Just want to show you a card that I made, one that I received from my secret sister, and an art work that my M did — she’s almost 4 and I think quite good.

Here’s the first one, my M’s card. This was created today. She saw me hauling the Bug and so she grabbed a piece of paper and asked me if she can borrow it. She’s pretty good at using it on her own too, sandwiching and all that. So I said sure, told her to pick a template and set it all up. I put the Bug on the table in front of me and she sat on my lap so that we can do it together. She did most of the work, I just helped push here and there. So there’s her background. While she was working on her stuff, I was busy with mine and I wasn’t really paying attention to what she did. She asked me a few times if I love what she did and I said yes, of course. From where I’m at I couldn’t see the details and I went back to work. When all was done, she came over and showed me this masterpiece. She’s been doing a lot of cards and other projects (which I’ll post sometimes) but I think this is the most impressive. She used her Crayola paint over the photo that she cropped herself (punch). She used my sponge to apply the paint. If she keeps it up, I’ll be learning to make cards/scrapbook from her {::SMILES}

Then there’s my secret sister’s card. Again, didn’t she do a great job? I’m glad it’s only a few days until the end of the month. Then I can find out who she is. She did a great embossing job around the butterfly. She also distressed the edges of the two green card stocks and then they were inked to give it an antique look. The whole card was stamped, no designer paper. Something that I have a hard time with. Lovely card!

Then there’s mine. I went for the whimsical look and M helped me with the last bit — the butterfly. I need to get more of this blue paper. I really like it. It’s this year’s SU color cardstock. The stamps I used are Time Well Spent and Celebrate Everything. I used the Stamp-a-Majig to help me stamp straight and the piercing too to pierce above celebrate and below friendship. The flowers, the red was stamped with white craft ink and the yellow with real red. The butterfly was stamped with blank ink on astro bright green paper (from the bold bright SU series) and colored with Copic Sketch markers. For the flowers and butterfly, I used a lot of pop dots. The stems, I just freehand it — chocolate chip paper. That’s it. This is the card that I will be sent off to my secret sister this Tuesday to reveal myself. Oooh, I should add some sparkles to the butterfly wing! {::SMILES}

Hope you had a great weekend! I’ll pop back in later and thanks for all the comments! Really appreciate it.