Bendi Cards

I have had so much fun making these bendi fold cards!  I saw them posted on various blogs and Splitcoast stamper and I had to play around with them.  I love fun folds in card making it just is a fun element to add dimension and pizazz to cards.  I also happened to get a Cameo Silhouette for Christmas and now with ease can cut many variations like this little fence which I absolutely love!  I am ready for fall.  I love pumpkins and the stamp from My Favorite Things Pure innocence is just darling.  I colored her with Copic markers and fussy cut her clothes.  Gave the pumpkin a couple of extra layers and some good old 3D tape to give it even more dimension-  I shrunk down a little wheel barrow and added more pumpkins with some ink and pen work for embellishment, a tiny acorn and some small leaves and my outside was done.  The inside sentiment was easy and a few more pumpkins and I was done.  I am working on a Halloween one for Inkblots class and I can't wait.  I have been collecting various fun elements and trying to stay within the 4.25 x 5.5 card size (can be difficult for me...) I am almost there and will be posting more photos soon! 

Card Inspiration

Hi fellow card lovers.  I have been seeing a lot of the pure innocence stamps and loving them.  So I saved my pennies and purchased a couple.  I have had lots of fun coloring with my Copic markers and discovering what flesh colors I like the best.  Sometimes it is hard to tell from the pen alone-  I love patterned paper and of course embossing folders.  I believe I am a polka dot lover.  Of any sort, embossing folder, every color of Bo Bunny polka dot paper-they just seem so friendly and happy!  They match with almost everything and add just the right pop.  I have tried very hard not to use so many polka dots but as you will see-have failed miserably.  Oh well, tomorrow is another day...

I also wanted to show the card I taught at our Inkblots stamp group.  I struggle with always giving the best directions especially with a difficult folding card.  So I let the ladies look at the base and do it their own way.  Everyone seems to understand directions differently and that worked out for the best.  I like to watch it, then do it.  Read about it, not so much.  This is one of those side step cards-super fun to make after you spent some time figuring out the easiest way to make it for yourself!

I also made a couple of more cards for my Etsy shop so here is one of my favorite Penny Black stamps. Frogs in real life are not this cute!