Cards Magazine spotlight...

Do you subscribe to Cards Magazine? If so, you've probably seen the September issue by now and my mug in there along with an article about me! I haven't seen it yet, but about 6 months ago when Alisha Gordon from Cards Magazine sent me an e-mail asking me to be the Spotlight Designer for September, I about fell outta my chair! Me? You've got to be kidding! I'm anxiously awaiting my issue. Here are a few things I created for it...
Back 2 School card: Here I used a Worldwin card base and printed out a teacher poem that says, "Teacher: For all the time, all the care, the things you know, the wear and tear. For all you do we want to say, Happy Back to School Day!" I added some Pink Paislee papers from the Winsome collection, rub ons and their sticker letters.

Happy Fall card: I used the Captivating line by Pink Paislee on this one and the gorgeous flower turned into a little fall tree. I added the autumn rub on over the chipboard letters. This is still one of my favorite lines..the colors are yummy for fall!4 You card: This one has lots of different things on it...Captivating paper, Enchanting paper, stickers and chipboard letters, Pop Fashion rub ons and Vintage Moon rub ons (Press Ons as they call them)...all by Pink Paislee.
If you haven't seen Cards Magazine before, you should definitely check it out. I think they are offering on-line issues as well for a cheaper price point now.

One question I have been asked is: How do you mail your dimensional cards?
I do have to admit...I love adding dimension and things that pop up off my cards. Not sure why...it's a sickness. ha I just think it makes a card come alive. My family all live in South Dakota and usually I am mailing boxes with gifts inside, so it's easy to just stick my card in the box with the gift and it won't get squished or harmed in any way. So most of my cards are sent in the mail that way. But..if you have a special card you want to make for someone like a teacher or friend, you could certainly hand deliver it instead of putting it in the mail. If I know I am going to mail it the regular way, a button or two won't harm anything, but I wouldn't go all-out dimensional in that case. Hope that answer helps!

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

I've been creating a couple of things for some magazine calls, so I don't have anything scrappy to share with you today, but I found some super cute Halloween cupcakes and couldn't resist sharing them with you! One site that I visit often for inspiration...scrappy and otherwise...is Better Homes and Gardens. They always have awesome ideas and beautiful, colorful photos that inspire me!

Witch legs

Under Wraps
Gone Batty

Peekaboo
Frankenstein

Bare Bones

Aren't they adorable? Fun for any Halloween party! I would have to make ALL of these, but then the kids would be fighting over which one they wanted. ha

Also, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Check out these gorgeous buttons by Tessa Ann:A good scrappy friend of mine lost her mother to breast cancer 20 years ago today. If you are blog hopping, please stop over to Amy Tara's blog to read her story, see photos of her beautiful mom, and leave her a comment for a great give-away she is hosting. What a beautiful reminder for us to take care of ourselves. Sometimes we forget that the best thing we can do for our children is to take time to make sure we are healthy too.

Thanks for reading today,

Grateful...

I can't believe it's October already! Time flies much too fast. I love this time of year when we get to pick pumpkins and enjoy the corn maze, and take out all our warm, fuzzy sweaters! I apologize that I don't have any balloon festival pics to share with you. We arrived, and they couldn't fly the balloons because of the wind. We were soooo bummed!

The 2nd of each month is my day to post on the Pink Paislee blog and if our day lands on a Friday, we are to do a project that has to do with journaling. I'll admit, I'm not the best at journaling. So, after playing around with the journaling spots, I decided to come up with an alternative use for them! I used it as a photo matte on my layout. Lately, I've been really loving to do all different size of pics! I really enjoy having a photo printer at home. I use Photoshop CS2 to resize the photos I want to use, then open up a new document that is 4x6" and move all my photos to that new document. Then I can print a ton of little photos on a small sheet of photo paper. If you don't have a printer at home, you could certainly use wallet size photos on these journaling spots too.
Have I told you how much I LOVE this line? This is the Amber Road line of papers, rub ons, die cuts, postcards (journaling spots), brads, and the Expressions chipboard. Seriously, one of my all time favorites by Pink Paislee. Anything red and I'm hooked!
In other news, tomorrow is World Card Making Day! I was asked by a Brazilian scrapbooking forum to host a little card challenge for their site. The site is called ScrapbookBrasil.com if you speak Espanol un poco and would like to visit! (I'm not very fluent in it anymore!)

My challenge is to create a card using spray ink, mist, or paint somewhere on your card, and I put together a couple of samples...I used Melissa Frances fall chipboard, rub ons, patterned paper, and resin pieces on these. The cat was sprayed with Graphite Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels and the tree was just painted black with acrylic paint. I quickly brushed paint on the background of a Worldwin card base so the rub on would show up better. On the Boo card, I sprayed over the Boo chipboard with the same mist, and then added a rub on over the top. It's very shiny in real life!

I hope you get time to make something for World Card Making Day! I appreciate your sweet comments~ thanks for stopping by,