Gee - Another Pink Flowery Birthday Card!

It's no secret that I love using flowers on my cards. :) So, here's another one.

The flower image is a digital image from Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps. It's called Happy Flowers. I colored it with Copic markers, matted with Old Olive cardstock and mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper is from a Recollections pad. The sentiment is from Papertrey's Birthday Basics set.

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Christmas Sunday

My Christmas card for the week. I'm entering it in the Christmas Card Challenge blog. I'll update this with the theme for the week soon. The main challenge, though, is to make a Christmas card.

The three stamps that I used for this card are from a Stampin' Up! set called Bells and Boughs. I stamped them with Versamark and embossed them with gold embossing powder. I colored them with markers. The embossing on the lower left was done with a Cuttlebug folder. I matted with a piece of shimmery gold.

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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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CAS on Sunday Challenge Sketch

I saw a link to a new-to-me challenge called CAS on Sunday. Thanks, Leslie:) I loved the card she made for it and was inspired to give it a try.This week's challenge is a sketch.

I did something I VERY rarely do - I used a colored card base. (I really should do it more often as I have SO much colored cardstock.) The color I used is called Marigold Morning - a retired Stampin' Up! In Color.) The patterned paper is from a Recollections pad. I stamped the flower (from the SU! set called Secret Garden) with Versamark on the Marigold Morning and embossed with white embossing powder. I used the coordinating die to cut it out and I mounted it on a Dimensional. The sentiment (from a Papertrey set) is also embossed with white.

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Flutter By Wednesday #239

Today is the start of another Flutter By Wednesday challenge. Many thanks to all who participated in last week's challenge! This week's challenge is the ever-popular "open" challenge - anything goes as long as you include a butterfly or fairy. Please link your creations up to the Flutter By Wednesday blog. You can also find all the wonderful cards by the design team there.

For my card, I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut the flower. I taped my patterned paper to the back and then adhered a piece of white cardstock the same size as the card front over the patterned paper. The sentiment is from a new Stampin' Up! hostess set. I stamped it with Gumball Green and cut it out. The butterfly was punched with a Martha Stewart punch and embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I added small gems to the butterfly's body and a tiny gem for the dot over the "i" in the sentiment. The sentiment is mounted on Dimensionals.

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Embossed Birthday

I've had this brad sitting on my stamping table for a long time, and it finally made its way on to a card. I used it for the center of a flower I've also had for a long time. I embossed the background, added the flower and stamped the sentiment - from Papertrey Ink. I matted with Papertrey's Lavender Moon cardstock.

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Christmas Sunday

I managed to get a Christmas card done last night. Nothing special, but one more finished.

I used a Cuttlebug border folder for the embossing. It's an oldie but goodie. I matted with a layer of navy. I sponged some navy ink around the side edges and added Star Dust Stickles to the snow. The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions. Edited to add: The embossing folder is no longer available. It's from a retired Cuttlebug border set called Winter Borders.

This card is for the Christmas Card Challenge blog. The theme this week is shaped cards, but the main challenge is to just make a Christmas/holiday card.

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May Calendar Page

A day late, but here is my calendar page for May. Sure doesn't seem like May weather-wise, but the calendar says it is!

I used a Technique Tuesday set called In Bloom. The inks I used are Stampin' Up!'s Crushed Curry and Color Box Maroon and Olive Pastel chalk inks. I sponged ink around the edges. The patterned paper is from a Recollections pad.

Also, a bit of information for you. When I posted this card, I couldn't remember where I got the image. Thanks to Leslie, I can now tell you where it came from. It came from Alexandra's blog, on this post. Thanks so much, Leslie!

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Flutter By Wednesday - Anniversary/Love/Wedding

A new Flutter By Wednesday challenge starts today. In honor of Danni's Anniversary (which is today!), the theme for this week's challenge is Love/Wedding/Anniversary. We are sponsored this week by A Day For Daisies. One lucky participant will receive a $12 gift certificate towards digital images at A Day for Daisies. So, be sure to post your card - including a butterfly or fairy, of course - to your blog or on-line gallery and then link it up to the Flutter By Wednesday post.

The members of the design team were allowed to choose a digital image to work with for today. I chose this cute little Carnation Pixie. I paper-pieced her dress and the flowers. I colored the rest with Copics and added glitter to the wings. I matted with black and mounted on Dimensionals. The papers are all from a Recollections matstack. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. 

