Elf

This is my version of a Christmas elf:

Miscellaneous cards from 'before'

My Creation

Table Top Football

This is my idea for a card challenge idea

that specified a sports themed

card for 15-21 year old boys

I decided a cartoon

would be a fun twist.

Halloween Cards en masse

Here are all of them!

Some designs I duplicated or made similar.

Fall

I stamped the pumpkin,

traced it with marker

then drew in the rest of the image

and the bats on the orange background

These bats I didn't draw

This is a K & Co. paper

I love how this plaid
looks with the rooster

Sage coloured raffia ribbon scraps

make these stripes

Spring Things

Scalloped Rounds

Christmas Cards

A few snow dots were just the thing

to cover up my amateur stamping results.

Gift bag for the background.

Stripes make of textured card stock.

Styrofoam snow dots,

angel from a magazine clipping

patterned card stock

textured card stock

Wrapping paper and

gold foil sticker leftovers

Markers and a chipboard sign

Foam for Christmas

Foam snowflakes and chipboard buttons

on squiggly stripes with dots

drawn with markers.

More foam shapes:

Stryofoam dots and foam snowflakes:

Foam Christmas Trees:

Masculine

For the boys, I tried to make

rugged, brown and beige schemes.

I drew a starfish with coloured pencils

and then added a little texture

to the background of the main part of the card.

Buttons, old cotton strips from a shopping bag.

That's supposed to be a pinecone.

Here, I used a magazine picture:

Both the jeep and the background

are done in coloured pencils.

Another variation, using the same materials.

I especially like doing ones like these

to send for our soldiers to use,

through CardsforHeroes.org.

Spare Parts

Sometimes, I make "blanks".

Here I just used textured card stock.

I love these crisp and simple designs.

The empty circle is ready for a picture.

Another blank of just card stock,

This reminds me of

a pistachio and chocolate petit four.

This happens to me a lot:

I make a card and it needs something.

(I know this never happens to anyone else.)

So, I get out the coloured pencils

and start to draw

and when it doesn't need something anymore...

I'm finished!

The flowers are just a picture

cut out from a magazine.

Marker squiggles and dots

with chipboard buttons

(left over from a kit.)

I had this piece of tissue paper

and thought the bright check pattern

would make a cute background

for a scalloped round.

Foam dots on the corners

all on textured card stock.

Simple Scallop Punch Designs

These are some of my first cards.

A simple layout using scallop punches.

I didn't have many stamps yet, so I drew all my pictures

with markers on watercolour paper.

Textured cardstock with on pastel cardstock.