Hello, and welcome t. my little crafting corner of the world!

Here I will share with you some of the cards I have handmade. Some I have made for friends and family, and some I have made and sold. I'm always searching for new ideas, and new ways to incorporate fun and unusual things into my cardmaking, so I'm always experimenting with something new!

I hope that you enjoy my work, and if you have any quesitons or suggestions, please don't hesitate to write me.

I would also greatly enjoy seeing your card creations! Please feel free to visit our forum and share your creations with us!

Happy Crafting!!

~Melisa Marie

* *P.S. The images are done in a thumbnail gallery style, so you can click on them and they will become bigger, more detailed pics :)

A thank you card for a friend who LOVES fish!

This was all done with paper piecing and each item was hand drawn and shaped.

See what I can do with a little bit of bleach and an old pair of jeans! A hello Card.

My friend Cattie Loves flowers and hearts, she really liked her valentine's day card!

Even if someone doesn't like all the frilly flowers, you can still give them a tasteful cards with smaller flowers. Just Make them a 6x6 inch or smaller card, as I've done here: My Mini Cards 4x4 inch squares and 5x5 inch squares. I've even decorated a handmade gift bag.

Here is one of my mini invitation sets and handmade party favor gift bags.

Here is a Valentines Card that I made for a friend to give to her hubby.

Here are the mothers day cards that I made this year. The first one was for my ma and the second one was for my grandma. The last one was for my mother in-law.

Here is a card for my ma's recent B-day! To attach the ribbon I used colored staples the same color as the ribbons, but I alternated them so they stood out.

Here is a thinking of you card that I made for my grandma :) My grandma loves birds and flowers, so I thought this was a nice card. To make some of the items 3-d I just took a duplicate sheet of paper and cut out some of the elements and used 3-d foam dots.

Here are my fathers day cards. On the left is the one for my daddy, and on the right is the one for my grandpa.

Here are a few different birthday cards I've made for friends.

This page was last updated: January 13, 2010

Here are 4 of my latest cards. They are all cards that have to do with smiles. The 1st was for a friend that was sick. The 2nd was for a friend who was in a car accident. The last 2 were made for someone else to give to her friends.

On this page, I post all NEW additions to the TOP of the page, so there is no need to scroll down for updates! You'll always know when my page was last updated by looking in the top left corner of the page, it shows the date last updated.

*When you click on the thumbnails, it will open a box (it will NOT remove you from this page!) and all you have to do is click ANYWHERE on the pic and it will take you to the next picture.

To close the photo box, click on "close" in the bottom right corner.

Here is a group of cards that I recently created. They are friendship, birthday, sympathy etc...

I had fun creating all of these cards.

These are just SIMPLE cards that I threw together. For instance, the first and second card took me about 5 minutes total to create.

The 3rd, 7th and 8th card took me about a total of 10 minutes to create.

The 9th and 10th card took me 5 minutes to create.

So, see, even if you don't have a lot of time, you can still create something cute in a matter of minutes!

These cards are all cards I created using stamped images of "tilda" and "edwin" from the magnolia stamping line.

I have watercolored some of the images, and some images I colored with prisma color pencils and shaded and evened out with gamsol (odorless mineral spirits--email me for info).

The sentiments inside are heat embossed which makes them raised off the paper, and they feel smooth too! The last card is an image from the sugar nellies stamp line.

These are some more cards that I created, all have a tilda image on them from the magnolia stamp line.

I used several different techniques when creating these cards. I will say one thing, those special shape scissors came in REALLY handy for making these cards!

Here are some cards that I created for various occassions.

Some of the themes are: birthday, friendship, baby, love, hello, and just because (such as the last card with the owls--my FAV).