Little Butterfly Card

This card is really more of a gift tag, but it's my favorite so far.

I began by brushing the front of the card with some yellow watercolor. I don't have many ink pads, but you could go that route too. Then on a separate piece of cardstock, I did a gradient from yellow to blue in watercolor. When that was dry, I stamped it with a butterfly from Inkadinkado. I cut out the butterfly, folded it a bit in the middle, and glued it to the card.

With the leftover watercolor, I used a Recollections butterfly punch, folded those cutouts the same way, and glued them in "random" positions. I finished by dotting iridescent glitter glue around the background (though you can't see it too well).

I made another using a blue background, and a pink and purple butterfly. They're really cute little cards.

Xmas Carol Card

Here's a more xmasy card. My second one ever.

Using gold craft paint and a makeup sponge, I painted the top and bottom. Once it was dry, I stamped the Have yourself a merry little Christmas stamp.

I then picked a red and gold cardstock portion, and traced some of the lines with gold glitter glue.

I made the holly by drawing leaves freehand, cut them out to make a stencil, then traced them onto sheet music, cut them out, and colored the edges with a dark green colored pencil.

For the berries, I had some black plastic berries that came in a flower arrangement that I randomly won at AC Moore. I brushed them with white glue, dipped them in red glitter, and let them dry.
Then I stuck everything together and that was it! Simple, huh?

A Card for Mom, and Cupcakes

For the past few years, I have made the tags for all my xmas gifts. This year, I"m going a step further and have gotten into actual cardmaking. This is one of my first.

For the front, I used a stamp that I've had for many years, along with printed cardstock. I colored Pooh and Piglet with colored pencils, and inked the edges of the stamped pieces. 

Inside, I used text stamps by Fiskars (cursive), and Kaisercraft. I'm not really fond of how the inside turned out, since the letters are spaced out so much, even though I trimmed down the extra space on each letter as much as I could.

For the hearts, I punched them out of some cardstock that looked like watercolor. Part of one heart faded to white, so I inked the edges of them all. In order to get the center of the curve, I used the edge of the ink pad.

On a side note, I recently took a Wilton cupcake decorating course at Michaels. It was lots of fun and I learned things that I never picked up by reading or watching videos. Here are my favorites:

Paper Cup Wreath

All the cup wreaths I've seen were made by nesting the cups within each other, so I wanted to try to make one more like a starburst. I got almost all of the items at the dollar store. I used: paper cups, circular floral foam, colored tissue paper, thumb tacks, pins, and scissors.

I wrapped the tissue paper around the floral foam, tacking it in place, until the whole thing was covered.

Then I cut the cups in half long ways.

And pinned them to the foam through the bottom of the cup.

Below is the final wreath. In the end, I didn't even like it enough to use it, but maybe someone will run with the idea and make something better.