And Then Some More

As I sat reading my e-mail today I found myself looking at a scrap of white cardstock that I stamped on and punched out of yesterday.  An idea occurred to me that I could make it into another card and this is what I came up with.

The white rectangle with the bush had a square punched out of it.  I backed it with a black rectangle which was attached to a slightly larger white rectangle with some foam squares.  I stamped another bird on scrap and punched it out with a circle punch and glued it into the black square.  All of this was attached to a black card base.  The blackbird reminded me of the Paul McCartney song and that is what I chose for the words on the front.

Black and White and Then Some

I got my CardMaker magazine for July 2010 the other day and was inspired to get my silhouette stamps out and make a card using my interpretation of a different technique (pg 14).

I used a Penny Black stamp called "nature's dance" and black ink and stamped several times on scrap cardstock.  I took my 1 1/4" square stamp by Paper Studio and punched out six squares.  I made sure that one of them included the blackbird image.  Next I cut six  1 1/2" squares from black cardstock and attached the stamped square to the black square with a foam square for dimension.  Lastly, I attached all the squares to the front of a white carstock base card.

Swap Fest 6

A short while ago I talked about a swap that had to be a shoe or a hat.  I made a shoe and my partner Betty from New Zealand, made a hat.  Here is her lovely card.

The lady is a silhouette to which a hat is added and all is adorned with pearlesque beads.

Deer in the Light

Moonlight, that is...  I found this pattern on Craft Creations in Magazine 51.  I had some wood grain paper that I decided to use for the base card and some white vellum that had spots on it that reminded me of clouds.

 

I shone a flashlight through the vellum from the back to similulate moonlight. 

Here is some more information on silhouettes...

...Molly Lee Cards 

...Craftzine 

...Paper and Stitch