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Christmas Sunday

I hesitated calling this post Christmas Sunday, because I'm not sure I'm prepared to post new Christmas cards again each Sunday, but I'll give it a shot. That way I'll limit my Christmas card postings to once a week, anyway:)

The set that I used for this card is from Stampin' Up! and is called Bells and Boughs. I stamped it with Memento London Fog ink and colored it with Copic markers. I embossed the top with a Cuttlebug border folder, added a couple scored lines and matted with a reddish cardstock. I'm entering this in the Christmas Card Challenge blog. The main challenge is just to make a Christmas card. The "real" challenge this week is a sketch, which looks like a great one, but I make my Christmas cards before the challenge is posted, so I rarely follow the challenge.

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Black and White Wedding

How about a wedding card for today?

I used my Stampin' Up! set called Easy Events again. I stamped the image on a strip of white. I added a little bit of color to the leaves and the heart. I added some Star Dust Stickles to the wings and heart and tiny gems to the eyes. I used Scor-Tape to make glittery stripes on the sides with black glitter. I matted with shimmery black and used Dimensionals for added dimension.

Edited to add: It was suggested to me that I enter this in the Runway Inspired blog challenge, so I did! The challenge this week is an Inspiration challenge, based on this photo.

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Flutter By Wednesday #237 - A Sketch

Today's card is for the new Flutter By Wednesday challenge, which is the sketch below. Thanks to all of you who joined last week's challenge and I hope you'll join us again! Please make your card using the following sketch and remember to add your butterfly or fairy. Then link your card up to the Flutter By Wednesday blog.

For my card, I used my Stampin' Up! Serene Silhouettes again. I stamped it using a Kaleidacolor ink pad and added teeny tiny gems to the flower centers. I cut it and the matting with Circle Nestabilities. I embossed the purple layer with a Sizzix folder and the white layer with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. I matted the white with black and added larger gems to follow the sketch. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. We'd love to have you play along.

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Two More Christmas Cards

I did a little stamping yesterday and last night and made these two Christmas cards and a wedding card. I will share the wedding card on Thursday.

Both of these cards use a stamp from one of my new Stampin' Up! sets called Easy Events. For this first one, I stamped on white and used a Memento marker for the leaves. The berries are Liquid Pearls. I used my Martha Stewart scoring board for the lines. I had to "deboss" them because I put the pearls on first:( I mounted the image panel on Dimensionals. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder.

This card uses the same stamp. I stamped on slightly-textured red cardstock and colored with a Memento marker and a Tim Holtz white distress marker. I matted with Old Olive cardstock. I embossed a border along the bottom with a Cuttlebug folder.

Edited to add: I almost forgot to link up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog this week!

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One-Layer Daisy Birthday

I was filing some digital images on Friday and came across this one. I thought it was very pretty. I'm so sorry that I didn't make a note of where I got it. :(

I printed it directly on the card front. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and just blended a little bit with a blending pencil. The sentiment is from a Papertrey set.

To answer a question from a comment from "Anonymous" yesterday: I don't know of any way to find out when someone has pinned something from my blog to Pinterest. If any else does, I'd love to know! Once in a while I just search on Pinterest for "My Stamping  Addiction" and can see what shows up. Things other than my cards show up, but if I click on one of mine, then I can click on the link to "Pinned from My Stamping Addiction." I don't use Pinterest for anything other than that:)

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Happy Birthday, Dad!

It was my dad's 88th birthday on Wednesday. We'll be seeing him later today. This is the card I made for him. Usually he gets cards that "do something" or are a special fold. This year, he just gets a "card." :) And it's late!

Sometimes I look at Pinterest just to see which of my cards have been pinned. That's always fun. Yesterday I looked through my pinned cards and was inspired to case one of these cards that I've made. I cut the circle mask with a Nestability. I sponged through the hole with Baja Breeze and Sahara Sand inks. Then I stamped the tree image (from Stampin' Up!'s Serene Silhouettes) with Soft Suede ink. The sentiment is also from Stampin' Up! - from Curly Cute - and is stamped with Buckaroo Blue. I sponged around the edges with Sahara Sand and then again with Soft Suede and I matted with Soft Suede. I wanted a little something more, so I spritzed it with a shimmery coppery spray that I made using Perfect Pearls and water in a little spritz bottle. Of course, you can't see the shimmer.

Edited to add: This card is also for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge to make a Clean and Simple birthday card.

