Not for my Dad

I set out to make a card for my Dad today. This isn't it. I had a watercolored image I wanted to use and I thought it would work with the sketch from Mojo Monday. However, as I started assembling the pieces my original image was too large and it eclipsed all of the other layers. So I pulled out the circular image you see here and then reworked each layer.

I am happy with this card, but it is too flowery for my Dad so I will still have to figure something out for him!

BTW, I stopped including card details since I think I am the only reader of this blog. (No surprise.) Someday if I have readers and if they are interested I will post details.
~La

Happy Card

Every time I make a card I think "maybe NOW I will get back into the swing of things. Hasn't happened yet though.

Over the weekend my daughter wanted to paint together. She painted page after page of hearts so I followed suit. I used Luminart watercolors on real watercolor paper. This had become my favorite media before moving to Taiwan but I haven't used it since moving. So I pulled them out again and began playing. Next I stamped various hearts all over the page, then drew little swirls between them. I liked it so much I hated to cover anything up! But it looked rather naked so I went to the "Mojo Monday" blog and used their current challenge as a template for finishing my card. Inside I stamped "You Make Me Happy" from SU's Sassy Sayings set. I like the card, though not sure when or for whom it will be appropriate. Oh well, add it to the stash...

~La

Having recently bought oodles of new supplies, I am TRYING to stamp again. Prior to Mom's death I had another awful life event which seemed to spur my creative juices and I created all sorts of cards that I thought were great. However, since Mom died that hasn't happened. I go to my craft room and sit there looking at everything, not knowing where to start. But I am trying.

Casing a very simple card

I saw these very simple cards and thought they were beautiful. I also thought I could copy them, so this is what I did:

The blue border is not part of my card, I just put it back there because the white card against the white of the scanner wasn't looking too good. And the photo looks as if I forgot to round one of the corners. I did not.

Around Thanksgiving I discovered some awesome local paper. I used a bit of it on a Christmas card. I hope to have time to make some more, although time is running very short! If anyone is reading this blog, you may be getting tired of seeing the ornament stamps. I didn't bring much with me in the way of Christmas stamps so I have to use them a lot. Sorry!


You might not be able to see the "Merry Christmas" on the front of the card. It is the only sentiment I used because, as I've said before, I'm not feeling very merry about Christmas this year. So I pretty much leave my insides blank and write a note in them.


~La

A Santa Card

I don't generally use Santa on cards, preferring to focus on Jesus at Christmas. However, I do have this one very old stamp with Santa (or a version of Santa) on it. The image fit nicely for this weeks Mojo Monday sketch, that was my sole motivation for using it!

This card is a conglomeration of supplies from so many companies! There is a stamp from Stampin' Up (the background), the Santa stamp of unknown origin purchased a thousand years ago, ribbon from who-knows-where, Stampin' Up paper, Creative Memories paper, Copic markers, SU markers, etc. Hmmm... nothing from Verve - the sponsor of Mojo Monday! Oops! I don't have any Christmas stamps from Verve yet and at the moment it's hard to do anything other than Christmas.

~La

Baby Card

I'm going to a baby shower today so needed a card to go with the gift. When we moved I must not have anticipated needing baby cards because I didn't bring any appropriate stamps with me. So coming up with an appropriate card was challenging. I did find this stamp within a set of stars. It says "Twinkle Twinkle little star do you know how loved you are" and "Baby" in the middle of the star. The recipient is choosing not to know the sex of the baby (Yeah for her!!!) so I couldn't use blue or pink. For some reason I also did not bring any basic yellow ink with me, or for that matter any babyish green. The closest I could come was Certainly Celery, which I think works.

My daughter badly wanted to help, so I told her to work on some designs while I looked for white cardstock. (Another thing I brought very little of. What was I thinking??) She actually started the polka dot idea and did something similar to this final version. It reminded me of a card I had done a couple of years ago so VOILA! - we had our starting point! I let my daughter stamp the polka dots and she did a great job. It was nice to be able to allow her to help.