Last foreign language cards made for sale

I have been selling cards at Houghton College for about two and half years, but with new management and, understandably, with their different ideas, it seems time to move on. I had almost stopped anyway, as I don't really have a lot of time for cardmaking, and when time is limited, making "have to" cards - making sure I have new designs for each category - leaves no time to make just what I want to make. Anyway, while I still have reasons to make the occasional Spanish card, I will no longer have any cause to make foreign language cards. Those that I have left over I will just re-make into English cards, unless I can find some place to sell them online. With the fairly simple designs I have, that may not be possible. So, these two cards, made this summer to sell at the college this winter, are the last in their language I will make.

Wedding card

I have lots of pictures that haven't even made it to my "not yet posted" file, which has pictures that are edited and ready to post. I totally forgot about this card, which is odd because it's recently made ... I had several of the dove image colored in, but hadn't used them all, so it was a quick card to make. Of course, I take forever to make up my mind about embellishments, image placement, etc, so it probably took longer than it should have!

Always

This is a remake from a card I made last year. The faux pearls really look nice; the photo makes them look like cheap plastic (well, I suppose they are cheap plastic, lol, but they don't actually look so obviously fake!)

Birch trees

I love birch trees, they're so beautiful! I had one outside my bedroom window growing up, and I remember just sitting at my window and daydreaming as I gazed at it. I confess that as much as I loved that tree, I tortured it. The bark of a birchtree peels off like parchment paper ... so hard to resist! It's amazing it survived me (though to my sorrow, I've heard it since has died). Anyway, when I was ordering Oriental stamps from OnyxXpressions, I couldn't resist adding this image!

I often forget to check the settings on our digital camera, and my daughter often changes them when she uses it. So, all my birch cards - as well as other cards photographed at the same time - turned out a little funny in the photos. I took pictures of the cards again, still not realizing the problem, so they didn't look any better. I was out of time, so I shipped all the cards off to the Houghton store even though the pics were not very good. :-(

Cuttle hearts

I had fun using my cuttlebug heart die & embossing folders. I made several cards using the same basic idea.

3rd Inkadinkado free stamp card

I looked for the longest time before I found wedding stamps that I like. I had a few text stamps I like, but no designs.

The graduated oval cutter I use had a much wider gap between the ovals than I wanted; it looked funny being layered wider than the rectangles above, so I positioned the inner oval toward the top, "matching" the rectangles.

Second "freebie" card

I think this is the last time I use opalite inks for a contest card; they just never photograph well. There must be some trick I am missing (feel free to enlighten me if you know), but I've noticed published submissions on other sites don't seem to be able to capture it well either. We'll see how it looks on the Inkadinkado site when they publish it sometime this summer. The tiny bit of coloring I did on the flowers with glitter pen looked exactly like the opalite inks on the text.

Free stamp cards

Inkadinkado had an incentive running this past month in which one could receive up to three free stamps by sending up to three cards. As I work best under deadlines, this was great for me ... I only heard about it two days before the deadline, and managed to get in three cards. I had not used any of the stamps I own from Inkadinkado yet, so that was an added bonus for me!

The background is done using the faux batik method.