sheep card

Here is a little sheep card I made. It opens up like the big chick card did. You could also use it as an embellishment on a scrap page too. It could be just single layered or you could make it like the card and have hidden journaling. It's made using the Big Shot and several punches. You could also make a smaller version with just punches too (which I did, but forgot to take a picture.) I used white and Basic gray paper. I used the large and small ovals, word window and scalloped oval along with the large scallop Big Shot die. The eyes are the white gel pen. On my smaller one I inked all my edges with the gray and it gave it more dimension, which I liked better and would add again next time. So I hope you enjoy my little sheep. Also, so you know I didn't design the sheep, but I'm not sure who I saw it from first or who designed it as several demos have made similar items. Another thing I saw recently that demos have done with this type of sheep is they put the white parts through the Big Shot again and give it texture and then lightly ink it so it looks more 3dish and adds texture. Hope that gives you some ideas. Have a great day today.

round chicks

Here is a little chick card that I made using our circle punch and the five petal flower punch. The beak is the 1/4" square punch or you could cut a square if you don't have that. The legs are drawn with marker. I copied this chick idea from demo Lynn Pratt on our demo site. Her chicks were doing the conga and had bunny ears, but I was trying mine and just did a simple card. The clouds are made using bashful blue and the scallop circle and oval punched pieces. I just cut slits in the grass and added little marker blades here and there in the grass. Just add some shading , some eyes and legs to get the rest of the look. Not too hard of a card. It's fun and it's one that brings a smile to my face. I like the chicks I've been making. They are cute and it's been gloomy and they make me smile. I hope they do you too. You'll have to get out some of your punches and try making different chicks, bunnies or even other animals. Some days it's just fun playing around seeing what you come up with I think. So I hope you enjoy my share today. Have a great day.

chick family

I saw the idea for the big chick on our demo site. It was made by Laurie Froehlich. It's a card that opens up. I thought it was really cute. Then I started playing with other shapes and punches and came up with some more just like the big one. I then started slanting eyes and such and then when stacked on top, my daughter said it looks like a family. I looked at it and it does. Reminds me of a family portrait. One kid trying to look all cute, one not wanting his picture taken, the other trying to aggravate the other one, etc. I thought it was funny and had to share it. Such a fun thing with spring coming up. It looks like I forgot to add the little boy too. He looks like the girl on the left, except his little bow is where a bow-tie would go instead of in the hair. It was fun creating them. Circles are cute too, I'll have to share a different card soon with circle chicks. In the meantime I hope you have fun maybe making some chicks. I think these would be fun on cards and especially in scrapbooks as little accents. So I hope you enjoy my share today and it brings a smile to your face. Have a great day.

Easter card already

I was playing with some of my new stuff the other day and came up with this card. I thought it turned out pretty cute. It uses several new items.
It uses the little kiss notes from the mini. It also uses the new corner punch. It also uses the saying from Well Scripted. I also used In Colors for my color palette. It was a fun little card and I think that little chick is adorable. It's from a level 1 hostess set called Country morning.
Both the "kiss" and the saying are raised up on dimensionals. The ribbon is the Soft Suede polka dotted ribbon and the other color is Crushed Curry.

I thought it a fun secular card for Easter. Of course the real meaning of Easter is about the resurrection of Christ. I'll have to create some more cards again that reflect that better, but thought you'd like this card in the mean time. It sort of reminds me of it a little - as this is a new life being born and when we accept Christ, we too are "born again." It's a little bit of a stretch, but I like pulling things together.

So yeah it's a little early to think about Easter, but it might take time to gather all the parts needed.

Sorry I haven't posted as much I haven't been feeling as well and it has made me very tired. Hopefully I will get back into the swing of it all again soon. Hope you have a great day today and are able to stay warm with all the snow coming. Blessings.