Believe until your dreams come true

Another card using the wonderful new Close to My Heart products featured for January. I used some black embossing powder to give that gorgeous swirl a bold look. I also added some zigzag stitching to the side for fun!

Tea for You Valentine

One of my favorite holidays is Valentines, mainly because the whole holiday revolves around PINK! I also like to hand out sweet little treats and goods. Today I have a project for you with directions and if you are interested I will have a limited number of kits to make this project in my Etsy store.

Here is what you need-Mini lunch sack, pattern paper and cardstock, a heart (I cut mine with the cricut), bakers twine in red, a glittery branch, mini tag and a tea bag.

1st up fold your lunch sack in half with the bottom of the bag on the inside. Then fold down the front half about a third of the way (making sure to leave some room at the bottom to show the pattern paper)

Next up using some temporary adhesive attach the pattern paper and the cardstock strip and sew around. If you are not into sewing, no problem you can glue your pockets or even staple it.

Next up decorate!

Here is what the kits in my Etsy store will look like. You will get all the supplies (minus the tea bags) In addition you will also get a dollie, white glassine bag and a clothes pin to use on other projects!

Head over to my Etsy store if you are interested in this kit.

Celebrate candles

This card was also lost in a file, and the credit goes to my upline, Audrey. This is one of the cards she created for her stamp camp. I will be back on Monday with a Valentines project and directions along with some kits for the project that I will have for sale in my etsy shop.

ETA: Several questions and emails from yesterdays post. To create the pattern on the bird I did the kiss and twist technique. I used the small flower in the A Tweet stamp and kissed it multiple times on the bird.

A lost card

I was cleaning out some folders in my computer for the year and I came across a few cards that never made it to the blog. This sweet little bird thinking of you card is one of them.
And I 100% lifted this card from my upline, Audrey, so the credit really goes to her.

Crusin Chloe!

To thank the lovely lady who lent me her VW Bug for 2 weeks I made her a set of note cards. I used this super cute image from my blog friend Sparkle. She started her own line of stamps called Sparke Creations.
I colored all of the images with Close to my Heart markers and I added some liquid glass over the top of the windshield and the lights. I also created a matching bag to hold the cards and envelopes using one of the bags from my Etsy store.

Christmas Canvas Project

Over the week of Thanksgiving I borrowed a 1968 VW Bug from a friend to do some Christmas Photography sessions. I had Charlie take a few of me before hand to show everyone what the set up would look like. I really liked how my pictures turned out, so I added them to a really large canvas. (That large picture is 8x10). Of course Christmas is over, and I will have to put this away till next year, but I thought I would show you a quick picture before that. Below you can also see a few of the pictures that I took that week-(none of these were edited-all straight out of the camera). I had so much fun, I took over 2000 pictures that week. I offered the sessions for $50 for 1hr. After I downloaded all of the pics I put them on a disk for them to have and do with as they pleased. Everyone got 200-500 pictures each. Part of the deal was that I would also edit a few in Photoshop CS3 for Christmas cards, framing or whatever they wanted to use them for (but not all 200+ pictures)
Check back tomorrow and see the cute cards I made for the owner of the bug as a Thank you/Christmas gift.
And by the way-I did get a total of 9 people to fit in the bug-it was tight and they complained a little, but it turned out really cute!

Rolodex Class-Join Me!

If you are in the Lubbock area-Join me for a fun morning and make a great Rolodex to keep up with all of your addresses. Sign-up deadline is today!
You can find all the details on my Website here.
Please note that the time is changed to 10:30 am for a few ladies coming from out of town.