D2D poinsettia

Designed 2 Delight had this pretty poinsettia as a free digi this week. I have always been fascinated by blue poinsettias, and the variation of color --- it was fun to try to imitate nature with my copics. Actually I have a whole table full of poinsettias in various colorways, this is the only one that got finished into a card.

After making 10 cards a month all year, I actually don't NEED any more cards, but who could resist!

Featured Stamper

On Sundays, the folks at splitcoast choose a featured stamper and we all make cards in his or her style.  I really liked the retro look of this Christmas card: and here is the card I made in response.

Christmas cards ... and school tomorrow

I should be packing my peanut butter sandwich and heading to bed but instead I am posting the Christmas cards I made today.


I  didn't capture the stickle glitter that I hand applied to all the icicles and snowflakes --- gotta have glitz for Christmas.

What I like about these is that they are somewhat generic - the inside says "Wish I may, Wish I might ... Sure hope I don't melt tonight!"

I was pretty proud of how I used the gray copics to shade my snowman .... I mean snowcat!

Christmas Card Challenge -- May cards

The card on the right was my prototype --- then I decided that putting sticky tape on and trying to capture fine glitter was not the way to go with the snowflakes. Plus I really preferred coloring the snowmen with copics instead of marker and puff paint. So the cards on the left were the final product.

Queen card ... and more Christmas

5 more Christmas cards in the stack. They will have stickle sparkle but I wanted to scan them first.

April Christmas card ...

Should be CARDS for the challenge but I only got one finished. The other pieces are cut out and waiting to be colored.

If it's Christmas in July, it's gotta be palm trees

Click on the photo to enlarge ...

I have been playing with my Christmas palm today - Splitcoast challenges suggested using a cut out of your image at least 3 times. My first tree was just the tree cut 3 times so that wasn't quite the idea. But I like the card anyway. Next I tried using the trunk of the tree, cut out for a frame, and the top of the tree as a fanciful pointsettia. I was pretty pleased with the results. Finally a topsy turvy card with the top of the palm tree 4 times. I folded the red to see where to cut it and liked the tabs the folds created. Serendipity is the best muse!

My First Christmas cards

Inside of card

I knew I wanted to use this week's splitcoast card sketch for Christmas cards with my holiday stack -- and believe it or not I now have 4 Christmas cards made!

I also did another cupcake card for Amanda. I have those on the left hand side of my blog; scroll down if you can't see them. Only 27 more cupcake cards to go!