Valentine's Window Card

Is it too soon for a Valentine's Day card?? This card is for the Moxie Fab Window Card challenge. I had made a window card for Christmas and really liked how it turned out, so this window card challenge came at just the right time for me to try again!

The heart-shaped window is made with a heart punch, and inside you can see a little locket peaking out.... there's a surprise inside!

Mounted inside the card (with removable adhesive) is a mini-Valentine like the kids exchange at school:

I love how the window let's me do this 2-in-1 idea with the mini retro Valentine! Fun stuff!

Thanks for looking

-Susan

Using 10 embellishments

This card is for the Moxie Fab challenge to use 10 embellishments on the card. That's a lot! I don't usually use a ton of embellishments on cards, but I gave it a try!

These are stickers from the (discontinued?) Vintage Vogue line.  I thought the Miss You sentiment (stamped on a label sticker) went well with the clocks.

The patterned paper is from Stampington, and I also used some glitter tape. 

If you want to see a REALLY cool card for this challenge, the one that really WOW'd me as innovative is here. Really cool. (I don't know that blogger, I just thought her card was creative & original!).

Thanks for looking!

Susan

Published!

I guess this is OK to post here now that the magazine has been out for a while... I am very excited to have been published (for the first time ever!!) in Somerset Studio's Take Ten magazine!

In the Winter 2013 issue, my cards are on page 96 in the "A Different Point of View" section. Very exciting!

It was quite a shock and a thrill to see my cards and my name in print!

Life x2

A while back, I came across some pieces from the board game "Life." Here are 2 collages with 2 different takes on Life.

Last of the trial & error journal

Here are the last of the pages from my trial & error notebook-turned-journal:

See the rest of my art journals here.

Thanks for looking and Happy New Year!!

Susan

Trial & Error notebook journal

This is a hardbound notebook that I converted to a journal by using gel medium to stick pages together then gesso-ing the resulting thicker pages. While I liked it for what it was - trial & error - I ended up preferring the mixed media notebook (or a watercolor notebook).  Gluing the pages gets tedious, and I used up so much gel medium!!

More mixed media art journal

Lots of experimentation going on here.....