A wee bit of the Irish

I created this for a special Irish Lass friend of mine:

 

I hand made the pin.  The cut-outs are Silhouette and flowers are from Prima.

 

 

Valentine 2014

Valentine's 2014
I often make cards ahead of time.  I hope none of these are double posts but please excuse any that are.

Silhouette Cutting Freebie

I'm offering a free .studio file.  It's an old fashion sailor hat with an anchor that can be removed if you don't want the anchor.
In order to receive this file you will need to become a follower on my AngeL Arts site.

 

Click on hat to take you to the download site.

 

4th of July

These are cards I created for the 4th of July.  I hope they give you some ideas.

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This was an awesomely fun card.  I hunted down the polk-a-dot paper and found it at my local Michael's® store.  The "flowers" started out as white cardstock.  Each flower consisted of 5 pieces.  I used my copic's® markers (Prussian Blue and Lipstick Red) to color the various parts of the Silhouette® cut-outs.  The fence was a cut out, the "sun" was a punch and I created the grass using multi-bladed scissors I got from Oriental Trading®.  The sweet patriotic 3d butterfly was a gift from my beautiful daughter.  I plan to use the rest of them next year.

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This sweet card has clouds and a 2 piece sun with a button center on foam adhesive to add depth.  The fence has a patriotic banner with pearl button centers and I added the white border with my favorite Uni Ball® white pen (I consider this the very best white pen).

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This is my own creation of a "From our House" card.  Navy and white stripes give the illusion of house siding.  The red door has "raised panels" a copper colored handle back ground and a small red brad from Joann's® for the knob.  I used my silhouette to create a one sided 3d star.

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I recently went back to aqua therapy after not taking it for 12 years.  (YES, I do hurt)  So while talking to my therapist it came out that I am a cardmaker.  She requested to "be put on my card list".  This card seemed appropriate.  I had the swimsuits ready and was trying to figure out what the heck I was going to add to tie it into my therapy.  I went to my favorite source...Silhouette®!  They had just added the wave and I knew what I was going to create.  I started with a lemon yellow card and sponged on desert sand© ink on the bottom (doesn't it look just like sand?) and marine blue© ink in the sky.  Both inks are Memento® products.  I added the navy blue picot ribbon on the side and as an after thought I made the little USA directional sign.  I love it and hope she and you do also.

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This card wasn't sent out and will be put back for next year but I thought I'd add it here.  I used white cardstock for the card.  The background paper I purchased 14 years ago at a scrapbooking expo.  I punched the small red swirls and the corners of the background.  The rocket is a Silhouette® shape and I added red stickles to the rocket and swirls and blue stickles® to the rocket for bling.  I really like the way it turned out.

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Those are my offerings for this year!

Father's Day

Here are the cards I created and gave for Father's Day.
( 1 is missing but I'm hoping to still get a picture of it.  I really liked it and would love to share it so, keep your fingers crossed)  :-}

3d tool box.  

If you can't tell several of the tools are on sticky foam so they stand out from the rest of the tools in the box.

My husband has a mustache (for most of the 40+ years I've known him)

so this was the perfect card for him.  The card is held together with notches in the mustache...so kewl.  I purchased the design from the Silhouette Design Store.

'57 T-Bird

My husband's twin owned a '60 T-Bird.  This is as close as I could get.

This is also a Silhouette design but instead of just putting the separte pieces on a card front I created a card that fit the design.  If you'd like the original card shape I created give me a holler and I'll put it up for download.

(This spot saved for the missing picture.  As soon as I get the picture I'll upload it.)

Green Beer Cheer

 

I used a Silhouette pattern to cut the beer and border.  The "beer" consists of a light blue "glass", the green beer colored with copic markers, the "foam" also light blue colored with Paint Sticks white and detailed with copics.  I cut 2 pieces of acrylic the shape of the mugs to give a glass look.  The small shamrock on the beer was part of the cut out.  I placed a background of green plaid (part of my Oriental Trading paper purchase) with a white doily on top.  I then glued the layered beers and added white rhinestones to the "foam", gold to the shamrocks and 3 green rhinestones to the area between the beer.  Here's a Cheer with St. Patty's Green Beer!

