Three-Turtle Birthay

Another (surprise!) simple card  from me today. 😀 I was looking through my sticker drawer and pulled out this set from Sandylion. I have used some of these cute turtles before, but now have three less of them left. I still have a few smaller ones left. The three square holes were made by using a Papertrey Ink die. The sentiment is also from Papertrey. I mounted the die-cut piece on foam squares.

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Welcome Little One

Yippee - I finished a pack of stickers! :) The giraffe and three leaves were what was left in a package of Sandylion stickers. My cardbase and layer are ivory. The sentiment is from on old Studio G dollar set.

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Monkey Birthday

I had this cute little monkey sticker on my desk. He's from Sandylion - and is many years old! :) I stamped the background with a Tattered Angels stamp. The balloon was made with one of my new dies. (This balloon is the biggest one the seven!) The string was die-cut from the same set. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. 

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Lion Birthday

Another of my new dies - postage stamp-edged die with "stitches." I cut it out of black. And I used up more stickers and more "card parts." The lion sticker, along with the leaves, are from a set of stickers by Sandylion. The plain white circle and the scalloped circle made their way out of my card parts box a couple weeks ago. I sponged brown ink on the plain one and yellow ink on the scalloped one. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is embossed with detail gold embossing powder.

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Hi There!

Another simple little card. The flower is the last sticker in a package by Sandylion that I got from a friend several years ago. I put it on white and scored some horizontal lines and also a diamond pattern. I added the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) and mounted on green and on foam squares. The background paper is from my vast stash.

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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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Tiny Little Birthday Flowers

Two more simple birthday cards. Gosh, I love simple! :)

A few years ago, my friend Harriet gave me some stickers from Sandylion that I had admired. I finally used them up. (There were some larger ones, but I had already used them.) I stamped the stems (twice). They are from a Papertrey set. I added a tiny flower to each stem. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. I mounted the image panel on foam squares.

Another card using the last two flowers. Again, the stems are from Papertrey. I only stamped two of them. I added the flowers and the sentiment. This is a one-layer card. I don't make many of them. 

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Birthday Owls

When I was perusing through my sticker drawers, I found this package of five owl stickers from Sandylion. I've had them for a long time, just like most of my many stickers! But, I used them up on these two cards.

For this first one, I cut the openings with a Papertrey die out of a quarter piece of ivory cardstock. I adhered a piece of patterned paper behind it and added it to the card front. I stuck one owl in each square and then stamped the sentiment in brown. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

After cutting the three square openings for the top card, I was left with three squares! I added the remaining two owls to two of them and stamped a sentiment (from Hero Arts) on the third one. I mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares. The bottom section was embossed with a Darice embossing folder.

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Happy Valentine's Day ... and Two Grandkids' Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! I got two grandkids' valentines done and in the mail. The third one I have to make today. This first one is for our granddaughter. I paper-pieced the bunny (from Sandylion) with Die Cuts With a View paper. I added a punched border (with a Martha Stewart punch) and put a strip of white cardstock under it so it would show up better. The pink heart is cut with a Lifestyle Crafts die and the tiny hearts are done with the same MS border punch as the pink, but I cut some purple ones, too. The sentiment is from a Fiskars set. I mounted the heart on Dimensionals. I'm linking this to this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge, which is to use paper-piecing. 

This second one is for our older grandson, who is three. The stamps are all from a Fiskars set. I paper-pieced the turtle with sparkly cardstock and colored the hearts with a Sharpie marker. I added Diamond Glaze to the hearts above his head. I stamped and colored the background hearts.

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Best Wishes Bouquet

Another really simple card for today.  I really do love Clean and Simple cards, but sometimes I feel like I should do more.  Not sure why! :)

The flower bouquet and the butterfly are stickers by Sandylion courtesy of my friend Harriet.  I have often admired them when she has used them, and she happened to find some more of them before she came to visit me and she gave them to me! How lucky am I?! I put them on a piece of shimmery white and matted with textured pink scallop. Both are cut with Nestabilities. The entire panel is mounted on Pop Dots. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Round & Round anniversary set. This is for a wedding shower I'll be attending today.


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Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter to All!

I don’t send out Easter cards, but I wanted to make one for YOU - my blog readers. :) Of course it’s a Clean and Simple one. The bunny is stamped on white and then on the patterned paper (from a Sizzix pad.) I cut him out of the patterned paper and adhered him to the white. I used my Labels One Nestabilities to cut him out, then trimmed down the left side. I sponged some Bliss Blue on the edges, and then sponged Barely Banana over most of the rest. I used a black gel pen to draw dashed lines around the edge of the patterned matting – to match the bunny. I added a few scored lines done with my Scor-Pal and stamped the sentiment. The bunny is from Sandylion and the sentiment is by Inkadinkado.

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Happy Birthday, Joanne!

This card is for a friend who likes cows and teddy bears, so I’m hoping she might like sheep, too! But then, who could NOT like this little cutie:) (Ah, looking at this picture reminds me of the beautiful weekend we had a couple weeks ago – it was wonderful and I could even take the picture outside! And it WILL be back, I’m sure!)

I made this card for a color swap, too - red, black and white. I started by printing “Happy Birthday to Ewe” in an oval on shimmery red paper. I cut it out with a scalloped oval Nestability. I stamped the sheep – from a set by Sandylion - on white and again on a scrap of white. I cut the image out with an oval Nestability. I cut the head only out of the scrap and mounted it on Pop Dots. Then I used a glue pen and colored the sheep and the head and sprinkled it with Barbara Trombley’s Ultra-fine Crystal glitter. I added “googly” eyes and a bow. The paper is from a Matstack that was the very first one I ever bought! I hand-doodled around the top part of the card. (Actually, the card base was a “card part” I’ve had in my box for quite a while. I started a card a while back and could never get it quite right, so I eventually used up the pieces!)

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