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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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My First Christmas Card for 2013! - and some news, too

Finally I made a Christmas card for this year! Last year at this time I must have had about 20 of them finished. Oh well - I have time:) Some day I'll start on my calendars, too, but not today. If I start cranking out the Christmas cards, maybe I'll start up my "Christmas Sunday" again.

Anyway, back to this card. I've had this piece of textured off-white cardstock with the glittery strip on it in my "Card Parts" pile for quite a while. I'm pretty certain I used a piece of Scor-Tape and sprinkled it with red glitter. I finally decided to use it. The sentiment stamp and the mistletoe stamp are both from a set from Stampin' Up! called Christmas Blessings. I colored the leaves with a Memento marker and the berries with a white Tim Holtz marker. I matted with Real Red cardstock. This card is also for the Christmas Card Challenge blog. There is always a specific challenge, but the overall challenge is just to make a Christmas card.

An update on my mom. Her PET scan showed that the surgeon was not able to remove all of her cancer. She will be starting six weeks of radiation today. Any prayers for her would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

And some great news - we will not only be getting a new grandson at the end of May - we'll be getting a new grandchild in October, too! Pretty exciting!

And this is in response to Celia's question on this card. Yes, I use Goo Gone as a substitute for Gamsol, which I do not have. I have heard that you can use baby oil, also, but I have never tried that.

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Flutter By Wednesday #236

How's this for a Clean and Simple card? :) I made it for this week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge, which is to use a sentiment on the front of your card. And use a butterfly or a fairy, too, of course! You can find the details and the wonderful creations of the design team on the Flutter By Wednesday blog.

For this card, I stamped the sentiment (from a Papertrey Ink set) on a small piece of white cardstock with SU!'s Soft Suede ink. I inked up the butterfly (from Inkadinkado) with Soft Suede, also. I stamped it off once and then stamped again over the sentiment. I matted with a layer of Soft Suede cardstock.

We'd love to have you join us this week!

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Happy Anniversary, Lucy and David!

This card is for my good friend, Lucy and her husband, David, for their anniversary. It was actually yesterday, but I know she reads my blog every morning and I wanted her to see it in person before she saw it here. Hope it was a great day, Lucy! Lucy and I have been friends for ... way too many years to admit to here! LOL! (Nearly 50, if you really want to know.)

I had the flower image printed out from last Wednesday's Flutter By Wednesday post, so I colored it and used it. I used Prismacolor pencils and Goo Gone for the coloring, and I added Star Dust Stickles to the flowers. I cut it out and glued it to the bottom layer. The bottom layer is stamped with a PSX stamp, embossed with a Stampin' Up! folder, and matted with black. Edited to add: I forgot to say that the digital image is from Beccy's Place.

This card is also for this week's CAS-ual Friday challenge to use sparkle on a CAS (Clean and Simple) card.

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Welcome Little One!

I stole a little time yesterday to make a card. We've still had so much going on. (Lots of decisions, among other things, and we're not good with major decisions! Luckily, they are nothing serious - just "fun" choices in our house, but stressful, nonetheless.)

Anyway, I made this card for Natasha's Clean and Simple Stamping blog challenge, which is always a sketch. The elephant is paperpieced using an Inkadinkadoo stamp and Die Cuts With a View paper. I colored the patches and charm with markers. I cut the partial circles with Nestabilities. I stamped the sentiment - from a dollar set from Studio G - and then embossed the background with a Sizzix folder. The matting is Going Gray from Stampin' Up!

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Sympathy

Another simple sympathy card to share today. I realized I'm going to see my friend that wanted the sympathy cards later today, so I thought I should maybe make some!

The card base is vanilla. The image is from Stampin' Up!'s Serene Silhouettes and is matted with black. The sentiment is from SU's Close as a Memory.

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Pink Princesses

I made this card for our granddaughter - the little princess who loves pink!

The embossing was done with a Cuttlebug folder. Before dry embossing, I brayered the folder with Versamark ink and Pretty in Pink ink. After dry embossing, I used sparkly embossing powder on it to make it all sparkly and pink. I punched the corners with a Fiskars heart corner punch and matted with Pretty in Pink cardstock. 

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Flutter By Wednesday

A new challenge from Flutter By Wednesday starts today. And it's everyone's favorite - Open! Just be sure to include your butterfly or fairy. We are sponsored this week by Beccy's Place. She generously supplied images to members of the FBW team. The image I chose is called Blossom Sprig. So pretty! She is also donating a prize to one random winner - three free digis of your choice. Be sure to check out her blog, too. There is lots of inspiration and also lots of free images on the blog under "Freebies." So what are you waiting for? Simply create your card with a fairy or butterfly, post it to your blog or on-line gallery, and link it up the Flutter By Wednesday blog!

