Fiskars Fuse Samples

Life is Good! A few of us at work have started sending goodies to the soldiers overseas. We met a Colonel in the USMC who just returned from Afghanistan and provided us contact information. How cool is that! Within one week we have collected enough items to send quite a few boxes.

I mailed my OWH cards and have started on my next batch. I'm excited to use the Fiskar Fuse for the first time on one of my cards . The Fuse is a letterpress-die cutter all in one and accepts 12" paper! Fun stuff!

I'm making cards for Operation Write Home and I used "stuff" in my stash that has been collecting dust. I did some foiling, stamping, label making, and coloring. Here are a few of the cards I've made so far...more to come :)

It was a Sizzix Week!

 The Adore card I made for our exterminator who just had a baby girl. I used my BigShot with the Sizzix framelits, stamped and embellished (broke out the paper tagger). On the bird flourish card I used my Sizzix Eclips (love this cutter, but wish it worked with Make the Cut) to cut the frame, stamped and added rhinestuds. And my favorite card this week is the Birthday-Grad card..on it I used the new Sizzix Diffuser oval. I traced the oval on a post-it note, put it on the card front then stamped, embossed with the diffuser and candle embossing folder.

I purchased the Bustier Purse/bag pattern from Cre8ive Cutz. It was new in the store and just in time for a Bridal Shower gift. Everyone at the shower loved it! I also bought a book (The Wrapping Scarf Revolution) on using scarfs for gift wrapping.  I made the scarf using fabric I had, cut to size (30x30) and put a rolled hem on it. I truly enjoyed wrapping this gift...LOL

More card sharing

Having fun making cards....I've been using a lot of rhinestones and embellishments on my cards. I haven't colored much with my Copics, especially skintones, but I have lots of them and figured I needed to start using them... more cards coming soon!

Tinks - My Scrapchick file

The card above I made using a paper piecing file from MyScrapChick it's the Tinks file...but I changed it a bit...the word art came from TLC. I really enjoyed giving the card my own look. The other two cards are my simple cards. They were printed, put on background cardstock and then I added diamond glaze for a lipgloss effect, ribbon, and flower with a stud.