Happy New Year!

Well Summer Card Camp is over, and while I did complete the class, it was so overwhelming that I'm sort of marinating on all the different ideas right now.

Meanwhile, fall will be upon us before we know it, and the Jewish holidays are early this year, which means it's time for me to start making Shana Tova cards.  I sold a few at a craft fair last weekend, and am trying to persuade my friends to buy sets of cards to send to their loved ones.  :)

Here are some, and I also asked a friend to help with photographing them, so I hope you can see the difference!

I decided to go with a bee/honey theme for most of them, since I figure everyone is sick of the traditional Shofar and Star of David nonsense.

Also, here is a birthday card I made for my dad.  He lives in Florida and loves the ocean.

Pattern Play, Day 1

It's time for another Online Card Class, this time we're learning about how to use patterned paper.  Just like many others in the class, I buy tons of patterned paper, but tend to put it aside in favor of stamps or just plain white.  Plus, it comes with all my card kits, and I never know what to do with it!

For the first day of class, we talked about some basic principles of combining patterns.  I'm not good at coming up with sketches/layouts on my own (that's a class I need!), so I used the same layout as Kristina Werner did in her video to make a Passover card requested by a family member.  I used paper from Indie Bloom by Basic Grey, and stamps from Papertrey.

 And here's another card where I used some patterned papers, though not as copiously.

See you tomorrow for day 2!

I'm back and Happy Spring!

Hello!  I bet you didn't even notice (I'm not famous enough yet for people to notice ;), but I was out of town and therefore disappeared from the Internet for a little while.  I was in Florida, visiting my grandparents at their snowbird condo in Boca.  I did, however, have time to make a bunch of cards, so I have lots of things to share with you.

First, though, a few more orders of business:

If you're in the Boston area, please come visit me at the SLAM Market at the Burren in Somerville, this Saturday from 12 - 4.  It's my first foray into selling at a craft fair, and I'm super nervous about it.  But, if you come, the Burren is offering $5 lunches all day!

Also, if you like the cards I've been posting, please check out my Etsy shop.  I've kind of been neglecting it lately, in the hopes of fame fortune in the blog world... but I'm about to post all of the Spring cards you see on the blog, so please check it out here.

Now, onto the card eye candy!  First up is a set of Passover cards I made to send to family members both in Israel and stateside.  I used backgrounds from Paper Smooches, and icons and Hebrew lettering from a local stamp company in Newton, MA called Zum Gali Gali.

See my next posts for some Easter, Spring, and Mother's Day cards!

CAS Card Making, Day 6

It's late, so here's what I got for today:

My friend asked me to make new baby cards for her, so I used today's technique to make one of them.

I also made this Jewish-themed get well card for a relative, using that gradient technique from last week.

See you tomorrow!

Clean and Simple Card Making Part 2, Day 1

I found a great online class on Clean and Simple card making, and for day 1, we learned some tips on craftsmanship and some other techniques.  Our homework was to create a card based on some of the techniques we learned.  (I'm a little behind, as the class started yesterday.)

So here is the card I came up with, which combines several of the techniques.  I wasn't sure what to put on it, and then remember that I was intending on making some Passover cards, so I thought I would try out the techniques on one!

Can't wait to see what day 2 has in store!