Happy Monday!!

Hi everyone...hope you all had great weekends!! Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!! I just wanted to show you a couple of cards that were made during a card class that I went to on Thursday at a LSS, The Paper Pickle. I'm not going to go into too much detail with what was used to make them (just because I don't remember what inks were used or what company makes the images) but I still thought I'd share them with everyone. I really like the colours and the image of the first card but I LOVE the second card...I love the colours, the image, and I also love the "window" effect of the card(we used acetate, which I have never used before). I'm hoping to get a few cards created tonight, so hopefully I'll be back to share them later. Have a great evening everyone!!

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New cards

Hope everyone had a great weekend!! I know I did...I went to my friend's wedding yesterday (it was so much fun and she was so happy) and I had a quiet day today. I thought I'd share some cards that I made this past week. The first two cards were made during at class that my LSS, The Paper Pickle, had on Tuesday and the third card I made yesterday for my friend's wedding.

For my first card, I stamped the image twice with Versamark Ink. Both images were embossed and I paper pieced the coloured birds onto the first image. The brads were silver to start with but they were coated with Versamark Ink, dipped into black embossing powder,and then embossed. I also used the Cobweb Cuttlebug folder (I liked it so much I had to buy one for myself) and added some sparkly chalk to it to give it more detail (but you can't really see it in this picture). A little patterned paper and ribbon finished the card off nicely.

For my second card, I stamped the image with Versamark Ink and embossed it. I used the Swiss dots Cuttlebug folder on the white card stock and oval Nestabilites to make the "frame" around the birds. A little patterned paper, ribbon, flower, and rhinestone added the finishing touches to the card.

By the way, if you live in my area, you should definitely take a card class at The Paper Pickle...the ladies who run the store are super talented as are the ladies who put on the card classes.

And finally, I made the third card for my friend's wedding yesterday. I've been looking at this House Mouse stamp (Sunflower Smooch) for some time now and I thought it would be cute to use on a wedding card. I inked the image with VersaMark Ink, added black embossing powder to the image, and embossed it. I coloured in the image with my Tombows, used my Stylized Flowers Cuttlebug folder on the cream coloured cardstock, and added some clear baubles from Stamping Bella.

I hope that everyone had a fun World Card Making Day yesterday and thanks for stopping by to check out what I've been making. Have a great night!!

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Happy Sunday!!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Here are 3 more cards that I made this weekend. I bought these stamps last Saturday at a store in Petrolia called The Town Scrapper (it's about a half hour or so drive from my house). This is my first Whiff of Joy stamp (I love this image) and one of the Magnolia stamps that I bought (I'm hoping to get more WOJ stamps and Magnolia stamps in the future...I think that they are just too cute!).

For my first card, I inked the WOJ stamp (Willow with hot chocolate) with Memento Ink and embossed it with shimmer detail powder. I coloured it in with my Tombows and I used my Nesties and Cuttlebug for the scallops behind my image. The patterned paper is from a Close to my Heart paper packet called Life Delights. I also added a Prima flower (I bought some more Primas yesterday too...I've never had any in this size before).

My second card, I inked this Magnolia stamp (Mermaid Tilda) with Memento Ink and embossed it with shimmer detail powder. I coloured it in with my Tombows. The "day dream" stamp is from the Gratitude=Joy set from Unity Stamping Company and the baubles are from Stamping Bella.

For my third card, I inked the Mermaid Tila Magnolia stamp again with Memento Ink and embossed it with clear detail powder. I coloured it in with my Tombows and used my Nesties and Cuttlebug for the scallops behind the image. I used some clear baubles from Stamping Bella at the bottom of the card.

I'll have more cards to share on Tuesday night as I will be attending a card making class at one of the LSS, The Paper Pickle. Thanks for stopping by to have a look at what I've been making this weekend!!