Sep
20
2008
Here is a great card sent to me by Hella Sjolund of Sweden! Hella and her friends love Daniel’s ‘goth girls’ and have done some pretty wild cards with them. Hopefully, in time, other Swedes with learn to love the ‘girls’ so that we can get them into the Swedish shops!!! The ‘girls’ love traveling around the globe! (If you click on Hella’s name, you will be taken directly to her blog and then please scroll down. You will soon see ROCKY on the front of a card Hella made USING COLORED STRAWS! Talk about INGENIOUS!!!! GO HELLA!!! )
Here we have another
Kim Howard card. She’s so talented! Kim used
Baby Cakes and gave her some glitz on her hair (
pink glitter) and jazzed up her skirt by stamping the image onto scrapbook paper, cutting out and pasting onto the original image. Great idea! (I love cutting and pasting. Have ever since I was a kid!)
Cheers!
Sep
20
2008
JUST how many of you out there remember the Tom Thumb typewriter as children? I do. Matter of fact, I loved my childhood toy so much that I just purchased this little beauty off Ebay! My first time on Ebay! It makes a great card display, don’t you think? Sure, its ‘worn’ and rusty, but so what? I am too! But I still work and so to does my new toy!
The two cards shown are by two different artists. First, an accordion fold created by Josie Cirincione using Mr. Stripes, Row Faces, Moth Fab and Newt with lunchbox. She also used honeycomb background, Bla Bla Bla, and individual letters from Jill Penney’s Alphabitties. Josie embossed the images, cutting out as necessary and colored in with watercolor pencils.
The second card was developed by Janet Klein using Rocky, whom she color penciled. Using some scrapbook paper for the background she then “cut, free-form” some barren trees from black cardstock. Now, there is NO way I could cut such great trees, but then Janet is an artist and what more can I say? (Except that I love what she did!)
I think the cards look great along with Mr. Tom Thumb, don’t you?
Ciao, ciao…
Sep
20
2008
Seems like the only thing missing on this card is a nice hot cup of coffee or tea! Kim Howard sent this to us and what a fine job she did with one of Susan Mahoney’s little Weensie creatures, Comfi. Enjoy and thank you Kim! And doesn’t it look like these two ladies are kind of comfy-cozy too? Meet Sophie (English Sheep Dog) and Phoebe (a Doodle-pup). They are cousins. Phoebe is the newest member of artist, Janet Klein’s, family.
“Just sittin’ here thinking of you!”
Sep
20
2008
Pam Russell from Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, sent us this e-pic of her great rendition of SUNFLEUR. Isn’t she great? What a beautiful job, Pam. She was kind enough to send instructions too!
Instructions for Sunfleur Card
- Stamp #9167 Sunfleur in Black StazOn on 2 ¾” x 4 ½” watercolour paper. Colour as shown in colour guide with Tombow markers. Blend with a paintbrush and water. Let dry completely.
- Mount the coloured image onto 2 7/8” x 4 5/8” Dark Green cardstock and set aside.
- Cut Purple cardstock to 8 ½” x 5 ½”, score down the centre of the long side and fold. (A2 card, left edge fold).
- Cut another piece of watercolour paper to 4” x 5 5/16”. Saturate with water and randomly scribble with 3 coordinating Tombow markers (two greens and 1 yellow in this case). Set aside to allow colours to blend naturally. Let dry completely. This makes your custom background paper.
- Once watercolour paper is dry, randomly stamp small butterflies and draw flying paths with the pen end of a green Tombow. Mount to 4 ½” x 5 7/16” Dark Green cardstock and tie Lavender dotted organza ribbon around the piece and tie in a knot as shown. Adhere piece to card front with foam tape.
- Mount matted image to card with foam tape, ¼” in from the bottom and right edges.
- Add 3 – ¼” Purple cardstock circles as shown and adhere purple crystals on top of those.
- Add shimmer to the dress and shoes with a purple Sakura metallic pen.
- Stamp #9087 A little garden in which to dream, an immensity in which to walk sentiment on inside of card with Black StazOn.
Sep
19
2008
Jim took a really good picture of a lovely blue dragonfly hovering over the pond. They love to sit upon some of the sturdier greenery within the pond. 
Isn’t ’she’ pretty? Her double wings are irridescent in the sunlight. Some people think dragons and damsels bite, but they don’t. So now, knowing that bit of info, maybe you will sit and enjoy their beauty! They are fun to watch because they chase each other around and around, lighting on a leaf to bow down to take a bit of water or just catch their breath!! It seems as though they lead very busy lives!
Sarah Schwerin from Sydney, Australia, sent me some wonderful samples made using our stamps. The first item to show you is made using our MARCI. Sarah’s sample is an ATC (artist trading card). I love the crown on Marci’s crazy head. She is one ugly little girl with the face only a mother could love and I think Sarah did a super duper job making Marci look CUTE. Thank you, Sarah.
Sarah’s next sample is a darling accordion fold booklet. SPOOKY eyes!!! On the first page is PROM QUEEN, second page holds both GOOSENECK and SPYKEE, page 3, GLIMMERING HOPE and the last page is RELAXIN’. It appears that Sarah might have done a bit of ‘distressing’ on the pages and of course, some wonderful white pen for those SPOOKY EYES!!!! SUPER GIRLS!!!!
I see MARCI again on the inside and TWO BARRETTES! Sorry for the not-so-good pics. That is my fault, not Sarah’s. She sent me great photos. I’m not really good with transferring pics to the blog. I apologize but at least you get to see some FUN stuff. Thank you SO MUCH, Sarah. We all really enjoyed your wonderful work.
Sep
05
2008
Some days you just don’t feel like doing much, except maybe lounging around! The two characters you are looking at are FLOWER and STELLA, sisters and best friends and the furfriends of my friend, Toni. (Doesn’t Stella look like a little raccoon with those black eye patches?) Since its still hot here in the desert, we’re moving slowly, hoping that fall and winter will begin to show their faces. How does that happen in the desert southwest? The mornings and evenings begin to cool down, instead of 95 degrees at 10 PM! Some of you out there are enjoying the beginning of the seasonal change. Our chance will come!
Here’s a great tag by Josie Cirincione. The ‘tag’ is made from a TIM HOLTZ paper; bingo card images on the paper. Josie then stamped Mr. Stripes in black ink, ‘holes border’ in red ink and then stamped Mr. Stripes again on separate paper; cutting out only his chubby body to ‘pop’up on top of the image of Mr. Stripes that she had already stamped on the tag. Using a vintage ADMIT ONE ticket from her stash, she glued down a partial ticket and made snippets of the numbers remaining; gluing them around the tag front, in a pleasing manner. Be sure to add some very narrow ribbon. Cute!
