Shake Your Shamrocks!

Hello Ai fans! 

 
Since it's only 1 week away I wanted to share a St. Patrick's Day card with you.

I've used

5006 – Sham-rock Set

I used a new fold that I discovered recently. 

I stumbled onto the video online and the woman called it a Norwegian Step card.

There's a great tutorial for this fold HERE.

Isn't this little guy the cutest?!

I also used some of the newly released dies from Art Impressions.

5132 – Tag Stitched Dies

5135 – Hexagon Double Stitched Dies

5133 – Flag Double Stitched Dies

So...my first "speaking" part in a video...lol!

I wasn't completely mortified by what I heard!

Copics used:

Y13, 35, C1, 3, G82, YG17, 63,
E000, 00, 02, 08, 37, 97

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Safari thank you card

Hello and happy Thursday!

Today I'm sharing a very special card with you.  In August my husband's aunt and her friend invited me and my daughter to their home in Myrtle Beach for a vacation.  We went to an interactive safari that was amazing.  This is the thank you card that I made for them.

We went to Myrtle Beach Safari...aka...T.I.G.E.R.S.
The Institute for Greatly Endangered and Rare Species.

This is a 900 lb. liger.  I can't remember his name.

We also went to Alligator Adventure so I wanted to include a gator on my card.

I made a step card because I wanted there to be a lot of dimension.

We got to hold many different species and some of the others we just observed at close range.

White Handed Gibbons.

They were so much like human babies.  They clutched their blankets, sucked their thumbs and squeezed our fingers.

One of our favorite moments was when we got to hug Bubbles the elephant. She was rescued over 30 years ago when her entire herd was slaughtered for their ivory.  It's just mind boggling to me how some people can treat animals like they're trash...use what you want and throw away the rest.  We got to see her eat a watermelon which is why I have her holding one on the card. They told us she has the intelligence of a 6 yr. old child.

My kids taught me a little fun fact...scientists think that elephants think that people are cute.  They believe the way we react to our cat or dog is how they think of us. They want to cuddle and be around us.

We also held baby lions and tigers.

Though they aren't on my card we also interacted with wolves.  They were SO sweet and just want their ears and bellies scratched!

Baby Lynx.

Floral Birdhouse Wedding card

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a very special wedding card.

One of our good friends oldest son is getting married in September.

I know, I'm a little early but when inspiration strikes...you make the card.

I've used two different Art Impressions sets on my card.

4946 – Floral Birdhouse PopCard

AICS27 – Love Birds

I decided to make a step card but with a little twist.  Each step is a little smaller than the one before it.

You'll notice some gold paper on my card. My kids graduated high school in June '17 and June '18.  I had used various spray paints to make some decorations.

I decided to give something a try.  I took some plain white paper and sprayed it first with the gold spray paint and then with the Gold Glitter Blast.  I LOVED how it turned out!  Bonus...it's so cheap to make.  No more paying $2.00 for a sheet of metallic paper!

I took a hat pin and added some beads to it.

It's tough to see all of the layers of the card in the photos so I laid the card out flat so you could see it all.

I think this is the most extensive card I've ever made.  I actually made two of them and together they took me about 12 hours to complete.

Here's the "envelope" that I made for it.  Due to the bulk of the card I decided to do a gift "bag" envelope.  The card is 1 1/2" thick when closed.

E31, E33, E35, G20, Y11, YG03, YG63, W5,

R32, R83, R85, RV52, V0000, V06, V12

A card FORE U!!

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing another card from my golf raffle basket that I made.

I made 6 golf themed cards to go in a basket to be auctioned off at a benefit.

This card features

T3475 – Golfers

and 

F3472 – You First

I love step cards.  You can get so many layers and so much dimension in them with little added work.

You can see how dimensional my card is here.  Inside there's a birthday verse.

Under My Umbrella! (I'm a guest designer!)

Hello and welcome to my blog!

Today I'm sharing a card using 4048 – Under my Umbrella Set
from Art Impressions.

I recently was asked to be a guest designer over at Inspired by All the Little Things by one of it's designers, my online friend, Karen Day.

I was so thrilled!  ...Especially after I saw the sketch.

I hope you like my take on it!

Here's the sketch I was inspired by.

I was inspired by the umbrella, the black and white rain coat and the pink reflections in the wet street.

I stamped the umbrella twice so I could "pop" it up to make it look more like the girlfriends were actually under it.

Here you can see the dimension in my center stair step easel card.

This was my take on the wet pavement.  I used copics to color it and then topped it with Wink of Stella to make it shimmer.

This was such a fun opportunity!

` It makes me want to try some more photo inspiration.

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Copics used:

RV00, RV14, B45, C3, C5, N2, W1, W3,

BG34, E00, E02, E37, E43, E50, E81, E93, Y28