With the major card holidays in the past, now is the time to focus on special orders and they just seem to find me this early 2009! Baby Alexander's birth announcements, baby shower invitations, special note cards for Savannah, and baskets for school auctions! I love these types of orders and the opportunity for others to see my work!
With the amazing types of paper out there it makes it so much easier for me to be creative! There is oodles of scrapbook paper at SCRAP (
www.scrapaction.org) and have also acquired some fabric and wallpaper samples that I hope to incorporate into cards soon!
I also finally got my sewing lesson (thank you DANA!) and have put together some oil cloth portfolios to put notes in as a hostess or birthday gift for a girlfriend!
On a different note, my tiles and leather journals were a hit at a benefit I recently did for Volunteers in Medicine in Eugene.
http://www.vim-clinic.org/default.htm They are an amazing clinic that provides
health care for the under or uninsured and really provides amazing care and service for a growing population. The event was hosted by Salon
Delange and instead of paying to enter, attendees were encouraged to bring a purse, artwork, or jewelry so Volunteers In Medicine could use for their April fundraising auction. It was a great night with eyebrow waxing, paraffin dips, and massages for the guests. I sold a good amount for the 2 hours that the event occurred and felt GREAT about supporting VIM.
Hope that during this time of uncertainty in the world, a handwritten card makes it to your mailbox.
I've had a stack of oil cloth for so long and finally ventured out and started sewing it on cards with fun quips (albeit crooked on this card!). hope it makes you feel sunny! remember to send a card to a friend today!
i have been musing about using less adhesive so i tried to do some cards with staples and old coffee bean bags from my friend brenda, owner of sauvie island coffee company. i also like the mixture of textures with the bags, corrugated cardboard, cardstock, and a clothespin.
this one has sparkly tissue paper as a heart along with staples holding down the oil cloth. i was having great fun and it was fun to put these together as they felt easy and simple and a bit thrown together.
this one has a metal washer with the word love on it, staples, hemp twine and corrugated cardboard. fun, fun, fun! send a card today!
i have dreamed of putting cards together with oil cloth and here are some samples! aren't they cute!? i love the checks with the polka dots!
this one is a bit random but love the oil cloth - it reminds me of a tablecloth my grandmother had in the day!
this one is a bit different as it is with sparkly silver paper instead of oil cloth but i did this for a woman who owns a dress shop in portland and she wanted thank you cards.