I colored my image with Copics and kept everything very simple. I matted with black, stamped the sentiment (from a Papertrey Ink set) and added a couple little black butterflies with beige pearl bodies. They were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

Edited to add: I'm entering this card into the Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge for this week. The challenge is to make a Clean and Simple card. I think this qualifies:)

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Leafy Birthday

A simple birthday card for a guy.

I cut the leaf with my silhouette and used the negative image to sponge the green ink onto the cardstock. Then, leaving the mask in place, I used a retired Stampin' Up! stamp (Antique Cracking) to add the dark green. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. Sorry to be so brief, but as I'm typing this, I am so ready for bed!

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Happy Birthday, Georgia!

A birthday card for a friend in my stamping group - Happy Birthday, Georgia!

The doily stamp is from Stampin' Up! and I stamped it in Perfect Plum. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and I stamped it with Elegant Eggplant. I matted with Perfect Plum. Simple, but pretty, I think:)

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Spring Thinking of You

Just a simple Thinking of You card to share with you today. The image is from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Feathered Friends. I colored it with Copic markers. I matted with black and punched the edge with a Martha Stewart punch and mounted on foam squares. The bottom layer is embossed with a Stampin' Up! folder and also matted with black. That's it!

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Flutter By Wednesday Challenge - Flowers!

This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is to use flowers. Not a big stretch for me! We are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps, and they are generously offering a prize of five digital images to the winner, chosen at random. So, be sure to use flowers and your butterfly or fairy and link your creation up to the blog. Check out the wonderful creations by the design team, too.

For my card, I started by stamping the petals of the daisy with Versamark on white cardstock. I embossed it with white embossing powder. Next, I sponged the blue and the green onto the cardstock. I drew the stem with a marker, stamped the leaves and the black on the petals, and added the button. I matted the panel with black. The butterflies were in my "card parts" box. I know that I did them at one of our Group Gatherings, but I don't remember how I made them. The stamps are all from Papertrey Ink.

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April Calendar Page

I think I remember just last week commenting that it was March already, and here it is - APRIL!! LOL!

Here is my April calendar page. The cloud stamp and the kite stamp are both from Repeat Impressions. I paper-pieced the kite with paper from Recollections and colored the tail pieces with a marker. The sentiment is two stamps from Studio G sets. As always, if you are interested in printing out your own calendars for stamping, my Excel files are available through a link near the top of my page - under the title. I'd love to hear from you if you choose to try them!

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all of my Christian friends! I hope you get to spend at least some of of the day with friends and family! (Clipart is from the Microsoft website.)

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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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Another Pink Birthday

Another birthday card using my new Stampin' Up! Secret Garden stamps and dies sets.

This card is actually ivory, even if it looks white to you. I stamped the flower on watercolor paper and used an Aquapainter and Raspberry Ripple ink.it I cut it with the matching die and mounted it on foam squares. I embossed the panel with an SU! Square Lattice embossing folder. I have long admired that folder, and now I finally own it! I matted it with black. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

Linda at Paper Seedlings has honored me with a Liebster award. Thank you so very much, Linda! (While I am thrilled to receive the award from you, I rarely pass them on. Sorry - it's nothing personal. I just don't!)

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Flutter By Wednesday - a Color Challenge

Happy Wednesday to you all! A new Wednesday means it's time for a new challenge from Danni at Flutter By Wednesdays. This week's challenge is a color challenge, and the colors to use are blue, yellow and green. You are allowed to use other colors, also, but please make these your dominant colors. Have fun, and be sure to link up your creations - including a butterfly or a fairy, of course! - to the Flutter By Wednesday blog. Check out the awesome creations by the design team while you're there.

My card uses an image I stamped a long time ago. I came across it after it our move. It's a stamp from Door County Rubber Stamps. (Check out the "About Us" page. My husband took the picture when we were there a few years ago!) The stamp I used is called Tracey's Bouquet. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and used Goo Gone for blending. I added tiny black gems for the black-eyed susan flowers. I matted with black. The entire card front is covered with sparkly cardstock from a Die Cuts With a View matstack. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. It's matted with black and mounted on foam squares.

