I just have a quick post today.
I've been slacking in the card making department, but I did finally finish our New England Vacation scrapbook..a year later, which is just sad. But anyway, it's done. So now I'll be moving on to our Year 2 of marriage book, I've done a couple of pages already, so I'm up to Christmas of last year, so I'm really only 11 months behind...geeze.
But I do have a card for today. It started out as an experiment in a brayer technique for the background, but it turned out ok, so I went ahead and made it into a card.
The background used to be white, and I used a brayer to layer on 2 different colors. I stamped the flowers, then the reeds. I stamped off some of the ink on the reeds to a scrap piece of paper so they'd be lighter. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. All the ink and paper, and even the ribbon are from Stampin Up.
Here's a different view. I put the jewels on the top with my iRock, which is a totally awesome tool.
The inside is blank, since I don't really know what I'd use this card for. It sort of falls into the category of just sending a nice note to someone. I suppose it could be a birthday card too..maybe.
Anyway, it's finally Friday. We've got a few things to do, like puppy class for Oliver. But hopefully we're going to stick close to home..and maybe get all this Halloween stuff put away. Maybe.
Jessica
Grandpa and Curt eating.
Brittany reacting very well to the fact that Katie doesn't drink soda.
My cousins Sarah and Brittany.
My cousin Grace, and uncle Pat.
Brother Matt and Oliver.
Katie refusing a picture.
Katie and Ollie.
Tula and Daisy came over too.
But this is always how it ends up. Even the Vegan ate too much.
The paper is the Razzleberry Lemonade series by Stampin Up, and it's retired. But I love it, so I bought some on clearance. The "image" I made with 2 stamps from a set I don't know the name of. but it has the dragonflies and the little dot things. I stamped the dot things in Crushed Curry and Peach Parfait first, then the dragonflies in Rich Razzleberry. I sponged the edges with Crushed Curry.
I don't think you can tell, but then I used thick embossing powder to give it that glass look. I didn't break it, but it still looks cool. 
Here's the inside. 
I used a lot of this paper last year, but I just love it so much. The solid color cardstock is from Stampin Up, and I used a Cuttlebug dye for the snowflakes.
You can't tell, but the ornaments are glazed with a glaze pen (go figure), so they're sort of shiny.
I kept the same sort of theme on the inside. The sentiment is from a Christmas Set from All That Scraps. 
All the paper is from Stampin Up. I used the Gypsy and Cricut to cut out the leaves. The Gypsy has a search function so I was able to see all the leaves I already had on my cartridges, this saved me tons of time. I used the Gypsy to arrange my mat so I could cut all the different leaves at one time..also a time saver.
The Happy Birthday stamp is from Hobby Lobby, or somewhere like it. The camera didn't really pick it up (big surprise there) but I used just a hint of yellow Glimmer Mist to spritz the leaves..they just looked so plain.
I had a few extra leaves to use in the inside, but otherwise it's blank.
The background used to be white, and I used a brayer to layer on 2 different colors. I stamped the flowers, then the reeds. I stamped off some of the ink on the reeds to a scrap piece of paper so they'd be lighter. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. All the ink and paper, and even the ribbon are from Stampin Up. 
Here's a different view. I put the jewels on the top with my iRock, which is a totally awesome tool. 
