80's Flashback

The last card I posted used a scalloped Frameabilities from Spellbinders and I liked the way it turned out, but as I was taking the frame from the die and getting the little pieces out of the scallops, especially the corner ones, I had a major 80's flashback to Pacman. The pieces that come out of the corner so reminded me of Pacman that I just had to make a Pacman card. I colored the pieces yellow with a Bic Markit and the colored some scrap paper yellow and used a hole punch to cut out all the little dots. I had some help with this process, courtesy of my daughters cat deciding it was great time to sit in the middle of my desk, he likes to help when I am working.

I took a 4x8 black base and made a 4x4 notecard and scored lines at the inch marks on my scoreboard. I tried to center each Pac-man between the lines and then came the time consuming process of attaching the dots. In hindsight, I probably should have used a ruler or something to make the lines straighter, but still as a card completely on a whim, I liked the way it turned out.

Stamps: none

Ink: Yellow Bic Mark-It

Paper: Recollections Black

Extras: 1/16th inch hole punch, pieces from using scalloped Frameablities, scoreboard

Framed "Imagine"

After recently moving, I have been going through crafting withdrawls. So, after all children were in bed one night and my house was quiet, I decided to try a couple of cards, even though my craft room is trashed and I can barely get around. So this what I came up with supplies that were easily accessible. I got a couple sets of Frameabilities when traveling over Christmas, on clearance for $9, each. I love finding Spellbinders on clearance, since there is no such thing as too many Spellbinders. The image is stamped in Weathered Wood Distress ink. I sponged around the edge of the image panel and over the frame with the same. The image panel is from the center of the smaller frame from this set.

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co-Imagine

Inks: Tim Holtz-Weathered Wood Distress Ink

Paper: GP White, Recollections Scarlet

Extras: Scalloped Frameabilities, sponge

Difficult Card

I always find sympathy cards difficult to make, amoung other things, I would much rather be making cards for a happier occasion. I always find getting the right thing for a sentiment on a sympathy card even more difficult. This card finding the correct sentiment even more so, because this was for family after my grandmother died. I used a sentiment found on a spread sheet on SCS that struck a chord with me and printed it on vellum. I cut it out using Label 11 nesties and used it as an overlay for the background.

Stamps: Unity-Bella Doilies

Paper: Georgia Pacific White, Vellum

Ink: Memento Rhubarb Stalk

Extras: Label 11 Nesties

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, hope everybody is having a wonderful holiday, or at least a relatively smooth holiday as I know it can be very stressful at this time of year. I thought I would share my card from this year and then hopefully get around to posting some of my other crafts that I did for presents this year over the next week.

 

 This is my Christmas card for this year. I was playing around for ideas using this tree stamp and came up with this design using oval Nestabilities. The oval around the tree was done by putting the embossing mat done and the card face down on top of it, then putting the nestie inside the card to run it through my Cuttlebug. As the bug usually needs something to shim nesties when embossing, I put a card I had messed up in between the nestie and the back of my card to prevent an impression on the back of my card while providing the shim.

Stamps: Unity-Joy and Wonder Set
Paper: Georgia Pacific Cardstock
Ink: Versamark
Extras: Spellbinders Nestabilities-Classic Ovals Large-biggest die, Stampendous Pirate Gold EP