This is Jane's card.  It is a really fun card also!  I love how she used printed paper for the flowers and that the pink and yellow flower have white embossing in the middle.  The pot is dry embossed.  What a fun way to attach a sentiment!  rick-rack . . . . . oh so fun!

This is for a combined challenge for splitcoaststampers. The sketch and colors were a given . . . . and then you come up with the rest. I like the circle split in half. It looks like an s-curve.

This is a close up view of one of the gift-card holders. I'm practicing my watercoloring. . . It is getting better!

This is for the sketch challenge. The polka dots are dry embossed with the cuttlebug, and the tag is punched with a cuttlebug die cut. Cute, egh?

This was for a color challenge on splitcoast stampers. They tell you the colors and you create. I just got a cuttlebug and the embossed frame and tag were done with it.

I did these cards for a color challenge on split coast stampers. The colors were gray, black and pomegranate.

I don't use this stamp set very often at all and wanted to come up with something . . .

Playing with scallops

I hadn't done anything with scallops and kept noticing them on other cards and thought they were really cute so I decided to create a couple of cards using them. This is the first time I have come up with the background before knowing what I was going to do on the card. I like the results. I made the scallops with the creative memory circle cutting tool. If there is a better way. . . I'd sure like to know it . . . .

February Stamp Club Cards

This is the card we did together for Stamp Club.

"good luck" was the theme.

by Rachel

At stamp club, a couple of the ladies, (thanks!!) bring stamps that they aren't using and just GIVE them to the rest of us. I seem to be the one most benefited by those give-a-ways. I try to hold back- - but it is just to exciting!! The next cards are using some oldies, but goodies (I think).

Blue and Yellow - a favorite of mine. I have lots of fav's!! I stamped the background with the paisley stampin up background stamp with versa mark. It's a nice effect.

I love flowers!! - 3 of the flowers have clear diamond looking bling in the middle of them. The flowers above them and the "thank you" are done with versa mark.

The "bling" on the side are really diamondy looking stickers, they look different in the scan . . .

It's been coooooooold outside, and so I've been staying inside where it is nice and warm and have created some new cards. The black printing above is heat embossed with versa mark and black embossing powder and the flowers are colored in with the water color wonder crayons from stampin up. There is some dry embossing next to the flowers done with the bone folder . . .but it is hard to see. I'm now realizing since I put all these cards on one post, my labels aren't going to work right!! sorry. A baby card. WOW! those brads are NOT green. My scanner changed their pretty pink color to green! The babies above are heat embossed using versa mark and white embossing powder. You can see the dry embossing better in this picture in the yellow card stock. It was done with a bone folder in the crease of the paper cutter I have. Background is also versa mark. I use versa mark more than any other ink.
Oooooo, aren't these colors pretty? The background is "baroque" and it is stamped with versa mark. The stitching if faux stitching, and the butterfly is stamped first with colored ink, then with versa mark and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.
It has been so cold outside that I felt like doing a breezy cold card. I couldn't get in the mood too much as you can tell by the prior cards. I have a hard time with the winter theme. I had some photo paper sitting on my craft table and decided to try it out for stamping. The "beany hat" above is stamped on it, so it is glossy. The ink dried really fast! It surprised me. The background is stamped with versa mark and I had to add "warmest wishes" to this cold card.

Here is my latest card for the stamp card club exchange.

January 2008.

Flower's - by Tina

The top of this card pulls out. The flowers at the top

push back down into the card. We made this one

at card club.

Glittery flowers in the background - the scan doesn't do this one justice - - -

Hi - By Erin