Parchment Swap

The theme for the October swap was "flowers". I'm sooo not as good as these women but I do try. Anyway, the first picture is the one I did. I'm just not experienced enough yet to do any of the cut work that you see in the second photo. The second was the swap to me. I think "white work" is beautiful.

Parchment Swap

September's challenge was to make something with ribbon added. I've had thus fan pattern and had been wanting to try it. It was already encased. I used brown cardstock for the base. The background under the fan is Japanese washi paper mounted to the cardstock. The other card is what my partner sent me.

Parchment

(ooopppppssss!! A little chopped on the side)

Well, it seems I've neglected to upload pictures of what I've done. We've been doing a monthly swap with themes. So here we go....
This was an open theme. Whatever you wanted to do. Just FYI, I don't have many patterns so I used a rubber stamp! On a rather humorous note here is what my swap partner sent me and we didn't even coordinate! Is somebody ready for lunch!

Pineapple Welcome

I have a very good friend who retired from the Army after 30 years of service. A while back we had gone on a road trip to Charleston, SC. Everywhere we went there were pineapples. She kept asking why there were so many. Her, being from the north (New York) didn't understand the southern sign of "hospitality". So I explained it to her and ever since it's become a joke whenever we see pineapples. SO...I thought she deserved a "Welcome Pineapple!" I used distress inks to board and rubbed it in with a paper towel. Stamped the pineapples in brown all over. Used coordinating colors of cardstock and put letter stickers on it. Scratched out some of the color on the letters and it made it look a little more worn.

Red / Green Swap

I joined in a swap on one of the groups I'm in. The challenge was to use red/green. I thought I'd try to see what I could do without making in "Christmasy". Here are my results.

"Vintage Girl" was stamped on green and mounted to a red floral background. The corners are a small white doily that I did DTP inking with distress ink, rubbed off with a paper towel then cut into fourths and mounted with glue. "Tree" was stamped on green and mounted on red. The red has some gold glitter in the corners. It was then mounted on Japanese washi paper. "Girl was stamped on white and color dusted in brown. Mounted on green cardstock then mounted to Origami paper. "Chimp" was stamped in brown on red, mounted on green and then mounted on green Origami paper.

The Rest Of My Self Paper Challenge

These were the last ones made using the 2 papers. I was going for a "quilt" effect. You can't tell but the solid color cardstock has been stamped with leaves in Versamark. This was actually a lot of fun. The only part I didn't do was to apply some sort of "stitch" effect. The next time I try this I think I will go for a softer effect. Maybe using flowers....ummm...how about a beach/seashell type theme!?

Welcome Cards

Ok, here's my challenge to myself - to see how many cards I could make from 2-12x12 pieces of coordinating cardstock. Well, here's the first 2. These are going to be sent out to newcomers in a group I belong to. I really need to get them in the mail now that I've received the addresses. The leaf and plaid were the papers I chose.

Last Church Cards

Stamped these on white cardstock. Colored the first church with colored pencils. The second was done with inks and pencils. Mounted on cordinating cardstock.

More Church Cards

I stamped these on white cardstock. The top card I colored with pencils. Color dusted around the scene. Mounted to green cardstock and then mounted to a card. Stamped the expression on white mulberry paper. The second card was the same except for the expression which was stamped on vellum.

Cards for Church

My friend and I met with our pasters wife so that we could volunteer our card-making services. We are making cards that will be sent out to those who are having illnesses, hard times or just need a little "thinking of you". I'd given her some earlier but forgot to take pictures!....DUH!....So here's the newest batch. Need to get busy with some more. Guess that goes on the list with "things to get done!" along with those Christmas cards.

I stamped these on white cardstock in brown. Painted in the flowers with Twinkling H2Os (bottom) and Glitter Pens. Color dusted around the images then mounted on cardstock.

ATC SWAP

Can't believe that Halloween has come and gone and that the holidays are getting closer. Guess I'd better get to working on my Christmas cards!

In the meantime I did an ATC swap for this month (Nov.). The theme is Thanksgiving. Here are my 5.