Card parties = fun.

Here's a few cards that I made last night at a SU card party.  It was a blast - I had a great time.  Jenn (the demonstrator) makes sample cards and then you get to choose from the sample cards and make 5 different cards, 2 of each.  So you walk home with 10 cards, for $15.  I think that's a pretty good deal.  :)  I chose these 5 and made them last night at the party.  Remember to click on the thumbnail picture, and it will take you to the full picture. 

         

  

 I learned some pretty cool new techniques.  The first two cards aren't my favorite, but that's alright.  On the 3rd card (labeled "flowers") we did watercolor.  I was nervous to do it since I had never done it before, but it was so easy and fun.  We used these water pens and took a crayon color and rubbed it against the crayon, and then basically just painted it onto the paper.  It was so cool.  (I added the crayons and watercolor pens to the top of my "want" list..hehe). 
On the 4th card (labeled "gratitude") we took post-it notes and tore them, then stuck it to the bottom to cover up the bottom of the paper.  Then we took a roller and light blue ink and rolled it across the paper.  Then moved the post-it note up, and used the next shade of blue.  Then again for the 3rd darkest blue color.  I love how they turned out.  :)  My only regret on this one is that I wish I would have used the darkest blue color for my "With Gratitude" stamp so you could see it better, but oh well. 
On the 5th card (labeled "wonderful") we used a scoring technique on the background.  I'm not sure if you can see it in the pictures or not, so I tried to take a closer picture of the background.  I LOVE that technique and also added the scorer to my want list also.  I thought it added so much to the card.
Anyways, those are the cards I made last night.  I hope you like them!  :)

My husband and I went to WalMart today because I mentioned a few weeks ago that 'someday' I want a craft area (thinking farther down the road, like when we get a house this Spring) but today he said we could go "look" and see what they had and start on making me a craft area.  I was thrilled!!  We didn't get much, but I had to buy a table and chair, and then also got just a few different totes and plastic holders to hold my stuff.  I'm going to go set it up now, and depending on how far I get maybe I'll take some pictures of it later this afternoon after I'm done.  Tyler and Chad are going out tonight so I'm going to have some time alone to stamp tonight, so I'm excited. 

I hope you're having a great weekend!  I'll be back later today to write more.