Personalized card

Here's the 2nd personalized card I made...I used the Gifts of Christmas set...the dove it cut out and popped up with dimensionals...I also painted the dove with Lumiere paint to add some sheen...

Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, Whisper White

Circle Christmas

A friend of mine asked me to make 2 very special, personalized cards for her mom and her in-laws...this first one is for her in-laws....when I saw this design I know it would look great with some personalization...I was even thinking of using it as my Holiday card with my kids' names on it (or what about photos???)

Cheery Cobbler, Baja Breeze, Silver and Red Glitter paper, Whisper White

I used these punches...1inch, 3/4 inch, 1/2 inch, the tiny circle from the 3 pack punches, and a standard hole punch

Changed it up....

Here's another version of the birthday card I made originally in a square (jumbo) card...same vision...just changed up the measurements to reflect a rectangular card....

Sorry...Mom.....

I made this card for my Mom's birthday in January...but then a customer called and needed a female birthday card so I sold it....oops....

Hey, when you can sell a card.....

So anyway, that means I get to make another special one for her!

I used the porcelain technique on the Vanilla background piece...inking up the embossing folder with Sahara Sand with a sponge and then running the card stock through the Big Shot...it adds a really subtle color...there are also tiny pearls in the centers of the flowers...


Pretty in Pink, Sahara Sand Very Vanilla, Basic Black


Wait till you see how I changed this card into an A2 card size....

Baja Breeze engagement

My friend, Kim, also asked me for an engagement card....since I made this one already and loved it, I thought I'd pull it out again...this time, however, I made it in a square size instead of a regular A2 size...

It is really so simple and stunning (and easy!)

Fishing birthday

My friend, Kim, asked me to make  card for her husband's birthday, who likes to fish...I do not own any mature stamp sets--gotta get some!...so here's what I came up with (and he liked it!)


I painted the fish scales with some Crystal Effects...the sentiment is actually printed from the computer since I don't own a stamp that was simple and would fit into a circle punch...the background is stamped with the Fishy Friends matching wheel...don't you just love the layout, too?



Lucky Limeade, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point

Male squares and circles....

As I looked through my items for the vendor fair (which is tomorrow) I felt that I was lacking in 'male' cards, so I decided to make up this one just to have available...

I had seen a version of this made in a regular A2 size, but changed it around to fit into a square card...

1 inch square punch and 3/4 inch circle punch...


Soft Suede, Tempting Turquoise, Early Expresso, Whisper White, Pear Pizzaz, Lucky Limeade, Baja Breeze

Getting it right...

Sometimes, it takes me a while to really get a card perfect...as you can see in the 1st two cards, I felt you couldn't see the dangling snowflake (which you can't!) so I backed it with a circle of Baja Breeze and added a sparkly brad in the center...ahhh..much better!

The background embossing is on white paper, but I inked up the actual folder before running it through the Big Shot...

In these 2 cards, I changed up the measurements from the previous card a bit, didn't use the ink technique on the folder--thus allowing you to see the snowflake better--and then I added a sparkly brad to the center of the snowflake...

Again, not sure about....

the color combo...you know when you see someone else's card and you try to duplicate it, and for some reason it doesn't have the same effect?...

I used some red rhinestones as the 'hangers' of the ornaments...

Real Red, Marina Mist, Old Olive

White Wedding...

I'm sort of getting into these jumbo cards (as I call them)...I have had the larger envelopes sitting around forever (like probably 8 years!) so why not start using them?

This card uses white card stock (obviously!)...the layer under the first white square it a layer of glossy card stock--it's almost a different shade of white, so there is some contrast...

The measurements for the layers are as follows:

Card is 5 1/2 squared
Glossy layer 4 3/4 squared
White inner layer 4 1/2 squared
Top of cake 1 1/2 x 2 1/2
Middle 1 1/2 x 3
Bottom 1 1/2 x 3 1/2

The corners are rounded and the layer is embossed...the ruffle trim is the ribbon punch, layered underneath...I'm sure the scallop border punch would be a great substitute!  You could also add some tiny punched flowers to add some color...

Wouldn't this make a nice birthday card, too?