Have a Great Day!

This embossed and cut-out oval was in the card parts that I really wanted to get used up. I think (once again!) that all of my parts are either used or up filed neatly away in a binder. Yippee! I used a Nestability to cut the scalloped oval mat out of metallic purple cardstock. I stamped the sentiment on the oval. The flower is a really old shimmery, white flower from the wedding section of Michael's that I colored with a marker. I used a punch (EK Success) to cut the leafy sprigs. I also used a marker to color the butterfly stamped in the sentiment. I added a teeny, tiny button to the flower center. I used a die plate for the top of the panel and a Darice embossing folder for the bottom of the panel, and I added two scored lines between the top and bottom. Kind of retro!

I asked for Waffle Flower's rectangular layer dies for Christmas, and then I bought the in-between set after Christmas. I haven't used them a ton, but I do really love them and I hope I get in the habit of using them instead of my paper cutter.

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Purple and Green Thinking of You

A new card today. I haven't spent much time in my stamping room lately, but I do have this one to share. I used one of my new Altenew stamps. It's the dotted Swiss background. Not really sure why I got it, as I have lots of dotted paper, but I did. :) I stamped this background in green. (I also did a couple other backgrounds, but I haven't made them into cards yet. Into the "card parts" they go. They are both on black cardstock. One is embossed with white dots and the other is embossed with glittery embossing powder.) The background for the sentiment is from PSX. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! The butterfly is a punch from EK Success. I added a couple gems to the butterfly's body and three to the sentiment panel, and I added some Star Dust Stickles to the butterfly.

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Leaf Punch

A subscriber of my blog wanted to buy this EK Success leaf punch from me a few weeks ago, so I used it to punch a few pieces of cardstock before shipping it off. Here are two cards that I made with the "punch-offs." I used a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder for the top part of the purple and also used my ScorPal. The sentiment is a Mrs. Grossman's sticker placed on a thin strip of olive cardstock and then popped up on foam squares.

I used some lightly-patterned paper for the leaves, a sticker for the sentiment, my Scor-Pal and some Washi tape to finish off this card.

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Leaf Punch Sympathy

Here are two more sympathy cards I made that are similar to those that I mailed out. I used an EK Success punch for the leafy border. For this first one, I matted with glittery paper. I also scored double lines on each side of the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink.

I used plain cardstock to mat this card and only scored a single line above and below the sentiment, which is from Stampabilities, I believe.

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Fall-To Layout #37 Take Two

I made this based on Natasha's Fall-To Layout #37 Take Two.

The patterned paper is from another pack of paper that I got from our daughter-in-law's trip to Japan. So pretty. I matted it with pink - with the bottom edge punched with an EK Success punch. Then I matted that with black. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is matted with black and mounted on foam squares. I added a glittery flower with a pale pink brad in the center.

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October Calendar Page

Totally amazing that it's October already!!! Seems like summer just started and it's fall already.

Today I'm sharing my October calendar page with you. I borrowed a friend's Stampin' Up! owl punch to make the bat. The wings were done with an oval Nestability and a circle punch. I sponged white ink on the body and wings. I cut the moon with a circle punch and sponged orange ink around the edge. I added the eyes with a white gel pen and a black marker. The sentiment is from a Recollections set.

This is not my original idea:) My friend had seen it on-line and I CASEd it.

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New Beginning

I'm taking a mini-break (maybe longer) from my Stampin' Up! project to bring you this card.

I used a My Favorite Things stamp for the "watercolored" background. I actually used two colors of distress markers, but you can't tell. After stamping the blue, I added the butterflies from Inkadinkado. I colored with Copics and added a few white dots to the wings. The bottom border was punched with an EK Success punch and the scored lines were done with my Martha Stewart scoring tool. I added some orange bling to both the stamped image and also the punched border. The words of encouragement are a MFT stamp, also.

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Six "Cheater" Cards

I was five cards short after making yesterday's cards, so I decided to make these "cheater" cards to finish up. These were all made with one 12 x 12 sheet of patterned cardstock. It came from a matstack by Recollections. It was a "Hot Buy" last year or the year before and I have hardly used any of it. I got the sentiments all stamped on the insides, so all 81 cards are ready to go! Also, I uploaded the file for my 2017 calendar files. The link is under my blog title. I printed mine out and got them all cut out, ready to create. I still have December 2016 to decorate and then next year's will be ready to assemble and wrap!

For this first card, I matted with a matching blue cardstock and added a punched snowflake with a white enamel dot. (Punch by EK Success.)

For this one, I matted with blue and mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and is embossed with detail silver embossing powder.

I matted this one with silver "mirror" cardstock and added the sentiment - also done in detail silver embossing powder. And again, the image panel is mounted on foam squares.

Matted this one with blue and mounted on foam squares, and again silver embossed sentiment.

Matted with shimmery silver paper and mounted on foam squares. Sentiment already there!

One more matted with shimmery silver and mounted on foam squares. No need to add the sentiment - the "Joy" was already on it.

Six super simple cards but I really do like how they turned out, even if I felt like I cheated:)

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Welcome Little One

Finally I'm sharing another card I made with the Avery Elle stamp set that Harriet gave me when she was here. I colored the images with Copic markers. All of the stamps are from the same set. I punched the bottom border with an EK Success border punch and matted with blue. I used a white gel pen for the dots on the fawn and butterfly.

