Get Well Card

Here's the latest card posted today. Mom made this one! As always, click on it if you want to know more about how to make it.

Retro 3D Glitter Flower Card

Here's my latest card. Directions are on my website if you want know how to make it. Just click on the card image.

Seagull Breaths Card

If you want more directions on how to make this card, click on it to go to my website

Purple Daisy Bouquet

Here's the my latest card. It's done using stamps from Purple Daisy Designs that fit into the EK Success Paper Shapers daisy punch. That should have made it easy to make ... but ... I put 11 flowers on it, each colored and shaded with Copic Marker and then mounted at three different interconnecting layers so it took a while to complete one. The results are worth it though if you decide to try something like this.

Here's the card image. As always if you want more directions, supplies, sizes or a bigger image, just click on the card image below to go to my website. The instructions for this one also explain the mounting of the flowers a little more.

Thank You or Valentines Day card

Here's a quick and easy card you can make if you have these Dazzles stickers, a gold Adirondack paint dabber and a heart border punch.





You can use it as a general thank you for someone special or turn it into a Valentine's Day card by thanking someone for loving you. As always for complete directions, click on the card or visit my website.

Have you frog-otten a birthday?

Here's a card I've been wanting to do for a while that's perfect when you forget someone's birthday.





As always, click on the images for full directions including the marker colors and paper sizes and if you've made similar frog cards, share them in a comment.

Valentine's Day Card to start off 2011

Here's a Valentine's Day card idea to start off the New Year!

As always click on the card if you want directions to make it.

Seven Lost Cards

Here are seven Birthday cards with a free floating tag that I started putting up under the challenges section of my website a long time ago but never finished and put online until today. The background for them is under the challenges section which you can get to by clicking here or you click on the card for the instruction sheet and jump over from there.

I've been reorganizing the site a bit and have put up a new subject based that should make it easier to find stuff with the web site at 143 card images and growing. Stop by and check it out and let me know what you think.

Three New "Gift" Cards

Here are three new cards I made to give away as gifts this year to relatives who don't make cards but do send them out on a regular basis. The little birdies are going to my grandmother, since a little birdie used to always tell her stuff when I was little. The cupcake on the birthday card is colored with Copic marker. I showed them to someone and they didn't like it because they thought it was a printed image that had just been cut out and mounted so I guess that was a compliment? Either way I now feel the need to point that its a hand color cupcake image.

These were actually made with cling mount studio g clear sets that Michaels had on an endcap for something like one or two dollars a set earlier this year and the Recollections paper Michaels sells.

As usual, just click on the image if you want to see the instructions sheet on my website.



Happy Holidays

10 Days Until Christmas - Last Minute Card

Just 10 more days until Christmas! Are your Christmas cards made yet? Are they mailed? If not here's an idea for some quick cards - use stickers for your main image. I found a stack of stickers I had brought a few years back on sale for just this purpose and combined one of the images on the sheets with one of the latest Tim Holtz dies, some stickles and some inked white paper. It took a while to come up with the design but once I had that making them went fairly quickly for a homemade card. The real key to this approach is to find an affordably priced sticker sheet with a lot of images that appeal to you so you can get many cards per sticker sheet.

If you want read more, here's the original blog post I did on it. If you want directions and sizes, click on the image for the instruction sheet or click here.

Holiday Present Card Update

Here's a quick update on the latest card I created. It's a Christmas card based on same present stamp I used a while back for an any event card. By just changing the colors used, it is now a Christmas present. I used Sharpie markers this time so this is something anyone can easily do. The full blog post is here if you want to read more, or you can click on the card to go the web directions.

Two more Christmas cards

Here are 2 more Christmas cards if you are looking for some quick and simple ideas. Just click on the card if you want to see more information about how to make it.

Thanksgiving and Christmas Cards

Here's the latest set of cards I've posting this past week or so:

	Millie's back for a Thanksgiving appearance! She's colored with colored pencils and Gamsol blending this time.
	Here's a landscape version of the card.
	Here's a different color arrangement
	Here's a glittery Christmas card made from multiple types of glitter with Copic markers for the coloring.
	Here's another Christmas card. This one is just stamping, punching and tinsel glitter on the side.

I did full posts for them over on my main blog if you want to read more about what I was thinking, or just click on the image if you want the web directions for how to make it.

Cards that have been in hiding

Hello all! It's been ages since I've posted, hence why I have so many cards to post. it has been a busy year, and I have learned some new techniques. I am still very into making very homey cards that clearly look like they have been handmade, so these cards are not the best of the best, but they are my best and I am very proud of them!


A simple mother's day card.



A card for a friend who is very much in love with elephants. I am sorry to say that I do not remember where I got this idea from, but the idea was not mine. I have now applied the "patchwork" technique to other cards I have made, and if this came from you I am sorry I am not giving credit where it is needed. I do love this new technique though!




My sister LOVES peace signs and everything about them. I used a piece of tracing paper as the liner in the card.



This is an anniversary card I made for my parents. I can't find the exact website I used for this, but this is the most basic design for the woven hearts and you can find a pattern almost anywhere!



I love this card I made for my brother on his birthday. It took me a VERY long time to make though. I just looked at a simple picture I found on a website and brought it to life!





I made this card for a friend who was feeling a little down. Just a simple, bright and cheery card that hopefully brightened her day!

That's all I've got for now (I know it's a lot). Hope you enjoy them!

Holiday Cards, Please!

I've officially fallen off the card-making bandwagon and won't be able to start until after we move for the second time this year in December. That being said, I love seeing the cards you all post!

This is a plea for Christmas cards and other holiday cards!! Anyone have good ideas? You can even scan ones from previous years that you received and thought were great.

Happy holiday season!

~Julie

p.s. If you want to be a contributor, leave your email in a comment.

Christmas Goodies from a MIA Crafter :)

I hope you enjoy these!!!

KarenB

Christmas Sentiment Tree Card

Here's a great Christmas card to make.




It's great because:

• It required a limited amount of supplies, especially if you already have stuff to do embossing.
  
• All the supplies came from local craft stores at 40-50% off.
  
• Each card does not take hours to complete. There are a lot of great cards out there but most are too labor intensive to be practical if you have a lot of relatives and friends you need to send cards too.
  
• Most importantly, it looks nice.
  

Since this is the first Christmas card post of the season, I'm going to try to do a giveaway. Post a comment on my main blog using the link below on the original posting by Nov 14, 12:00AM EST. For every 25 people that comment, I'll giveaway a pack of 4 of these cards to a random winner until I run out so spread the word!

Enter here: http://sharedcards.blogspot.com

Thought I'd share a few Halloween cards I've made. I'm not typically a big Halloween card maker but this year has been a bit different!! I'm ready to start Christmas cards so I'll be updating again soon!!!







I hope you enjoy these and as always, if you want details on the images or anything else you can visit my blog!!!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Free Standing Halloween Card

This is a free standing card that you mail folded up and flat in a normal sized envelope. You can use it as a card or just as a general decoration that you put out somewhere. The recipient simply pushes the base down the card to open it. There is a side view on the website if you click on the image.

Aside from the time spent coloring, this is actually a fairly quick and easy card to make with the right tools. The key to this card working out right is for all the folds to be properly positioned. If you have a scoring board, this is easy to accomplish. The score locations are in the directions (click the image). I used the Martha Stewart scoring board, so they are relative to the way that one is marked.

Trick or Treat Leftovers

Here's a card I pulled together from the leftover pieces of the last card I posted.

There are some tricks to getting it to go together easier, so I'd recommend clicking on the image and checking out the directions if you like this one.