First card order = COMPLETE!

The title tells all!  I am finally done.  It was fun making the cards and it seems I may have gotten another order...a custom order this time.  Yippee.

Today's card, the one that has completed my first card order, is so adorable!  I had to get some inspiration for this one so I used the site www.pinterest.com and consulted my "board" for ideas.  I'll get into detail about Pinterest in another post.  OK, and here is the unveiling....dun dun dun!

Just Because sentiment card

Adorned with a purple ribbon and pink flower

I made a second card (this is the one that I made for the order).

Heat embossed with sparkle powder

Isn't it cute?  It is simple yet beautiful and I probably used some of the paper I bought a Joann's yesterday.  I actually made two cards, one for the order and one for etsy.

Oh did I mention I went to Michael's today.  Oh gosh did I go crazy there too!  I bought the stamp I used for this card out of the dollar bin.  Awesome deal!

Get Well card

I have two more cards left to make for my first order!  Yay!  Tomorrow Joann's is having their 6/$.96 sale on open stock paper.  I am so excited for that.  I have to stock up on a ton of paper so I can recreate some of the cards I've already made.

Here is today's card.  "Get Well".

I used my usual techniques on this card: inking, dry embossing, and powder embossing.  This card is similar to the one I sent to my grandparents but I loved the color combo so much that I had to make another using the same paper.  There are some differences to this one.

Well, I'm off.  It's date night with the hubby!

Adorable cards!

Oh do I have some cute cards to show you tonight!  I think they are ADORABLE!

First, some news though.  I decided it was time to open an etsy shop.  It was actually kind of scary.  All these questions kept going through my mind like will any of my cards sell?  Will people like them?  Are they good enough quality, etc.  I guess that's normal when starting a new adventure.  I'm totally fine now though.

For those that don't know, etsy is an online forum for people to sell their handmade items along with other types of products.  I got my first order the other day and that's what prompted me to open an etsy shop.  I don't have many items to sell quite yet but I'm working on it.   

I have been working daily on stocking my shop and here are the 3 cards I have completed so far:

New Baby Congrats Card

Onsies make up the banner

Cupcake bday card

Isn't the cupcake adorable?

Can't forget the little boys!

Boy bday card

So there are my prides and joys for this week.  Not sure what else I will come up with in the next few days but I'll be adding pictures here and posting to my etsy shop as I go.  My etsy shop link is as follows:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/19Eighty

Enjoy!

Pretty in Blue

This Thank You card is for my grandparents who sent me a very generous graduation gift.

Double layer flower

Embossed handwriting

I love ink.  Can you tell?

Inside: Pop up "Thank You"

Added a silver outline right before I mailed it out.

I purchased the Premium Pop-up card set from www.svgcuts.com to make this card.

Colorful Hawaiian Delight

I think this blog has turned into a showcase for my creations rather than what it originally was intended for...everyday life.  Oops!

Today I finished another Hawaii honeymoon page.  It started out as a big mess but I made it work somehow.  Andrew has actually been giving me input from time to time on my projects and he had the idea to make the flowers stick up to give the page dimension.  Great idea!  He is seriously amazingly creative.  I can't even imagine what he would come up with if he did this.

Well, on to the fun stuff!  Here are the pictures.  It's really hard to just pic one or two pictures to post so here are a ton.

Full page shot.  For some reason I can't rotate it.

Embossed with Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots folder then inked

Detail shot

Stamps & marker embossed then glittered

Embossed with Cuttlebug using various folders then inked

Raised flower

I like detail shots!

Hope you enjoyed!  It's not easy coming up with ideas out of nowhere and this is exactly what I did with this one.  I started off with doing it one way but that didn't look right so on it went until this happened.

I have no clue what my next page will be but I know it will be fun to make.  Actually I think my next project will be a Thank You card for my grandparents.  That sounds nice.  It will be a break from making a 12x12 page.  Cards are so much easier to make.

Honeymoon scrapbooking has commenced

Today I tried out some new techniques.  Embossing and antiquing/distressing.  You've seen some of my other work with embossing but today I ventured into new territory.  Embossing with an embossing tool, embossing powder, and embossing markers.  Oh yes, I tried all this for the first time today.  Antiquing/distressing was a new adventure as well.

Cruisin' Caravan - die cut kit purchased from www.svgcuts.com

Close up

Inked edges and embossed handwriting

Ditressed/antiqued look

Embossing

A different angle

The die cuts (suitcase, stamp, etc) were purchased from www.svgcuts.com.

I used the Cricut and Make the Cut software to cut the kit.

The paper was all from either Joann's or Michaels (4 or 5/$1).  I never buy anything full price. 

I crumbled the suitcase and used Tim Holtz' distressing ink to create the antiqued look.

The red tag is embossed using a Cuttlebug and the Swiss Dots folder.

The blue and also the white tags were inked on the edges.  I then smeared the ink to give the paper a new look.

The handwritten portion of the page was written with embossing markers then topped with clear embossing powder and heated up with a heating tool.

This was a fun project to work on especially since a lot of the techniques I used were new to me.  Can't wait to create more awesomeness!

Win #3 for me!

I just saw that I won a $10 gift card from www.svgcuts.com.  Woohoo!  That's win #3 for me so far since I found the site.  Now I have to figure out which awesome file I want to download.

I have one last Thank You card to show.  It has a little too much going on with it but it's too late to fix what needs to be fixed without ruining it.  I got the birdie off another awesome site http://scale-files.blogspot.com/.  Paulo, the owner of the site, does some amazing work!  All his images are free to download and I have to tell you they are beautiful!