Mother's Day Cards

Unfortunately I'm not so organized to have made this year's Mother's Day cards yet. At this rate, that's probably not going to happen. These are from last year when I was on my coloring Ketto phase. It's not particularly "mother"-ish but after I colored them, I realized Mother's Day was coming up, why not make cards out of these. Hmm, maybe I needed to color some ground for the girls to stand on. Now they're looking like they're leaning to the side. The dangly hearts also looked better in my head than they did on the card, but it was too humbug to remove.

After seeing this card again, I'm thinking I need to follow some card sketches. But there's something just so easy about sticking the main image on there with a scalloped border, then a ribbon slider tag on the bottom.

Well, hope everyone is having a good weekend. I'm going to try to catch the last episode of Lost online then go to sleep! Or maybe just go to sleep. My kids usually wake up with the sun which is not good now that summer is approaching and the sun rises around 6 am!

Thank You Card

Well, I'm watching Glee so I figure I can multitask and post at the same time...

I made this card maybe about a year ago. I was playing around with the "Beyond Basic Borders" set from PTI. Took a while to get the entire border strip inked up nicely, it helped to cover most of it with the Ketto from Stamping Bella. The hearts are also from the Ketto line. I had to get the sentiment stamp exchanged, the original one had a little dot on the "thank" portion, but PTI was good about sending a replacement right away once I emailed customer service. I think this was also around the time I started trying colored pencils and baby oil. Still can't really color too nicely...or realistically, I basically just outline the edges or color everything in, then blend. All that I've been reading about imagining the light source is starting to confuse me, maybe I have to take an art class...someday. But at least the Kettos don't have too many parts to color (still so hard to do Anya's hair!)