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Flower-y Birthday

I haven't had any new Stampin' Up! items for three and a half years, but I placed an order last week and it arrived today. That was kind of fun:)

The flowers and leaves were stamped and die cut using the "Secret Garden" set. I inked the flowers with Summer Starfruit. The leaves were inked with a Gumball Green marker and then "thumped" with a different color green Tombow marker. I sewed buttons for the flower centers and the lower left flower is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations - also SU! (retired.)

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Pink Princess Birthday

This is the card I made for our granddaughter for her third birthday, which is later this week. (Three already!)

She likes dressing up and being a "princess" so I thought using this embossing folder which has a castle on it would be good for her. (It's a Cuttlebug folder.) I cut the letters using Lasting Impressions paper and my Cameo Silhouette. The flourish was cut with a Memory Box die. I matted with pink, and rounded all the bottom corners. Since it was "princess-y" I thought I'd add some gems. 

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Pink and Delicate

I made two cards yesterday - yippee! They were both made using some parts that I cut with my Cameo Silhouette. I'll eventually learn how to use it and have some fun with it. I must say, it was great to take the time to actually make some pieces specifically for cards, instead of just "testing it out." Both cards I made are pink and girly. I'll share the other one with you tomorrow.

For this one, I cut the doily and the butterfly with my Silhouette. I added Star Dust Stickles to the butterfly. I cut a circle of light pink and put on the doily. Both the doily and the butterfly are mounted on foam squares. The bottom white layer is embossed with a Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and matted with the same light pink. (Pink Pirouette from Stampin' Up!)

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Birthday Wishes

A simple birthday card for today - my favorite kind:) Happy Belated Birthday, Kris!

The flowers are from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Love Blooms. I used True Thyme and Orchid Opulence inks. The paper I stamped on is shimmery white, so I also embossed with clear embossing powder. I cut the scalloped layer using a punch and Orchid Opulence cardstock. The green layer (True Thyme) and the white were cut using Nestabilities. The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations and is stamped with True Thyme. I mounted the circle layers on foam squares and used white and True Thyme layers on the card base.

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Navy Birthday

Another simple "guy card." These are so hard for me to make, even when I'm on a roll with stamping!

The sentiment is from a $5 set from Papertrey. I used navy ink. The papers are from a Die Cuts With a View matstack. The matting is all navy, and the vertical piece is scored with my Scor-Pal. It was in with my scraps, and worked quite nicely. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares.

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Flutter By Wednesday - a Sketch

This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is another sketch by Kathy. Fun, huh? We'd love to have you join in, so just create your card based on this sketch, add your butterfly or fairy, upload it to your blog or on-line gallery, and link it up to the Flutter By Wednesday blog. Be sure to check out the wonderful creations by the Design Team, too.

For my card, i started with the lily image from a Hero Arts set. I stamped it with Stampin' Up!'s Crushed Curry ink, cut it with a Nestability, and drew in the dashed lines before removing the die. The matting is Crushed Curry also, and black, cut with more Nestabilities. The patterned papers are all from a Recollections matstack. The lily panel is mounted on foam squares. The butterflies were punched with a Martha Stewart punch and the sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set. I added three gray rhinestones to the vertical layer and also smaller ones to the butterflies.

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Best Blossoms Anniversary

An anniversary card for friends.

The frame was cut with my Cameo Silhouette - one of the few things I've cut with it. Hopefully I'll spend more time with it some time soon! I cut an oval to put under it and stamped the flowers on it. (They are from a Stampin' Up! set called Best Blossoms.) Then I stamped the sentiment, from My Sentiments Exactly. After stamping, I sponged the entire panel with SU! Soft Sky ink. I added a row of black gems under the sentiment for a little more balance. I matted with a layer of Soft Sky cardstock and a layer of black. It feels good to be doing some stamping again. I'm entering this into the Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge, which is to use sponging. I suppose my sponging should be a bit more prominent, but I made the card first and then saw the challenge:)

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Flutter By Wednesday - Any Winged Creature

This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is an always-popular one - create your card using any winged creature! Please check out the blog for all the details, to link your card, and to check out the samples by the design team members.

I used a piece that's been sitting on my table for a couple weeks. The partial circle is the piece cut out for another card I've shared. And I stamped the sentiment as a practice for placement on that card. Since I hadn't tossed it out, I decided to use it:) The sentiment is from Gina K. I stamped the bird (from an Inkadinkado set) with Versamark on Riding Hood Red cardstock (from Stampin' Up!) and embossed it with detail gold embossing powder. I cut it out, mounted it on foam squares and attached it to the sentiment piece. Then I matted with more red cardstock. I used some shimmery gold paper for more matting and embossed with a Sizzix folder. I matted it with one more layer of red.

