Flowery Birthday Wishes

I've been working a little bit on trying to use up some things. Several years ago, my friend Harriet gave me some Sandylion stickers that I had admired. I still had two left and I used them up on this card and another one I'll share soon. It also uses the other half sheet of patterned paper from the daisy card I posted a couple days ago. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. This card is 4 x 6 inches.

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Color Swap - Rose and Green

I made this card for a color swap in my stamping group. The colors are rose and green.

I used embossing paste and a stencil from Darice. (I have a tutorial on using embossing paste here, if you are interested. I made it a few years ago - definitely amateur! But, it shows how to do it.) I stippled the ink through the stencil, added the embossing paste and then the ultrafine glitter. The pink panel and the rose panel are mounted on Dimensionals. The green patterned paper is from My Minds Eye. 

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Thanks!

I needed just a little "jump start" to get me making cards again. The new challenge for April in the Cuttlebug group I'm a member of is to use a button (or buttons) on your card. Perfect - just a tiny challenge. I've also been wanting to use some patterned paper on a card and make a coordinating envelope.

I stamped the flower on off-white cardstock. It's from a Gina K set. I colored directly on the stamp. For the stem and leaves I used a green Memento marker and on the flower I used a Tim Holtz black Distress marker. I stamped the flower again on the polka dotted paper and cut it out. My button is the flower center. I traced around the stem and leaves with the marker. I used my Martha Stewart scoring board to score lines around the outside. The matting piece is the reverse side of the dotted paper - from My Minds Eye. I used a Cuttlebug die for the "thanks."

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SCS Free 4 All Challenge

This card is for today's SplitCoastStampers Free 4 All challenge - to use the negative image from a die or punch.

The balloon dies I used are from Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts. The sentiment is from The Paper Company. After cutting out the balloons and stamping the sentiment, I embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder, added the patterned paper, and matted with black. I decided to add two of the balloons that I cut out, too, so I sponged some Rose Romance ink around the edges and mounted them on foam squares. The patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye.

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March Calendar Page

Well, here it is - the first day of March. Time for my calendar page. The Excel files (and Open Office files) that I have made to print the blank calendars are always available at the top of my blog.


For this page, I used Sizzix dies for the kites and cloud. The kites are cut from My Mind's Eye papers and the cloud was cut from Die Cuts With a View textured cardstock. The image stamp is from a dollar stamp set from Studio G.


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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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Happy 16th Birthday, Brooke!

I made this card for my neighbor.  She turned 16 yesterday.  I can't believe it!  I used to do day care for her when she was just one year old!


I used an EK Success border punch, and then embossed the design with a Cuttlebug border folder.  I also scored a single line with my Scor-Pal.  The letters are cut with my Hippie Chick alphabet die set from Cuttlebug.  The paper is from My Mind's Eye Simply Delightful.  That's about all there is to it! 


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Repeat Impressions CASE Challenge - CASEing Harriet

Wednesday is challenge day at Repeat Impressions, and today it's another CASE challenge.  Be inspired by this card by Harriet and create your own masterpiece based on Harriet's card, below.   

Please visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, to find out all the details on how to win a full sheet of unmounted rubber!  You will also find the cards by the other Rock Stars.  Or you can follow these links to the Design Team members' blogs.

Ayana ~ Dana ~ Darsie ~ Harriet ~Joy ~ Karen ~ Maki ~ Robin

For my card, I used the Repeat Impressions stamp 5910-M, Party Negative, found on this page.  I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black ink on My Mind's Eye paper and embossed with black embossing powder.  (The upper right corner looks like I didn't get it stamped well, but it's just the light reflecting off of the embossing.)  I trimmed it down and matted it on black paper which I had punched with a Stampin' Up! border punch.  The bottom matting is also from My Mind's Eye (Simple Delightful - and it really is!) and is matted with black.  I also used some grosgrain ribbon.  Won't you join us??

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Happy First Birthday, Sweet Amelia!

I got some My Mind's Eye "Lush" products just before we left on vacation.  (We were in Cocoa Beach, Florida from Saturday to Saturday.  What a great week!) This is the card I made using some of them.  It's for our granddaughter's first birthday, which is the end of March.

All of the parts of this card are from the Lush line except the textured off-white under the 1.  The letters are lightly flocked.  The ribbon is velvety and has a scalloped edge.  So pretty.  I had to search through a lot of stamps to find the "sweet."  I finally found this one on a Hero Arts stamp.  (The Creating Everlasting Memories eBay store will probably begin carrying the Lush products soon.)

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