I spent a couple of days last week working on a project for The Wild Bunch. I think I told you I was going to do it. I took the photo of the ladies' canes and made a set of notecards for each of them.
My work space looked like this Saturday morning.
And 60 cards later, here's a close up of the finished product. Very simple design so I could assembly line produce them in a reasonable amount of time. I really hope they get a kick out of them.
I had the chance to spend some time during the Thanksgiving holiday with DDIL#4, in the scrap space, making some cards. She had a lot of homework to accomplish that weekend, so we used it as a bit of incentive. She'd get some stuff done and then we'd do a card. She'd get some more stuff done and we'd do another one. Here are some of them.
The designs mostly come from the Kristina Werner blog, from different years of her Holiday Card series, or from more recent posts. Here are a couple more designs we didn't get to because time got away from us.
I did quite a bit of cutting on my Silhouette, trying new designs. Some worked better than others.
This one frustrated me quite a bit. It was one I'd seen on the Jennifer McGuire blog and I had looked forward to try the inking techniques. This stamps has been giving me fits, though. If I used regular pressure with it, the middle wouldn't stamp at all. If I pressed really hard, I lost the detail at the top and it just looks smeared.
Anyway, it was a fun time. Incidentally, DDIL has a blog here (with a very cute and very apt title).
I have quite a few Christmas cards that I've made over the past month with the KW card series. I have plenty for sending, so I've picked out 8 or so that I'm going to give away. All you need to do is leave me a comment here by midnight, Sunday night, 11/13. Tell me what your favorite part is about Christmas and I'll have random.org pick a winner and post it Monday morning.
It's been a busy week and I haven't had a lot of time for creating, but here are the two most recent takes on a couple of her cards. I had some of the product she used already. I substituted a tree for the snowman she used.
I was really anxious to try the ink misting technique with this card. I cut the snowflake image on my Silhouette and used it as a mask, then misted over it with Studio Calico spray ink.
Remember, leave a comment by midnight on Sunday for a chance at the giveaway!
It's been a busy week and I really haven't had a lot of time to play, but here are just a few that I finished. I'm thinking by the end of this series, I'll have way more cards than I'll ever need to send out this year. I may have to give some away....
This one is a lift from the Hero Arts Blog. It's really hard to see, but the blue has a 1/2" white border of cardstock around it.
This card is actually a take on one of her cards from 2009. I've had the stuff for it for a while and tried it out. The snowflakes have some glitter on them.
Her example for this one used a berry-ish stamp, so the repeated shapes were small and round, but I think this one works OK.
I love it when she puts together cards with stuff I already have. I love this Paper Trey Ink sentiment stamp. I've used a bunch of them this year.
I tried this one initially with a larger glitter and had to order the very, very fine stuff in order to finish it off. Next week, a giveaway. :)
A few more card takes from the Kristina Werner Holiday Card series. I am trying to do a couple of different versions of each one. It's been a nice break from the LOAD frenzy last month.
The colors scanned kind of funny on the above image. The reds are more the same, IRL.
I bought the punch and stamps to make the one above...totally cute, I thought.
Her original design was the bottom card. I loved how my version turned out with different papers and stamps. It was a little more "formal" looking than her example.
There's just the faintest sound of jingle bells in the distance. Does it scare you or make you euphoric?
I've been tuned into the blog posts on the Kristina Werner blog. She's started her annual Holiday Card Series and has some fun examples to show and a video how-to demonstration of each one.
A few of my favorites from the first couple of weeks (I'll try not to overwhelm you...):
Part of the sister's weekend includes some crafting. Each of us bring something fairly simple for all of us to work on while we're there.
One of my sisters brought the materials for these fun seasonal necklaces. (Try not to let your eyes go crossed with these sitting on my busy rooster tablecloth.) She does them with vintage-looking images from postcards. Mine is the Halloween one. The others are samples of some she's made. They are double sided and are sandwiched between two microscope slides, then put in the frame. You can see she's added various charms to her finished products.
My other sister got us set up making these cute organza flowers to decorate a pillow front. You make the flowers by cutting circles of organza and melting the edges on a candle flame, then stacking the circles.
When I brought this home, The Girl, in her most wheedling voice said, "Moooooom, this would look so cute in my room!"
I did my usual set of cards. Here's a shot of how they looked when they were finished. We did 12 this year, which was a bit of a marathon.
This may be the only card I get done for it this week. I've been vainly trying to catch up on layout assignments for the other three classes I'm involved with, while putting together card kits for next weekend with my sisters.
This is one of the cards we will be making. I like to keep the designs fairly simple so #1, it will fit in an envelope, and #2, so we can get lots of cards done. I'm hoping for at least 10 cards during our weekend.
These are the cards I managed to get done this week for the class I'm taking.
I think I'm in a little trouble, though. I somehow have managed to have four online classes going at once. Yeah. I'm so behind already...
In any case here were are with a few cards. I liked this week's color scheme quite a bit and happened to have some Echo Park papers that fit it perfectly.
My sisters will be seeing them again at the end of the month when we have some time up at the cabin to play. The designs of the first two cards are based on Kristina Werner sketches.
This was a new technique I learned this week that involves removing some embossing powder with a stamp and then filling in the blank space with watercolor paints. I actually had to go to Office Max and buy Crayola watercolor paints for myself...it was amazingly remeniscent of buying school supplies for the kids every fall.
