Christmas wishes

Kathy Martin, who is just the sweetest blogger ever, offered this SWEET little vintage postcard free on her blog!  I snagged it the instant I found it and used it to make a simple card for this week’s Little Red Wagon challenge, which is to use rub-ons:

I cropped part of the image out that had the sentiment and added my own rub-on sentiment from a retired SU set; I scalloped the bottom edge, added some buttons and glittered both the buttons as well as the scallops.  (I read that in a prior post, Kathy did a similar thing with her buttons!  I guess some of her style is rubbing off on me without my even knowing it!).  The whole image is printed on SU’s Shimmery White paper, which makes it all sparkly:

I added some rub-ons to the inside as well (I think I need some rub-on practice; we have a little crookedness going on):

Thanks for visiting again today!

Bee Mine

I am sneaking in a quick little post here…..another sweet little card using Kathy Martin’s digital images:

This is a 4x5” card, paper-pieced, colored with Copics and a little glitter on the bee’s wings.  Sentiment is from CHF’s June 2009 stamp of the month; I inked just a little portion of the stamp and punched it out with the Word Window punch.  A little ribbon tab, a little scallop trim punch, and it’s done!  FAST and easy!  Thanks for visiting!

Card Patterns Sketch

After seeing Broni’s cute card here, I peeked at the Card Patterns Sketch blog….I don’t think I ever visited that one! The sketch was so sweet and simple, I used it to make two more quick cards that needed to go out in the mail today. First, here’s the sketch:

I did one the way the sketch shows, then flipped the other:

This one uses some LilyKate BG paper and images from Starving Artiststamps:

And this one uses a sweet little digital image from Kathy Martin, CC Garden Variety DP, and incorporates some paper piecing and coloring with Copics:

Thanks for visiting today….I think the sun is TRYING to peek out, which will improve my mood greatly!!!

Kathy’s Cat

After seeing so many cute cards, I finally broke down and got one of Kathy Martin’s little digital images.  Mercy’s sketch this week seemed perfect:

I added a sentiment to the inside of the panel, colored up the critters with my Copics and mounted it all on some cute Cosmo Cricket papers and a Ruby Red card:

I added a little diecut flower with a Build-a-Brad “top”, and some faux ribbon cut and crimped from the same Material Girl DP pad.  Sweet!

Thanks for visiting today!