Lovers Valentine

 

This was a "wild" card to make.  It's one of the new Silhouette designs.  It uses 2 pieces of paper (red and pink) intertwinded to create the outside look of a vingette.  I used ice Stickles on the "pink clouds", heart rhinestones on the small hearts and red Stickles to enhance the girl silhouette and hearts.

Birds and Hearts

 

This card was created with cut outs and is multi-layered.  The center heart is a layering of dark pink, light pink, a dark pink center.  The word "Love" was a sticker surrounded by red Stickles.  The red birds also have red Stickles accents.  The small flowers have brads in the centers. 

Specialty Cut Edge

 

This card was created with the help of my Silhouette, 3d stickers, red heart rhinestones and a stamp I purchased from Oriental Trading.

Nativity Cut Out Card

 

This was a card offered on the Silhouette store.  I used a dark blue cardstock purchased from Michaels.  The interior was cut out and I used 2 clear star shaped rhinestones glued together with fishing line to hang it from the center.



Touches of Light Blue and Green

 

The light blue tree cut out is a bit difficult to see in the photos.  I colored clear rhinestones a brown color and added the reindeer "buttons" for a cute accent.  The top has a green ribbon that reads Happy Holidays.  The background paper matched the tree so well that I didn't want to hide any of it and that made it difficult to see in the photos.  I hope you can make it out.

Christmas Bird house

Christmas 2012

 

 

I love this card!  I used the same rust colored/gold mettalic dot cardstock for the front of the house.  The peg and inside of hole were cut in dark brown.  I hand cut the trees from scraps.  I then used a Fisker punch to create the white "ruffle".  I used scraps of "Christmas lights" from my own village around the roof.  To create the snow effect I used Flower Soft Polar White I found it best to use 2 layers of the Polar Whiter.  I made a for a better coverage.

 

This was a fun easy card.  I used sillhouette to create the "perppermint" candies.

Deck the Halls

Christmas 2012

 

I used Silhouette to cut the pine cone (2 parts back and front) and the pine needles.  The lables were cut with a plastic template I purchased from "PaperWishes".  The front portion of the pincone was covered in gold Stickles and the pine needles were spoted here and there with green Stickles.  I created the "Deck the Halls" in Word using Word Art to give the letters a gold appearence with a dark brown shadow.

 

I also used a small strip of the brown snowflake paper (from DWCV) on the bottom of the inside to add a bit of pizazz.

Christmas 2012

These are more cards I made and sent for Christmas, 2012

 

This was another fun card to make.  It's also a tri-fold.  I used papers from the DCWV Winter Wonderland collection.  (I was one of the lucky ones who found this cardstock).  This is the most beautiful collection of cardstock.



I created a tri-fold card from a dark blue snowflake cardstock.  Then I used Silhouette to creat the circle snowflake and backed it with a baby blue snowflake cardstock from the same collection.  I placed clear rhinestones on each of the tips of the snowflake.  I used a small punch to create the white stars and added a silver tree (button) I bought from Walmart.

 

The inside:

I created a white cardstock circle and a mettalic blue scalloped circle and stamped the greeting on the inside.

 

Let's face it Christmas is all about the bling!

My Christmas 2012 Cards:

 

This was a fun and easy card.  I used a glittered cardstock for the background on a red cardstock card.  Then I created (in silhouette) a white scalloped circle and the Merry Christmas snowflake cut out in green.  I added red rhinestones to add glitz and walah the card was done.

Christmas 2012 cards

My Christmas 2012 Cards

Finally getting these up.  Hope you find something you like!

 

I created the gnome on my Silhouette.  I colored his face with copics.  I used an awesome rust colored paper with metallic gold spots for the cap and shirt.  The tree was hand cut and the sentiment was hand written.  I also used the rust/mettalic paper for the 1st background and layered a "kraft" colored cardstock on top.  The word gnome was created by me and cut on silhouette.  I used Stickles on the beard and gnome word.

On the inside I created a cloud using Stickles to give it extra embellishment and created and cut the word Dreams in silhouette.