Designer of the week

This week I am the designer of the week for Hambo Stamps. I am so thrilled to be asked. I can't tell you how honored I am. Thank you Hambo Stamps for thinking my work is good enough to be allowed to be the designer of the week. Their images are so easy to work with that anyones cards look great. So thank you for such a great product. These are the cards that I sent in for this weeks challenge. If you would like to participate just click on the title of this post and it will take you to the Hambo Hoedown. Fun, fun fun.

P. S. The one at the top is an extra one. I guess I couldn't stop after I got started. lol

Cased card from Ree

This is a card I cased from Ree at http://sincerelyree.blogspot.com/2011/04/hambo-hoedown-10.html Her cards are so pretty.

Penguin Bunny

Its Hambo Hoedown time again and this time the challenge is to use an Easel card. I have been wanting to try making an Easel card with a Twist so this was the perfect time to try. As always if you click on the title of this post it will take you to the challenge. While I was playing I decided to try this on my Photoshop Elements program. I hadn't used it for a while and was a little rusty. After downloading the background paper and a few elements, I downloaded the Penguin Bunny. I used the magic wand to cut him out. (I wondered if I could do that. Yea! for me. ) I added some shadows to make it look like it was popped up. Printed it out and used my Copics to color him in. Then I added a few stamped images (hearts) the stems and leaves I drew in, cut out butterflys, and glossied up and stickled the flower hearts. I finally added a little flower soft to his ears and tail . I guess this would be a Hybrid project. Thanks for coming to look at my card. I really enjoy the comments.

I recently got a design from http://valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com/. It is a swan made with a flower punch. It looks really difficult at first but it is so easy to do. I even cased her card. I am such a copier. Anyway I really loved this swan when I saw her card and couldn't wait to do it. So here you go. The leaves are a die I bought from http://www.mariannedesign.nl/. The flowers are a stamp from Purple daisy designs. She is amish so you would have to call her to order. Telephone number is 717-597-8803. What is so great about these stamps is that you can use a five petal punch to punch them out. The purple paper is from Stampin Up that I embossed using an Cuttlebug embossing folder and I outlined the blocks of paper with my Gold leaf pen. The doily is a die I got from www.Cheerylynndesigns.com. They will even make a custom made die for any of your stamps. How great is that.

These two cards are a total case from the display at Photo Scraps of Darcie's stamps. I just loved doing the tissue paper at the bottom. I just ran some red line tape across the back bottom of the panel and then once I tore my tissue paper in a one inch strip, I just pleated it across the width of the panel. Such an easy element to do. I enjoyed making these cards so much that I made 5 of them. lol The ink is sponged on the images. I cut everything out and mounted it on the card with foam tape. Quick and cute---My kind of card. lol