Alcohol Inks Card

It was my anniversary last weekend and I made this card using alcohol inks for my dh.
The process is really quite simple: using a non-stick craft sheet drop several colors of inks and a little bit of blending solution then push a piece of shinny card-stock onto it and lift off. Repeat until the page is covered. When I was done, I embossed the stamp (which is from Paperbag Studios) and then I dropped some blending solution on the card. That's what caused the white-ish spots. I also dropped a good amount of blending solution inside the heart to lighten it up. The swirl is chipboard that I inked with metallic green ink, heat set, stamped with stazon, heat set again, and then embossed several times with UTEE.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Hopefully I will be back tomorrow with more work.

Halloween Cards

I've been working oh so slowly, and made a couple more Halloween cards. The first uses a paperbag studios stamp and some stickers by stampendous.
This second one uses both stampendous stamps and stickers. I am just in love with this little witchy bird!!

Oh-My-Oh-MY!

I realize that you can't see me right now--but I am doing a jig around my living room.
No joking. I have Wilco's A ghost is born blasting on my ipod and am a dancing fool.
Why?
Because my friend--the lovely and talented--Kris of Retro Cafe Art Gallery asked me to be on her design team. She is going to be opening her own stand-alone internet store soon, but for now you can still find her on ebay.
Hence, much dancing and rocking out.
I was so excited to get started that I made this little card using one of her collage sheets this evening. I'm thrilled that I managed to stop dancing around my living room long enough to do this. The big gate stamp is by Paperbag Studios, the hat is by Inkadinkiado and the swirls are by Rhonna Ferrar (they didn't really scan very well because they're stamped in a metallic ink that my scanner hates) and the little girl is by Retro Cafe Art Gallery.
A big thank you to Kris, for such a fun opportunity!

New cards and music

Saturday was national card making day. One of the local scrapbooking places here in town had a free make-and-take in honor of it. I made this first card there--

The next two I made on my own--


I changed my player yesterday, so there's some new music for the month of October! I picked all Tori Amos, since I was in the mood for her.
Have a happy Tuesday everyone.

Card-A-Polooza

I've been hard at work getting some samples done for my course proposal. Here are the four demo cards that I'll be using. The birthday card took me four different attempts to get right. I had so much trouble getting the background glued down, I kept having to pull it back up and then re-cut it. Ugh. But that's how it goes some days...