hmmm...no pix. well, guess i'm doing something wrong.

and here are some more cards that may or may not show up....i need remedial blog help...

it's not like i haven't been busy...

sure, i've been stamping.  but i've been a bit pre-occupied with school.  this whole 9-5 scene (or 7:30-2:45) really cramps my style.  is it "cramps" my style or "crimps" my style? whatev.  these are card sets i made for a silent auction at school.  at least, i think they're here...they don't show in the preview and it's been so long since i posted, the format has changed! here goes...

Shadowbox Ephemera

ephemera:  items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, esp. pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc.

anything short-lived or ephemeral.

 

This little shadowbox is sort of a memento of my vacation.  I altered a pencil-type box from Oriental trading company and made a frame from cardboard.   

Clean and Simple

A clean and simple card usually uses a neutral base and isn't afraid of leaving a lot of it un-embellished.  This one is for a splitcoast challenge; cas80.  I used sahara sand and purely pomegranate on very vanilla.  Yes, i still have some of that old satin ribbon left.  I bought a lot of it when it was on sale.  The stamp set is Silhouette Sentiments which is a hostess set.

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Here is a set of 5x7 pictures.  One is for everyday and there is a Christmas image that can sit behind the everyday image till Christmas time.  I love the quote on the everyday.  It's Emily Dickinson; "Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops-at all."

something fishy

Here is a little non-card.  This little basket has an acetate window and the treat bag is filled with Swedish fish...which, you may as well know, I cannot control myself with.  They're just. so. good!  The little fish stamp in the corner says "best fishes" and no, I didn't give this to anyone...I ate the fish so I couldn't!

coming up daisies

This stamp and I have a history...it's love, okay?  For this card, I used basic gray with daffodil delight.  The background and the ribbon are very vanilla.









This one (below) used saffron with not quite navy and celery.  I used a chalk-resist technique.  That is, the image was stamped with a versamark pad and I just used a sponge dauber to apply color.

And this time, I did an brayer resist.  The background is soft sky applied with a brayer but first I adhered a trapazoidial mask.  (Is trapazoidial a word?)  Anyway, the daisies were the last to be stamped, in pacific point.



Whew!  That's about all, but I'm sure there will be others with the "Upsy-Daisy" set.  It's a "go-to" for me.