Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Early Days

I've finally finished organizing the cards I've made.  In many cases, I'm guessing at the dates, but I think I'm pretty close.  This entry has cards I made in November-December 2008.



The only thing on this card from Stampin' Up is the black ink used in the stamp. And maybe the paper.  I just don't remember.  The daisy is two layers.  I stamped it, then stamped again, colored, cut it out, and adhered to the card using dimensionals.  This isn't too bad for an early attempt.  I had to color the sentiment using regular markers.  I'm surprised it looks as good as it does.


I vividly recall how difficult this was to make.  All materials are from a Big Box Store.  The flowers are punched out, and little brads are holding them to the big purple flower.  It's a gate fold card, which I had a REALLY hard time with - didn't have my ScorPal to assist in the scoring and folding.



This plain little card was inspired by a card my friend Alice made.  Her card had birthday presents on the DSP, but I couldn't find that.  I thought candles would work almost as well.  I was learning to layer.  The Stamp is from SU - On Your Birthday - the first stamp set I bought, I think.  Not sure about the paper.



Another plain card using mostly Big Box Store supplies.  The stamp is from Stampin' Up (On Your Birthday).


More Christmas Cards


This is an 'easel card', shown propped open.  Everything used was from Stampin' Up except the embossing powder.  It's hard to see but the red paper has been embossed.



I thought this little guy was sooooo cute.  The Drummer Boy stamp is not from SU, but all of the other materials are (paper, ink, markers, etc.)



I made a couple of these but never mailed any.  Next year?



Gift tags I made - the lower left one (Teddy bear & presents) is a Stampin' Up stamp.  The others are not, although the 'TO - FROM" is a SU stamp.  Lots of coloring.  It was fun.  

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Christmas Cards as of 11/18/09

I was going to post all of my cards in the order they were made -- and I've actually got all of the pictures taken.  But renaming and organizing by date is really going s-l-o-w-l-y.   In the meantime, I've made some Christmas cards that I wanted to share.  Many of these are based on ideas from other stampers.  Some are actually my own design, but it's hard to keep which is which straight.



I made 25 cards of this design for a Christmas Card challenge issued by my Stampin' Up demo, Donna. 
Here's a close up of a single card:


Here are some other Christmas cards I've made recently:  This one is called a Joy Fold Card.  The top one shows the card open; the bottom one is semi-closed to illustrate the construction.




This one is called an 'easel card'.  When closed, it lies flat.  When open, the front is propped open against a raised item - button, brad, or in this case - a stamped, cut-out image popped up with dimensionals.


Here's a card with a 'hole' punched in the cover.  Then, on the inside - the same shape in another color/designer paper.  The top picture shows the card kind of open.  The bottom one shows it closed.  I had to prop it closed with my scissors.




Here's a card that I definitely CASEd from the SCS website, I just can't remember who designed it.  I love its simple beauty.  Made it with the Petals a Plenty embossing folder, shimmed so that only some of the card got embossed.


And last (for today anyway) but not least, here is a card I made for Frieda, who loves angels.  She doesn't know it yet, but this is her Christmas card. 

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Recent cards (out of sequence)

 
Little Leaves
I CASEd this card from somewhere/someone, but do not recall from whom.  This uses the Big Shot to cut the leaves from Stampin' Up's 2009 "In Colors".  I do love the color combination.  You can't see it in this image, but the white is embossed as well.
 
Reflection

This is a card using the Reflection Technique.  It is my own design (for a change). 

So, I think I've come a long way from that first card.  From now on, I'll post the cards according to when they were made.  As best I can remember, anyway.

My first card

Way back in September 2008, I attended my first Stampin' Up class.  Lucky for me it was a 'Back to Basics' class, which taught very basic design and technique ideas.  I'll upload the cards we made at the class in the next post.

Then I came home and made my very first on-my-own card. At this point, I had no Stampin' Up supplies at all.  I got the basic supplies at Michaels.  (I quickly learned not to do that.  Stampin' Up quality and color co-ordination is the best.)   I remember being so proud of this card.  If you look closely, you can see that one of the flower images is popped up using a dimensional. I think I actually sent a copy to someone.

Just for comparison, I'm going to leap ahead to recent cards.  Then, I promise to start uploading them in the order they were made. 

Well, my uploads keep failing.  Perhaps I can't add new items to a posted entry?  I'll try again with a new entry.

Monday, September 7, 2009

It's a beginning

I thought it would be nice? helpful? interesting? to post the cards that I make on a blog.  Easy to share - easy to find.  I'm going to post these in the order they were made - I think it will be interesting to see the progress I've made.

And, since I cannot upload a PDF - which is how I've saved the images so far - I have to rescan all of the cards to create JPG images.  So it will take awhile to catch up.  

I do have one JPG image of a card I made in early June.  Since it's a Tri-Fold Shutter card, I couldn't scan it in.  Just to see how these things look here online, I'm going to upload that card, even though it's a fairly new one and thus out of sequence.

 
Tri-Fold Bunny
It's not done yet - once I decide how I'm going to use it, I need to add images or words to the other inside surfaces.  The hardest part of this card was coloring the bunny!