Cards galore!

Hi! I know I've been away for a while, I don't even have an excuse... I've been job hunting, and have been a busy bee crafting.  Sorry for neglecting my blog, but when I sit down to make stuff, I just want to make stuff, not have to worry about taking pictures of it.  Though I do like to show off! :)

So without further ado, here is a little photo album of all the stuff I have been making lately.

This first one is an invitation I did for my grandfather's 90th birthday party.  The inside is just printed from the computer and mounted, but it took about 3 weeks to put 25 of these together.  That was a lot of die cuts, and a lot of poking the little pieces out of that die.

I started doing these cards with the sketched rainbow background, and liked it so much I made like 4 of them.  Here are two.

The layout for this one was inspired by one of Kristina Werner's cards that I found on Pinterest.

New dies from Avery Elle below!

This next one is probably one my favorite ones I have ever made.  When I started it, I was all, "I don't even like making baby cards."   But then I thought of the toys in the envelope, and now I love the way it came out!  The toys are stamps from Lawn Fawn, MamaElephant, and various Etsy shops.

And here's my Mother's Day version of that same card.

Whew!  So much fun to make all of these.  Thanks for stopping by and sticking around!

Spring cards

Also this weekend I did some spring-inspired cards, thanks to the Simon Says Stamp March card kit!

Here they are:

For this one, I thought the green paper straw would make an excellent stem for a flower, and I like the way it turned out.  The bee is from Technique Tuesday.

This one was inspired by a card in Paper Crafts magazine... I love the way the branch came out with all those different ink colors, and for the tree on the left, I cut a strip of the Simon Says Stamp white woodgrain card stock, and covered it in brown ink.

Enjoy, and as always, I love comments!  (Constructive criticism is welcome too - I am a beginner and could use suggestions!  Just keep it friendly, please.)

More results from craft day

Here are two more cards I made while catching up with a friend (and eating yummy mac and cheese).

I wanted to have something easy to make on hand that I could send out to people who buy my stuff on Etsy, just as a special gift.  I used Kristina Werner's offset-stamping technique, and I stamp I got as a free gift from Lawn Fawn to make this simple Thank You card:

And, ever since Simon Says Stamp sent me kraft cardstock with my card kit, I'm totally in love with it.  So here's another Easter card:

The ducks are actually one stamp that I cut up, the dots are from Paper Smooches, and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Thanks for reading and please let me know what you think!

Clean and Simple Card Making - back to day 1

I finally got around to trying out another technique demonstrated in Day 1 of our class.  I'd been itching to use this stencil, and I needed some Mother's Day Cards, so here's what I came up with:

I used another DIY supply - instead of those misting sprays you can buy, which I don't have any of, I mixed some watercolor paint with a bunch of water in a little spray bottle and used that to spritz the paper.  It worked beautifully!  That's actually orange paint mixed with water.  

I also made another card using a variation on the same technique.  I don't love this card, the stamping is a little messy, and the ink I used over the stencil didn't dry properly since I don't have a heat tool (other than my hair straightener!).  But I love the idea of the grey sky/trees with the red birds.