Big Boy Card

 
This is a z-fold card for a Big Boy train enthusiast's Christmas.  There is a matching gift card envelope and a place for private sentiment on the back of this card. 

The sentiment reads:

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. 

The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, 

But the train keeps on moving!  

It moves on the tracks silently with every journey you take, 

with every destination, with every decision you make.

 Enjoy every momentof this wonderful ride. 

A Start on Christmas Cards and festive stuff

 

Have lots of Laurie Furnell Gnomes---these are the  Winter Gnome set, finished with clear 3d gel, white posca pen snowflakes some  Aleen's Glitter Snow, and printed A2 in  Photoshop.

Below, still with Laurie Furnell Designs are some little Snowmen in parade--a parade of treat boxes.

 

NAK Birthday Card

 This card was so much fun to make.  It is a Book within a Card, and created for a 75 year old gentleman that features some of his most favorite things in life.  The  Diamond Paper which is the predominant graphic in this card was created in a kit "Diamond Clusters" created by Digital Curio from Etsy. The Monogram was created in Photoshop, as were all the graphics and inner pages of this "Card with a Book Inside"  It is a 5x7 card.

The top left photo is the envelope for this Card.  Top Right is the vellum belly band-with monogram that slides over the front of the card and exactly matches the triple stacked monogram in the center over a digital vellum picture of  some of the recipients favorite things. The top page of the birthday book  is a cover with Happy Birthday (font throughout is Trajan Pro).  Page two is his birthday year 75, Page three is "UR one in a Million", and Page four is the sentiment and greeting from the senders. The back cover is created with  Cuban Cigar wrappers illustration.

Starting a new Papers N Pixels Project

 This year members will be making bookmarks for "Cardz for Kids"  (and we'll be making some for seniors and adults.  Here are my first three.

Some Fair Cards,---and just project fun!

 

Pointy Card From LVhandcrafted, Graphic 45 tutorial

Created with Graphic 45  Alice's Tea Party collection

Rocker Card with Wild & Free G45

 

Following a tutorial by Elziabeth Hogart

I plan to fray and fringe the satin ribbon so it looks more grassy.  this card rocks wonderfully and is so much fun to build. 

Time for Flowers

 These "Courtyard Bloom" roses are die cut with the Sixxix Die of the same name.  #664586. They are large---Jar or package topper size flowers  .  These are watercolored on white, and watercolored on pink cardstock usine Fantasia watercolor pencils. One is touched with wink of stella and the other with clear wink of Stella and the other  brushed on Nuvo honeygold glitter drops.

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Wedding Card

 Congratulations Ross and Barbara Doyel

 

 Few cards have given me more pleasure than creating this wedding card for our friends  Rev. Ross and Barbara Parks Doyel, --our pastor and his bride who were married this month.  It is created with metallic watercolor on gold embossed stamp outlines, and decorated with diecuts, and pearls and embellishments. It is very delicate and shimmery, which doesn't show on the web post. 

The inside sentiment was a copy of the

  Apache Wedding Blessing.  

"Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.

 Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.

 Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. 

Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. 

May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years

. May happiness be your companion 

and your days together be good and long upon the earth."

The tablet folios Papers n Pixels workshop August 18, 2022

I cannot stop making these---they are so handy to have, and such nice gifts to give  an etsy store and the  tutorial is  found at May May Made It

 Here are some of the members of the Sun City Papers n' Pixels Club at the last summer SIG of 2022.  The summer workshops are "Special Interest Groups"    Every folio turned out SO wonderfully, and we had a GREAT time, working through some of the tricky cuts and sizes to make folios WITH or  WITHOUT pen holders.  

 Sue's pen holder folio

 Sisters Lydia and Celia working on their projects

Gabrielle's Christmas folio under construction

 

Jeanine's PEN holder folio ---not embellished yet.

 

 

Kim's butterflies folio

 

 

Sue on her way with her folio

 

Twyla's Christmas folio.

 Yvonne's Owl folio. 

 

 

 Yvonne's darling Country Village Folio

Clareene's "Controlled Mayhem" one

 

 

 

 
Priss--Tried this one on  vanilla paper, but think I prefer the black 

Fern still one of my favorites. Papers (recolored) by Magical Digital Papers found at Etsy

 

 

 

See other folios on this blog

Some that I made and some that Traci made

Special Tablet Folio

 For my very talented and most caring friend Linda Villanueva:  She's a great singer, dancer and ukulele player.

🌻🌻💓💓💓💗🌻🌻 

Linda loves sunflowers. They symbolize happiness, optimism, honesty, peace,  loyalty, admiration and devotion., all qualities found in the love and personality of  Linda.. The sunflower is the happy flower that's always facing the sunny side of life.  Here they are merged into the color scheme of the Mesquite Cafe Blues Band's logo for this tablet folio I made for her.