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Simple Black, White and Red Birthday

I took a little time in my stamping room tonight. Gosh, did that feel good! Honestly, I'm worried that after so much time away from stamping, it might be hard to get started again and maybe I'll quit. I don't WANT to quit! So, I'm going to try to make more time and see if I can get some creative juices flowing again.

So, here is my simple - but kind of elegant:) - card. The flowers are from Hero Arts. I had stamped them a couple weeks ago, trimmed them way down and matted them with red. They've been sitting on my table since then. I added a black strip, popped the image up with foam squares, and added the sentiment from Papertrey Ink. I put everything on a white layer and added it to the card front. I love white on white layers. I remembered that Repeat Impressions' Designer's Choice challenge this time is black, white and red cards, so I'm entering it the challenge.

An update on my mom: Even though the radiologist recommended several weeks of radiation even if the PET scan came back negative, the surgeon said she should have her PET scan the beginning of April and if comes back negative, she doesn't need to do radiation. So, prayers for a negative PET scan would be greatly appreciated! How awesome that would be!

And a house update: We finally had both cars in the garage last night. Yippee! The garage isn't totally finished but at least everything is close enough to the edges that we can use it. The bikes are hung up and the tools are in the workroom. My stamping room is really quite finished. We still need to go through each room and clean and polish the woodwork and remove all the "excess" paint (they were pretty sloppy!). And we still need to hang the pictures. But, it's pretty much home:)

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Flutter By Wednesday #230

The challenge this week from Flutter By Wednesday is open - just use a butterfly or fairy on your creation and link it up to the blog. We're sponsored this week by Pattie's Creations and the design team members were generously given some images to work with. I chose this delightful Thinking of You image.

I printed the image and colored it with Copic markers. I matted with Papertrey's Berry Sorbet cardstock. I used a cardbase from Repeat Impressions. (They are available here.) We'd love to have you join us with the challenge! Edited to add: There is a prize this week for entering the challenge. One lucky entrant will win three digital images from the sponsor!

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Birthday in Blue

My creativity is starting to return, although you can't tell it by this card! Since I'm lacking in blogging material, I thought I'd post it anyway:) I needed a "guy card" and let's face it - there are some guys that really don't care what the card looks like, or even if they get one!

The two stamps are from the same Inkadinkado set. I inked the circle one up with some Versafine ink and then used a Tim Holtz distress marker around the outer edges. The sentiment was inked up with just the marker. The patterned paper is from a Die Cuts With a View matstack and the solid matting is from Stampin' Up! The circle panel is mounted on foam squares.

Update on my mom - I went down to visit them and go with them to her appointment with the radiologist on Thursday. She will likely decide to have radiation. Doesn't sound very pleasant, but is highly recommended in her case. She will see her regular doctor next week and get his recommendation, also. She would probably have about six or seven weeks of it, five days a week.

I think I finished my stamping room finally - except for the pictures, clock, etc. to hang on the walls. Yippee! We still have things to do around the house (I've been working on scrubbing cupboard doors, etc. and then polishing them, cleaning windows, scrubbing sinks and showers. The previous owners were really quite hard on the house!) but we're getting there.

I printed out my calendars for 2014 earlier this week and got them all cut on Thursday. I feel like I'm slowly making progress. Last year at this time I had at least January and February done and possibly March. Plus, I had lots of Christmas cards made already. Oh well, that was last year and this is this year and I WILL be ready when the time comes. Maybe it will be another year of making about 50 cards the same and the other 30 or so different. I often end up liking the mass-produced ones better than lots of the unique ones anyway!

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March Calendar Page

Oh my gosh - it's March! I know I've been very busy with our move, but how could it possibly be March already?? LOL!

Here is my page for this month. The basket is stamped with an Inkadinkado stamp and is paper pieced. (I noticed when I put it in the frame after photographing it that the upper left corner of the basket was folded up. I fixed it when I put it back, but didn't bother to take another picture.) I colored the eggs with markers. The patterned paper is from Recollections and the sentiment stamp is from a Studio G dollar set.

If you would like to print your own calendars to decorate, feel free to use my Excel files. You can find them (both 2013 and 2014) at the top of the page under the header. I'd love to hear from you if you choose to download them.

I'll be back tomorrow with a simple card and a couple updates.

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