Bendiciones

Monica commented that red liner tape might work for my letters ... I used a double sided sticky tape, but with the narrowness of the letters, it was difficult to apply, so I had switched to a liquid glue. I also was cutting the letters with sizzix dies in my cuttlebug which is rather challenging, so I still don't think I'll ever do this again!

This is one of the cards I rejected before completion, then decided today that I should at least finish it for personal use.

Hola

I made about four cards using this glossy cardstock, but some I had not examined closely to realize the gloss was scratched, and I had a difficult time with the adhesive getting all over the letters. So, this is the only card that survived. :-( Perhaps it is time to get a Xyron?

I used the build-a-flower set for the exclamation marks.

Gracias in Green

I am going to be selling cards at Houghton College, and they are very interested in foreign language cards. Spanish is the easiest for me, with a husband approaching fluency, and a good number of Spanish stamps. This card will look familiar to those of you who follow my blog regularly; the images were left over from a few cards I made a couple of months ago. A good thing: I have very little time to make cards in all the requested languages: Spanish, Swahili, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese

Wallpaper cards!

I hadn't made any wallpaper cards in ages, but when I found this design in a wallpaper sample book I just got from Sherwin Williams, I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it! For those of you who have never worked with wallpaper, I encourage you to see if your local wallpaper store will give you their discontinued books. At the end of each month, our local Sherwin Williams allows people to come claim them. I nearly always forget, so often there are no books. But I finally remembered a couple of months ago.

Anyway, I decided to use my cuttlebug for these. Wallpaper is not firm, so I glued it onto cardstock before die-cutting. :-)

Floral Sympathy

Some time ago I posted some roses that I had done with a really neat technique, posted here. I finally got around to using a couple of the flowers with these sympathy cards. The text is white pigment ink embossed with white embossing powder, donated by my friend Jacki Jones. Not all white embossing powders give a crisp image, and some that do are not truly white. She gave me some of hers when I was visiting her in Atlanta. She put it in a recycled prescription bottle, and we got a laugh imaging airport security wondering about my white powder!

Back home!

It's great to have our son, Stephen, home! The leave that could possibly have been cancelled ended up being extended due to flight issues! So, he'll be home for 3.5 weeks. :-) Hopefully, he'll get to work one week with the recruiter, so that the extra leave won't be taken from his time in Sicily. :-)

Masculine "praying for you" card

Most sympathy-type cards are flowery and feminine, so I wanted to make one more masculine. This one was a breeze to make ... I already had the wood background. I'm not sure where I learned the technique, but it's very easy. Simply slide a brown ink pad down the card a couple of times, then repeat with a white craft pad. Perfect!

Tomorrow we leave for Great Lakes, Ill. to attend our son Stephen's graduation from Corpsman (medic) school. Supposedly, we are taking him home for two weeks, but he just skyped tonight to tell me he still does not have his orders, so he may not be able to go on leave after all. :-( At any rate, we'll be gone a few days, so I won't be posting again 'till Saturday.