Waterfall Card

A waterfall card offers a wide variety of designs. This one has a country cottage style. A waterfall card is fairly easy to make. You will need 4 2" X 2" squares to mat your image, 4 squares, 1 7/8" X 17/8" for the image. A strip 3/4" X 4" and a strip 2"X 9". Score the 2 x9 inch strip, starting at the bottom, at 2", 2 3/4", 3 1/2' and 4 1/4". To assemble the waterfall, mount 1 7/8 square on 2" square. Attach one square at the bottom of the strip at the score line, sontine to attach each square at the score lines. I attached the 3/4" X 4" strip with flowere shaped brads. Slide the 9" strip unter the 4" strip and adhere bottom of 9" strip to cross strip. I attached a strip of ribbon as a "pull" for the waterfall.

Artist Trading Cards

Artist trading Cards (ATCs) are 2.5" by 3.5" works of art. I made these cards for a swap in the Penny Flowers group that I belong to. As you can see the elements of the card are similar, but the elements are also different. The same stamp was used for each card, but each image was colored differently using Stampin' Up Watercolor Pencils. For the flowers, I used card stock for the pink, blue and yellow. The purple flowers are made with vellum. I used a Martha Stewart 4 petal punch for the flowers. I then used my scalloped Nestabillaties rectangle and ovals and Labels 4 to mount at images.

Birthday Card for My Aunt

I made this card for my Aunt Anna Roses's 84th birthday. I choose to adorn the card with the"Ultimate Rose" because she is my favorite rose. Growing up, if I wasn't at my own home I was either at her house or my Aunt Libby's house. She and Aunt Libby are very, very special to me.

I made the card using my "Bookatrix" embossing board and embesllished with silver chain boarder peel off stickers. The card was then placed in a Keepsake box (handmade) then packaged in a special cardboard box for mailing. Didn't want to crush those pretty roses. Aunt Anna Rose got the love out of the card that I had for hoped for. I don't get back to my hometown in Pennsylvania as often as I like and was happy to send her my love via this card.

These Blue Flowers are from the "Penny Flowers" book by Angie Evans. I used card stock by DCWV from their Spring collection. The 3 layers of the card were embossed, then cut using the "Bookatrix" from Crafter's Companions. The Bookatrix embossing board was created by 2 ladies from the UK who call themselves "The Glitter Girls". The card was then embellished with pearlized and silver boarder peel off stickers and silver a "Happy Birthday" sticker.

Fabulous technique

These cards use a combination of 2 techniques from the "Techniques Junkies" Feb/Mar 2008 Newsletter. The techniques are aged metal and penciled twinks. They were easy to do, but create such fabulous results.
For the aged metal background, I first embossed the metalic looking paper with my "CuttleBug". Next I slid black STAZON ink
over the embossing.

The image was outlined in watercolor pencil, then filled in with twinkling H2O's. After I did the fill in, I brought the wet Aqua brush across the penciled areas, dragging the color into the image. And ta da! A great looking card. Stamped image by "Stampin Up".

Bellas and Vino Italiano cards

See how different the same stamp can look. You can't see on the cards here, but I used PLAID' "Papier" glass finish paint on the wine glasses. It gives it a realistic look to the glass. Inside the card I printed on my computer sayings in Italian such as "Alla Salute"(cheers), "La Doce Vita"(the sweet life) and "Felice Compleanno"(Happy Birthday). The image was colored using Prismacolr pencils.









Here are my latest 2 Bellas, my chefabellas. Blue chefabella is mounted right on the recipe card on the card stock and the the other was mounted using pop dots. I liked the touch the recipe cards give to the chefabellas.