I made a card!

I made four, actually, but one was so butt-ugly that I threw it away.

I have been admiring the beautiful cards that Gretchen and Laura make for years. They make it look so easy!

I already have all the equipment because there is so much overlap between scrapbooking and cardmaking and I hoard every bit of ribbon I come across.

I even have lots of rubber stamps that I am determined to use more often.

This one is a snowman rubber stamp that I colored with markers and put glitter-glue and more, more, more glitter on. Looked pretty bare on top so I remembered that Gretchen puts fiber on lots of cards. So I put on a ribbon and button. Yay! Would have been perfect If I hadn't set it down on another card's glitter glue.


This one I stamped and colored with water color pencils. Then I blended them with the water pen. Looks like a preschooler colored it. (I would know).

More ribbon and more glitter-glue.(I just bought that, it's so sparkly!)

















This one I stamped by coloring the stamp with a marker. I was pleased that this actually worked. More glitter-snow and a ribbon with a moose button that won't sit up straight.

So, this all took HOURS, the whole house is covered in glitter, I'm exhausted and all I have to show for it is 3 cards that I don't know if I can give away. How do you people do this?

I went to Archiver's yesterday. This is a top notch scrapbook/card supply store. I received a gift card for Christmas and couldn't wait any longer to spend it. Didn't take long, I can tell ya'. Should paper ever cost more than a dollar a sheet? I asked Nick when I got home to guess how much the (strangely small) bag of supplies had cost. "Three dollars?" was his estimate. I WISH! Still, it is all so pretty. Now maybe I will get caught up on my 2008 scrapbook (I'm only at May!).