Thinking of You Card, Hand Carved Eraser Stamps and February Tags

First up is my latest addiction! Carving erasers into stamps is really so much fun and instantly gratifying. The hardest part was deciding what design to carve. I'm putting together a small care box for my daughter which will include these stamps and notecards, stamp pads and markers. As you can see, her name is Jennifer, her friends call her Jen.

A friend of my husband's was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, so I decided that sending a card might help his spirits.

Next up, February "Love" themed tag swap. this first one is centered around a funny vintage photo! I love her heart shaped hairdo and the arrow going through it :) I just used some scrapbook paper and stamps, uniball gel pen, some plastic glasses and derwent aqua pencils. I used to knit lots a few years back, so two of the tags have some saved up yarn attached through the holes.

The back is all scrapbook paper, a sweetheart stamp and lacy heart stamp :)

This girl is a stamp on deli paper colored with water color markers. The red background is made with inka gold mixed with water. The heart is another stamp filled in with white crackle paint and a hint of a very watered down red water color paint marker. The butterflies and words are also stamped and colored.

The back is covered with a piece of deli "under paper" that had been used under sprayed cheesecloth.  I used a little bit of highlight around the little boy and added L O V E inside some of the heart with the uniball gel pen. There is an embossed frame using red and gold embossing powder around him and on the bottom two corners. The border around the card is made with the red inka gold as well.

The last tag started with the sun rays embossing folder. I used some texture cream and some sprays and many different color oil pastels to the entire card. I added the lady in love and her beau with a heart frame. 

The back of the tag is colored with red inka gold and a paper doily which was sprayed with tattered angels and heidi swapp. I cut the vintage photo in a heart shape and bordered it with some glitter.

A quick card I made out of water color paper, water color pencils, stamps and of course, a white uniball gel pen.

Retirement card and January "Magical" Themed Tags

My husband gave me a project to put together a retirement card for a woman who has worked with him for 25 years. He told me she was going on a six week vacation to Florida to watch the dolphins and soak up some sun. The only request was that I didn't have any words on the card at all...so this is what I came up with. The front of the card has a wave embossed piece of card stock which I sprayed with some dylusion spray and some tattered angels spray. I highlighted some of the waves with a signo uniball gel pen. The umbrella is made from a gelli print with some water color and uniball added for highlights and shadows. The glasses and flip flops are just something I drew and colored in with gel pens and Tim Holtz acrylic dabbers. I also drew the dophin on deli paper and colored it with water color markers. The sand is a piece of card stock which I applied flocking to for the sand effect. The shells are some die cuts that I found in my stash!

The inside of the card is a piece of deli paper sprayed with tattered angles spray and the yellow surrounding it is acrylic paint. I tried to make it seem like it was an underwater experience :)

The back and front of the card.

This tag is very similar to the one I sent off to my daughter, except I made it into a little booklet and wrapped the yarn around it to keep it together.

 Below you can see the front of the tag without the yarn wrap.

 The inside pages were made with deli prints and doodles, vintage paper, water color markers, oil pastels, and musical note washi tape that I made with a musical note stamp. The sun and rays were embossed with the Tim Holtz embossing folder and colored with oil pastels. I used a Posca marker to write the words.

The back of the tag that I colored with Tim Holtz acrylic paint dabbers.

 This "Glenda" tag is sprayed with dylusion spray and the circles are paper that are also sprayed with dylusions and outlined with glitter glue.

The back of the tag has a layer of deli paper sprayed with more dylusion spray and using a circle piece of card stock as a mask and making the crystal ball. I used crackle paint inside the circle. This deli paper was the under paper of the pink circle I used on the front of the tag.

The word, believe, is a stamp.

Close up of the crystal ball :)

 The final tag I put together is a simple one, but I fell in love with the quote and had to use it somehow! The little star fairy is a stamp that I used black ink on. I highlighted the stars with gold glitter, wrote the words on paper and cut and pasted them on the tag.

The back of the card is a piece of black card stock stamped with golden inked stars and glued to the tag.

Coming up next is the February "LOVE" themed tag swap tags. I just sent them out today, so I will post after the delivery :)