back to the drawing board

another volume of card creations - volume 8 this time - has hit the stands. i haven't received my copy yet, but i took a quick look when i was in b&n the other night and there are some great cards in it, as always. if you don't have a copy of this special issue yet, you can catch a glimpse of what's in it over at the paper crafts connection blog or the moxie fab world blog - just scroll down to last week's posts.

and this weekend was a successful card making weekend - 60 cards ready to send off to owh.

welcome to stop 43, or thereabouts, on the operation write home memorial day weekend bloghop. the assignment: red, white & blue missing you. i went for a fairly flat, not too embellished card so that it can easily be mailed in an a2 envelope and will hopefully make it to iraq unscathed. if this is your first stop on the the bloghop then head on over to the start. otherwise, click on through to the next stop...

bloghop start: owh - stars and stamps

next stop: jeanine - bucketlist stamper

and before i go i have some quick news to share with my regular readers - i some how made it into paper crafts magazine's gallery idol 2010 top 20 :) voting begins june 7th. and thank-you! to each of you that left a comment or sent a message yesterday.

cardstock: bazzill [kraft]; stickers: scenic route [liberty collection]; brads: advatus [mini fasteners/tim holtz idea-ology]; font: creating keepsakes [ck man's print]; other: [machine stitching].

it's been an eventful 4 years, a very long last 4 weeks, and now only 4 more days together. i'm not sure who's happier - me or them. and this year i'm even going to try and make cards for some of my graduating seniors - the ones i still like, that is. i'm thinking i'll make some more of these cards to give to the girls, but not yet sure what the boys will get.

cardstock: bazzill [white/orange peel texture], prism [intense kiwi/prismatics]; stamps: purple onion designs [doodle flower sentiment set & hopscotch sentiments set]; ink: tsukineko [black tuxedo/memento dye ink]; markers: copic [b02, b04, b06/sketch]; brads: making memories [pink]; punch: martha stewart [hydrangeas/border punch]; embroidery floss: dmc [white & pink].

only 5 days of classes, 2 days of review and a of day of exams until freedom. all of the busyness that goes along with the end of the school year is really putting a damper on my crafting time.

cardstock: bazzill [kraft]; stamp: unity stamp co. [garden variety/cosmo cricket collection]; ink: tsukineko [black tuxedo/memento dye ink]; markers: copic [v06, rv25, y15, bg49/sketch]; metal: advatus [mini fasteners/tim holtz idea-ology]; embroidery floss: dmc [#310/black].

thank-you jane beljo! i was asked to be the guest designer for jane's newest digital stamp release - retro tulips. you can find retro tulips, along with many of jane's other doodles, over at squigglefly. to create my card i resized the retro tulips image to about 3-inches tall and printed it on the white card base. then i printed the image two more times, once on green paper and then again on a page torn from an old dictionary. before gluing down the tulip pieces i sprayed the flower portion with glimmer mist - i tried to get the glimmer to show up in a photo but it just wasn't happening.

digital stamp: squigglefly [retro tulips/jane beljo]; cardstock: bazzill [china/weave texture]; paper: making memories [green/mistletoe collection], [page torn from old dictionary]; paper accent: doodlebug designs [cupcake/paper frill]; ink: tattered angles [old lace/glimmer mist]; other: [machine stitching].

cardstock: prism [intense kiwi/prismatics], bazzil [kraft]; stamps: purple onion designs [doodle flower sentiment set]; ink: tsukineko [rich cocoa/memento dye ink]; markers: copic [y11, y13, y15, yg03, yg25, yg67, e25 & e27/sketch]; chipboard: basicgrey [chip stickers abc's/porcelain collection]; wire: darice [20 gauge copper wire]; other: [machine stitching].

cardstock: prism [nautical blue medium/prismatics]; paper: basicgrey, [lemon meringue pie/nook & pantry collection, pear tart/nook & pantry collection]; stamps: purple onion designs [spring noteblock, scallops]; ink: ranger ink [brushed corduroy/tim holtz distress ink]; chipboard: basicgrey [punctuation/chip stickers]; wire: darice [20 gauge copper wire]; punch: stampin' up [2" scalloped circle]; other: [button], [machine stitching].