Watercolor Painting: Loose Floral Bouquet

A dear sweet friend painted me a lovely picture of cute animals. AND she made it into a greeting card and sent it to me!  I was so happy.  I thought I might try to do the same.  This is the painting I made.  Very loose and simple.  I may try some more along this line.

Often I like paintings that go off the edge of the paper.  In retrospect, I don't like this as much.

Papercrafting: Love You Bunches Card

Recently I became a Michaels arts and crafts store teacher.  Last night was my first time to teach at a brand new store.  The project was to make a greeting card with a bunch of roses.  The roses were created from a circle of  colored card stock which were cut in a spiral design then rolled up.  This was new to me.

Here is a video on how to do it.

The one thing I did when rolling the paper to make the roses was to begin rolling the paper from the outside (which you need to do) but wrapping it around a cotton swab to help it roll tightly.  I would have used a knitting needle except I did not have one handy, if you can believe that!!

On the card  I used small adhesive circles to keep the brown paper cone together, then used  larger adhesive circles to attach the roses to the cone.

This was a fun project, and pretty quickly done.  If you live near a Michaels store, check out their classes. I am going to attend a painting class myself next week!

This card could use some more decoration.  At least it seems pretty stark to me.  When I make another one I think I will use an embossing folder to add texture to the card.  Well, probably will cut a card, run it through an embossing folder, then attach the rose bundle to the embossed card and finally  attach THAT to the card base.  Also, I think I will make five roses next time...

In case you cannot read the little tag that has been tied to the bunch of roses, it says "Love you bunches".  I did not think that up myself...

Papercrafting: Cricut Wild Card Cartridge Envelope and Card

On YouTube I found a number of videos using the Cricut Wild Card cartridge.  This is the card and envelope I made:

This was fun to make and came out fairly well.

The card was made using the same textured paper as the tree's trunk.

Greeting Card: Another Cute Owl Card

It was time to make some birthday cards.  This time I took out the Stampin' Up owl punch.  This is what I made:

Front of card

 This card was cut at 4.25 by 11.5 inches. I folded it in the middle.  There was the somewhat tricky cut out step using a square die and the Sizzix Big Shot die cutter.  There are lots of videos on how to do it but I am too tired tonight to find them. Just go to YouTube and you will find them.  It is called "partial die cutting".

Inside of card with space for writing a short sentiment.

The card stock was a light cream color. I used a few botanical stamps and a pleasing (to me) green rubber stamp ink to make a design on the card before gluing on the owls.

It is kind of cute, if I do say so myself.