At Joan's Gardens Challenge #35

This Poinsettia and the leaves are made of inked parchment.  The flourish embellishment and Merry Christmas sentiment are stickers from Pop Ups etc, #353 and #1283.  The Poinsettia Die is by Spellbinders (Poinsettia Creations) is  and available at At Joan's gardens, as is the background patterned die, a beautiful Designables embossing, stenciling and cut-outs folder #DS0912 also available at At Joan's Gardens. Background paper flourishes are also hand colored with a star-gel pen by Gelly Roll  Don't forget--you can click on the picture to see a larger post with more detail.

For Halloween

One's for my Papers N Pixels Club, and one's for Operation Write Home.   The adorable dragons were created by Tracy Wray, aka Crafty Cat957   These dragons are from her Halloween 3 collection.

At Joan's Gardens # 35

Use a piece of design paper for background

Use a dimensional flower
Use a flourish
Use a sentiment

I really love how this poinsettia turned out. The background  paper is a slightly patterned green tinted parchment.  The  sentiment is by popups.com, The flourish is a Madera corner  by Memory Box cutting white glossy photo paper,  this and the poinsettia dies Poinsettia Creations by Spellbinders (S5-055) are available at At Joan's Gardens.com .  The leaves of the poinsettia are green inked vellum.  This is another card that I will be donating to Operation Write Home.

 

At Joan's Gardens Challenge #35

Use a piece of design paper for background

Use a dimensional flower
Use a flourish
Use a sentiment

The background paper is the same paper I used for the poinsettia and is by Recollections. The flourish is a Memory Box Die, " Madera Corner", cutting gold star-patterned foil.  The Sentiment is by popup stickers.  Poinsettia die and flourish dies are available from At Joan's Gardens

At Joan's Gardens_Challenge #35

The Challenge this week is:

Use a piece of design paper for background

Use a dimensional flower
Use a flourish
Use a sentiment

The flower is made with a SU Punch, and the leaves are Sizzlits Little Leaves, also SU. The Embellies are by recollections, paper from my stash and sentiment is gold outline stickers from  Pop Ups Etc. 

Punching around for OWH

Another card for Operation Write Home as we get closer and closer to our Papers N Pixels Club workshop day for it.  This is all punched; I useda Stampin Up Punch  triple flower punch and greeting and a Martha Stewart border and corner punch for this.

OWH--two more Cards

Two more cards specifically designed for Operation Write Home, are done with Spellbinders Snowflake dies, and a snowflake border punch.  Pearls and rhinestones accent these cards.  The beautiful sentiment holographic outline stickers are from popuptemplates.com

Scor-Pal Fun

This card has some scoring and piercing (with the scor-bug) that I I have hand-stitched with pearl cotton. I have just received  the new Projects book from Scor Pal, and couldn't wait to try one of the fancy scoring suggestions on a card. There are more to come packed into the projects that you can do with a Scor-Pal.

Happy Birthday to a Special 15 Year Old

Happy Birthday, Mercedes, as you celebrate your Fifteenth Birthday tomorrow.

The hand painted roses are by Floppe Latte Designs, and are colored with pencils and gamsol. I used my Scor-Bug to pierce the border design.

Getting set for Operation Write Home 2012

The Papers and Pixels Club in Sun City (Mesquite) is going to once again sponsor an Operation Write Home workshop for card making.   Here is a link to what we did last year, and this year promises to be better yet!  And HERE IS A LINK to the nation-wide Operation Write Home Project.

These cards below are some I stamped and created for the project.

The top one is a stamp mounted on  plaid satin ribbon, and the one below is a "big Buckle" card. The face of the buckle has been embossed with a  Big Shot square lattice embossing folder,