Fun With Patterned Paper

I am on a quest to make at least one card from each of the printed papers in the DCVW Spring Flower Shower mat stack I got. A few of them go together really well so I decided to layer them in a new unique way. Here are the latest creations. Click on them to go the full web page if you want to see more.

Mother's Day Card Contest

Wondering what my 2010 Mother's Day card looked like?

Take a guess by posting a comment here. I'll send the first person to correctly guess the main image/item/focal point on the card a copy of the birthday version. The first person with the most specific correct answer about what's on the card will win. One entry per person and if no one gets close enough, no one wins.

Sorry US residents only as I really don't understand International rules and rates right now. Relatives of mine are not eligible.

Some evil clues that will make total sense later:

• The image used can be found somewhere on my website: http://www.sharedcards.com/.
• If you are good at memory games, it's the one that doesn't fit the pattern yet.

The correct answer is actually right there on the web site, no guessing involved, if you pay attention, visit the right page and can figure out the clues above.

You have 14 days from the date of this posting to add a comment and try to win.

Mother's Day Card

Mother's day is coming up soon so here's last year's Mother's day card. Click on it for directions on how to make it.

Affordable Presents

I've done a fair bit of coloring with Copic markers recently but I decided to do something a little more in reach of the average budget with this card. In this case, I used the Bic Mark-it markers, which have some interesting colors (even if the caps don't match the actual color) and are affordable. In fact they are cheap but they do work and they are alcohol based so you can use things like water based glitter glue over them without them running. Don't get me wrong, if you can afford the Copic markers, Copic Ciao or Sketch markers are the better choice. For example, notice there is no shading on this card like on the other Copic colored ones on the website. The point is that you can do creative coloring on a budget with the right stamp and markers.
Here are the cards (Click on them for full directions).
And here are your marker choices:

Stampin' Up! Seaside Sketches and Copic Marker Cards

Often times my inspiration for making cards is to just pick a stamp set or product I brought but haven't used yet and start making something with it. That's the case with these cards. I brought this stamp set a while ago but other than watercolor pencils, I didn't have a good way to color it. Now I do so I stamped out a bunch of the images and have been coloring them and assembling them into cards over the last two weeks. Here are the results.
For any of my posts, if you want more information just click on the image and you will go to the direction page on my website for that card.