Happy Mother's Day

Here is the card I made for Jim's mom for Mother's Day. 

I used another die-cut piece that I made while visiting friends in Omaha using the stitched rectangles die. Love 'em! I added black and white dotted Washi tape along the border and mounted on foam squares. I stamped the tulips with a Northwoods stamp on a cream and blue "mottled" cardstock. I colored with Tombow markers. I added a little Star Dust Stickles to the butterflies - which you can barely see! The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. Happy Mother's Day to all!

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Christmas Sunday

I had five of these already-stamped images to work with, and I made them all the same. 

The image is from Northwoods. I colored with Copics. I matted with white, but I sponged red ink partially around the edge first. I am entering this into the Christmas Card Challenge blog. (The specific challenge is week is to use evergreen trees, but the main challenge is just to make a Christmas card.)

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"Christmas Sunday"

Here is the Christmas card I made this week. I'm submitting it to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. There is a theme, but the main point is to make a Christmas card. (Edited to add: the theme this week is to use rolled paper flowers.)


I believe this stamp is by Northwoods - I stamped it while at my Group Gathering. This card is a case of my friend, Georgia. I was finally putting away my Christmas cards and found the one she sent me last year. I already had the stamped image out, so I decided to add glitter all over the image, like Georgia did. I first colored the image with Copic markers. I ran it through my Xyron, then added ultrafine glitter to the entire panel. I matted with red, and mounted it on a white cardbase which I embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder.


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Same Stamp - Different Orientation

I had some "extra" time to stamp last week and created these two cards. When I was cleaning up and putting some stamps away, I came across this grid stamp from Northwoods. I know I've had it for several years, but I don't think I had ever used it. Now I have:) I made these two cards which are very similar, but different enough that you get to see them both. 


For the card above, I went with green flowers and matting. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the sentiment directly on the grid like the second card, but it wasn't positioned very well and it was hard to read. So, I stamped it on scrap paper, matted it with green, and mounted it on Dimensionals. The flowers have white brads for their centers.

Turquoise flowers and matting for this card, pearls for the flower centers, and the sentiment stamped directly on the grid - in an acceptable position.


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Colorful Spring Tulips

Just a springy birthday card for today. The stamp is from Northwoods and I colored it with Copics. I used black cardstock punched with a Stampin' Up! border punch for the matting. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The card base is Very Vanilla from SU! and the image panel is lightly textured ivory.


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August Calendar Page

A day late, here is my August calendar page.  If you are interested in making your own calendars, you can find my files at the top of my blog page, under the title.  Just follow the link.


The flipflops were stamped with a Northwoods stamp and colored with Stampin' Up! markers.  I matted with kraft.  The little flip flops are from a set from My Favorite Things.


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Tulip Birthday

 I have a simple card to share with you today.  Taking care of a newborn sure cuts into one's stamping time!  What a wonderful thing to be able to do, though.  I'm loving it!  (I'm taking care of our new grandson.  He's about two and a half months old.)

The stamp on this card is from Northwoods.  I colored it with Copic markers.  I stamped again, colored the tulips, and cut them out.  I mounted them on pieces of foam squares.  After I put them on the full piece, I glued down the bottoms of them so that the whole piece did not stick up - a little more life-like.  I matted with black.  The sentiment is from Papertrey.

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SCS Color Challenge - Celebrate

I made this card for SplitCoastStampers Clean and Simple Challenge #68 - "Summer" - and for Color Challenge #272 - Bermuda Bay, Real Red and Kraft.


I inked up the flip-flop stamp with a Creamy Caramel ink pad, then colored the flip-flops (on the stamp) with Real Red and Bermuda Bay markers. I matted it with kraft. I attached the Prima flowers with red brads. I thought they matched perfectly - even the design, with the circles, matched the flip-flop on the left. The sentiment (from the dollar bin at Michael's) was also inked up with Creamy Caramel and colored with markers.


Two miscellaneous things:  You still have another week to play along with the Repeat Impressions sketch challenge and have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate.  You can find the sketch and details here.


I will try to keep up with posting on my blog, but I have a busy few weeks coming up.  Memorial weekend - no specific plans other than a Twins game on Saturday - GO TWINS!  The following weekend our daughter and granddaughter will be here for four days.  And the following weekend is our Yahoo! groups "Group Gathering."  Lots of fun things!


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A Pink and Green Challenge - with a Sketch Challenge, too

Here is another card for the Sketch Challenge on SplitCoastStampers.  It's also for a couple challenges to use pink and green - the Flourishes challenge and Sharon Johnson's blog challenge.


The stamp is from Northwoods.  I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.  I sponged the edges with Stampin' Up!'s Garden Green.  The image, the sentiment and the bottom layer are matted with SU!'s Garden Green.  The patterned cardstock is from Debbie Mumm's Baby Girl matstack.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Basics set.  I sponged that, too.


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