feminine & fancy

YEAH!! i love how this turned out. so shabby, so chic.

This card promotes a card class that i'm currently teaching at our local Michael's store. Lots of diffrent techniques with this class and what great supplies we use!

Blue bird card

Get it? This birdie is blue cause it's thinking of you (and it misses you)! :) Background piece is embossed with cuttlebug then sanded for that distressed look I love so much. Birdie (SU) is paper pieced with some great blue paper. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Layered & inked

This reminds newer is strawberry shortcake piled high. Absolutely mouth wateringly delicious! Look at all those flourishes (TAC)! What great layers! My birdie (SU) is adorable! And ribbon on top of lace?! I love this card. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Just because card

So my husband said this is one of his favorites that I've done, which is odd because when I finished it, I was disappointed. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Slider birthday card

I HATE THIS CARD. Sometimes the wonderful and exciting ideas in your head just don't come to fruition. That time is now. CHALLENGE: make a slider card & somehow use cuttlebug. Challenge complete, but it's not pretty. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

Thank you birdie card

CHALLENGE: use regular lined notebook paper on a card. Challenge complete. Super simple, cleaner than usual, thank you birdie card. Used markers to color the stamp to get the brown branch & green leaves. Heat embossed sentiment in black to make it stand out a bit. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android

New baby card

CHALLENGE: use a paper bag on a card

challenge complete.

My cousin will be delivering her baby either late february or early march, and this will be for the new little lady in her life.

recycled bird

Card base is covered with packing paper, everything else is from the scrap pile.

I cut the bird out of a magzine, mounted on a srap paper, then adhered with 3D tape to base. Used twine scraps on side. Every paper is inked on sided with tim holtz walnut stain distress ink.

more wedding accessories

these lovely things i made as table decor for our wedding. wanted something tall to offset the little glassware.
i bought two diffrent bases, both inexpensive terra cotta from home depot. used pots and saucers, covered holes in bottom with scotch tape before filling with quick dry cement (simple to use, never used before but was very easy to work with). i got diffrent kinds of twigs and branches from michaels and the backyard (another good reason to live in the middle of nowhere!) and shoved them into the cement as it was drying. once dry, i spray painted base of twigs, top of cement, and base itself with primer then with a chocolate/woodsy spray paint.
the birds i made out of ivory cardstock. each bird is two pieces (body & wings). before connecting peices, i ran the paper through my cuttlebug and enbossed with french script to give texture. once embossed, used scrapbook tape adhesive to connect wings to body, poked hole in through where the two were connected, and used fishing wire to sting up on the twigs.
once the cement was dry, i used hot glue on top of cement around base of twigs and stuck moss to base for the "natural" feel.

of all the things i made for our wedding, i think these were my favorite!