100!

So it turns out I made exactly 100 cards in 2012! Maybe a few more that I didnt actually count because they were varying designs, but the last card I updated here was called '100.jpg' so there you go! I like these to varying degrees. The top card is my least favourite though I may experiment more with the basic technique.

Emma and I both liked this card. It is a right-angle stamp that I lined up by sight and picked out some rainbow colours. I went with muted shades rather than really bright and I liked it. I contemplated putting more on the card but decided simple was best. I guess the base cardstock could be any colour from the inks, I just like orange a lot!

This card was using up scraps. I made the flower stamped part when I was showing someone a stamping technique and thought 'might as well use it! I wish I'd done something more to the background though but as it wasn't a planned out card, I am not too worried.

I made this card quickly as we were going out the door to a birthday party (for a male) and really like how it turned out. The background was one small stamp so I had to do a LOT of lining up! The stamp ink matches the paper btw, this photo was just taken at night so the colours look odd.

A friend lost her grandmother (who I knew well as a teenager) so I made this card. I really hate making sympathy cards but make more than my fair share. I really need to make more because I have some I should have sent already.

And here's to lots more card making fun in 2013!

Christmas cards

Here are a few of this year's Christmas creations...I know there are more because I can think of a card I sent to my friend Tracy that isn't here and I am sure there are more.

This one is actually a sticker! You just have to pop out everything and add stars to the sky. I used this card for Ryan's aunt.

This one was Bianca's Christmas card (which I forgot to give her lol): 

This was a gift card wallet. I made heaps of these, but bigger than this one and more ornate. This one was made quickly as I had forgotten to get my dance teacher a gift: 

I quite liked this card. I enjoyed hand (water) colouring in the leaves. The heart is actually raised above the rest of the card: 

Don't ask why this card is sideways! It isnt in my folder but insists on uploading sideways (I tried twice). I didnt like how these came out so I let Emma use them to write Christmas notes to her teachers: 

This card has an embossed background which you cant really see too much...but see the shine in the bottom right? It is in the design of that tree stamp and I sprinkled powder on and heat embossed it.

I dont even know why, but this very simple card was my favourite of the year! I did a few slight variations on this card.

I made a few variations on this card. We heat embossed the tree onto the card then used inks and water colour paper to dye the background. The embossing resists the ink (like crayon and dye that you did as a child). I drew a fake stitched line around and put it on a grey card that I'd embossed. This time, embossing was like indenting the paper. I know, a bit confusing, embossing and heat embossing. I quite liked these cards, simple but nice. I made a few variations on this theme.

This was Ryan's Christmas card for the year. I used my new stampin' up stamp and die cut system. So I stamp the ornament, then my machine cuts exactly around them for me (thank goodness-I hate hand cutting). It is a white card, with striped paper glued down, then another green sheet of paper that I created a scalloped edge on. Then stamped and cut the ornaments, embellished them with liquid pearls, shimmer spritz an rhinestones. Glued gold cord and bow onto the ornaments then stamped a greeting, punched it with an oval punch then again with an oval scallop punch. Not sure if I took a photo of Emma's card...hers collapsed in a complex way!

I sent this to my Aunt in NZ. I quite like this design but didnt make too many. Emma made quite a few more than I did.