My first cards as a CDS Guest Designer

These are the pictures I took with my camera. I will swap these out when my neighbor takes a better photo. When I first saw this stamp set, Hanging Out, I immediately thought of christmas stockings hanging on the fire place even though it is a summer themed stamp set. I went through the CDS designer gallery to see if anyone else had the same idea, but I didn't see one like it. Yay for me! I didn't know what I would do to make it look like the stockings were on the fireplace so I sponged in some red and yellow to give the illusion of a fire. The patterned paper and the tree came from Bitty Scrap-Pads "it's Christmas". I stamped each stocking on a different sheet of PP and then pasted them onto the clothes line.

Here's the specs:
Stamp set: Hanging Out by Clear Dollar Stamps
CS and papers: vanilla, patterned paper from Bitty Scrap-Pads, "Its Christmas"
Ink: Yo-Yo Yellow, real red and black
Markers: Creamy caramel (to color in the clothes pins)
accessories and embellishments: tree brads, computer/printer to type, "merry Christmas", ribbon
Coloring medium: markers
Special techniques: stamping on pattern paper


This is my Beautiful Ballerina! I saw a layout in Traci Major's blog that I liked. You can visit her blog here. I left out one element from the layout because it would have covered the background too much.

Stamps: Bee-utiful Ballerina by Clear Dollar Stamps
CS and paper: white, black, barely banana (or so saffron, I can't tell), rose red and the blue one Vikki Jo sent me so I don't know what it is.
Ink: black, bashful blue, barely banana
Markers: rose red, pretty in pink, black, bashful blue, brown
accessories: button brads, stickles, colored pencil (peach), cuttle bug folder and large square scalloped die, ribbon
special techniques: One sheet wonder