find in this whole town were cruddy cheap wooden ones at Wal-Mart. So I waited a bit and got a better one at Michael's in Barrie last weekend when I was there.

This little turtle was my first attempt (it's simply on cardstock). I rather like it with it's blotchy little dots, even though they weren't intentionally put there. The technique has neat limitations.


My second attempt was on fabric, an oriental inspired blossom. I like it too... I'm not sure what I'll do with it yet though. Might make a fun pocket.



I think that it would be fun to print some fabric to make a few purses or bags with... I'm going to do some experimenting hopefully this weekend.

Red Flowers

I need to start scanning on a background other than white! This card has a blue lining, and is held together with a blue ribbon. The flowers are made from red vellum, and are hand-sewn on.

Embossed Iris

This is an iris embossed card I made a little while ago. I got the brass stencil from a dollar store somewhere last summer.

Ewe're the Best!

This is a thank you card I made this past weekend. The sheep swirls are made with a Fiskars embosser thingy, I forget what it's called. The text is printed out on a laser jet, it's size 10 Times New Roman, for all the font geeks out there. :)

7 Years

This my first attempt at writing something in knitting, and I think it turned out pretty well. I find that knitting on such small needles (3mm) takes what seems like forever to complete!

I am hoping that it fits the baby now that he is a month old! The yarn is an acrylic/mohair/angora mix I picked up at a thrift store. I still have lots left!