This is the thank you card I made after the birth of my daughter. It was a very difficult time in my life. I was recovering from an emergency caesarean along with suffering from sever postpartum depression. It was amazing how many people came out of the woodwork to help me and my family. I had meals delivered every night for 2 weeks. Groups came over to clean my house. They donated diapers and two years worth of baby clothes. Needless to say, I made a lot of these cards.

The image was rolled with a wheel in black ink and color washed with aqua painters. I layered it over torn cardstock. The "Thanks" tag is anchored with hodgepodge hardware treaded through twill tape and set off with grosgrain ribbon.

Created for one of my stamp camps, this card used craft ink on a flower chipboard piece as the focal point. For additional embellishments, I used twill tape, stitched ribbon and silver brads.

Every year, when a new SU idea book and catalog is due to come out, my group always gets together to swap cards made with the new hostess sets. The sets I used for this one are from the 2006-2007 catalog. What's cool about this card is that it incorporates a color from each of the 4 color families, yet they work well together.

This is one of my design variations from the Simple Delights Simply Sent Kit. Of course, I like to change up designs from the ones recommended and do my own thing. This on has a very zen feel to it.

I took one of the chocolate chip squares and cut it diagonally to create my corner pieces. I added three brads before attaching the corners and layering it onto the card base.

I have to say that Groovy Guava is one of my new favorite colors this season. Against the Soft Sky, it really pops. Love it!.

I used the paper piercer to do a faux stitching effect on the soft sky strip and roughed the edges with a bone folder. To finish it off, I added a rhinestone brad from the fire collection and inked the edges.

I made this simple Father's Day car for one of my brothers a couple years ago. The dragonfly image was stamped with mellow moss ink on a vellum copper tag. I used a heat gun to dry the ink and set it in the vellum so it wouldn't smear.

This card was fun to make for a demo swap. However, we were suppose to pick a card that was featured in the Fall Collection and create a replica or slight variation. Oops. Somehow those instructions escaped me, and I did my own thing.

This masculine birthday card features the jumbo eyelet and antique brass hodgepodge hardware. After cutting out the baroque motif stamped image, I set the eyelet using my crop-a-dile (love this tool) before layering it on it's background so that the blue would pop through.

The hardware frame was attached with hemp twine which was tucked behind the layered stripes before adhering it to the base of the card. All edges were sponged with chocolate chip ink for added depth.

This card uses the Embrace Life stamp set with the Ginger Blossom designer paper featured in the 2008 SU Spring Summer collection. The central flower was colored in using the watercolor wonder crayons and the aqua-painter accented with a rhinestone brad.

I designed this card for one of our monthly demonstrator shoebox swaps. In our group, I'm notorious for elaborate creations. This is about as simplistic as I get.

The cover of a 6x6 one sheet wonder scrapbook album that I made for my mother-in-law when we were visiting her in Maui. After stamping the very vanilla and old olive cardstock on both sides, I simply cut the sheets in half. I used one of each strip folded in half as my pages. Then, I cut the 2 remaining strips in two and adhered them to the pages before assembling them.