Lots of cards today

First is a card that I received for a circle theme swap. The rest of the cards are what I've made for my SIL.
Above is Tangled Fluffles, colored with my Bic Markers while below is a cat from a velum sticker pack that I picked up at JoAnn's in their clearance sale. I also added three gold paint beads to finish it off.
The oval card was following a sketch and I used my punch to create the flower. The cat sleeping on the "quilt" was colored with water color pencils to look like a tortishell cat since that's one of her cats' colors.
Below is Fluffles checking out a snail and colored with my Bic Markers (all the Fluffles were Bic Markers). This may be the end of my creating for the weekend - Tomorrow is my last day off and I have laundry to fold and I guess I'm going to have to shampoo the carpet after all since my youngest threw up on it really early this morning. :(

4 more

The first card has silver paint to make the swirls and around the bracket and I used another glittery flower. The red one is for a Split Coast Stamper's color challenge and I followed a sketch. I placed the cat sticker higher than the sketch's embellishment dictated it should go but I thought he looked better sitting on the ledge than he would lower down. The other two, I just kind of put together. I didn't follow a sketch or do it for a challenge. The two women are colored in markers while the cat is watercolor pencils. I have another card that is drying and we'll see what else I can come up with.

So Far...6 cards done today

For a bird swap I used this two-step stamp of a bird. This was my first time using a two-step stamp. It took me a while to figure how to do the second stamp...every time I tried to move the plastic sheet, the cardstock would move too. Later when I was putting the ribbons on, I ran out of the skinny magenta ribbon (got 3 done with it) and had to use some of the sheer green ribbon on the last one. Lastly, I added three silver paint dots on the mat below the bird and in three of the circles. This paint is suppose to look like pearl beads but I haven't quite gotten the technique down for making balls because they get the Kewpie doll or ice cream cone points when I lift the tip off the paint blob.
Below: A couple of Thank you cards for my SIL. The top has a glittery green "flora doodle" from Hobby Lobby while for the lower card I cut a piece of paper with a flower printed on it. I then took my glitter and ran a bead of glue (Matte accents) and put it on the darker pink (I don't know if it shows up). The "thanks" is a chipboard accent from the dollar bin at Michaels.

Hopefully, I'll get more more done tonight. I've already colored some images and stamped some others - just waiting for the paint and ink to dry before I scan them.

Green, Orange, Yellow and Hot Pink Card Revised

I added the flowers in the grass with the Easter image. Helps make the colors that need to be used for the swap, more prominent this way.

One more

No one went out and got the mail Saturday (I was gone to a crop) so I have one more swap card to show. And it's got a HORSE. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a sucker for horses.

Cards, Cards, and More Cards

I haven't been keeping up with my blog (just haven't had time to scan) but I've been busy. :)
Here I have cards made for a Corners swap. Each one ended up looking a little different so I just went ahead and scanned them all. I meant to stamp "hello" on each one but forgot. Oh well, the swapper that gets my cards can put what ever they would like to have on it that way.

Below, this is for an upcoming swap, Colors Orange, Green, Yellow and Bright Pink, that hasn't closed yet so hopefully it won't fall thru. The card I happened to scan, is the one that is different - all the others have the ribbon on the left. Otherwise, all 4 of them look the same. I have the Easter Image matted on orange corrugated "Cardboard" (it isn't really cardboard, but it wasn't cardstock that I embossed - I bought it that way many years ago). I need to stamp "Happy Easter" inside. Since I don't have much bright pink, I may use that color.

Then the 4U cards and Circle cards are for more swapping. They are blank inside since the outside says it all. LOL The Circle card replaces what I made for it before (see below) but ended up not liking the results. I'll use them for the Autism Card Donation. I embossed small flowers with glittery embossing powder inside the circles. That's when I wasn't too happy with my results. That and the ribbon didn't "speak" to me anymore even though that was the reason for the purple and salmon color scheme for the circles.

Now here are some cards that I've been recieving for all this swapping....

There are still more to come so hopefully in the next few days I'll have more to share.

Feb. Cards Received

First a Valentine Swap Card: The first one is the largest I've every gotten in a swap. No envelope and not sure how I'll ever find a proper envelope for it so I can mail it but it sure is pretty.


These next ones are for a Snowman Swap. I hope the colors aren't as washed out as they appear on my laptop.The butterfly card above obviously isn't a snowman card but for another swap. This is suppose to be "Any Background Technique" with TAC stamps. I had to look at the card for a while to figure out what it was made of...pieces of masking tape. I had never heard of this technique before and I don't know how the color got on it. Then the POP under the stamps is just some more masking tape rolled under it.

Scrapbooking Quotes (some quite funny)

9This was shared on one of my scrapbooking lists:

http://www.quotegarden.com/scrapbooking.html

Scrapbooking fills my days - not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets! ~Author Unknown

Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks. ~Author Unknown

I scrapbook therefore I am - broke. ~Author Unknown

I could keep on scrappin'
or I could go to bed,
but then what would I do
with all these layouts in my head?
~Author Unknown, "My Addiction"

Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts. ~Author Unknown

My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once too young to remember; I am making scrapbooks for my family because one day I may be too old to remember. ~Author Unknown

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away. ~Author Unknown, "The Scrappers Creed"

When life gives you scraps, make something with them. ~Author Unknown

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream? ~Ashleigh Brilliant

We gather up pictures and bits of our past
and scrapbook them into a gift that will last.
~Kimberly Rinehart, "Scrapbooker' s Verse"

Scrapbooking isn't about scraps of paper and photos. Scrapbooking is about scraps of life - yours and those special to you. ~Rebecca Sower

To crop or not to crop, that is the question. ~Author Unknown

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ~Frank Deford

Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist. ~Author Unknown

My husband lets me have all the scrapbooking supplies I can hide. ~Author Unknown

Time flies... scrapbook it. ~Vivian Perez-Espinosa, owner of Let’s Scrap!, a scrapbooking store in South Miami, Florida (www.lets-scrap. com)

A person is neither whole nor healthy without the memories of photo albums. They are the storybook of our lives. They provide a nostalgic escape from the tormented days of the present. ~Patrick Garry

The album we've made is much more than a book.
It's worth even more than the time that it took.
~Kimberly Rinehart, "Scrapbooker' s Verse"

A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes. ~Author Unknown

So many pictures, so little time! ~Author Unknown

[Mama] follows us around
hoping we'll sneeze
So she can have the tissue
"For my scrapbook please."
~Toni Sorenson Brown, "She's Out of Control"