Saturday, April 30, 2011

I Love My Gadgets



My embroidered Adinkra symbol cards have been in recent demand. I love gadgets and am able to use my computer, embroidery machine and Grandemark machine by Accucut to produce this card. When I originally designed my card I had to handcut a 12x12 piece of paper to produce 3 flaps and a window. It was obviously doable but time consuming to ensure each cut was accurate.
When I got my Grandemark I purchased a custom die from Accucut which produced the same style card in a fraction of the time. I also use the die cut machine to make coordinated envelopes. I now can spend more time designing and bring my ideas to fruition quickly!!!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

A card for a special little boy


My son was six last month and I wanted to give him a special card. Following my Copic Marker class I was itching to work on my skin tones, using blending and shading, with the markers. He was very pleased with the finished product and recognized the little boy as himself!