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Little Somethings Christmas

Ah, my last set of stamps from my third stack of sets:) This set is called "Little Somethings." It consists of twelve little stamps. I used three of them on this card - the image stamps. The sentiment is from "Little Holiday Wishes" which I have already used. I punched the images and sentiment with an EK Success punch. The background was embossed using a Sizzix folder.

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Baby Congrats - Boy and Girl

Two baby cards for today - one for a boy and one for a girl, but otherwise identical. The stamps are from Recollections. The square punches are from EK Success and Martha Stewart. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! and it is punched out with a Stampin' Up! punch.

Wyatt gained a LITTLE weight after having his feeding tube removed. That was great! It's quite possible he will get to go home soon! I'll keep you posted. Thanks again for your prayers.

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Happy Mother's Day

Here are the two cards I made for our mothers this year. They are basically the same, but different colors and a couple other little changes. The flowers stamp is from Serene Silhouettes from Stampin' Up! I inked it first with Gumball Green and used markers for the flowers and "thumped" some darker green on the grass, stems and leaves. I used an EK Success punch for the border. I added "bling" to the flowers in the sentiment, which is from Verve. The image panel on the first one is mounted on Dimensionals.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!

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Super-Simple Thanks

I had to have a thank you card and I didn't have much time. :)

The flower and sentiment are one stamp - retired Stampin' Up! I colored with markers and added the pearl center. The punched border was in my "card parts." I believe it was punched with an EK Success punch.

Anybody else tired of the snow??? We got lots more yesterday. I think it's time for winter to be over. Talk about the exact opposite of last year!

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More Flowers!

I have quite a few stamp sets that I have never used, so I thought I'd try to get good use out of this set in case I don't get it out for a while:)

The flowers are from the same set as yesterday (and earlier in the week, too!) Secret Garden from Stampin' Up! I inked the stamp up once with Raspberry Ripple ink and stamped three times without re-inking. I cut them with the matching die. The stems are stamped with Gumball Green and another stamp from the same set. I used an aquapainter to fill watercolor inside the lines a little bit. The bottom border is Gumball Green cardstock punched with an EK Success punch. The sentiment is from a retired SU! set called Sincere Salutations. The two darker flowers are mounted on foam squares and I have layered white on white.

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True Thyme Birthday

This embossed background was in my Card Parts box, so I decided to finally use it. I'm not positive, but I believe it was Stampin' Up! True Thyme ink that I used to brayer on the Cuttlebug folder before I embossed with it. I matted it with True Thyme. The sentiment is from a Stampendous set. It's matted with True Thyme and mounted on foam squares. The leafy pieces were punched with an EK Success punch. That's all there is to it!

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Onesie Baby Card

I have seen many "onesie" cards in the past, but I have never made one before. But, I thought it would be perfect for my niece. She is expecting her first baby in September and we are going to a shower for her tonight. She has done the baby's room (to be called Madison) in pink and brown, hence the color scheme for the card.

My sister was at my house for a few days, so we made a card together. Very fun! (She has some stamping things, but hasn't used them yet. I'm trying to "push" a little bit! LOL!) I didn't have a pattern, but it wasn't hard to make. I used circle Nestabilities to draw the curved edges to cut out, then used the matching scalloped Nestabilities for the trim. The patterned paper is from a Die Cuts With a View stack and the stickers are, too. We used an EK Success punch for the flowers and a Studio G punch for the letters, which were stamped with a Studio G stamp set. The flowers with letter centers are mounted on foam squares. We added eyelets for the snaps.

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Technique Tuesday Birthday

A rather elegant birthday card, I think. The flower stem, flower and bee are all from Technique Tuesday. I colored with Copic markers and added Stickles to the bee's wings. The sentiment is from TPC Studio. The edge was punched with an EK Success border punch.


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SplitCoastStampers Clean and Simple Challenge

I made this card for Monday's SplitCoastStampers Clean and Simple challenge. The challenge was to CASE this card. Cool card!


I cut the circle frame with two Nestabilities. The flowers were punched with an EK Success punch and I added silver pearls. The sentiment is from a set from Papertrey Ink.


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Happy Birthday, Eric!

Our son's birthday was Tuesday and we BOUGHT him a card! I thought it sounded like a good idea, but then I decided I had to make him a card, too. So, I designed this in my head during the day on Tuesday and as soon as Owen (our grandson) left for the day, I made the card. It turned out pretty much like I imagined it.


I did the background words on the computer on glossy cardstock. I brayered using three colors of Stampin' Up! blue. I matted with black. The letters were stamped in Baja Breeze using a Stampin' Up! alphabet. I punched them out using an EK Success punch. I punched the mats using a Martha Stewart punch. The letters are mounted on foam squares. Simple, but I'm glad he got a hand-made card again this year:)


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CAS Leafy Birthday

A quick card and a quick post!


The border was punched with an EK Success border punch called Floral Leaf Large Edger.  I matted it with Stampin' Up!'s Always Artichoke cardstock.  I embossed the dots with a Cuttlebug border folder, using my "no-lines" method.  (You can see a very unprofessional video tutorial here with the completed card in this blog post.) I used my Scor-Pal to score lines on both sides of the embossing.  The sentiment is from Impression Obsession.

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