Die Embossed Frame

It's subtle but the frame on this card was created with two Nestability dies.  I stamped the text and then mounted the kraft cardstock onto dark brown.  The flowers are die cuts and the leaves and butterflies are punches.  I embellished with a gold brad for the flower center and faux jewels for the butterfly bodies and on the ribbon.  I inked the edges of the flowers, butterflies and leaves.

Chevrons & Trading Cards

This is a simple artist trading card that I made after cutting some chevrons.  The base is textureed cardstock and the stem is stamped.  The flowers and butterfly are punched and I finished the design with black grosgrain ribbon and touches from a glitter pen.

Chevrons

I'm laughing at myself for taking the looonnng way around on this card.  I used a zig zag die cut on three shades of green cardstock and yellow cardstock.  I placed them side-by-side and adhered them in place and then cut them into strips.  What I originally intended to do was stagger the different colors for a different look but instead I put them back together the same as they were originally!  I guess you call that a less in futility.  The flower is Tim Holtz's die, Tattered Flowers and I inked the ends of the petals.  The leaves are punched and textured with an embossing folder.  The butterfly is a die cut with ink added and I embellished with a gold brad for the flower center and added strips of narrow ribbon with gold metallic edges.

Flat Die Cut

This is a different type of die cut card for me and I used an idea from Jennifer McGuire.  I first cut the leaves from the patterned paper and then from solid brown paper.  I removed the patterned leaves and replaced them with the solid leaves and adhered both to dark brown cardstock.  I embellished with narrow ribbon, Prima flowers, tiny die cut flowers and faux jewel flower centers.  Simple but different.

New Old Church

You may remember this photo from an earlier posting. The church is in Leadville CO and is a historic structure.

I revisited this photo and tried some variations in PhotoShop Elements.  One of my favorites is the drawing on the right.

Digital is just fun to play with and you never know what you'll end up with.

Window In Leadville

A few months back I posted some of my photos from a trip to historic Leaville CO.  I used this photo of a window to make an artist trading card.  Basically I defined the edges and added a grunge filter.  The result was a photo with more dimension and darker color.

Burgundy Layers

This was another design I came up with when making cards for our stamp club exchange.  The challenge was to use at least three patterned papers.  I made my papers different sizes and added a stamped image to a circular piece of plain cardstock.  Embellishments were black brads, narrow satin ribbon and flowers.  I rather liked the end result.  I hope Judy did, too, because she got it in the exchange.