172 cards this year

Ok so I have been making LOTS of cards lately and am about at the half way point for this years goal. i.e. I need to make LOTS more cards lol.

This first picture isnt an entire card, I just wanted to show you closer up, the blotchy shimmer background of the following three cards since it doesnt show up well. It is made with gloss card stock and Adriondack pearl paint dabber. I poured out some paint onto acetate and picked it up with glad wrap (cling film) and dabbed it on. Once dry, I inked over it with distress ink.

The card design above was part of a six card Kaszazz day I went to with my friends Maile and Judi (though the two with the bird were done in my own time). 

This next card is washi tape over the centre of the blue card then embossed with a chevron pattern. On top, a bike was stamped, background stamped and inked around the edge with distress ink.

A simple card, stamped directly onto base card, ripped paper on top, ribbon on top and a flower made with a punch (card punch outs spritzed with water and crunched in our hands).

Ok so this was super fun and is really cool! A circle stencil (Kaszazz) laid over watercolour cardstock. In watercolour pencils, we drew a circle then coloured it in half way before going back over it with a water brush to fill in the circle. A grid and some bling over the top and voila! The butterfly (vintage butterfly) was done using the same technique.

I really didnt like this card but others did...card making really is individual. Some people said this was their favourite card of the day! The greeting was stamped and a line ruled above and below. Then that area was taped off with postit notes before we stamped the rest of the flowers. They were inked over the top with distress stains plus a few extras were stamped, coloured and cut out then raised up with bling in the middle.

This one was fun to make, we made the envelopes with the envelope maker (I've purchased one but it hasnt arrived yet). I am not quite sure what I liked about making this one, I just enjoyed the design.

On Wednesday, I was on card making for the craft group and I taught them this card. It is made by ripping paper and inking over the top. The moon was created with a post-it note (so it avoided inking). Though you cant see it, these two have amazing sparkles on their antlers. I think I made another green one that I gave away at craft group.

These three were at a training day for Kaszazz. They are absolutely NOT my style, mostly because to make this card, you have to cut out all the flowers and mask off others and anything that needs fussy cutting, isnt my thing lol. We used alcohol markers to colour the back of the spotty ribbons on these cards.

Just playing around at home.

This is the other card I taught at card class on Wednesday. This first one, the tree refused to emboss properly. I tried embossing the snow too, and didnt like it!

So I embossed the tree white and left the snow un-embossed (see below). I made a few extras of these and gave them away to a lady at card class.

These three AWESOME cards were made today. As soon as I saw them in the Kaszazz catalogue, I was BUSTING to make them so when the class was offered, I jumped at the chance! All imaged were  stamped on watercolour paper, heat embossed and distress stained (faded jeans and the corduroy brown that I forget the exact name of lol). 

This first card was coloured with metallic distress paint (it took two coats) then was sanded off to give texture. 

This archway window is actually a bird cage die (bars cut out and top cut off). The background is distress inkpad (vintage photo) smooched over oatmeal cardstock. The button was also coloured with the metallic distress and took FOREVER to dry! The button below started out pink.

This card is watercolour paper, sprintzed with water then distress washed. Then vintage photo distress ink is sponged around the outside. The tree and words were all done in black (on Kaszazz oatmeal card) and sponged with vintage photo.