While I am at It

Like I said in my previous post-- While I was delivering my cards to the Queen's Ink I just happened by the discount table and there were two stamps by Belk that would be perfect for tangling.  So the next day, off I went back to get them.  Just look at all that open space.  This is a tanglers dream.  Well, mine anyway.  So here is the card that I made with the second stamp. 

I love the verse.  It is unmounted so I am not sure the maker. Probaby it is by Quietfire Designs.  They make the most beautiful stamps.  Here is a link to their site.   http://www.quietfiredesign.ca/home.php

The Queen's Gift Cards

I have been making a few gift cards for the Queens Ink.  I have made 30 in three days.  Needless to say I am a little card making out.  Of course once you get the design down the rest is easy.  I make 10 of each design.  This time I thought I would step it up a bit and do a Zentangle card for her. I first stamped her image and then tangled around it.  I have wanted to do this forever with a stamp.    Its a little plain but thought with the Zentangle it needed to be.  While I was at the store  I noticed a couple lined stamps on the discount table.  I will be going back today to get them.  When I looked at them I thought they would be nice to do like a cut glass technique but now I think they would be perfect to tangle between the lines. 

Then there was the tri-fold card.  Still trying to use her stamps in all her gift cards wasn't the problem.  Trying to find the purple flowers was the problem.  I started with the small roses.  I got those from Michaels so when I went to get more they didn't have them.  I wanted to keep the size but forget that so I got the larger roses.  I ran out of those so I tried to make ribbon roses with seam binding from Martha Stewart.  Do they even look close to a rose?

Then there was the last card.   I can't believe that I didn't get a picture of it.  I will have to see what I can do when I get to the Queens Ink today. After I find more purple flowers for the Zentangle cards that is.  .  :(

More Christmas Cards

Here are a couple more.  I used the same image from Lili of the Valley but I colored them different colors.  The Sketch is the same as the others except for the differnet nesties. I used different glitter on the fur around her face.  I think I like the chunky one best.  It gives more shine.   Enjoy!

Started my Christmas Cards

Finally, I have finally started making my Christmas cards.  I used my Lilli of the Valley stamps to make these two cards. these are kick stand cards.  The card base front is cut about half way and punched with a border punch.  I sewed my papers onto  background cardstock and glued it to the base.  I used my copics to color them and the rest is just fru fru's.  I had a little mishap on the card with the cat.  I was going to apply a little crystal accent to the circle that says "Believe" but instead of just pulling the little pointy cap off I unscrewed the whole thing and dumped it all over my card.  Thank heavens I had a towel and could wipe it off before it stuck. 

Samantha

Well, here she is in all her glory.  I have been waiting for this image every sense I saw it on Sassy Studio Designs. http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com  And she is quite sassy.  The chair stamp is from Hero Arts.  I was wanting that stamp forever.  Every time I would go into Great Scraps there it was just looking at me saying "Take me home"  Finally I gave in.  It is so happy here, what took me so long.  hee hee I used Mohawk paper to print Samantha on and colored her with my Copic markers and that is all the coloring I did on this card.  I really wanted her to stand out.  Now that I had her comfortable in that big old chair what was I going to use as a sentiment.  It had to be a little sassy because look who we are dealing with here.  So out came the stamp set from "There She Goes"  called LOL Taglines "08-0031"  I hope you enjoy this card because I really had fun making her and I don't get to use those sentiment stamps often.