Good luck? Card

Another 'feeling uncreative' card.

A thank you card

I'm not nuts about this card. I made it while feeling uncreative.

I stamped the stamp in brown on white and added the decorative brads.

Ah well, we all need an Aunty Betty card once in a while. :p

Brownie cards

My mum is a Brown Owl and has some amazing parents helping her. She asked me to make some thank you cards for a particularly awesome act of unasked for assistance they provided. But she wanted me to use this punch she got that makes an owl template.

So obviously, if I want three colours, it's easiest to do it with six owls. ;)

A lot of fiddly gluing and swearing later, I finished them! But lost some pupils along the way. Oh well. They still look cute!

I'm counting this as a minor project completed because I didn't buy a single thing to complete these. I used materials I already had on hand. It feels good. :)

Oooo Sparkly!

I'm really digging this card. It's all sparkly and pretty. I'm starting to come around to glitter by way of glitter embossing powder. I love embossing. I think the glitter stays on better.

-Sylvan

The Sort Of Breast Cancer Card

I got sick of making Christmas cards, so I went through my paper and pulled out some pink camo paper. I told myself that I was going to make a breast cancer friendly card. 

Stupid camera. The 'yellow' is more olive drab, and the mat is a metallic brown.

In any case, it looks really funky and isn't all "IN YOUR FACE!". :)

Until next time!

-Sylvan

Snowflake card

This is one of those cards that I love, but worry that it looks anorexic. I have a personal rule that a card should have no more than four design elements incorporated, and that is the absolute maximum. After that, it starts to look obscenely busy, in my opinion.

I usually end up with three, three and a halfish.

I count patterned paper as a design element all on it's own. Solid coloured background paper counts as a half point, as well as any solid coloured papers that I use for matting or accenting. Dimensionals and glitter are another half point each. Ribbon counts as one, as well as any stamping. Just to give you an idea. ;)

So this is already three and a half point card. Four if we count embossing, which some people might.

But I think if I added something like a "Winter Wishes" or something it would take away from it. But it looks like it's missing something. I played around with moving my embossed snowflake around, and I ended up liking it the most right there beside the ribbon.

Opinions from the peanut gallery? :)

See you next time!

-Sylvan

Another Christmas Card. For Serious.

This is one of those cards that doesn't quite look like the picture. My card is actually a fair bit darker.

I used a clear gold embossing powder, and I'm not nuts about how it turned out. I may have overheated it, or I may have not used enough. Though it looks fantastic in the picture now that I glance up at it while I'm typing. Maybe I should give it another chance. :)

Until next time, my friends!

-Sylvan

It's A Jaunty Toque!

I'm pretty excited, I'm going to a  craft sale tomorrow with the cards I have. I have several cards that I haven't posted here yet.

I've done seven different cards this week(and planning to do more tonight!), and I'll post a new card every day for the next little while. :)

I decided my front step is the ideal place to take photos today so I could get more natural light. This is a dark burgundy card with a dimensional toque stamped in dark green on and a shimmery translucent white ribbon.

For the next time I make this card, I think I'll get a glue pen so I can put glitter on the pom pom. I think that would look cute and jazz it up a little. :)

Until next time!

-Sylvan

Christmas Card

I tried to make a man-friendly Christmas card. I'm a sucker for patterned scrapbook paper, so I used this plaid paper, and embossed the tree in silver on the green, and matted it on white. Though it seems to be a little pink in this photo...

Cheers!
-Sylvan

Card

Hey all!

Made this just to play around. 

I'm horribly lazy, and know that I should mat the things I add. Next time I make a card like this, I'm matting the stamped part in black or maybe a textured marble-y brown(provided I can find said paper :p).

See you next time!

-Sylvan

Thank You Card

I made this the other night for a wonderful friend. :)

The only thing I had decided going into this was that I wanted to stamp the 'thanks' in white on dark blue and use dimensionals. I had wanted to do some embossing of some sort, but couldn't find the heat gun. It must be in a box somewhere. The rest I made up as I went along.

I like the design and how it turned out, but I think if I were to make it again I would do things slightly differently to make it a little easier to make. Little things like stamp the dots onto the paper before adding the dimensional element. :p

The background is a blue striped scrap of scrapbooking paper, with the dots stamped on in white. All the stamps were from the 'Quirky Quips' Stampin' Up! set. I floated the 'Thanks A Million" with dimensional stickers to funk it up a bit.

I'm loving how much this picture shows off the dimensional effect I wanted! :D

See you next time!

-Sylvan