Swap Cards

Today I finally got in my craft room and I cleaned it up enough to play a bit. I dont like the results on the two cards I made so I am opting to tweak them a bit more tomorrow. Hopefully they'll get better. I thought I would share a few cards from the other swap I recieved back recently the Mourning Marigold and Mixed Bouquet swap. All the cards used the Retiring incolor07 Morning Marigold and the retiring Mixed Bouquet Stamp set.





The swap hostess was Lindsay(Chaikitty) on SCS and she threw in an extra little thank you card to match her card for the swap. I love the colors she used and how she put the card together.

The next two cards were unsigned. They were

both georgous so if you know who made them let me know so I can give them credit. I like that they both used similar colors and yet produced such a different look. I love the cuttlebug use and the black and white gingham with the polkadot ribbon.

















I dont know about you but I also like to find great buys. In the Target Dollar section they have some scrapbooking items. I wouldnt use them for scrapbooking , but I would use them for cards and especially for inexpensive stuff your children can use to make cards. I used some of the stuff on the cards I worked on tonight that need tweaking a bit. Here is a picture of what I picked up. The "icons" are self adhesive rhinestones and I got them in the scrapbooking craft area they were 1.99 each. I cut the rhinestone objects apart and use them individually on cards. I wanted some red and yellow and buying them this way is less expensive and the only way I have found bright yellow and red. The binder clips 50 to a package, I found them in the office section for 1.67. I picked them up because its the first time I have seen all silver ones. The rest is from the 1$ section. The ribbon is cute , but it is printed so it needs to be stuck down so that the white background doesn't show, 6 yrds for 1$ though, works for me. It is a satin white ribbon. The brads are thin but they are colorful and cute. The plastic coated pictures of leaves and apples looked like they would be fun for the fall. I took them out of the packaging but I havent worked with them yet. The cork lettering is cute and worked quite nice. they had the clear pebble letters also, but for fall and halloween the cork looked like I needed to try it.

Until Later... Happy Stamping!