Welcome 2011

2011 is here and we have a lot going on this year. We have a wedding, a new baby coming and a milestone birthday. So hopefully we'll be able to share a few projects this year. Here are some cards I made semi-recently. This is a card I made for my brother-in-laws wedding but I never sent it. Terrible huh. I wonder if I still should but it was awhile a go now. I learned this technique for my favorite card making blog. Basically you cut a shape out of one piece of card stock and layer ribbon on the card base and then layer the shape over the ribbon. The stamps are from Papertrey ink.

This card is a card for a baby shower. I bought this cute bird stamp set from PTI (papertrey ink - little bitty bird) and wanted to test it out but I ended doing this right before the shower. Yikes. It turned out pretty good for being under a time crunch. I used watercolor to color in the stamped images and my cuttle bug for the embossed bottom half. The two scallop shapes I cut at 3.5 and 3 inches from the Straight from the Nest cartridge.

Here is a close up of the colored part. It isn't perfect but I don't think things have to be perfect to be cute. It is hard enough to find time to do something creative without worrying about things being perfect.

My goal this coming month is to make 10 birthday cards and 5 shower cards so I don't end up doing them a the last minute anymore.

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A stamped card - from a beginner

It's Thursday. I love Thursdays. They are ALMOST Fridays and Friday is my free day - well usually it is the doctor and dentist and all that kind of stuff day but at least there are two adults doing it all.

Today I am going to share another card. I love making cards. Have you noticed? The reason is that I can try out new techniques and products without a lot of waste. I am not a waster. I like to use things to pieces. So last week I bought some Stampin' Up ink. I have been collecting some stamps - since they have been on clearance - and needed some ink. I have tried out a couple of brands - distress ink, Stazon ink, Stampabilities ink and Stampin' Up. It is strange to me how different inks are but I am just entering this world so I am learning as I go.

There are tons of YouTube videos on stamping so I am trying to learn a little each day - during naps - if I don't have to use that time to work out (which I have been doing great at since I started managing my time).

To make this card I used a tree stamp set by Hero Arts. I got it 50% of at Michael's. I love their blog! They have good videos too. I need to get my hands on a heat gun to try resist embossing! You can find the how-to video here.

I stamped the same tree with perfect plum and certainly celery onto drawing paper. They aren't perfect stamps but I am learning so it is okay. I used my new ATG gun - yeah- to tape the paper onto the card. I used my Signo uni-ball white pen to do the stitching and added a vellum sticker thing I got off HSN a LONG time ago. You got to use those things when you see an opportunity.

I learned a lot. I guess real stampers use a rule and set pencil lines where they want the base of their stamp to be so everything lines up. -note to self-