Barb's Cards

Recent Cards

2010-04-21T07:21:00.000-07:00

(1061 - Hanging Easter Eggs)

(1074) Pink Pirouette - Lovely I think

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Anniversary card for Mitch and Alice. Not very fancy for such good friends.

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Cottage Wall DSP, Rich Razzleberry, Two way bird punch.

Birthday Rose and others

2010-03-20T07:20:00.000-07:00

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I made this card for my friend, Alice (birthday 3/22 - she got it yesterday, so I can finally post it). For a change, this is my original design. The rose is actually layered - stamped 3 roses on Real Red, then cut out one whole rose, adhered; cut out a portion of the rose, adhered w/dimensional, and then cut a 3rd (smaller) layer, and adhered using dimensionals. Could not get the bow to come out right, but I certainly do like the look of the card.

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Another view, trying to show the layers on the rose.

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I hope once this is loaded that you can click on it, to get a larger image. The card is very pretty in real life. Used the 'Petals a Plenty' embossing folder from Stampin' Up, then colored in the centers of the flowers with Yoyo Yellow marker. The big Daisy is not from Stampin' Up, but everything else is. CASEd from the SCS website - do not recall from whom.

Latest cards

2010-03-14T08:28:00.000-07:00

A variety of cards made in the past few days, for a variety of reasons.

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This one is for my oldest son, who just moved into a new house. I do not envy him the moving part, but I do envy the 'new house' part. What fun to move to someplace newer - new neighborhood, new friends, etc.

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This one is for my oldest grandson - Jake, who will be 9 years old on April 1. He's big into Star Wars - but since I don't have any Star Wars stamps, this is as close as I could get. Purple aliens. :-)

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Starting on my Easter cards. This one will be for a child. Used last year's stamp set.

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This one is so pretty in real life. I don't think the picture does it justice. Love the embossed background. This was CASEd from the SCS website, as close as I could make it. I love the Abundant Hope stamp set!

Watercolor Bird

2010-03-04T10:48:00.000-08:00

I went to a class yesterday (thank you Donna), and we made a card using water color technique. I had all the tools to try it again at home. Here's my attempt. I was disappointed that the Not Quite Navy water color crayon did not come close to matching the Not Quite Navy paper. Still, it looks ok. This was cased from an SCS card, but I don't remember whose.

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More cards

2010-02-28T13:47:00.000-08:00

Some of these cards are earmarked for friends and family. However, I'm pretty certain only 1 person will ever look here, so I think it's safe to post these cards. Her card, on the other hand, will NOT be posted until after 3/22/10. But here are the cards I've made during the past few days.

(1038) Case'd as best I could from Alice.

(1039) Faux Silk for the poppy

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(1041) Jennifer's Birthday Card

(1042) More with the Bloomin' Beautiful poppy. Not faux silk this time.

(1042) Same design, different colors

(1044) Another CASE from Alice

Created 2 15 10

2010-02-25T13:33:00.000-08:00

(1036) I think th paper (Nouveau Chic) is the ugliest paper I've seen in a long time, but I like the way the card turned out. Goes well with the Sage Shadow.

(1037) For my brother

Valentines 2010

2010-02-25T13:31:00.000-08:00

(1020) For Jake

(1021) For Sam

(1029) For my brother

(1030) For M&A

(1031) For Noah

(1028) For Bob

(1031) Blue Valentine for Bob

(1035) For Bob, from Kiki

January 2010

2010-02-25T13:25:00.000-08:00

(0931) 1/12/10 - For Stphennie

(0940) 1/16/09

(0941) 1/16/09 - has no brads

(0945) 1/17/10 CASEd from SCS. Sent to the 'Plague House'

(0946) 1/24/10 For KJE

End of 2009

2010-02-25T13:16:00.000-08:00

(0837) Picture dated 12/16/2009

(0838) dated 12/17/2009

(0894) Card created 12/29/09 for Noah

End of Octobe 2009

2010-02-25T13:13:00.000-08:00

These pictures were taken at the end of October. Don't know when the cards were made.

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(0775) Picutre dated 11/9/2009

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(0827) Love the colors and the design. I didn't make it up, tho.

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(0836) Picture dated 12/12/20009

Before 10 12 2009 - continued

2010-02-25T13:07:00.000-08:00

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(0687) Used a Stampin' Up card kit on this one.

(0688) Made this one in a class

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(0706) I think I posted one that looked like this much earlier.

(0712) pitiful

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(0716) Matchbook

(0717) I think I made this in a class.

(0721) Another duplicate

Some time before 10 12 2009

2010-02-25T13:00:00.000-08:00

When I set up this blog, I had to start by taking pictures of all of the cards I had. Pictures here were taken 10/12/2009. Cards were created sometime before that.

Another color combo I do not like.

I like this one.

Anoterh anniversary card

Love this card. One of the first I made after I got my Big Shot.

Reflection technique. This was hard.

I like the colors. The butterfly is on dimensional.

(0637) A tiny note card.

(0651) Another color I like. Note torn edges. Flowers are 'popped up'.

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August 2009

2010-02-25T12:49:00.000-08:00

Dates are still approximate...

8/6/09

8/25/09 - Bookmark

8/25/09

8/25/09 - I love the colors of this card.

8/25/09

8/31/09 - for the kids; never sent

8/31/09

June-July 2009

2010-02-25T12:44:00.000-08:00

Dates are all approximate - but probably more accurate than prior posts.

6/15/09 - My version of a card we mde in class.

6/18/09 - Spotlight technique

6/22/09 - Masking technique used here

7/01/09

7/01/09 - Thank You for Joe

7/01/09

7/23/09 - "Out of the Box' technique

7/28/09

April - May 2009

2010-02-25T12:39:00.000-08:00

Dates are all approximate.

4/05/09 - Delicate Dots paper and God's Beauty stamps

4/12/09 - Borthday card for someone. More delicate dots paper.

5/02/09 - Used some stickers; decided I don't like stickers.

5/02/09 - same sticker set

5/02/09 - Using non-SU DSP

5/02/09 - Celebrate Spring - mailed several of these out.

5/02/09 More with the sticker set

5/02/09 Did not like the color combination, even tho it came from Stampin' Up

5/26/09 - layers, torn edges, brads. Embossed, too - but you can't see it.

March 2009

2010-02-25T12:30:00.000-08:00

The dates given here are all approximate.

Created 3/15/2009

Created 3/24/09 - Easter card for the grandsons.

Created 3/25/09 - Birthday for Donna

Created 3/25/09

Another Easter card - 3/27/09 Note layers, ribbons, brads. I'm learning.

3/29/09 - layers, torn edges, etc.

Cards from February 2009

2010-02-25T12:25:00.000-08:00

This card was made January 2009, using non-Stampin' Up supplies, before I really understood about co-ordinating colors, etc. Note that the dates are approximate.

This card was created 2/2009 - a Birthday card for a friend of mine. Very plain compared to the cards I make now.

I'm starting to understand layering to make the card look better. Also using Stampin' Up supplies now.

Created 2/19/2009

Created 2/21/2009

Created 2/21/2009 - Happy Birthday to Donna.

Created Feb 2009 at a Stampin' Up class, using all SU supplies.

The Early Days

2009-12-17T13:43:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-17T13:32:00.000-08:00

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.

Christmas Cards as of 11/18/09

2009-11-18T12:21:00.000-08:00

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.

Recent cards (out of sequence)

2009-09-09T11:15:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-09T08:10:00.000-07:00

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.

It's a beginning

2009-09-07T12:15:00.000-07:00

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!