Cullen Trading Cards

My Friend Mary suggested that I was making Cullen trading cards and I thought that was pretty funny. I suppose I am and I can't think of a funner way to spend my card making time!
Here is Little Rosalie Anya. I know that Rosalie is supposed to be really hardcore as far as her attitude and interaction with others, but this is how I imagined that she longs to live. In her human years she had wealth and status and longed to be a wife, a mother, and all that went along with that in that day. So with that impression, I created a light card as opposed to a dark card. I struggled with the layout a bit but I was truly delighted in the end. And it gave me the perfect opportunity to use the new Martha Stewart punches I got for Christmas! I have also done the insides of all these cards but this is the first one I remembered to share with you. Edward's card also says "Thinking of You" inside, but Bella's says "All you need is Love." Thanks for stopping by! Have a great Tuesday.

Oh, I meant to mention that I don't often list the supplies I used for my card, but feel free to ask if there's any supply or technique you're curious about.

Little Bella Anya

Here is Little Bella Anya. I wished this pic showed the PP from Basic Grey's "Boxer" better. I just adore it! The Full card is a bit washed out due to bad lighting, but then again, Bella is supposed to be pale, right?

Edward's Bella

As mentioned in the previous post, I can't help but see Twilight characters when I look at these Ian and Anya stamps made by The Greeting Farm. So I've decided to try and make the Cullen Family in cards. Here is a sneak of Little Bella Anya. Thanks for looking...hopefully these cards will help feed your Twilight fetish as well. Viva la mojo!

Twilight Inspired

My friend, Sandra recently posted a fantastic card using The Greeting Farm's Hello Ian. In fact, she's been creating adorable cards with their stamps for quite some time now. And as it turns out TGF now has an Ian and Anya set available that is Twilight-esk and feeds my recent quasi-obsession with everything Twilight.

And wouldn't you know, all it took was a little bit of Edward to unleash my mojo.

Did I miss Christmas?

Here's my card from the other day.

O where o where o where is my MOJO???

Hi Friends and Happy 2009!

I'm not going to post a card today, although I do have one. I may post it tomorrow depending on how I feel. Today I think I'll just BLAH-g about it.

Have you ever sat staring at your stamp supplies for hours? And not in an adoring fashion?

Have you ever colored the perfect image and then could not for the life of you come up with papers and layout?

Have you ever gotten to the point when you glued your image to the paper and then made a bad cut or messed up some other facet...rendering your perfect image useless??

Have you ever finished a card and just hated it even after one or all of the above?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, perhaps you are a perfectionist like I am.

I finished coloring an image 2 days ago and loved it but then it took me until yesterday to choose the right color combo. And then after I got the basics of the card down I kept thinking to myself, "it needs something else." Sometimes I can start with the embellishments and let them inspire the card. Other times the image or the paper are my muse. But often I have the hardest time figuring out what goes with what and where it all should go! For those of you who don't believe me, thank you kindly. :) But it's true. Sometimes the ideas are endless but when the mojo is missing, it's REALLY missing. Thanks for listening to my card making woes.

Hope you all had a great vacation and I look forward to see your creations throughout this new year!

Warm Winter Wishes

We've had an extraordinary amount of snow fall in Seattle this year! It's quite beautiful and definitely helps to get us in the Christmas mood. Even though it makes it very hard to Christmas shop! I have received some beautiful cards in the mail this year too (when the mail carrier has actually made it through the snow)! And I just feel awful that even with a few snow days I wasn't able to make cards this year. I did end up making one card though and I wanted to post it. I had said that my friends hassle me when I go a while without posting...and they do, but I neglected to mention that I actually like when they hassle me because it shows they care and it gets me off my duff and into my craft space!! This card was inspired though by one of my co-workers, who was bummed that I wasn't making cards this year. She complimented my craft by saying she looks forward to my cards...and I'm a sucker for compliments...so I went home and made this one. Thanks for looking and have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Magnolia Monday

I'm affectionately calling today Magnolia Monday because I'm going to post two creations using the adorable Magnolia Stamps.

This picture is of a little folder I created to hold a bunch of images I gifted to a sweet friend of mine. I found the idea on SCS and then just went from there. I really like how it turned out. Hope you do too. :) Have a great Monday!

Mary's Challenge

My dear friend, Mary sent me a wonderful little package of goodies. Included in the package was some patterned paper and a simple challenge to make a card with it. I'm always up for a challenged so I got right on it. I chose these darling Magnolia images that Mary also gifted to me and then let the PP inspire me.

I guess I do need a slap on my hand though because I have had the elements of this card done for a few weeks now and have been procrastinating finally put it all together. My friends always do a good job of hassling me though when they haven't seen a new card from me in a while (one friend in particular is very good at this ;) so I knew that I had to find my mojo and finish over the weekend. It helps that the deadline is fastly approaching as well. Thanks for looking! And I definately have to get this Magnolia stamp now!!

The closeup is to emphasize the fabulous PP that Mary chose for me!

Butterfly Award

Zee Buttahfly Award~ I received this very sweet award from my dear dear friend, Sandra and I'm supposed to nominate 10 people to give it to as well. Darn Sandra...we have the same peeps and she took them all!! :) Instead, I will nominate some FABulous card makers that I follow on a daily basis but admire from afar. Thanks for inspiring me with your work and creativity; I am a better card maker because of YOU!!

Candice Cindy Dawn Kristine Niki Jennifer Amy Amanda Danielle Sarah