Girliest Card Ever

I recently joined a new fitness studio called The Bar Method. It's a ballet based fitness class that is extremely intense, but is supposed to do amazing things to tone and shape your body. We'll see. Anyway, the owner of the new location by me is actually a client of mine at work, so I was invited to the grand opening party and I wanted to make a congratulations card.

I'd been itching to use this insanely frilly Webster's Pages trim that is this ridiculous pink fur. I have a secret love for all things over the top feminine. Maybe I didn't have enough Barbies growing up....but either way, the card completely developed from that trim.

The image is Be Bold Be You Ballerina from Tiddly Inks, which seemed widely appropriate. I tried to stick with very ethereal pinks from the RV0 families with the occasional touch of RV23, RV25 & RV29 for my shadows.


The Sentiment is from Dancer at Some Odd Girl, and the result was easily the most girlie card I've ever made.

Xmas Tags

 For Christmas this year, I decided to play with some fun tags and send them out in lieu of Christmas cards. Remind me next year to start in July.

On this one, I adhered some printed paper to the back and outlined some of the text with a Versamark pen and used embossing powder that corresponded to the colors in the paper, giving come of the text a nice glossy sheen. It was the simplest of the batch. With a couple K&Co. Embellishments, we were ready to go.

 For this one, I inked the background using a few Tim Holtz Distress Inks and stenciled a glitter pattern over that. On a separate sheet of white paper stock, I stamped Simply Ornamental and colored with Copic markers and applied glitter to the dress and hair for a festive feel. A couple of sparkly embellishments and this one was all done.

 She was my favorite! I made her using the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tiddly Inks. I didn't have a very extensive Copic collection, so rather than color her, I printed the pre-colored digi from the pack and cut her out. The background, like the last, is Tim Holtz Distress Ink and glitter patterns with a little colorful border for the bottom.

 Ah, Snow. We don't get a lot of that here in Florida, so I love making snowy things for Christmas. Each one of these last three tags was colored with the Tim Holtz Winter pack, some with a little browns thrown in and some with a little lighter blues. I really love that color palette. A few embossed snowflakes and sentiments and we were walking in a winter wonderland.

I love this stamp. I think it might be discontinued though.