Card Swap Fun

I’ve recently tried to get more active in the SCS community. For those non crafty… or non web surfing crafty folks SCS, or Splitcoast Stampers is a huge online group of paper crafters with tons of talent, resources and challenges. I joined a direct mail swap group where each month we have a theme to make cards and then you send a card to each member, they in turn send a card back to you. May was the first round and our theme was monochromatic. It was so much fun! I got so much happy mail throughout the month. Its funny, I love getting letters and cards in the mail, so much more than emails… yet I rarely get anything besides junk mail.

I went with oranges for my color scheme… since I had a bazzill monochromatic pack to make it easy! The flowers and sentiment are all from the TAC set Blessings to You.



I love the effect that Versa Mark has on colored cardstock. I stamped and then touched up certain spots with the Versa Mark pen to darken them.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look, please let me know what you think! Have a wonderful day!

Images: Blessings to You (TAC)
Ink: VersaMark
Paper: Bazzill orange mono pack, white CS (inside)
Other: Versa marker, punches, white embossing powder, ribbon, piercer

Flowers, Sewing and a Preview....

I finally got to sew on a card... after playing around on some scraps for a bit I ran down to the craft room tonight to actually put a card together with some sewing. It's simple but oh so exciting for me! It's been a week since I played with the sewing machine and too many other things have got in the way of me actually creating.

I used an image from my stack of already colored things :-) Handy when you want to whip something together! This cute flower is from a retired TAC set called Beautiful Place. The sentiment is from Blessings to You, a Level B hostess set. I can't give you what copics I used since it was colored in ages ago.



Stamps: Beautiful Place, Blessings to You
Ink: Noir Palette
Paper: kraft, white, yellow and purple CS
Other: Copics, ribbon, sewing machine, pop dots

Now.... for a little peek! It was an absolutely beautiful day here, so I stamped off some images and sat outside to color while the boy child played. I actually had to call it quits because we were getting too hot and the sun kept moving and blinding me for a bit reflecting off the white paper! This next shot is a look at a bunch of Holly that I colored in (and painstakingly cut out four of them) from the Flowers and Holly set I've been using. Have to get my Christmas cards for the month done... obviously going to be late since it is the last "hour" of the month now and I only have the coloring done. Hope to have time tomorrow night to whip them up... depending on how exhausted I am from shopping... oh yeah, heading out with crafty friends to a scrapbook flea market sale in WV! I also did some coloring on our new Greatest Dad set that was in the April Promo... but we hear it is going to be in our upcoming catty too... so you haven't missed out on it! The pics didn't turn out on them too well, so no peeks... just going to see the finished deal soon!



Thanks for stopping by to take a look! Let me know what you think and have a wonderful weekend!

April Angel Blog Hop

This month's Angel Blog Hop is focusing on Weddings and Anniversaries. So many ways to show you care and are happy to share that special day with a couple.

I chose to make a matching candle and card, in my favorite color.... Blue! My son tells me that my favorite color should be purple, since it is so pretty, but I have been hooked on blue forever. I used the stamp sets Edge Designs and the hostess set Blessings to You.





I used the Scor-Bug and a White Souffle Pen to create the faux stitching on the card. Thanks for stopping by to take a look, please let me know what you think and have a wonderful week!

Hop on over to my fellow Angel's blogs to see what wonderful things they have created!

Rita K.
Chelsea
Heidi
Shirley H.
Rita W.

Supplies:
Stamps: Edge Designs
Ink: Night Sky Versa Magic
Paper: Navy Blue and White CS
Other: tissue paper, souffle pen, scor-bug, candle