This Little Card of Mine

When you don't know what to do to help...

Recently a co-worker and friend passed away unexpectedly.  He was just 39 years old with a wife and two small children and we were all shocked and heartbroken.   Still are...   It is hard to know how to help.  So I decided to make his wife 20 thank you cards, figuring she would need them along the way.    I will send them to her with the postage stamps she will need so it's all there and ready to go.

I decided to do something simple and pulled out some scraps of paper for the butterflies.  I used the Paper Shapers butterfly punch and layered 3 on top of each other to give it just a little dimension.   For the center of the butterfly I used Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls.  Just the right touch but not too thick to go through the mail.  I hope she likes them. (some day I will learn how to photography white cards)

Sending smiles

This is one of those cards that started out totally different than it ended up!  Oh well... I just kept adding stuff.  :-)  Here was my first attempt to photograph the card!  heehee

Take two!  :-)

The little girl was colored in Copics.  I used one of my new favorite things on the shoes and heart in her hair.  I wanted them to be shiny and usually I would try my best to use Glossy Accents in these tiny spaces to get that look.  Until I discovered Sakura's Gelly Roll Glaze pen - in clear.  Magic!  Love!  And the rest is pretty self-explanatory I think:

Supplies:  My Favorite things die and Pure Innocence Aim High stamp set; Hero Arts notecards, greeting (oldie but goodie), red gem flower and black gem; My Mind's Eye patterned paper (Miss Caroline); Cotton string; Penny Black Warm Wishes cling stamp (on daffodil diecut); Distress Ink (Scattered straw); Signo Uniball white pen.  Sakura Gelly Roll clear glaze pen; Copics (E51, E53, E35, E37, Y26, Y35, R27, BG18)

 

Happy Birthday Colin!

Here is a quick tag for Colin's birthday present.  I had this creative idea and I didn't seem to have any of the right things on hand to do it.  So, simple it is.  I didn't have a "C" that was the right size so I took a chipboard oval and cut it to make it what I needed (Sandi N's idea  :-)  ).    Got out  my Claudia Hellmuth paints -- I don't know why I don't use those more often - they are like butter!   Anyone recognize that dot Scenic Route paper?  An oldie but goodie that I found in my scrap drawer.