Pink-a Li-cious!

Okay - here is the third and fourth set of cards that I made for my friend.  I really like how these ones look.  Again, I used those domed sentiment stickers on one of the sets and  on the other I used a Penny Black sentiment that I thought was a nice one to use for this particular cause.  While these cards have taken a bit of time to make they haven't taken anywhere near as much as they might look.  I would design the card....some times drawing it out in my scribble and then assembling the die cuts on my cutting board.  As I have mentioned in previous posts, I use the Grand Caliber and what I love about this machine is that it is so easy to put many dies on one cutting board.  Often I am able to put all the elements of one card on the board and so cut everything for one card out at one time.  When I make a card that way it is far less "pass throughs" and therefore, far less work than it appears to be.  Simply, it becomes a card making assembly line that really allows me to make a nice card set quickly.  So without further ado....here are the next round of sets!

In this particular set, which was super easy, I used all Spellbinder dies and left the uppermost die cut in the die in order to sponge pink around it and still keep a nice crisp white border.

And here is the full set.

In this next set I went again with the pre-made sentiments mounted on pink paper and just highlighted those sentiments with a whole lot of white texture.  Texture in the way of layers, cuts and embossing.  I like the clean look of this!

This particular set has a little story behind it.  I had this card made without the ribbon, the polkadot paper, the middle scalloped layer or the bling and sentiment.  Instead it had a glittered pink breast cancer ribbon popped up in the center and it was the first set I made.  And, I just couldn't stand it until I finally carefully deconstructed the card, changed it up a bit and ended up with what you see here.  I am glad that I did!  I know look back to the pix of the first take and blech!  So, sometimes it pays to sit on a card and revisit it with new energy later.  I was so "done" with the set the first time around that I couldn't conceive of ripping it apart to make something better.  But, after a day or two passed I was able to dive back in a change it around to something I liked much better.....so the moral of the story???  Never throw away those completed but ugly duckling projects....later they may become a beautiful swan ;-D

I plan to post the final two sets tomorrow and then get them out to my friend in California.  I have had fun with this project and although I was nervous in the beginning about the making of 36 cards it didn't end up being anywhere as hard as I thought it might be.  I am glad that I said yes and would definitely do a project of this size again. It wasn't too hard to come up with 6 different designs either....

Thank you so much for stopping by and I appreciate the lovely comments that have been made on my blog in the past!

Be well,

Sheila