Monster Post!

Hello Bloggerland!  Hope you all are enjoying this lovely Easter week :-)  I'm about to bombard you with all of the cards I've been making this week.  I've been playing along with 365 Cards everyday so far this week, but haven't had the time to sit down and actually post anything yet.  My brother is home on pre-deployment leave for two weeks, so between that and Easter preparations, it's been busy.  Anyways, all this to say, I sincerely hope you make it all the way to the end! Haha.

Day 28- Super Sketchy Sunday

This one took me SO long to do!! I don't know why.  But I like how it turned out.

Day 29- A Certain Sentiment

Use the sentiment, "Hang In There." I have to give credit to my little genius sister for the frame idea.  Thanks Gina Marie.

Day 30- In Pieces

Use an image on the outside of your card, then use it again on the inside but don't use it in the exact same way.  I created the bunny image for this project.  Gina Marie gets minus 2 "cool points" for calling it a "hippo bunny."

Day 31- All Mixed Up

Take and image and break it down into thirds - 1/3 no color, 1/3 patterned paper, and 1/3 hand-colored.  I realized when I read the challenge that I really don't have much of a selection when it comes to image stamps.  I have a lot of little sentiment stamps, but that's about it. So, I bought one. :-) This SUPER adorable image is from Meljen's Designs.   I stumbled across these stamps on Etsy, but she's got a new website where you can buy directly from her and get and instant download. Sweetness.  The mushroom cap and stem and the book are paper-pieced, the mouse is colored with pencils, and the rest is... well... white.  I wasn't gonna color the grass, but I started, so then I had to finish.  Oh well.  Haha.

Day 32- Recipe Card

Create a card that is suitable as a recipe card. I really loved how Vicky created the inside pocket on her card, so that's what I did too.  The chef image is a free clip art image I found online. Oh, and Gina Marie get's one of those "cool points" back for suggesting the cork "button."  We just sliced off the end of a wine bottle cork that happened to have a design on it.  Coolness.

It would be awesome if I could put my mom's spaghetti sauce recipe in here... But I can't, cuz it's a secret ;-)  How 'bout lasagna? Lasagna's good.  This card makes me wanna sing that song from Lady & The Tramp. Hehe.

Handmade goodness :-)

Oh no!! It's been five days since I've posted anything! Geez, this week has just flown right by. Anyway, let me tell you what I've been up to... I am SO excited because I have finally realized one of my life-long dreams (well, sometimes a week feels like a lifetime. lol) to make my own paper!

It turned out so good!! Most of the time I cut the base for my cards from a 12x12 piece of paper. Depending on the size of the card, I usually end up with stacks and stacks of leftover pieces-- all uniformly cut to the exact same, generally unuasable size. Haha. Despite my efforts to use the leftovers as elements on my creations, the pile just keeps growing. I googled for "how-to" instructions several times, but finally found what I needed on dear ol' Etsy. Lots of pictures always help! Of course, I rarely follow "recipes" exactly... but here's how it turned out:

It seemed, from the different tutorials, that the main concern with handmade paper is that ink will bleed through. But I stamped this card and I think it turned out alright. I don't love it, but the ink didn't bleed :-)


Lastly, here's a card that I made entirely out of my own paper \m/(>_<)\m/ <--- Rock on!
It's waaaay prettier in person than it is in the photo. You'll just have to take my word for it. Thanks for looking! Check back later today-- I'll be posting a project for 365 Cards' latest challenge.

Going buggy

Check me out! Today I managed to combine 3 different card challenges in one project!! Haha. "Is that even legal?" my sister asks. I tell her "I don't know, but I did it anyway!" (FYI: This not necessarily my stance on everything. lol.)

Before today, I would've thought that a project using 3 combined challenges would turn out to be a hideous monster of a card, but surprisingly, it turned out to be a pretty simple design!

The first challenge (and probably the most obvious) is from 365 Cards: Make a ladybug-inspired card.

The second is from 2 Sketches 4 You which seemed to fit just perfectly with the other challenges!

Lastly, I joined the challenge from Use It! which was to use:

Scraps of any kind. Well, I've got scraps everywhere. The black and red paper and the thick black ribbon are little pieces that I had leftover from other projects.
Punches and/or die cuts. I love me some craft punches :-D The ladybug is all circle punches, and the flower is two layered flower punches.
Two or more different ribbons. In addition to the black grosgrain ribbon, I used the small black ribbon with the white stitches- one of my favorites :-)
One or more embellishments that you once loved and used a lot, but haven't used for a long time. For this one I used a silver brad. I used to use brads a lot. My sister likes to use them when she sits down to make something with me which is probably why I didn't realize how long it's really been since I used one.

And so, without further ado, here's my creation for today:

Just for fun, here's a card I made the other day for a friend's birthday. She loves shoes and purses, so I figure I can't go wrong with this...I'm especially proud of the purse, which I created from little circle punches and the bottom half of an apple punch :-)

New cards!

So... It's been a few days since I've posted anything, so yesterday I did some catch up work and made some new cards to list on Etsy. Here's what I did:

<-- These cards are very similar to one of the sympathy cards I made last week. I still love the little floaty petals :-)

The second design is also one that I've used before on a different project. I like to call this my "moon man" card. Hehe.


And that's all there is to say about that. If you LOVE these, they're both for sale in my Etsy shop. Check it out!

Treasury searching!

I just found myself in a treasury on Etsy, made by YourFriendAmy. Click here to check it out :-)

Black & White Butterflies

Hmmm... what to say? It's been a long, but peaceful day. The rain has been coming down off and on-- thankfully it let up any time we needed to be outdoors ;-) We keep getting little teasers of spring, but it doesn't stick around very long (the high for today was 79 degrees and it's on it's way down to 25 degrees!).

Christina and I spent a little time outside taking down Christmas lights (probably a little overdue) and cleaning out the gutters... well, she cleaned out the gutters. Haha.

I did get a chance to make a new set of cards today! I'm usually more into paper piecing than stamping, but I wanted to try out some new butterfly stamps that mom picked up. Perfect for spring!!

I also wanted to try yet another card challenge. This time it's OCC's "Add a Doodle" challenge. My "doodle" is from a set of clear stamps by Rhonna Farrer-- it's one of my favorite sets. The butterfly stamp and the greeting are both from Inkadinkadoo. Hope you like it!

Coming Soon to Etsy...

I haven't listed anything new on Etsy in a while. I've been trying to build up some sort of stock. One thing I need to do is come up with a better listing schedule so that my shop doesn't get buried at the bottom of the search results... I need to streamline-- is that the word I want? Anyway, here are a couple of the things I've been working on that I'd like to get listed eventually:


Just in time for Spring/Easter. I figure if my shop name is "Angel Bunny" I ought to have something with bunnies, right?



Hehe. I like these. A while back I made a set of greeting cards with a larger version of these birds in a bright blue and I loved them :-) Just trying another variation-- these are small note cards.

Yay! The front page!

I just have to say something about this 'cuz it's so cool...

I was getting ready to leave for church, but before I closed up my computer, I decided to click on Etsy one last time-- and there it was! On the front page!! Click here to see a screen shot of the treasury by olahav.

This is the item that was featured:

White Butterfly Kraft Gift Box