Caardvarks Wedding Card Challenge!

Wow! Is this a challenge right up my alley! Caardvarks is being sponsored this week by Scrapbook Trends CARDS magazine. CARDS is looking for wedding invitations to publish in their July 2010 issue. They are picking one card to be published.

I love an opportunity to enter a challenge and this is the best one for me to begin with. I have never entered a challenge before and this one certainly feels like beginners luck for me. I love to create wedding invitations among many other things.

Go on over to Caardvarks @ www.caardvarks.blogspot.com and see how you can join this challenge... I am getting busy now to enter more of my invites.

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!
I have been busy creating some new cards... Of course I am in the mood for Wedding Invites and maybe that is because love is in the air and I am already hard at work on invitations that have a deadline --- YIKES!! Yes, I am busy with many different projects and have had all my tools out trying to stay coordinated with all I have to do. I am now on track and coordinating a assembly line and up to my ears in pink and brown. I just thought that I would try my hand at another color here with the Garden Green and Cream with Gold. Lovely combination!
I will have more to post very soon.... again, Happy Heart Day!

Have some more pics of my work to post...

Tomorrow when my dear husband goes off to work (he works two weeks away and is home two weeks each month), I am working earnestly on my cards and taking pics of some of the work I have previously designed but have not taken pics of yet. I have a collection of cards that I need to shoot and I want to post more of my previous work to catch up as I move forward with new designs. Stay tuned for some posts of previous design work as I practise how to work this blog. I am thinking too that I would like a 3 column blog.... yikes! More learning on the giant curve....

Well, well... I thought it was high time that I got back on the blog and post a comment to keep my self going and to keep developing the habit. I am just getting over surgery and feeling stronger each day but I feel my energy wane from time to time. I am itching to get going on some cards and I want to get my assigned project for the team done early... (it is due at the end of February)
I am real excited to have my project designs showcased on StampingScrapping.com blogspot and on my blog to illustrate my creativity and showcase some of the fabulous products offered by Cindy at Stamping and Scrapping. Cindy has got to be one of the best vendors I have ever ordered from online. She will answer any question you have and she does so promptly and pleasantly. She will bend over backwards to get your order in the mail as quickly as she can and if it is a pre-order that is due in, she waits for the delivery and does not stop until all her orders are packaged up and in the mail. She sends all her packages at the real cost of shipping and there is no other hidden costs at your end! She is a dedicated storeowner who works side by side with her husband. What a team! Checkout the website at www.stampingscrapping.com
**COPICS*
Cindy is offering a second chance offer to the Copic Group Buy and if you missed it, here is the way to get in on the offer: ALL COPICS FROM THE FIRST GROUP BUY HAVE SHIPPED! SECOND CHANCE OFFER FOR GROUP BUY WILL END ON SUNDAY NIGHT. As it is group buy week for another group I thought I would open it up for those of you who did not get to it last time....email copic, passwork copic here: http://www.stampingscrapping.com/wholesale.htm

Hope you can take the offer!! It is a great price. Contact Cindy to ask about shipping or to be sure of any question you may have; email her at stampingscrapping@charter.net
Good luck and I hope you are successful! Stay tuned for more...

Wow! Its a few days later than I wanted it to be but here I am now. I want to keep the habit of posting here but its been difficult this last little while. Some of you know that I just had surgery and I am getting up and around more each day. I am taking the time needed to regain my strength and then I plan to go hard at it working on my nephew's wedding invitations. I feel the push is on now to get them coordinated and begin an assembly line towards our end result and our deadline date of April 1st. I am excited to get the ball rolling here. When I begin to get working on these invites there will be more and more posted to my blog as I share what I am doing and the products I am using. I am feeling better day by day and look forward to next week. We are going to have fun with all 175 invites. WEEEEEeeee!!

Everyone is into the new year now...

Missed the "Happy New Year" countdown! We are now well into the first week of January and all is well. Just wanted to post to let you all know that I didn't forget about my blog. I am just a little busy these days and I won't be on again for a few days. later...

I now have a slide show of some of my work....

Wow... that was a little excercise in patience and perserverance! My brother came over today and thank goodness for his patience and his techy background. We got a slideshow posted, I should say, he got a slideshow posted for me but painstakenly tried to keep me in the loop as he was doing it. Anyways, this is a small compilation of my earlier work. I have yet to get my camera and take out more of my work to showcase. At this moment in time, I am happy with what I've got and there will be more to put on later.

I am looking forward to the New Year and what it will hold for me. I have some great ideas that I would like to manifest in my arts and craft work. I am in the habit of taking on a bit of an "old" world flavour to my art as I like the distressed look -the worn, shabby chic look. I love textures and fabrics and I imagine the "feel" of a card with dimension and texture upon it. I like bling - the bejewelled look~ using rich ribbon, either soft and velvety, or stiff, sharp or crisp and glittery. I like using rich paper that has a sheen and weight to it and I like to layer and mat with substantial weights of card stock. For the bases of my cards, I like to use again a substantial wieght of paper and build up from there. Each card must have a good balance of weight and "feel" regal. I continue to learn from others whom I consider masters.....
I am going to sign off for tonight and hopefully when I email y'all, you will come and visit me here and sign up as a member and leave a comment for me!!!