September Creative Images Meeting

We were missing a few ladies last night, but we still had a good bunch of exchange cards, swaps and a project for Halloween.  The exchange theme was “Western,” and we all managed something along that line, whether we had any western stamps or not.

We had a couple of Yee Haw cards, but with different sentiments and embellishments.  I didn’t examine them close enough, as I was in a hurry, so can’t tell you if they were made with stickers or what.  Still cute Western cards.  Therese made the first one and Pat R. did the second one.

Ella made this Howdy card, with the Gal’s Night Out inside with some jute rope and cute little boots for embellishments.

 

Genny made these prettily colored boots, fussy cut them and then added silver glitter to the spurs.

I die cut the feather on the front of my card so the brayered sunset with trees could be seen before opening it.  The top picture has much truer colors.

Pat J. die cut all the parts of this cute little guy with her Cricut!  Who needs stamps!

 

Tange made this stylish couple out for a stroll down to the saloon.  She antiqued the background with embossing.  I like the fussy cutting and her bow bustle.

Next we exchanged our birthday card swaps.  Five of us participated.  On the left is Tange’s stylish lady in a hat (puts the “fascinators” favored by the current Royals to shame), fussy cut and popped up with interesting wheels behind her.  On the right is Genny’s delicately painted, glittered and embossed columbine with butterfly.

Here’s my die cut feathers and spears with shadows sponged under each feather.

Pat J. made this bright die-cut birthday, layering it over some brightly striped DSP.  I like how she cut two butterflies and popped the second one up.

Pat R. made this delicately stamped card.  It’s much brighter in real life.  Love the little bee!

Pat R. also brought in her proposed project for the stamp camp in January, a cute little plastic jewel box calendar.

 

Pat R. also did the project for September, a cute little Halloween card with stick on labels for the focal point of greeting and spider web.  We stamped on the four labels, sponged around the edges and then stuck them to the purple layer on the front.  We sponged with gold around the spider web embossed black layer.

That’s it for this month’s meeting.  Looking forward to next month’s meeting when challenge is due and the exchange theme is “Bicycles.”

Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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August Creative Images Meeting

It’s been a busy few days since our meeting and I’ve had puter problems.  Since Russel fixed my keyboard, I’ve not had time or the weather has been too bad to even have the puters on!  So, let’s see how far I get before I run out of steam or the storms arrive.

Our exchange card theme this month was “Victorian,” and we got several cards in that theme and lots more that were close.  As our theme is only a guide, no problem.  Victorian is really hard.  All I knew about it was that it was flowers, ribbons, lace, birdies, whatever, the more the merrier.  So, here we go.  Click on any card for details, then back to return.

First up is Therese’s framed lady.  You’ll see below that she used one of her ATC’s to make this stylish card.

Cami made this elegant anniversary card with the interesting fold and the stylish couple dancing. 

Ella made this beautiful lady with lots of coloring, bling and details.  Fussy cutting, too!

Jeannie made this gorgeous card.  Love the feather on her hat and how all the colors match.

Everything on my card was cut with my new (used) Cricut except the base.  Each flower is three layers and I made lots!  The “Adore” was a pain to get right!  Russel kept making snarky comments about my card as I tinkered with the design, saying it was way too busy, not my usual style.  I agree!

Pat J. used her Tim Holz umbrella man die for her vintage card.

Pat R. made this lovely window card, sort of origami like.  Pretty paper!

This yummy popsicle is Phyllis’s first exchange card.  I could do with an orange popsicle right now! 

  

We had our ATC swap at the meeting.  The first one is Therese’s framed lady and the second is Jeannie’s cute little giraffe.

I had lots of Cricut flower pieces left over after my card and cut some more to make enough flowers for six ATC’s.  Been having fun with my Cricut.

Pat J. made this bright sun ATC. I think she used glossy paper and did lots of interesting things to it before stamping on it.

Pat J. had the project this month.  She gave us the light-weight card stock and the embossed Michael Strong cloisonné hearts to make our cards.  Here’s the sample of the one we made.  Closed . . .

and opened.

Here’s two more samples.

Since Pat J. had the project, she brought in her proposed stamp camp project.  Pat says the little boxes are easy to make and the slices can be embellished as much or as little as one wants.

Here’s a detail of one “slice.”  You can see how the box opens on the back to stick in whatever favor, prize, etc. you might want.

Whether we vote on doing it in January or not, I’m pretty sure I’ll be making a cake like this for my sister’s wedding shower she’s giving for her future daughter in law.

Last, but not least, Cami brought in this cute Halloween card as a show and tell.  She knows someone going to give a class on how to make it.  Cute, die cut fence to top it off.

 

That’s it for this month’s meeting.  Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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July Creative Images Meeting

Finally have time and no storms so I can get the pics blogged from last Wednesday’s meeting.  Every afternoon it was too stormy to have puters on!  It’s been more complicated this time, too, as I had to learn a new program to get the pics off my camera and resize them.  Russel is getting a new puter soon and his will become mine, along with its fancier newer Paint Shop Pro X3.  So it took him and me and no storms to get it done yesterday.  Hooray for technology!  Not!

Our exchange card theme this month was “Under the Sea” and we got a bunch of great cards.  I lost one pic, too blurry, so if whomever received Pat R’s mermaid card in the exchange would bring it in next time, I can try again.  Sorry, Pat.

This first card is Therese’s nifty turtle.  Her background (BG) was embossed and sponged and the turtle was fussy cut and painted with Twinkling H2O’s to give him a mother of pearly look.  Click on the pic to see details, then click on back.  The water lily is Cami’s, doing the alcohol ink on glossy technique for her BG.  Love both of them.

 

Here are two entirely different cards using the same stamp!  On the left is Ella’s water colored and embellished with sequins for scales, shells and a yellow fishy brad.  Jeannie’s on the right has multiple layers, shells and a seahorse embellishment.  Both awesome.

Here’s my little seascape with an oval cut with a Coluzzle and the critters all fussy cut, outlined in black and popped up.  The crabs googley eyes are glued on and the others are done with a white gel pen with black gel dots.

Pam said she had no sea themed stamps, but she did just fine with these fishy buttons!  Looks like Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers!

Pat J water colored this fishy card and did something to make the bubbles shiny, maybe Crystal Effects?  Love the pun in the sentiment.

The theme is only a suggestion, not mandatory, so when Tange had no sea stamps, she brought this gold embossed Christmas card. 

Pam had the project this month.  She taught us a new background technique called “Faux Pillow” done with a straight, clear plastic edge and sponge daubers.  This first card is the sample of the make and take we all did.

  

These next two are just samples of cards with the pillow top technique background.

Here are three finished make and takes, all a little different.

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These next three cards are show and tells.  The pretty aqua one is Tange’s, the fussy cut embossed sea horses is Jeannie’s.

This was going to be my exchange card, but I couldn’t give him up.  He will also be a sample of the bendy card technique I am doing as my project  in November.  I promise the project won’t have this much, if any, fussy cutting!  The whole time I was fussy cutting all the critters in this and my exchange card, I was hearing the “Under the Sea” song from the “Littlest Mermaid.” 

Finally, as Pam had the project, she brought in her stamp camp proposed project, a birthday card with a matching mini-cake candle. 

That’s it for this month’s meeting.  Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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