A fun birthday card for a little girl who will enjoy it!!!  I adhered the red polka dot layer to a red card and then added the watercoloured birthday cake (Melonheadz) layer using 3D foam tape.  I added some paper piercing around the cake, some glitter to the flames and then mounted it all to a yellow rectangle which I distressed around the edges.  Finally, I added some fun stickers!!!  

Cards for family!!!  I started this one with an embossed background which I sanded to reveal the white core.  I rounded the corners and mounted it to a large white card.  The flowers are one of my doodles which I watercoloured to coordinate, paper pierced four lines with my pattern tracing wheel and then mounted onto gold foil.  I added this layer to my card front and added some fibers with a fun sticker.  

Working on cards for family  and made up this fun card with hearts (Melondheadz).  I modified a hand decorated piece of paper using an embossing folder and then inked it to create highlights.  I printed the hearts, fussy cut them and then tied on coloured raffia.  I mounted them to the background with 3D foam tape, folded the raffia to the back and secured the end and then mounted this large element to a blue card!!!  

The minute I found this duck in my stash I knew exactly which paper it needed for a background!  I love how it worked out!!  I embossed a blackbird with cattails (CB) to create interest and texture in the paper and highlighted the raised areas with a green stamp pad.  I watercoloured the bird to give it more definition.  I fussy cut around the duck and left a bit of "ground" to give him a place to stand and tore away the extra to create an organic line.  I watercoloured the ground and stamped on a bit of texture.  I adhered it over the background with double sided tape on the bottom and 3D foam behind the duck.  I added some dashes and lines around the background and the ground using a fine tip black marker.   Totally  fun!!!!  Therese
 

Postage stamps are wonderful little pieces of art and I really like using them in my cards.  These ones are from a series which featured one for each province and territory of Canada.  I have my collection sorted so I was able to just take the envelope and sort through the stamps.  I chose the ones with the least obtrusive cancellation marks and soaked them in warm water to get them to release.  It only took a few minutes and I laid them flat with the image down for them to dry.  Once they were dry I cut little black cardstock rectangles to provide them a firm base and frame them nicely.  The backgrounds were embossed and highlighted gently with light coloured ink pads (top - Linen Distress ink, bottom - Memories dye ink - Gauze).  I provided a variety of cardstock scraps to provide some elements to create a design along with a variety of embossing folders to give them interesting texture.  I added paper piercing and distressing along with a torn edge on one of them.  Lots of options!!   With our elements created it was just a matter of creating an interesting layout - so many possibilities!!  The lobster is for Nova Scotia and the buffalo is for Manitoba.  I do not have a full set but there were about eight to choose from.  Nice to have versatile cards appropriate to more than one occasion in your card stash and I like to provide a variety of options in the design elements as well.  Therese
 

I am finally getting to making my Christmas thank you cards!!!  I fussy cut the birds (TH) and was looking for something cool and interesting to layer them onto and found a small stack of backgrounds I made a while back using wax resist and watercolour.  I used texture sheets and embossing folders under my cardstock to create the wax resist layer and then had fun adding colour!!  You can see that I used several different ones on each background just for fun and variety!!  These so belong together!!!  I did not cut out the space between the legs  - instead I coloured it to coordinate with the background. It was fiddly enough as it was to get the little feathers and the bulgy eyes cut out well.  I treated the tops and bottoms with different techniques - layered on embossed and paper pierced strips, little multi coloured hearts, gold sticky dots, border punched and added little holes and dots made with clear glitter gel pen!!!  I did highlight the edges of their eyes and pupils with a bit of clear glitter gel pen which adds just a bit of dimension - perfect!!!  Love them!!!!  Therese

 

I cut another sheet of 12" x 12" decorative paper into six pieces and then trimmed the coordinating cardstock sheets to make the card bases.  Again,  fun time with embossing, layered greetings and butterflies.  For three of them I punched a 1.75" hole in the paper.  For two of them, I flipped the paper and put it back in the hole adding tape to the back so secure it in place.  For the other I let the card front show through.  All the butterflies are layered - sequins, punchies, stickers, die cuts, etc.  A very enjoyable time!!  A few more cards in the box!!

Therese

 

 

I have made a few more cards for donation to IWIN Initiative. I have dug out papers from my stash that were fun and interesting!!  All of these are colour printed and I do not have sources for all of them.  

I used this beautiful rose image which I cut out of a full 8.5" x 11" sheet.  I mounted it to a dark green card base and added a layered butterfly (die cut and sequin secured with a brad) and also a layered greeting ( scallop oval and a oval punched laser printed greeting.  

The next batch was a set of twelve cards using all the same image of these beautiful butterflies.  I chose cardstock in the colours in the image to make the card bases.  I added layered greetings tha coordinated as well 

Another four cards with great backgrounds with excellent colours.  For the top two I found these butterflies in my stash.  They worked so well with the backgrounds.  For the bottom two I layered butterflies - punchies (SU) with a small blue one (MS) and for the last one I used a green sequin with a brad.  I  added coordinating layered greetings to all of them.  Fun to work with different papers. 
One 8.5" x 11" sheet of printed paper which I trimmed into four quarter sheets and layered onto coordinating card bases.  The first has a layered butterfly - stamped punchie (SU) with a sequin added with a brad.  The other three have coordinating colours of butterfly diecuts with butterfly sequins added with a brad.  The greetings were punched and layered onto a coordinating scalloped oval punchie (SU).  

What a fun card to make!!!  I started with the brick background (Morgue File) and mounted it to a blue card after trimming.   I found the serendipity hearts and the embellished mesh in my stash.  They seemed so perfect for this background.  I hand stitched the hearts to the mesh with yellow floss and then mounted them to my card front.  Love it!!!  Therese
 

I took the time to make a few more cards for donation to IWIN!!  It will soon be time to get them in for the next session of filling backpacks.  

Again, it was fun to use the same background and make the cards different!!  I used scraps from my bins, printed "Thinking of you" greetings and punched them out with large oval punch (SU) and layered them with scalloped oval punchies (SU).  Mostly layered butterflies - some with brads to finish them off.  I will have to have several more sessions this month to get them all read to go.  Therese