Cheery Anniversary

A quick post today. I made this card awhile back and hadn't gotten it posted. The flower was cut with a LifeStyle Crafts die. I used a punch to make the flower center. I matted the panel with black and added it to some cheery yellow patterned paper. The sentiment is from Gina K.

I did finally finish the baby boy cards. I'll share them with you tomorrow and Saturday.

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Daisy Thinking of You

I really love daisy cards, and especially those done in yellow, white and black! I pulled out this die to share with a friend, so I quick used it first. The die cuts the flowers, but leaves them in the cardstock. I added yellow enamel dots for the centers. The centers were cut out with the die and I had wanted the yellow polka dotted paper to show through, but I decided that I wanted a little more. I added thin black cardstock strips beside the daisy panel. The patterned paper is from Die Cuts With a View, the daisy die is from QuicKutz/Lifestyle Crafts and the sentiment is from Maya Road.

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Tiny Butterfly Anniversary

This little butterfly has been on my stamping table for quite a while. I had colored it with Copics and added Wink of Stella. I don't remember who makes the stamp.Very had to see in the photo, but there is a scalloped border above and below the sentiment, and then scored lines on the top and bottom of those. The sentiment is die-cut and layered. The card base and panel are ivory. The scalloped border was done with a LifeStyle Crafts embossing folder.

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Sanded Embossing

Here are two very similar cards that I have recently made. For both of them, I used textured blue paper, embossing folders and a sanding block. This first one is done with a folder from Cuttlebug. The swirly die-cut, the sentiment die-cut and the flower die-cut were all in my card parts book.

This embossing folder is from LifeStyle Crafts. The sentiment panel is die-cut and was also in with my parts.

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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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CASEd Birthday

I rarely go on Pinterest. Well, that's not quite true. I often go on Pinterest to see which cards of mine have been pinned, and that's all. When someone pins several of them, occasionally I will check out their boards and see what else they have pinned. Well, following that method, I arrived at this card. I really liked it, and did something that I VERY rarely do - I CASEDd her card. I totally copied the layout and changed the colors, the embossing folder, the flowers and the sentiment. Thanks for the wonderful card, Mary!

The embossing folder I used is from Lifestyle Crafts. I only embossed part of the panel. (I used my  Grand Calibur, which is large enough to be able to put the embossing folder in at an angle.) The flowers are from a Gina K set and I colored with Copics. I mounted that panel on foam squares and matted with white. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I added the white ribbon and bow.

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Tender Toile #1 and #2

Here are my two cards using the Stampin' Up! set called "Tender Toile." There is also a sentiment stamp which I did not use.

I stamped the bunny with Memento black ink and colored him (her?) with Copic markers, matted with black, and mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I embossed the background with a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder called "Lace." 

I used one of the stamps to make the background on this card. I used Versamark and clear embossing powder. For the main image, I inked up the stamp with Versamark first and then with gray ink. Then I embossed with clear embossing powder. I'm not sure why the image got darker around the outside, but I like the effect! The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted the pieces with gray cardstock.

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Four Cards - Fabulous Four

These cards were all made with stamps from the set from Stampin' Up! called "Fabulous Four." I made them all the same, with different colors and different backgrounds.

Since this one was leaves, I used fall colors. I matted the layers with gold and mounted the panel (on all of them, actually) on Dimensionals. The embossed background was done with a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder.

I used silver to mat the small layer, markers to color, and Diamond Stickles on the diamonds. The background was done with a Fiskars texture plate.

Matted with shimmery blue. Background embossed with a Fiskars texture plate.

Matted with light blue. Background again embossed with a Fiskars texture plate.

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Eclectic Corners #3

Third card using Stampin' Up!'s set called "Eclectic Corners." I stamped the image in the corner with Memento black ink and colored with Copic markers. I added the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink. I embossed a portion of the left side with a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder and scored three lines with my Score Pal, then mounted on turquoise cardstock.

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Red and White Christmas

Finally - a card continuing my mission to use all of my Stampin' Up! stamps. We have been busy every weekend for a long time and it doesn't seem to be letting up. The evenings are busy, too, and Wyatt seems to need more of my time during the day. All of that adds up to no stamping time. When I have had a few minutes, I just sat in my stamping room and didn't know where to start:( 

This card uses a stamp from the retired SU! set called "A Beautiful Thing." That stamp is the center of the "snowflake" - which is probably a doily. :) I think it may have been cut with a Lifestyle Crafts die, but I'm not sure about that at all. The die belongs to a friend. I mounted the snowflake on foam squares. I embossed the background with a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder. The red matting sentiment was cut with an Impression Obsession die.

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Simple Birthday Wishes

I took a little time tonight for crafting. That was very nice!

This is a semi-CASE of a card from my friend, Donna. (Thanks again, Donna, for the wonderful card!) I used a punch for the circle cut out of the white layer, then I embossed with a Lifestyle Crafts folder. I added the sentiment (from a Papertrey Ink set) and the butterfly, which was punched with a Martha Stewart punch. I added a couple pearls for the butterfly's body and mounted it on a foam square. Totally CAS (Clean and Simple.)

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Lots of Swirls!

Using this Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder made me think of this tree stamp from Verve. You can't really see them, but it has swirls like the folder. I stamped it with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink and used a marker to color it. The sentiment is stamped with the same ink and is from Papertrey Ink. I matted with olive cardstock and mounted on foam squares for dimension. For the background, I brayered olive ink on the folder before embossing. I matted it with olive, too.

