Allo

Been in school. Made a map for my second project. A survival map. At first it was going to be printed on Fedex envelopes and sewed into a poncho but I scrapped that idea. I borrowed a sweater from Vivian on the day I presented. I was allergic to that sweater. I sneezed through 6 hours of critique. One girl just wrote "Bless you" on a paper and held it up after a while. That was fun.

Starting Project 3 today. Mommy painted the upstairs living room a beautiful light blue (but she will call it green). Vivian got a job. Owen went down to Magic Mountain with Arturo this weekend. That's all the news for today.

Card Stuff

1st Cardmaking Series (Foamies)

I had seen some foamies at the craft store and thought they were neat. The cards are extra homemade as I had randomly cut the size I wanted and then had to make envelopes so they could fit.

2nd Cardmaking Series (template cards)

This time I got smarter about saving time cutting out paper and making envelopes. I just bought templates instead and "decorated" the cards.

3rd Cardmaking Series (Trip to Seattle / Visit to card expert)
Part A: Inspiring Style (Cute, quaint, clean. Thanks to Debs)

Debs made these while showing me one of her techniques.

Part B: Stamping Around



I'm messing around with Deb's stamp collection and experimenting with techniques based on looking at the various cards she has. I love the cupcake designs. I felt I was venturing with the green card with background stamping and ribbon; also, the pink & silver one with cutouts.

Part C: Back to Southern CA / Beginning Stamp Collection

From my first stamp collection of frogs.


Slim Cards/ Keeping it simple. I picked up some cheapy clear stamps in the dollar section and started messing around having dug through my random collection of cute papers, stickers etc. The fuzzy teddy bear is a sticker and I couldn't resist giving him a little shiny ribbon/bow decal on his neck. These cards are missing greetings/words and possibly ribbon.


Random summer one from clear stamps.


Decorating templates: These are unfinished, however, I liked the background design. These will be fancy wedding themed ones when I figure what to add...


My black/white series. Papyrus had a sale* on blank cards/envelopes. I thought they were neat.


My most expensive stamp to date (regular price, har har). I copied this entire card from the manufacturer's website (hero arts). I did it in blue though and added a bit of glitter. It's pretty but still looks a little plain. I may add some decor... or not, we'll see.

Last ones to date.

I thought the martini one was fun. I liked my choice of ribbon there. You can see I really like the teddy bears. Let's get a close up of one.


I know I said it already, but the teddy bears are FUZZY! I only have about 10 stickers of those though. I added buttons along the frame 'cuz I thought they were cute. They look a little bumpy since I opted to glue it on and the buttons didn't really make it flat. I might add a flower to the top right. It looks like something should go there but I also don't want to make it too busy looking.

*While I mentioned once it seemed my ideas/collections are quite random & chaotic with no particular theme, Em pointed out that wasn't true. I do have a common theme: "sale", hahaha! While it's hard to curb a habit, I did try to incorporate Debs style of "cute, quaint, & clean". :D

crickets chirping...

looks like this blog has gone dormant.. I'm therefore going to bombard it with some card stuff.. until I hear any protests...

Viv, want to go to the Academy of Sciences on the weekend of Aug 1st? You free then? Do you know if it's still super crowded?

hi

hey people, how was 'arry potter??

not much going on with me. i'm a bit under the weather - congested nasal passages.

slow day @ work. ttyl

JULY

Dude,

June was either very uneventful or it was super eventful. what happened to all the people...

Come on I know you're all on the internet right now!