A few more cards...

I have had some fun playing with my alcohol inks the last couple days, and Mercedes has loved making some of her own backgrounds too. I have one of the Tim Holtz dvd's so Mercedes thinks it is just too fun to be able to watch how it's done and then actually trying it herself (with a bit of my help) ;)

These first ones we made into backgrounds and then used some of the coredinations black magic cardstock and the blue mat is also a coredinations product...I really like this paper. For the little embellishment we used Tim Holtz fragments, and just made them at the same time that we made the background. We then stamped some images on glossy cardstock with Archival ink and then used glossy accents to glue the image to the back of the fragment. Wait a few seconds and then just cut around the image as close to the edge as possible, and voila a custom embellishment that matches the card perfectly!

For these next cards I used plastic packaging along with alcohol inks, glitter and glossy accents to make the stars. Have I mentioned how much I like glossy accents! lol
Not much else going on right now. I do have another completed project but it is for a secret santa swap and I don't know if my friend ever looks here, but I can't take the chance so you won't get to see it until December! lol But luckily we are having a crop on Scrapcentral in the next week or two, so hopefully I can get some layouts done because I have a ton of pics that need to be scrapped...as long as I quit making cards for a day or two! lol

It's been a productive week...

I knew I had gotten a fair amount done this week, but it wasn't until I sat down tonight to see which pics I was going to upload, that I realized that I've actually been quite productive. And that is good!

I told the lady at the craft store that is selling my cards that I already had over 50 made again, and she said that when she gets her second card rack back in the store that she will take these new ones I've made too!

I'll probably get started on some Christmas stuff soon, but I'm kinda waiting for all the new lines to get into the stores, and I am planning on getting a table at the Christmas craft fair that the town does every year. Not sure what the cost is, but I think it is reasonable and I may even see if my mom or sister want to do stuff too. I have a very talented family...my mom is an artist and has done some amazing work...some of my most cherished possessions are the pics she's done of Mercedes. And my sister does just beautiful stained glass stuff.

Well, enough with the blabbing here's some pics of a few of the things I did this week....

And last, but definately not least here is the layout that I finished last Sunday.