Day 58 and 59

Woo Hoo!  I caught up!  It was looking somewhat doubtful for a while.

It's a green sort of day today.    Had fun doing these guys with the Unity Stamps.

Top one is inspired by the new Paper Craftgs Magazine, Bottom one from the Unity Blog.  Argile paper is from the Card Mazagize kit, the other paper is Lasting Impressions that I got on sale at Ben Franklins Friday.

Kennedy Center

I borrowed a couple pics from Al's blog and our visit to the Space Center.  Of course, I wouldn't get a picture of my husband, but he did.

Dave, Christy and Keeley inside one of the space station modules.

And of course, Al is a better photographer than I am cause he got this great sunset in the "Rock Garden."

Day 56 and 57

I did this one yesterday but then didn't have a chance to post it.  Stamp is Unity and Close to My Heart.  Papers are DCWV.

This was a real challenge, but a fun technique.  After a little trial and error, this was the process:  Cut a piece of canvas, fray the edges.  At this point you should cut the hole with a Spellbinders (or other) die.  Then ink the canvas with distress inks and mist with water to blend the colors better.  Then run the canvas through the Cuttlebug with an embossing envelope and let dry (or use heat gun).  Stamp the image on a second piece of cardstock and attach to card base, and then attach canvas with strong adhesive.  Though the scan doesn't show the depth, I punched the dragonfly and attached it to the canvas with glue dots.

The canvas is really hard to cut with the die.  I had to do it several times with several shims to finally get it through.  But I really like the results. 

This photo shows the dimension a little better, but not the embossing.  The dragon fly was punched from a piece of cs that I had done early while playing with different techniques that was masked and heat embossed.  Again, it looks much 'cooler' IRL.

Days 53-54-55

So again I missed a couple days, but I'm back.  I saw a tutorial for this technique on Splitcoast Stampers.  It is embossed with the CB, but as you see, the center is flat so that it can be stamped. 

I joined the Cards Magazine Kit club and got my first kit today.  It's ok, nothing to shout about really.  I'll probably cancel after a couple of them.  This is a couple careds that I made with them.  Not what the directions tell you to do, but I always have to go a LITTLE out of the box...haha.

The green one looks crooked but it really isn't... I promise... it's the scan.

Day 52

I decided this morning I was going to clean my tables before I made any more cards.  It's getting hard to find anything under the piles.

But I didn't make it.  Had other stuff to do today, but did get about another foot to work on.  Then got some inspiration tonight for another card, so maybe I'll work on the room again tomorrow.

It's not perfectly aligned on the page, but this was my third attempt.  The flower is stamped directly on the cs front, then masked, heat embossed and inked a couple times.  The inspiration came from one of Michelle Zindorf's cards.

Day 49-50-51

A few round cards I did today. 

Day 48

I got a new scanner.  I think it does a much nicer view than my pictures do.  I'm not very "artsy" when it comes to photographing cards anyway.  I like the way this little guy turned out.  I didn't know that I wanted to put the bird on it when I started, I just knew that I wanted to put a flourish someplace.  Tried to stamp the flourish onto the pattern paper but it is a glossy finish and wouldn't take the ink.  Will try that on another one.