Peace Card

Here is a card that was inspired by the sketch on CAS(E) this Sketch! #110.

I really liked the simplicity of the sketch and I immediately knew what I wanted to make.  This is a simple, every day card.  The stamp is a Mary Englebright which is technically for Christmas but I wanted to make it so that it could work for any occasion.  Coloring was done using my Polychromos pencils.  The background stamping uses the gear with the Elegant Suit stamp.  To add some sparkle I used the Sakura gelly roll clear. Getting the sparkle to show in the pictures was a little difficult so please don't mind the shadows.

I would like to enter this card in the CAS(E) this Sketch! #100 challenge.

Mother's Day Cards

Here are the cards I made for my two wonderful mothers. I used a card from Prairie Paper & Ink as a sketch and went from there (she makes truly beautiful cards so check her out). The images were free images I got off the web from clip art services (unfortunately it was some time ago so I don't remember the specific site). I have blurred out the insides as they are personal messages.  All the coloring was done using my Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils.

This is the card I made for my mother - so it has the girl giving flowers.

 

This is the card made for my husband's mother - so it has the boy.

I have submitted these cards to:
Oozak Earthtones Challenge
Craft-Dee Bowz Handmade Bow Challenge
Make My Monday Green and Yellow Challenge
365 Cards Back to Nature Challenge

Confirmation Card

Here is the card that I made for my wonderful niece for her confirmation.  I found an image of a beautiful stained glass window and wanted to figure out a way to use it in the card and do the image justice.  Finally decided to print it on transparency - this allowed the colors and images to truly glow.  I had planned on using dimensional to raise up the image so that it looked more like a window but it just wasn't working.  Of course, placing it directly on the white paper actually made the colors even more striking so it turned out to be a good thing.

This is the front of the card - it is a little blurry:

This is a close up of the image.

Steampunk thank you easel card

Our friends recently let us stay with them when visiting the Bodensee area.  I managed to leave my glasses there, and as I am blind as a bat, they were kind enough to send them express.  They are steampunk lovers so I wanted to make them a thank you card that was special.  The image was taken from the blog Crafty Moments.  The image is the steampunk Mary.  He has a number of free digi stamps that are free - all his own art and they are really great.  As a new blogger I hope I am referencing him the right way?  The digi stamp came colored and non-colored.  I used the non-colored but then used his colored one as a reference for coloring using my Polychromos colored pencils.  I used a free clip art image of a circuit board as the background then used Ranger Liquid Pearls Hydrangea and Key Lime to add some highlights on the nodes.  Those are actual chips (don't know what they are though) that my husband gave to me - makes an interesting and unique embellishment.  This is an easel card and since the message inside was personal I'm not including that picture.

Here is the front of the card.

Closeup of Mary.  Sorry not terribly focused.

Here is a bad closeup of Mary.  I used Glossy Accents on the goggles, the eye glass, lapels, and on the boots.

Yes those are real.

Here is the card standing up.