Crow card for Matt

A Tree card for Matt's birthday.

We share an affinity for crows, so the embossed murder of them is my favourite part of the card (their from Stampscapes Rubber Stamps.) I was happy to use a different looking background stamp. That, and a bit of sponging. I got this forest stamp from Non Sequitur Art Stamps. Plate number 71 (Winter Solstice).

I used the same stamp to make cards for Dad's birthday (of course, since he's a tree-doctor).

I never pre-make enough "masculine" cards: being obsessed with embossing and cutting out flowers to bead has it's drawbacks.

:-)
Mel

Card-making at Shea & Adina's Place

Another of the many made while visiting at Shea's; she and Adina were so sweet to put up with the constant mess in their kitchen: Shea even let me stamp right on her unfinished kitchen table! (the saint) ;-)

This is now fondly known as the "funeral series" lol (But don't anyone die on me). I am obsessed with black.

Same technique as other emboss resist cards. "Carte Postale" set again. You can't see the black ribbon very well. but it's there. Charles bought me reams of it at Michael's in different colours.

I sold 30 cards to Brew Creek Lodge, I was up at Shea's. That was exciting--Thanks Shea! (she works there) :-)

Mel

Emboss Resist

I made a lot of cards while I was up in Squamish visiting with Shea. (Almost a week of lazy fun with my favourite cousin--Sorry, gazillion other cousins: but she's everybody's favourite; isn't she!?!?) ;-)

This one was ANOTHER variation on the emboss resist, in "cool caribbean." The stitching is faux; the ribbons are real. I'm trying to use more ribbon. I get hoardy with it. On top of the emboss resist is more embossing for variation.

The stamp set is "carte postale." Hope it makes it into the new catelogue (even if "cool caribbean didn't: the bastages, lol).

I finally found a tool to save me from ratty fingernails and paper cuts: the distressing tool set is wicked. (After a hundred cards, you look like you've been tortured...)

Mel

Fish Card for Jay

Jay, Charles's Dad, has supremely gorgeous fish tanks (and a million randy black mollies). I had no black molly stamp, but I made this in his honour. He's well beyond gold fish; still, he liked it anyway--I'm told.

The water bubbles are 3D (with crystal effects) The smaller fish (seahorses, shells...) are just stickers.

The sea weed is not stamping up, it's a fern pattern I got on ebay done with a stamp'n'write marker...

Mel

Flowers for Kimmmmmmy

I made this for Kim (a.k.a. Kinkers: the best of friends); I've started to use more variety in my stamping--out of sheer guilt: from owning hundreds of sets and using the same one again and again!

This is a combination of emboss (flowers) and emboss resist (paisley). It's accented with silver zig painty marker and silver seed beads (glued on with crystal effects.) The flower on the left is in relief.

If it wasn't for Kim, I'd never get any cards made.
She's hosting a card workshop in July, so I better polish my craft. :-)

Mel