Thinking of You

I actually spent a little time in my stamping room a couple days and I made this card. I wanted to use a stencil and rotate it. So, I took my Gina K diagonal stripes stencil and used Gina K inks. First I did the light purple one way, then turned the stencil and did the greenish stripes in the other direction. Then I took a fine-line black marker and added those lines. Just what I needed - a piece of patterned paper! :) I matted with matching cardstock. I embossed the white strip with a Cuttlebug border folder. The image with sentiment is from a set by Hampton Arts. I colored with Copic markers - not an exact match, but a bit better in real life.

I am a little late with sharing my birthday cards, but will be sharing them soon. Thanks to everyone who sent me one!

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Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all my friends and blog readers who celebrate this day. I hope this Christmas finds you all well. Here is our tree - the same as (almost!) always. :)

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Two More Thinking of You Cards

Here are two more cards that I made for our church. They are identical except for the patterned paper background. The stamps I used are from Papertrey Ink. I used Kaleidacolor ink for the flowers. I added Wink of Stella to the flowers. The background papers are from Die Cuts With a View.

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Thinking of You

I found out that even though our church has been closed since last March, some people are still buying cards there. The sympathy and "thinking of you' cards were all gone and the birthday cards were quite depleted. So, I took a break from my card-making break and got some cards together to bring up to church. I had plenty of birthday cards to donate, but only had one sympathy and two "thinking of you" cards. I made eight sympathy cards - two each of four styles. They were pretty much remakes of cards I've made in the past, so I'm not even going to share them here. I also made two of this card. I may make a few more "thinking of you" cards before I deliver them - or bring them to someone else to deliver, since I don't have a key for the church.

I used Stampin' Up! stamps for the image and the sentiment. I colored the rubber stamp with markers before stamping. I added teeny-tiny Nuvo drops to the flower centers. I used a Gina K stencil for the background.

My card-making break has been quite productive. It's amazing how much a person can get done when they are not stamping! LOL! I finished embroidering dishtowels for our daughter-in-law. (They were for her birthday last year, which is in December. I finished them before her this year's birthday!) I finished sorting through my mom and dad's things and got them on the first leg of their journey to my brother in Atlanta. (I still have the photos and all the letters that my dad sent home while he was in WWII. My plan is to scan all of them and share them with family.) I got caught up on my GAMES World of Puzzles magazines. I love them, and am so happy to realize that they are back in business. I was down to the bottom of my list, which is to do some reading. I hadn't quite started that, though, when I went back to card-making.

I hope everyone is doing well. 

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Happy Tenth Birthday, Owen!!

Well, our middle grandson, Owen, turned double-digits today. Amazing!! Here is the card that WE made for him. Jim often has the ideas and I execute them, after agreeing with him, of course:)

Owen plays an app game on his phone with his cousins in Chicago. It's called "Among Us." That's what this card is about. We went on-line and grabbed the images.

I printed this image three times. I matted with red and black. I cut out the red body and cut the eye area out. I added a piece of acetate. I also cut out the hand. Both of these layers are mounted on foam squares. I printed the sentiment out - white text with a black background - and mounted it on foam squares, too.

Here is the inside of the card. I cut out the eye area again, this time adding Owen's eyes and another piece of acetate. I printed the birthday boy sentiment again on the computer and added it. I'm pretty sure he'll find this one to be pretty cool :)

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Happy Hanukkah!

Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate!

Here is my one Hanukkah card for the year. The background is a snowflake pattern from Gina K that I foiled with blue foil and matted. The sentiment was done on the computer and foiled with silver. I matted it with mirror cardstock and mounted on foam squares. 

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December Calendar Page

Happy December, everyone. Here is my calendar page for the month. The left part was embossed with a Cuttlebug border folder. I mounted it on thin gold foil cardstock. The sentiment is embossed with detail white embossing powder.

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