I did some distressing with Ranger Distress Inks on the border of the stamped image. The card design is simple to show off the fir bough image which can nearly stand alone. Thanks for visiting.
I learned how to make this Origami tree on Operation Write Home a couple of months ago. I used Sketch #169 at Clean & Simple Stamping. This is a pretty sparkly card between the irredescent paper and the glittery star on top of the tree. Thanks for your visit.
This image is part of the Crafter’s Digital Art Center’s Progressive Challenge #5. The image was created at Digis by Phooka and colored with Copic Markers. I was inspired by Card Positioning Systems Sketch #241 for the layout of this card. Thanks for visiting today.
This is a really neat folding technique that I learned on Operation Write Home Stars & Stripes. Jan Hunnicut, of “She’s Gone Digital,” offered a tutorial showing how to fold this tree. Trenton, who is a master at Origami, also advised me on the folding! I seem to be folding-impaired to some degree! Anyway, I really like the tree and hope you do, too! Thanks for stopping by.
This was another card I wanted to finish to send off to Operation Write Home for the Christmas deadline coming up. I stamped Fluffles and colored it with Copic markers. Thanks for stopping by.
I made this card for Operation Write Home, using the OWH Sketch #91. I am trying to finish up my Christmas cards to meet the October 31st deadline, so that the OWH shippers can send lots of cards off to the troops. Thanks for the visit!
I made this card for the Operation Write Home Christmas Card Challenge. I colored the penguins with Copic markers and inked the edges of the green and red pieces with Charcoal ColorBox Chalk ink. Thanks for stopping by.
Welcome and Happy World Cardmaking Day! I hope you’ve been enjoying the bloghop so far, if you are participating. There are lots of cards to see! I’ve made a snowy, penguin Christmas card for your viewing pleasure today. The stamped image is colored with Copic markers in some pretty untraditional Christmas colors. Kind of fun and I felt compelled to use some of my penguin stamps! If you’d like to see more snow cards, visit my previous posts from this week (scroll down). I’ve kind of been on a roll!
I used a Card Positioning Systems sketch from the book, Cardmaker’s Sketchbook: Ideas to Inspire Creative Card Design. Thanks for stopping by, and please hop on to the numerous other blogs by clicking on the Blog Hop graphic at the top of this post.
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I used the current sketch: Sketch 159 at Clean and Simple Stamping to design this card. I used the snowflake charms with the textured paper created with the embossing folder. The real experiment was stamping directly on the ribbon. The ink bled a little bit, but it wasn’t an entirely failed science experiment! I like the simplicity of the design, yet there is a lot going on with all of the snowflake elements. Thanks for visiting.
This card was made based on the Card Patterns Sketch #134, the current sketch there. I’m going through a little snow phase this week (more to come), so forgive me! It is a little early, but since many of my cards go to the troops via Operation Write Home, I have to ship them off pretty early. Thanks for the visit.
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