Ok I am trying for a spot on a design team!

Hello everyone, I am sorry I have neglected my blog for a little bit now. I won’t lie I did try to keep up with my card a day challenge but I had to stop doing it because of my full time job and a vacation I went on. I did get 28 days of the challenge done. 

Ok so I do have a reason that I have to keep up with writing here and keeping you updated on the fun stuff happening with QtCards. I am submitting some of my work for a chance of being on the design team for one of my favorite stamp companies, Unity Stamp Company. They had a post the beginning of this month that they are doing a search and I can tell you I was giddy. 

So I get a monthly kit from Unity that has about six to seven images plus sentiments to us on the from or inside of your cards. And the cool thing is of course the sentiments go great with the images. I have not played with this month’s KOTM but I did play with last month’s one, which was called Gather Love. 

Ok so I really want to show you a few of the cards that I did create with this stamp set they of course were mainly Easter themed cards but quite a few of these images could be used for any occasion. So here we go! 

So to start off with I used the floral filled mason jar stamp, this was colored in with colored pencils. The image was stamped with black Memento ink on a sheet of mixed media paper. It was due cut out using a Stephanie Barnard Sizziz die called Dotted Ovals. I used a layout I found on Pinterest. 

I used the floral filled mason jar again but this time in pink tones. And this one was also stamped with black Memento ink and colored with colored pencils. I had a spoil of burlap ribbon that I thought would look adorable with the rustic look I was going for with this card. If you notice the patterned paper has a cross stitch look to it which made me want that rustic look. Around the bow is a small acrylic flower button that I added to the front.

The next two cards I played with the birdhouse trio but gave both of them completely different looks. One I used bright pastel colors. I used this pretty woodgrain pattered paper that had pink and white flowers on it that I think looks great with the wood look of the birdhouses. I pulled the pink and aqua colors from that patterned paper for the solid colors used in the card background, die cut ribbon and the banner.

This look for the card I went rustic and a more worn look to it. 

Happy 2019, I am challenging myself this year

Yes it has been some time since I posted and every year I say I am going to change and make consistent posts. Well this year most definitely will be different, why you ask. So I am challenging myself this year to a card a day. Yep that will be 365 cards made this year. Do I think this will be easy no not at all. This first week I was already struggling but I made it! 

So I am going to show you the cards I completed last week. I used the same image for all of them. It is from the Unity Kit of the Month for the month of January. The cards have a masculine feel and are made for Valentine’s Day or for Birthdays. 

These cards are from the first and second, I made the back and grey for a birthday. The red and black one I was thinking of it for Valentine’s Day. Right now they are blank inside. The verse on the front it saids “You are my knight in shining armor.” 

This is the card from day three, again this could be used for a birthday or a Valentine’s Day. It is also blank inside. I am hoping that the background paper looks similar to a chess board. 

Day four’s card I did some fussy cutting and just used the king and queen pieces. It can also be used for a birthday or Valentine’s Day. The verse on this card front is “A queen will always protect her king.” 

And the fifth day and final card for last week was this one.

So for this card I did a blue with it. It has happy birthday gold embossed on the vellum on the bottom of the card. I also used some blue sequins and gold drops about the front.

Week one’s group is done, please feel free to give me any feedback. I will be sharing the new week of cards with on Sunday or Tuesday by the latest.