Saturday snail mail...

 Time for another catch up.

Boy, this does not look like many cards considering how long it has been since I've posted any.  Actually, I think I have mailed some without taking photos of them.

This blue one I sent to someone after surgery.  It's hard to see in the photo, but the leaves in the vase are stamped in gold metallic ink to go along with the other gold metallic accents.

I actually made several of ones similar to this one; one for work and two for friends.

This one I just used an acrylic stamp block (without any stamp) to apply pastel colors to the card.

The rest are all made with April 2021 Paper Pumpkin kit, but as usual, I didn't follow the instructions and went my own way.  This was a birthday card with the sentiment and another popsicle on the inside.  Now that I look at the photo, the exterior kind of looks like just a jumble of greens and blues.  It was prettier in person.

This one is easier to see that the images are actually popsicles.

Summer is almost upon us.  I saw watermelons in the grocery store the other day.  This was one of two cards I made like this for watermelon lovers.

And this was a 'thinking of you' card for a friend who I thought could use a reminder about rainbows and silver linings.

Saturday snail mail...

Here's a varied lot over the past month or so:  

A baby boy card for work.

A retirement card for work.

A hello-friend card for...well...for a friend, of course!

A polka dot wish for my Catiebug's birthday.

A die-cut card CASED from  Dena Rekow.

A card full of summer sunshine travelled across the Atlantic.

A sympathy card for work...

I wasn't sure the sparkles were appropriate.  But someone in the know assured me that Hallmark does sparkly sympathy cards.

And another sympathy card for work.

A watermelon card for my m-i-l who loves watermelon.

I added a little sparkly Wink of Stella to make the watermelon look juicy!

Rather unconventional for a 4th of July card, but okay, I guess.  I put looooong wicks on the candles to make them firecrackers.  :)  Oh, I think this one is also CASEd from Dena Rekow.

This is a birthday card for a July 4th birthday.  I figured someone with a birthday on the 4th has probably gotten an abundance of red, white, and blue cards, so I went another direction.

That's all I have, but that's pretty many.  

Saturday snail mail...

A few card have been made and mailed recently.  

This list is actually incomplete, as there are a couple of birthday cards that were mailed, but I don't want to show until I'm sure they've had time to arrive.

Another fun class at the library...

Tonight our public library had a class on rubber stamp carving.  I was so excited!  I've used hundreds, maybe thousands, of rubber stamps in my day, but never one that I carved myself.  Oh, I take that back, I did carve a teeny-tiny flame for a birthday candle out of a pencil eraser once, but this one far surpasses that.  

The website listed the size of the rubber blank, and suggested bringing our own image that we wanted to carve.  I wanted to make a stamp of Rudy!

The finished, carved stamp is on the right (above).  It wasn't easy...pretty simple...but not too easy.  My test print is on the left (above).  When I saw the black splotches in the background, I did a little more carving to clean up the image a bit.

I had to come straight home and make a card with it.  I was impatient, so I just used a black pen to outline the ear, eye, and nose...I should have used a dark brown pen or watercolor pencil...but I think it's okay.  I'm sending it to a friend and her husband.  We used to live near them, and got to spend a lot of time with them.  She's a stamper as well, so I think she will think my self-carved stamp is as cool as I do.  And her husband will love the little Eddie Bauer dog on it.  When we had our first Jack Russell terrier, her husband knew the breed had two names in it, but he could never remember what they were.  So he always called it my Eddie Bauer dog.  :)