New cards for Etsy

Now that summer has begun and I am very low on cash lately, I have decided to try selling my cards on Etsy.  I am not really sure what the strategy is on selling things there but I will see if it works nonetheless! Below are some cards I have whipped up for various occasions.

The stamp "thanks oodles" comes from close to my heart.  I love love this stamp and if you are interested in it please click on this link.

I love how simple yet elegant they are!!!

Cute heart card

I wanted to craft today but since I have been doing a lot of scrapbooking lately, I decided to make some cards.  My inspiration for this heart card is from the Jeanette Lynton's blog.  I recently became a close to my heart consultant and am playing with the Art Philosophy Cartridge.

What I did was cut a card from the cricut at 4 inches.  I cut the two purple hearts at 1 3/4 inches, one with the normal heart image and the other with the layering feature.  I cut the white heart at 2 1/4 inches.  On the bottom purple heart I stamped a portion of ditto big stamp in white ink and then covered it with the layered heart. I sprayed both hearts with a little bit of pink pearl in my ranger spritzer to add a little shimmer.  I attached the two hearts with foam adhesives as I wanted the heart to pop out!  The "thoughts of you" sentiment is a Michael's rubber stamp. All of the card stock used today was from Michael's card stock paper packs.

What do you think?!

Scrapfest in spirit...

This weekend is the annual Scrapfest in Kitchener Ontario and I have been for the last 2 years and have had a ball! This year I was a bit all over the place as I've just purchased my first house (yay!) and I was contemplating going on a conference with my mom to Washington this weekend so needless to say I waited too long to get into the festival.  What I love about it, is that you bring everything you can think of with you and you spend 2 full days making pages, cards etc.  There are soo many people around you to get ideas from and of course we all love contests!!!

Moving along, since I am home alone and bored of packing (I move in 2 weeks!!!), I decided to make a card which then turned into 3 cards!  I was excited to use my new paper pack from My Minds Eye called Magnolia.  It has some really nice bright coloured papers to use and match together!

I always think its interesting when other sites post a side view and I can only guess that it is to see the different dimensions, so I tried it this time to have fun with my camera because my photos aren't always the best to show off my cards (I blame it on the fact that I packed my nice camera soo early that it has been stored in the basement under boxes for about 3 months now!

Anyway enough of me rambling on, here are my cards for the day:

All three cards were made with:
My Minds Eye paper pack 'Magnolia'
Brown ribbon from Michaels
Brads and flowers were from Dollarama
Eyelets are Making Memories
The thinking of you stamp is Inkadoo
the two other stamps are from the dollar fifty bin at Michaels

Hope you enjoy them!

I almost think this card needs something more but am unsure what yet.  Any ideas would greatly be appreciated!

I made this card with mothers day in mind for the My pink stamper blog hop.  I don't have any of you stamps as of yet so sorry Robyn!  I chose gratitude because thats essentially what mothers day is all about, thanking your mother for all that she has done for you!

Happy Easter!

Easter time equals some time off to spend with the family and craft! Today I spent a bit of time making 2 cards with my latest DCWV paper pack (Lilac).  I like this pack as it is versatile and you can easily make mens cards with them (we all know how hard it is not to girlie up mens cards)!

 For this card, I punched out squares (I think 1 inch) from various pages from the pack and aligned them as you see on the card.  I have seen soo many youtube videos about the ATG gun so I bought one recently and tried it for the very first time!  The ribbon was from Michaels and I just glued it onto the card.  The stamp saying "thoughts of you" was in the $1.50 stamp pile by the check out at Michaels.  I really like the way it tuned out!

This hello card was using the same paper pack but the squares were punched out at 2 inches each and glued onto the card.  I had some leftover pieces from the previous card so I used it as a strip above the squares.  With beige cardstock, I stamped the line stamp which I got at Michaels (can you tell where I shop?) but I had a hard time getting the middle to ink up or stamp down no matter how hard I pressed.  I decided to stamp a purple Hello onto my card (1.50 stamp bin at Michaels) and used pop dots to make it dimensional.  The Hello looked sort of plain, so I added some embossing powder from Zing (metallic purple).  I love Zing powders as they are amazing to work with and always give great results!

Hope you enjoyed seeing my cards and please feel free to leave a comment!