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Blog Candy Winnings - Memory Box Dies

Lucky me - I won a $20 gift certificate to the on-line store of my choice from Dawn at My Stamping Thyme. Thanks so much, Dawn! I thought about it a bit, and went with Crop Stop. I ordered three dies from Memory Box. I have used two of them on my cards for today. (I had a great weekend and got twelve cards done. It was so much fun!)

This first card uses a die called Country Landscape. I cut it out using a textured black cardstock. I embossed the piece of red with a LifeStyle Crafts embossing folder. The sentiment is two stamps from a Technique Tuesday set. The card base is ivory.

This second card uses a die called Dancing Tulips. I cut it from green and also from the patterned purple paper from Recollections. I glued them on white and matted with black. Then I covered the card front with the same purple patterned paper. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Happy Birthday, Harriet!

Happy Birthday to my great friend, Harriet! I hope your day is awesome!

I stamped the pretty flower (from The Paper Studio) with Memento ink and colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Serendipity Stamps. (Thanks, Sheri!) I matted with Garden Green from Stampin' Up and punched the bottom with a Martha Stewart border punch. I mounted the image panel on foam squares. The background is embossed with a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder and matted with Garden Green. Thanks, Harriet, for letting me use the picture you took!

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Happy Anniversary to Me!

Today is our 38th Wedding Anniversary. Amazing! Thirty-eight wonderful years and still going strong!

This is the card I quickly put together for Jim this afternoon while Owen (our grandson) napped. The embossing was done with a new (to me) Lifestyle Crafts folder that I got at Archiver's last night. Jim likes white and embossing on his cards. :) The sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly. I stamped it with Versafine Black Onyx on shimmery white paper and embossed with clear embossing powder. I matted with black cardstock and mounted on foam squares. I matted the embossed layer with black, also. Quick, but I think he'll be pleased.

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Embossed Thanks - and a Last Chance at a Great Prize

This is a card I made using products available from the Creating Everlasting Memories eBay store.  They are closed through today, and will re-open tonight at 12:01 a.m.  (I'm assuming that's PDT, but that's only a guess!)  The embossing folder, the frame die, and the dragonfly die are all from there and are all from Lifestyle Crafts, formerly Quickutz.


I did a simple little pictorial tutorial, which is posted on the CEM blog, Creating Memories In Time.  I brayered ink onto the embossing folder before embossing.  The ink I used is Kiwi Kiss from Stampin’ Up! I also used Kiwi Kiss cardstock for my matting. The sentiment is from Studio G, stamped in Kiwi Kiss. I cut it with a Lifestyles doodle frames die #DT0095. The outer frame is also Kiwi Kiss. I used Dragonfly #KS0615 die to cut the body of the dragonfly from black cardstock and the wings from vellum.

Also, check out this awesome prize package on the CMIT blog.  You have through today to submit an entry.  One person will be the lucky winner of it all!  All you have to do is to make a Mother's Day card (get a head start for next year!), upload it to your blog or on-line gallery, and link it up to the CMIT blog. The linking widget (is that really a widget?  I don't know!) is down the page a little ways.  Last time I checked, there were only about nine entrants, so your chances of winning are very good!


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Pink Embossed Wedding Card

I actually made up four cards on Monday night and Tuesday morning - it felt so good!  I'll share them with you one at a time, though:)  All four of them use new (to me) Sizzix embossing frame folders. 

For this first one, I used the Heart and Vines Frame from the Ornate Frames Set.  I embossed a piece of pink textured cardstock that has a white core.  After embossing, I sanded it down so the white showed through.  All of the embossing was done with the same folder.  I cut the hearts with Lifestyle Crafts (formerly Quickutz) dies.  The scalloped heart was cut from the same pink cardstock and I sanded it down, too.  I stamped the image and the sentiment (from Inkadinkado) with London Fog Memento ink.  The hearts are mounted on Dimensionals.  A simple but effective card, I think.  (You can find the Sizzix folders and the Lifestyle dies in the CEM eBay store.)

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Home Sweet Home

Just a quick post for today.  And a brief description for it.

I cut the frame with Lifestyle Crafts (formerly Quickutz) from slightly textured blue cardstock. I cut strips of black to put under the holes. I stamped the house with a Fiskars stamp onto blue and cut out. I stamped again on white, colored the roof, chimney, heart, door and windows and cut them out and glued them on the house. I nounted the house on foam squares and stuck to white textured cardstock. I matted with the same blue, embossed the swirl with a Cuttlebug border folder, scored lines with my Scor-Pal and stamped the sentiment - also from Fiskars.

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Happy Birthday, Georgia!

 

A birthday card for my friend, Georgia, whose birthday was yesterday.  I hope the card arrived!

I cut the Butterflies using a butterfly border die and Die Cuts With a View "sparkly" cardstock.  I brayered dark green ink on the Quickutz Leaves embossing folder, then embossed a lighter green cardstock with it.   I used my Scor-Pal to emboss lines on the card base.  I mounted the butterflies to the green strip with foam squares.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Happy Birthday, Joanne!

Yesterday was my friend, Joanne's, birthday.  This is the card I made for her.

I started with a piece of yellow cardstock from a Sizzix matstack.  I cut the flowers with a  Pop Up Flower die from Lifestyle Crafts. I put small pieces of foam squares under each petal to make sure they stayed popped up.  I glued it on to the textured brown cardstock and added buttons (from Papertrey Ink) to the centers of the flowers. I glued the panel to Kraft card base (also from PTI). The sentiment is from Impression Obsession and is stamped in brown ink.

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