Blue Spellbinders Best Wishes Card

I am always inspired by Becca Feeken's beautiful cards. I loved this one and had to try a similar one. I love the Just Rite stamps, but so far I don't have any, so I used what I had. My card isn't anywhere near as nice as Becca's.

I used a generic blue linen textured CS, Core'dinations Pearl CS and some blue flowered paper I made on my computer. The lattice is a Sizzix die I cut in my Big Kick, and the center is Spellbinders cut in my Grand Calibur. The fleur de lis is an Anna Griffin corner punch, and the pearls are Queen & Co. I did the lettering on my Pazzles Inspiration using generic gel pens before I got my Jellyrolls. I outlined the die cut with a jellyroll.

Gold Six Step Card

This was the first six step card I made. I cut the card out of Core'dinations white and gold pearl papers on my Pazzles Inspiration. The floral paper is Anna Griffin, and the butterflies were from an old botanical. The lettering was also done on the Pazzles with Jellyroll pens.

Six Step Card

I made this six step card on my Pazzles Inspiration last year. All the cutting and lettering was done on the Pazzles. The flowered paper is Anna Griffin and the light blue pearlized card stock was some I bought in a large sheet at an art supply shop. The dark blue is a generic brand, and the white squares with joy in them are on Core'dinations white pearl paper.

Twisted Easel Card using Spellbinders Dies

For this card, I used white cardstock, green linen textured cardstock, Anna Griffin paper, and green Queen & Co pearls.

I made the die cuts using Nestabilities and Shapeabilities by Spellbinders in my Grand Caliber. I did the lettering with my Pazzles Inspiration using Jellyroll pens and the pen tool.

I usually try to have some less fancy cards in my shop for the men and for the women who don't like a lot of embellishments, and this is one of those cards.

Spellbinders Grand Caliber Card

 

This is the first shaped card I made with the new Grand Caliber dies. I used ordinary white cardstock for the card and outlined it with my gold Pen Touch pen. I used ordinary green card stock for the next layer, and Anna Griffin paper for the top layer.

The I think the yellow flowered label is also Anna Griffin paper, (I made the card last spring, so it's hard to remember). I cut the top border with a Fiskars border punch, and did the lettering on my Pazzles Inspiration with a Jellyroll pen. The pearls are Queen& Co.

Trifold Shutter Card 2

This is my second trifold shutter card. I cut it out on my Pazzles Inspiration, and used Spellbinders Nestabilities to cut the die cuts with.

Trifold Shutter Card

This is the first trifold shutter card I ever made. I cut it out on my Pazzles inspiration. I used Anna Griffin paper, Core'dinations linen textured pearl card stock, generic green and white card stock, a Fiskars border punch, and several Spellbinders dies.

Christmas Cards

Here are some more bad photos from my phone that I took last winter. The top two cards were done with my Spellbinders, and the bottom two were done with my Pazzles Inspiration.

The top two were done on paper I mounted to the cards with the Xyron Creative Station. The bottom two were from a project in the Pazzles Craftroom. I did the background with my Pazzles using a Sakura glue pen and embossed the backgrounds with some embossing powder I had, then used the Glue Pen in my Pazzles to do the gold outlines which were then sprinkled with embossing powder and melted. I sort of messed up the poinsettia on the first one, so I used a Dresden Santa on the second instead.

Easel Cards

This card used a Spellbinders Grand Caliber die, pearl paper by Core'dinations, and pearls by Queen & Co.
I think the frame is from The Graphics Fairy if it wasn't, and anyone recognizes it as being from somewhere else, please leave a comment below, and I will add a link. I added the saying with Photoshop. I found the frame, and it wasn't the Graphics Fairy, but her site is wonderful, so visit it anyway! The frame is from Jinifur, and she has some really beautiful things .

This card also uses the pearl paper by Core'dinations, purple paper, and gold mirror card. The gold outline stickers were some I bought years ago at a dollar store, and the pearls are Queen and Company. I used my Pazzles Inspiration and the pen tool to do the saying with Jellyroll pens.

This card is made with the Grand Caliber by Spellbinders. The green paper came from a metallic stack I bought several years ago, but I don't remember the company name. The pearls are from Queen & Co. and the saying was done with Jellyroll pens in my Pazzles Inspiration. I made the graphic in the middle.

My first blog

I have been making cards and doing other paper crafts for as long as I can remember. I recently got the Pazzles Inspiration, and joined some groups. Most of the girls have blogs, and I decided this would be a good way for me to show off my creations and share designs too. Now I just need to get some photos taken of my cards to make this blog worth reading!

Until I got the Pazzles, my other card making tools were the Sizzix Big Kick and the five inch Xyron Creative Station. I love the Sizzix, but felt limited by what was available. I have quite a few dies and embossing folders from Sizzix, Cuttlebug, and Spellbinders. I like the Spellbinders dies the best.

I used to love the Creative Station, but now the adhesive refills are getting so expensive that I only use them for a few things. They started out a $5.99 a year ago, then went to $10.99, and now are at $23.99 in my area. That's a huge increase in price, and makes it so I can't sell cards and make a profit if I use the Xyron. I used to love using it to put fancy lightweight paper onto my cardstock. It was the only way to add things like mulberry paper to my cards, but with cost of refills four times as much as it was, there is no way I can justify using it. I also was not happy with Xyron's customer service.

Pazzles has amazing customer service, and you talk to real people who care! They also have an awesome website, and there are tons of forums and blogs with free or inexpensive files to download. I'm still learning to use mine, but I knew there was a learning curve before I sent for it.

I got the Embossing mat and tool and the pen tool when I ordered mine. I haven't tried embossing yet, but the pen tool is wonderful! Today I used the Sakura Quickie Glue Stick in the pen tool, and sprinkled embossing powder on, and embossed nice fine lines beautifully. I also used some of the Jelly Roll pens to write on things with the pen tool. Between the Pazzles, the Sizzix and my printer, I can do almost anything I want now. These tools have almost made my rubber stamps obsolete!