Whirlpool of Imagination

Birthday Girl

I have been doing some playing with my Elzybell's. I had stamped up the different images and am now starting to color them and create cards with them. This definitely won't be the last one you see from me this week.

Here's a sweet little birthday card. She's colored with copic markers and her hair is done with prismacolor pencil and baby oil. I used my sakura metallic gelly roll pen for her shoes and to add a bit of sparkle to the present.

All I knew about this card was that I wanted to use this cute ribbon. The swirlies in the ribbon remind me of her hair. I finally decided to go with this paper from Reminisce. This was after going through a TON of my papers trying to figure out were I wanted to go with the colors. And if you remember my paper post, you know I don't exaggerate when I say a TON. I played with this layout on and off but adding any more just didn't feel like me so in the end I added a few rhinestones to jazz things up and called it a day.

Anybody have any predictions about the groundhog tomorrow? Want to guess what I'm hoping for??? Come on spring, come early this year!

Jolly Holiday

Need a quick note for a teacher or a neighbor? I am having so much fun creating these little postcard/notecards. They are fast and easy to create and come in so handy, especially when I am in situations where I don't need a full blown card.

I had gotten some new stamps from The Cat's Pajamas which had yet to see ink. I thought they would look cute creating a top border for these notecards.

I used three different small ornaments and stamped them across the top of the white layer. I used red and navy ink from Stampin' Up and pine green ink from Close to My Heart. I varied the heights of the ornaments to give the whole thing a bit more interest.

After the ornaments were all stamped, I added a gold peel off sticker strip as the string for the ornaments. Finish off with the sentiment in navy and layer onto a hunter background and there you go, quick holiday notecards.

And here is a small bunch I did up for notes this week.

On the home front, aaaah, I got out of the house today and got some fresh air. Alright, it was downright frigid air but after being cooped up inside for three days, I didn't care. We're still battling the germs but I think we're winning and hope that by Christmas things will be healthy here. Have a great night!