World Card Making Day

I forgot about World Card Making Day!  I actually did these over the entire weekend, not just on that day.  I was rooting through my paper pile and found the Mickey paper, so those were easy and quick.  The smiley faces were pretty easy too, although I did manage to get out some embossing powder for a change of pace.  The dog paper was just staring at me also, and so those were some more quickies.  All in all, I was happy with the weekend's production.  I hope you all (Carol - LOL!!) enjoyed World Card Making Day too!
 

Brownies

I was watching a lot of videos on youtube the other day and was inspired to use my distress oxides and brushes.  I made the backgrounds and then spent a day mulling over what to do next.  I finally pulled out the little brownies, unmarked, unmounted stamps that I've had for years and years.  Then it was just a matter of finding some appropriate branches and flower stamps to frame them with.  I had so much fun that I made 6.

 

 

Postage Themed Cards

I jumped on the postage themed bandwagon.  It took a bit of searching to find stamps that would work but I think both of these came out ok.  I don't have the layering stencil to go with the die (I thought I could save some $$$) so I ended up using very narrow post-it tape.  It worked out but was a bit of a pain so I would have to now recommend getting the die along with the stencil.

Catheads

A bit of trouble wrapping my head around this one.  First I cut the die out of white and thought I'd color the cats that way, but it just wasn't working out, and that fail went in the trash.  Black worked out much better but I'm not thrilled with the green glitter eyes.  Seems kind of creepy.  LOL

 

Porthole

I spent a lot of time on this unnecessarily.  I used oxide sprays on the circle for the water, and none of it shows up because I put acetate over it to make it look like a window.  Anyway, still happy about how it came out.  It's from Spellbinders, called Coastal Escape.  

 

Sofa Dogs

I call these "dogs on sofa".  The darn dogs are so small that it was difficult to color them.  I also forgot I had the border die set for the paws.  I'm glad I found it, it wasn't in the stamp drawer marked "dogs" where it clearly belonged.  No wonder I can't put things together, nothing is where it belongs!  Now that the weather is cooler, maybe it will be time for an entire craft room overhaul!  (not looking forward to that)
 

Fall Greetings

Well, it's almost October already, so I guess fall greetings are really in order.  I'm sticking with the die cuts that I've never used.  This one wasn't too bad to put together.  I cut everything out in white and then colored them with Copics.  Better than horrible, as they say at Gina K.  

 

Fall Wreaths

These were made with a die from Tim Holtz - Fall Foliage Vault Wreath.   It was easy to cut out and not too hard to arrange, but in the gluing process, there was a bit of foul language.  Next time I use it, I will try to make a more interesting background.  This time I was just too anxious to start gluing the wreath pieces together.  I don't usually use a lot of sentiments so that the recipients (Cards For Soldiers) can use them for whatever theme they want.