This card would not scan correctly. The stripes go all the way up through the card and I think look very classy. This card and the next three cards I wanted to keep very simple. They were quick and fun to make.

Thank You Cards.

Another layout challenge for split coast stampers. . . . an oriental flare.

For split coast stampers, the layout challenge. I really wanted to try something in yellow and black. The stripes just evolved.

For split coast stampers the theme was travel. The background on this is postcards, and I found the saying on the Internet. Very simple card.

My Son's Birthday Card

It is fun to make a card with a certain person in mind. McKay loves baseball and so I did baseballs in the background and I just happened to have a picture of him with a bat in his hands. I really am enjoying the cuttlebug embossing also. I thought the circles fit this card. The cuttlebug tag cutting die is fun also.

This is the card we made for May card club. The size of the card is 3X3. It is pretty small. In this first picture it is folded up.
In this picture it is partly opened . . . . .
and in this one all the way opened. The technic we used, besides folding the card was two-step stamping.

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.

Gift Card Holders

These are the cutest little cards. I made them for the technic challenge on split coasters. They are gift card holders!!! Here is a tutorial:

http://pinefeather.typepad.com/pine_is_here/2008/03/baby-gift-card.html

and a visual tutorial (although words are in german the pictures as they say

speak a thousand words)

http://rosaswelt.blogspot.com/2007/11/geschenkkarte-karte-lach.html

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 a technic challenge. You take a double sided pre-printed paper, and fold it many different ways to get this cool double pocket card. Here is a link to a tutorial:

http://jarfullofjoy.blogspot.com/2008/04/double-pocket-card-tutorial.html

This one I did a "ways to use it" challenge. We were suppossed to use rub-ons, but when I went to rub-on my sentiment I realized it was a sticker and not a rub-on!!

Another split coast stampers challenge. It was a color challenge, the colors were Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, and Pretty in Pink. My dogwood tree out front is blooming and looks somewhat like this pink tree :) The background is embossed with the cuttlebug, and the tag was a cuttlebug die cut also.

For split coast sketch challenge . . . . . I am really enjoying these, they inspire me to try different designs and technics I never could have thought of myself.

Just for fun! A springy card, using a cuttlebug embossing folder for the background.

For this weeks color challenge. We needed to use groovy guava, basic grey and Oh Darn! can't remember the name blushing . . . . . a lighter pink color!!

Another for split coast stampers . . . a sketch challenge. The offset oval was the challenge.

A baby card . . . .

Trying different colors . . . just to see what I can come up with.