Card #7

I love Basic Grey! I tend to collect it more than use it. But these "love" cards turned out great. There is a set of 4 of them on ETSY. Maybe I will try and make some more BG cards. Yes? Tonight is a card night. I am pretty excited to have a card friend over. It is always great to share ideas, get inspired, learn new things. Should be fun! I have an order for some Valentines cards and I guess I better get those going too. I am just happy that it is the weekend!

Card 1.7.11 - Inspired by Basic Grey

Card number 6 for the year!

I did make this a few days ago. Tons of possibilities with a cupcake, right? It is up for sale in my ETSY store for Valentine's Day. This is from a cricut cartridge. YUM! Its almost friday and I get to squeeze some more cards in this weekend. YAY.

Card 1.6.11 - Inspired by Valentine's Day

1.5.11 - Card Number 5 - 360 to go!

OK, I didn't get to the cards today - but I can still pull one up that you haven't seen unless you have been to my ETSY store. I love owls. You will see them again.

Sorry this is short tonight.I was out with family having a very nice dinner. This means no dishes tonight! Thank you hubby! I worked very hard today. The Christmas trees came down. I think this is the longest that I have ever had them up. Tomorrow looks good for more cards!

1.5.11 - Inspired by Cricut cartridge

Four Cards for 2011

Look! Look! More snowflakes! Very non traditional and not quite up my alley, but somewhere I wrote down a color combination of red, white and aqua. Looks really pretty in person. Wish I could remember where I got the color combination from. This is certainly self inspiring. Reminds me to reach out of the box of traditional. YAY! Have I done my 10 SNOW cards yet that I originally intended to do? Don't know, but I am getting ahead of myself with lots of CUTIE PATOOTIE Valentine's Day Card. You can see those in my ETSY store.

That's if for now, I have a bulletin board to do for the morning. Almost done with that and guess what it has? SNOWFLAKES!

Card 1.4.11 - Color inspired

Three Cards - 3 days - Can I keep this up?

Short and sweet. Love this stamp set from Stampin Up. I think is is called a Tree for all Seasons. A fantastic set that can do a lot ALL YEAR LONG. You may see these again because I love them.

I sure am glad that I have attempted this challenge. It really helped me through these past few days. I have felt focused and inspired. Sometimes paper inspires, sometimes the stamps do, sometimes its the cricut. Fortunately I have the space and time for right now to enjoy and go for it. A card a day for a year. That would just be awesome. I am allowing myself a few hiccups, but as long as I intend for 365 cards by the end of 2011, I will feel awesome! I am posting these on ETSY as well. Why not?

Card 1.3.11 - Stamp Inspired

365 Days of Cards - Two down, 363 to go...

Another Sizzix Sizzlet snowflake card. I made a good handful of these snowflakes with scraps and put them aside. I really wish you could see the way that they sparkle. The snowflakes are made from DCWV Linen Closet cardstock stack. These papers are so pretty that I don't want to use them. But I have used them alot. The rest is just cardstock that I felt looked good together, and of course the textures come from Cuttlebug. Border punch is Fiskars. I think I need to work on the back drop of my photos though. Not very pretty down here in the basement. The sun is out today so maybe I can shoot a few more photos for the week!

The question of the day is to take the tree down or not take the tree down.... hmmmm

Card 1.2.11 - color inspired

365 Days of Cards - One down, 364 to go...

Yes, a card a day is a bigger challenge than the simple 10 cards of snow that I thought I could do. But, I did enjoy my few days of being "off duty" with the kids to make a few cards. The goal still stands to post one a day. Today's post fell together nicely. Even pulled some scraps out for this winter blue snowflakes. I love scraps. They want to be something too. Fun yes? You may see this patterned paper again. With the way I work, things tend to take a life of their own and become something.

In any case, the snowflakes are from a sizzlit sizzix die with some white sparkly paper and the blue HELLO is made with those old label makers. If you look close, you can see that I used a background stamp from Stampin Up, tone on tone to add more texture look to the card itself. I will have another to post tomorrow.

Card 1.11 - Snow inspired