Cherish Mini Album

Bo Bunny Press was so generous to send the SRM Stickers DT some beautiful paper crafting supplies. I received the Jazmyne Collection and WOW, the papers, ribbons, bling, etc. are all gorgeous. I love the deep purples mixed with some pastels.

I created this photo album for the Layers of Color Guest DT spot. You can see the inside pages on the Layers of Color blog. I used the Flowering Gem set. I love that you can either color or plain stamp the images.

This is so different from what I usually create. Look how thick this is. This gift will be going to one special person.

Go To Sketch Card

I know this is late news, but have you seen the new Go To Sketch magazine by Paper Crafts? It's chock full of inspiration. I have three cards in it and I'm sharing one of them here. This uses one of my early sets, Lord of the Season.

And here's a card created by one of my Designing Friends this month, Justine. I just love her sense of humor. She's so clever to use the distressed ribbon stamp and created the tread marks. You can find out more info about this card HERE. And while you're there, check this beauty out too.

This is the inside.

Another Emboss Resist Card

I am having a great time with doing the Emboss Resist Technique. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Gina put together videos on how to do it on StampTV.

I first stamped the text background from Vintage Backgrounds set. Then white emboss the flowers from Tropical Flowers set on the left side and clear embossed the right side. I sponged it with some Distress inks. That beautiful sentiment is from Masculine Messages, the new free with three sets purchase.

Our guests left early this morning and so far, it looks like their flights are unaffected by the volcano in Iceland. Now, I'm fighting a very nasty cold and I'll probably spend most of the day just resting. My voice is gone and I hope it's not the flu.

Have a healthy week, everyone!

Card Patterns Sketch 64

For this week's Card Patterns' sketch, the sponsor is none other than GINA K DESIGNS! Here is the sketch:


And here's my card using Many Wishes (dandelions), Elegant Flowers (sentiment) and the brand spanking new Vintage Backgrounds (houndstooth and herringbone). I did the emboss resist technique on this card.

Here are the prizes for this week, Gifts from the Sea and Welcome Home sets.

I hope you can join us this week at Card Patterns. Now, I'm off to teach a card class. Pray it'll go well and the ladies will be blessed.

Some Card Patterns Cards

It's been hectic over here, but we are having a great time with our guests. They've been teaching English and computer classes and getting lots of great conversations. My youngest has the sickies, too, but I think she's on the mend now. In light of this, I haven't' been able to blog hop and visit you all lately. I know I'm missing some beautiful creations by you all.

Here are a couple of cards for Card Patterns that I haven't yet posted on my blog. The first card uses the Hero Arts Four Dolls set and Cosmo Cricket Early Bird patterned paper.

This is this week's card using a Stamping Boutique digital image. The patterned papers are Origins by Basic Grey. You have till midnight tonight to play along with this week's sketch.

Something random...Croatian life tidbit: I just answered the door to the town rat killer. It's a public service provided by the government and he visits each home to check if we have rats he could help us extinguish. Since we have a lot of stray cats around, we don't have that problem. Pretty interesting service, isn't it? Life in rural Croatia is never boring :-).