Saturday, May 11, 2013

Hello! Welcome to my blog and thank you for stopping by. I design and create handcrafted greeting cards. I like to call this passion of mine "visual poetry" ....imagery on paper. Please feel free to browse the photos of my cards and leave a comment.

Monday, October 14, 2019

Autumn Birthday


My favorite season is autumn. It always reminds me of sunflowers, wheat, colored leaves, crisp air, my college days, football, chili and beef stew. And I LOVE to make fall cards. Here is another one that I made for my college roommate from many years ago. Our birthdays are 4 days apart and when in college we celebrated our birthdays together.

These are the products I used in this project:

Card Stock:  GKD Ivory, Kraft, Daffodil Delight, Vibrant Violet; SU Mossy Meadow, Wisteria Wonder; PTI Chocolate Brown; Gold Metallic (unknown)

Inks:  Distress Oxide Wild Honey, Memento Grape Jelly

Dies:  Spellbinders Create a Sunflower, Labels Two; Cottage Cutz Sunflowers (for the leaves only); Marianne Grape Hyacinth; MB Blushing Flower Branch; IO Wheat; Cheery Lynn Wheat Heads 

Other:  adhesive, dimensionals, ribbon, Wink of Stella. computer generated sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed this post and get inspired to create some beautiful fall cards. Thank you so much for visiting my blog. Come back again soon.


Thursday, October 3, 2019

Sunflower Birthday


Hello Fall!  It is finally here....after 90 degree weather days!  And here is my first fall card this year, made for a former co-worker's birthday.  Sunflower and colored leaves.....the representatives of autumn.

Here are the products used:

Card stock:  GK Ivory, Kraft, Cherry Red, Daffodil Delight; SU Garden Green: PTI Dark Chocolate
Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa, Cottage Ivy; Hero Arts Red Royal; Wild Honey Distress Ink
Dies:  Spellbinders Create a Sunflower, Darice Leaves, SU Leaflets Framelits, Poppy Stamps Pointed Oval Frames
Other:  adhesive, dimensionals, computer generated sentiment

Hope this inspires you to create some fall cards. Until next time, happy crafting!