Graduation Card

While going thru my pictures I ran into  this ease/card I made for my girlfriend's daughter college graduation.  I know it's a late post but since I like it very much I decided to put it up anyway just so that I mar remember how I made it. The card does not open but instead it is held together by ribbon to form a free standing easel and, on the back has a congratulations sign hanging by a fancy die cut post from Spellbinders. 

Of course the stamped image is from Tim Holtz my favorite of his stamps. The young girl graduating is a wonderful artist therefore, I had to use my small artistic elements like the hand design and cut cap and diploma.  I also embossed the school's initials/logo and die cut flowers.

Baby Shower Cards

Good Morning World!  It's going to be another Santa Clarita triple digit scorcher so I will do as much as I can in my "MPR" area before I can no longer breathe up here.  I am trying to organize my pictures and ran into these two little pictures of a cards I made last year as samples for a baby shower invitations I had a request for.  As it turns out these are not the ones they chose but a much simpler one which was fine with me.

For the "onesie" card I used a template from Chia's Rubber Stamp Templates.

 

For the baby buggy I saw a sample in someones gallery (sorry but i cannot remember the name) and used that as a sample.  The little baby in it, I die cut from Spellbinders designs.

Tag-distress markers

So I have been working hard on this technique with Tim Holtz distress markers and, like Tim until now I have not been much of a colorist myself but, I really enjoy the way the colors get "washed out" and gives the ink a further distressed look.  I am entering my tag in Tim Holtz "12 Tags of June"; therefore I followed his demonstrations and used all of hoarded Tim Holtz supplies.  And without further ado: "Here it is"

 

Because the colors on my stamped image were blue and red, I decided to go with a patriotic theme and also using Tim Holtz 4th of July inspirations created my rosette with his demo technique.

Here is another tag I initially created but decided it was too "babiesh" so I will give it to my nephew for his birthday party this weekend.

Paper Dolls

So it's no secret I love playing with Julie Nutting rubber stamp dollies, I have a great collection of them and I will like to share some of them. They are so easy to make now that I bought the rubber stamps instead of drawing the girl's body and then the dress but, it was good practice.  I still design some of the dresses myself without the rubber stamp plus the tags are a small space to work on my mixed media elements "work in progress".

This one is my favorite right now, I used a beautiful trim on the dress that I got from my sister's shop and graphi45 paper.

Isn't she sweet? Here I used a flower die design from my friend Marisa Job.

More of Marisa's flowers

Since the dolls faces are so tiny I decided to keep their eyes closed, easier for me to draw because there's not enough space to detail the open eyes.

Shadow Box

It was my husband's birthday last month and I was agonizing over what to buy a man who doesn't need anything.  Another bottle of wine for his collection, another night out to a fancy meal?  Instead I made him this shadow box with a picture of us when we got married.  Actually the picture was taken a month after our wedding because, we initially did not want a professional photographer at our wedding but then had a change of heart afterward.  So, we hired a photographer that I had worked with and recreated our wedding (only by wearing the same clothes) and took some pictures at a local country club.

 

The shadow box was created from one of my husband's science textbooks, I sealed the pages and added some wording from an old book with some embellishments that I created my self.  On the side which I don't show it has our wedding date and our names.