Baby Card

Jen Del Muro's Sketch For You To Try this week inspired me to go to work and come up with this little baby card. The little one is busting out of an "egg" which is an oval punch cut in half with ziggy zag cuts to look like a little egg. I colored the little one (from Whipper Snapper) with my Copics and I shaded the egg with a gray Pallette stamp pad. This little card just tickled me and I hope you enjoy it, too!

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Wasabi Ketto

I just had to get this cute little Ketto stamp by Stampingbella when I last visited my new neighborhood store, Scrapper's Boutique. I had this floral paper that I thought would go with this little gal and accented it with the little white flowers that I used a marker to color and did the centers with a 3-D paint dot. The little gal was colored with Copics and blended with one of the many techniques I learned in a recent Copic class by Jen Del Muro (thanks again, Jen). I also added 3-D paint dots for the hair decorations.

Thank you for stopping by and I've got one more post to make at this session.

Apple Harvest

This little "just because" card started around the dp paper I found in my stash. I did faux stiching around the green background cardstock. I punched the scallop oval and then stacked the plain ovals on top with the final one holding the image from Stampin Up's Basket Full of Fun stamp set. I colored it with my Copics and added a "shiny" accent with a white gel pen.

I hope you enjoy the card. Thank you for stopping by and come back again soon!

GIRL WITH KITTEN

I recently visited my new neighborhood Scrapper's Boutique and found this kitty paper on sale!! It is BoBunny Cat-Atude and sooooooo cute. I had just the perfect stamp image from Stampingbella to go with it!! It made a really cute card using complimenting cardstock and ribbon. I also had the cute little paw print brad in my stash. I used my Stampin Up Scallop Edge punch for the card base and repeated it on the border for the image. I cut out two of the little gray kitties from the dp and adhered one direct to the right hand bottom corner and popped the second image up with dimensionals. Since I made the card for a close friend, I thought the Warm Hugs sentiment also from Stampingbella was ideal!!

I hope you enjoy the card!

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BACK TO SCHOOL

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Don't tell my boss, but while he was out on vacation I brought my stamp stuff up here to the office to finish off this card. I was intrigued with the Tri-Shutter Card that was on Splitcoast (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/trishuttercard) and thought it would fit to do it for this card. IT WAS PERFECT!!

My granddaughter, Audrie, is starting kindergarten this year and I just HAD to make her a card for the occassion (her Mom, Susan Liles, just told me that I need to make her another card because she is losing her FIRST TOOTH, too)!!

Anyway, the images are from Whipper Snapper that I got some time ago and have hung on to them for all the grandchildren. The 12x12 "chalkboard" paper is from ProvoCraft and the

8-1/2x11 paper is by Masterpiece Studios (purchased at Michael's when I took delivery of the Whipper Snapper school stamps). The images were colored with my Copics using the techniques that Jen DelMuro taught us last Saturday (thank you, Jen). I really liked the way it turned out. I'm going to get a "magnifying" dot to adhere to the 24th date on the little calendar. In case you can't read the sentiment on the front, it says "The wheels on the bus.....go round and round". I did it on my computer and printed it on the cardstock.

Hope you enjoy the card and be sure to make one of these trishutters -- they're fun to make and goes toward a great looking card!!!

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MUM

One of my favorite sets is Garden Inspirations from Lizzie Anne. It so reflects the images that my daughter, Sara Williams, created for my blog!!

This card was inspired by a Behr paint commercial I saw on TV last night for their "no primming" paint. The colors shown were the orange, tan, and green. They went so well together, I thought they'd make a wonderful card. The dec paper is from Big Memory Ideas (MPS-25 Fashion District) and goes ideally with the mum image from Lizzie Anne. I was able to apply my Copic blending techniques I learned from Jen last Saturday.

I hope you enjoy my cards.

Until next time ...............

COPIC CLASS

I had a WONDERFUL time last Saturday!! Jen delMuro held a Copic Coloring Class at the new Scrapper's Boutique (the new little shop in North Richland Hills --- just down the way from where I work). The things she taught us were invaluable. Some of the little things were the price of admission just by themselves!!!! She is a wonder!!! My daughters, Nancy Cook and Susan Liles were there, too which made it even more SPECIAL!!

These are two of the cards that we did in class. I'm still not good, but practice will make me better (or so says the expert, Jen)!!!

The third card is the very first image where we tried the blending techniques and I put the image on a little 4.25 x 4.25 card which I think is pretty cute.

If you get an opportunity to take one of Jen's Copic classes or, for that matter, any of her classes, you need to take advantage of them!!! She is an excellent cardmaker and a wonderful teacher!