Categories!

Hi everyone!

I now have categories for my work!  If you look on the right side of my blog you will see a listing of categories for my cards and other artwork on my blog.  If you want to see a specific theme, all you haved to do is click!  (What can I say, I am behind the times! LOL!)

I spent today going through my work and labeling each for easy searching. 

Enjoy!
Lis

Elegant Invitation

I was looking through some blogs and found one that does really pretty, feminine work.  AND it's all monochromatic (same color).  Her cards actually reminded me of wedding cake decorations.  This is her blog: http://crookedcardcreations.com/

I was SO inspired by Cathleen's cards! - I decided that I just had to make some cards of my own!   I hope you like my Elegant Invitation.

This card is simple to make but very fancy!  In fact, I didn't even add a ribbon. It didn't need it!  I left the tag blank for this sample but you could stamp a name or sentiment.

Close Up!

I love the spellbinders fancy tags. They are just the thing to really accent this card!  As you can see I added 2mm pearls just to the corners to continue the design I started below on the bottom border of the card.

And....here is a close up of the tag edge with the pearls.

And, here is the border!

I hope that you enjoyed this card. I hope to make others (how can I resist?).  I hope that you hop on over to the blog that inspired me and take a look at her work!

Lis


Palm and Crab

Hi everyone! 

Well I think summer is on it's way!  The temperature is getting warmer and I am thinking about a small vacation to the beach after making these seashore cards!

My next card is called Palm and Crab.  I didn't have any ideas when I started and it just kind of came together.  I've been having some terrible creative block lately and being busy at work doesn't help.  But I know it always passes so I don't worry too much!

Palm and Crab

The background paper is this really pretty sandy brown and has palm trees on it.  All I did was add a grosgrain dark brown ribbon and two stickers.  The stickers are three-d.

I hope you enjoyed these three days of sea shore cards and that you are inspired to make some of your own for summer!

Lis

Under the Sea Card!

Hi everyone!  Lis here with another sea card. This time we are going under the sea!

Under the Sea:

I used another one of K&Company's background papers, this time a fish back ground.  I added a couple of stickers of a seahourse and a fish.  The seahorse actually has some metallic finish to it (grey) which makes it very pretty in real life.  It doesnt show very well in this picture.

I added shell stickers to the bottom of the card.  This helped to cover up the stems of the "sea ferns".

Have you noticed my "sea ferns"?  You will never guess where I found these beautiful holographic die cuts...MICHAELS!  And they were with the Quincineras stuff.  I was visiting Michaels and they had just gotten in all these Quincineras things.  They were really pretty and had all lot of different items including crowns and banners and such.  Then I saw these wired leaves.  The way that Michaels has the items are color - so there is a block of blue, a block of orange, and so on. These leaves are done in a sturdy plastic and come with a florist wire attached (easy to remove too).

I see all kinds of possibilities with these leaves:  adding them to my rose cards and mixed among the matter green, using them as a borner...wow.  So I got one of each color (I think the cashier thought I was a little nuts).  Anyway, you are going to see more of these!

Close Up!

Don't you just love these three-dimensional stickers?  I wonder how the company makes them. Are there people who sit with tweezers and put these together? Is there a machine?  I would love to find out some day.

I love the way that adding the fish to the front with mounting tape adds to the three-d effect of these gorgeous "sea ferns".  They seem to wave...

Thanks for stopping by!  One more card tomorrow for our seascape journey!

Lis