Card marathon

It seemed like the card juices were flowing in my head last night. I can't believe I made 4 cards in about 2 hours. That is a record for me. I used the scalloped edging technique that Emily uses. I like how the Birthday card turned out. I embossed the edge of my flower from the punch I just purchased on Sunday and used a brad for the center. I also sprayed the flower with spray craft glitter and then put photo mount things underneath to raise it off the card.

The Thinking of You card is for a friend who is having surgery today. She will be off work for 2 weeks and said she'd enjoy cards and visits. I think I'll send her this one. I used my Fiskars texture plates and tool to emboss raindrops on the main body of the card. I think I'm getting the hang of that thing. Think I'd still rather have a Cuttlebug machine! They are just too expensive.

The last two cards are Sympathy cards for my friend's family who just lost her sister. I think they turned out very pretty. I had never made a sympathy card before. I got the "With Sympathy" stamp at a consignment shop about 3 weeks ago. I am glad I bought it now. It worked out perfect. I used brushy markers to color the stamp before stamping. I wasn't sure they'd work because the markers are very old. I'm glad they did because I didn't have a brown stamp pad.

Thanks for looking.