Top Note Characters

I visited a wonderful blog recently, and Tammy has some great tutorials on her blog. She is extremely talented!! Please visit her blog, Create, Dream and Share, sometime and see it for yourself. Anyway, her blog is where I found tutorials on how to make those cute Top Note characters that I see all over the place. When you get there, scroll down to the very bottom and choos the word "tutorials". This will make it easier to find these cute Top Note characters. I tried my hand at them today, and I am very pleased with the results!!! I didn't have all the punches that she has, so I improvised. TFL!!!

More Thanksgiving/Fall Cards

I made a few more seasonal cards!!!!

The first one is made from a SU set that I just love......"autumn" is part of an unknown set. I used SU inks and aqua painters. I decided to use pop dots on the squash and leaf just to add some dimention.

The second one is a bit plain for me, but it works. The green paper that is cut into the Top Note is actually shimmery and does look nice in real life. The enjoy stamp is SU. I used MS gold ink on the leaves and it does add some shimmer.

The third card actually turned out very masculine. I had the rub on in my stash, and have just never gotten around to using it. The orange paper is shimmery and looks real nice. All the colors look as tho they came in a card kit, but didn't.

The fourth card is made from one of my favorite stamps. It's just one of those clear $1 stamps. I love the way it colors up. I used SU inks and aqua painters for it. I really like that watercolor effect. I purchased the straw paper from JA and thought it worked perfectly with this stamp.

TFL!!!

Weekly Challenge 9/27 at ISC

My good friend, Siouxsie, is challenge hostess this week. She created a sketch for us and we had to create a card from that. She came up with a terrific sketch, and I did my best to do her proud!! TFL!!

Some Thanksgiving Cards

Well, I'm in full Thanksgiving Card mode!! I bought the Pilgrim/Indian images from a consignment shop for $5 this spring.......it's a SU set from years ago and has about 26 images!!!! I purchased the turkey image last fall and never used it as it's a bit intimidating. I used SU aquapainters on it. TFL!

Challenge 9/13-9/19 at ISC

Katherine is our challenge hostess for this week. She has challenged us to make a card using a brayer or sponging. I don't have a brayer, so...........sponging it is. TFL!

Weekly Challenge 8/30 at ISC

Our weekly challenge this week at ISC is: Make a card with some of your favorite things. That's what I did!!! This card has my favorite color (purple), my favorite stamp set....well, right now anyway...Loads of Love, my favorite fall paper from Debbie Mumm, my favoite bling (diamonds), my favorite season (fall), my favorite fiber (ribbon), my current favoite technique (watercoloring) and finally this is a sketch from my favorite sketch site............Mojo Monday!!!! TFL!

Weekly Challenge at ISC

This week we were challenged to make a fall themed card. Wow!! I haven't done a fall card in a long time, so this is terrific!! The twist to this challenge??? It must have a tag on it somewhere. No problemo!!! I added two!!! I made the patterened paper myself and colored the white buttons with alcohol inks!!! Thanks for that tip Anne! TFL!!