A Two-Fer

Two cards for the price of one today:) This first one is using the next set in my Stampin' Up! stack. It's from the set called "Vivid Greetings." It consists of four sentiment stamps like this one, and two small stamps. This first card is a guy card. Well, really they both are, I guess. I stamped the greeting, then cut it out with a Memory Box Stitched Rectangle die. The background (which is really the foreground!) is a piece from a Die Cuts With a View matstack. I cut the opening with the same Memory Box die. I mounted the wood-grain piece on foam tape to frame the image/sentiment.

Of course I had to use the piece that was cut out, too. Didn't want to add it to my card parts, so I made this card right away. I die-cut a frame for it and added both pieces to a piece of scrap cardstock. I mounted this on foam squares. The sentiment is from Heidi Grace. The background piece was cut with a stitched rectangle die, also, and embossed with a Darice embossing folder.

Edited to add: I am submitting these cards into the CropStop.com challenge. The challenge is Anything Goes. I purchased my Stitched Rectangle dies from CropStop, and have ordered other things from them over the years, also!

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Simple Thanks

I took a little time yesterday afternoon to make a couple necessary thank you cards. I made them all the same.


The patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye - Simply Delightful. The sentiment is from a Fiskars thank you set by Heidi Grace. I colored the rectangle around it with a Copic marker, and it's mounted on Dimensionals. I punched the bottom matting layer with a Martha Stewart punch. That's all there is to it.


I got my January - April 2013 calendars printed yesterday! (I would have printed all the months, but I'm out of cardstock, and my "source" was closed yesterday when I stopped by.) I have my images all stamped for January, and one of them is colored. I'm so happy about that!)


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Thanks, Owen!

I made this card for our grandson.  He is amazingly thoughtful for being only eight and a half months old:)  See the beautiful flowers and vase (I wish I could have gotten a better picture) and card I got from him.

To make the black frame on the front of the card, I cut the black shimmery paper using a rounded-corner Quickutz die and adhered it to my card front.  Then I used the next size smaller die and cut the inside.  The bird is on the inside of the card.  I paper-pieced him and did some coloring with Copics. I also added a googly eye.  Here you can see the inside of the card where I stamped the thanks.  The bird and "tweet" sentiment are from Fiskars and the thanks is from Heidi Grace.


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Thinking of You in Green

Just a simple "thinking of you" card for today's post.  I had cut the swirl and the flowers little while ago, so I thought I should use them on a card and get them off my table:)

They were cut with a die cut from Cuttlebug.  They are adhered (with my Xyron) directly on the card front.  I scored lines on both sides. Then I added the patterned paper, which is from DCWV Nana's Nursery - Girl.  The sentiment is from a Heidi Grace set I got on clearance recently from JoAnn's.  The butterfly is made with a Martha Stewart punch.

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Happy Day!

We were out of town this weekend and I haven’t gotten a chance to stamp since Friday morning. So, I visited my SplitCoastStampers gallery and chose this card to upload today. I hope you don’t mind it’s an oldie – it’s one of my favorites!

The flowers and sentiment are from a clear Heidi Grace set. I colored them with Stampin' Up! markers. I added interest by scoring the edges of the main image. It's matted on Cameo Coral and popped up with Pop Dots. The flower on the bottom is popped up, too. The decorative lines are done with the Scor-Pal.

I hope you all had a great weekend. Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you’ll come back and visit again soon!

Pink Anniversary

This is a card I made last month, but couldn’t post it because it went to someone who reads my blog. So, today is as good day as any to add it.

The flowers and swirls are from a clear set by Heidi Grace, stamped with Versafine Black Onyx ink. I colored the flowers and added pearls for the centers. The lacy bottom is punched with a Martha Stewart punch. The matting is Pink Pirouette – one of the new “In Colors” from Stampin’ Up! for this year. The HAPPY ANNIVERSARY stamp is by Hero Arts. Oh, and I added a little bit of hand-doodling, and some scoring with my Scor-Pal.

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