Child's Birthday Card Swap

I am participating in a card swap on Splitcoaststampers that's for Cute Children's Birthday Cards.  There's still plenty of time to join since the due date isn't until December 1st, 2010.  We're supposed to make 6 cards per spot and we'll get 5 back, the plus one is always for the hostess, but in this case the hostess will be donating all her cards to The Ronald McDonald House Southern Alberta Charity.  I think this is such a great and worthy cause, so much so that I joined up for 2 spots and am thinking of just making a bunch of cards so that she can send along with the ones she's donating.  Here are the cards that I've made for my two spots:

I used SU's Make a Monster set for this card and used my Copics to colour it in.  I'm trying to use up all my retired colours so the cardbase here is Ballet Blue, and the dsp is mounted on Apricot Appeal.  There's also a bit of Certainly Celery on the card, I know it's not retired but I just had to tie in the little green monster.

This one is a Cricut creation using the Disney cartridge.  I finished putting Mickey together but didn't really like all the white space so I decided to cut out a huge head in Real Red cs and I think it gives the card the finishing touch.

What do you think?

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Anything To Do With Moving Swap

A little while back I participated in my friend Karen's swap over on SplitCoastStampers and forgot to take a picture of my card.  Luckily for me, Christyne also participated in this swap and received one of my cards as one of her return cards at our last get together, so I swiped it from her for a quick second and snapped a picture.

I really liked the way this card turned out but it took FOREVER to stamp all these little houses.  The swap requirement was 5+1, so 9 little cubes x 6 cards is a lot of little houses to stamp.  I tried freehanding the roofs but in the end figured that the roof of a house needs to actually be ON the house.  So for this project the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig was my best friend.  The set used was part of this year's Sale-A-Bration called "Good Neighbours". 

What do you think?

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Catching Up

Holy Toledo!  It's been a while since I've updated this blog.  Life just had a way of getting away from me this last couple of months.  Shortly after my last post we went away on our first ever "airplane family vacation".  With two kids still in diapers, let me tell you, it was definately an interesting trip.  We took 9 bags/luggages, and one whole one was dedicated to diapers and wipes.  It was my parents in laws 50th anniversary so the entire family went to Barbados for a week...definately a great trip!  Upon our return there was 100 loads of laundry to do (or so it seemed) and just playing catch up.  So with that said, let's get onto the crafty side of things.  Here's the card that I made for my dear friend Christyne's swap that she's hosting on Splitcoaststampers:

The swap is called April Showers Bring May Flowers, it's an all flower swap, anything goes as long as the main image is a flower.  I used the scallop circle to punch out my flowers and used my paper snips to cut the lines to make the petals.  I love how easy yet beautiful it all turned out.

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A Good Friend's Swaps

I joined a couple of swaps on Splitcoaststampers hosted by my dear friend Paola, aka Sama, aka Sweet P, aka the temptress.  Although I've never had the priveledge of meeting her in person, as she lives in our wonderful Olympic host city, I feel as though I have met her.  If you are lucky enough to know who I'm talking about, you'll know what I mean.  If you don't know her, hop on over to her current swaps and I know she'll welcome you with open arms!   Her Embossing Folder Challenge swap is due in a little less than a month so you still have time to get it completed.  There's also her Asian Flair swap which isn't due until April 25 so there won't be any problems there.

Here's a sneak peek at my submissions for these swaps:

These are for the Embossing Folder Challenge.  At first I thought it would be a piece of cake, since how hard can it be to use two embossing folders in one card, right? But it did prove to be a challenge as the swap name suggests.  The first card (left/pink) is as it looks.  The lighter pink layer was embossed with my Cuttlebug Bloom Dots folder while the darker pink layer was embossed with my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.  The ribbon in the middle hides where both pieces meet and ties it all together.    The second card (right/turquoise) was a little trickier.  I first ran the white cardstock through in my Cuttlebug Victoria folder, then I brayered the debossed side with SU Certainly Celery, ran the cs through again with my Cuttlebug Thanks folder and brayered the embossed side with SU Tempting Turquoise.  This was my first attempt at this technique but I think it turned out quite well. 

This card was made for Paola's Asian Flair swap.  I embossed the main image and the "dream" image in gold and stamped the two black panels with the "dream" image in versamark.  The card is tied together with gold ribbon and is looped through a chinese coin. 

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