GOD BLESS SPLITCOAST STAMPERS!!! (Click to be taken to their tutorial for the easel card.) So awesome!
I dove right in. Got inky pretty quick & made a birthday card for one of my girlfriends back home. This little card right here:
I love that Basic Grey Indian Summer paper, don't you? I can't bear to use it. I just want to keep it forever it's so gorgeous.
Then later in the day I decided to make a Valentine for a secret card thing I'm doing. I changed the size of the card (the sizes are given on the tutorial link above) and went to work. Here's the result of THAT effort:
Pretty huh? I used Stampin Up's Bella Rose DSP as the focus then worked with that: punched out some butterflies using Martha Stewart's butterfly punch, made circles out of metallic cardstock for the butterflies to rest on, and stuck some small metallic alpha letters on small punched out pieces of c/s then covered them with a page pebble. Easy!! (The red is Riding Hood Red, just in case anyone is wondering).
Both were super simple and I love the result. I'm afraid that the next 10 or 20 cards I make will ALL be easel cards. :D
On another note: Today I'll know whether any of the cards I submitted will be picked up for submission by PaperCrafts Magazine. If you don't get an e-mail you didn't get picked up. This was my first time submitting, and I guess it's a bit rare to get picked up the first time. :( Also, another negative for me is that my style may not fit theirs. *sigh* Still, I'm praying for a miracle!! :) Crossing myself, fingers, toes, eyes...whatever. And I won't give up. So, if you read this: Think happy thoughts for me, okay? They're muchly appreciated. :)
**Edit: Thank you to those of you who were thinking of me today. My first cards submissions were NOT accepted, unfortunately. I wish I could say I'm not crushed, but I am. If nothing else, I am honest. I know the disappointment of this initial rejection will pass soon enough, but right now it does feel a little weird. Then I'll start it all over again. It's one of my few goals for this year. Someday you'll see my creations in a magazine. :)
Thanks for stopping by! Have a fab Thursday.
All my best,
4 comments:
HOLY MOLY that first card is GORGEOUS! I love Indian summer so I'm totally biased! The Vday card is really pretty too! Not PC's style, blah! You should submit THESE cards, there's no denying that kind of beauty!
I adore your use of ribbon on both of these terrific cards.
Easel cards are such a blast - so addictive :-)
I SUPER love your stuff... that Indian Summer DP is gorgeous - none of my LSS's got it, I don't think... it's not a matter of IF you'll get published, just WHEN & how many times!?!??! Check out the calls for Cards & SB Trends (they take cards sometimes too!) as well - they took me!!
I love them! I made one last night, but I definitely need to work on the INSIDE part since it is exposed in this design. Thanks for making me want to play!!!!
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