Cheery Flower Birthday

Just a simple card to share with you today, to celebrate spending some time in my stamping room! Actually, I had a friend over to stamp yesterday, and we had a great time. She got LOTS of cards done, and I watched - and found her some things she needed. I made this card last week, I think, and made a couple Christmas cards yesterday.

All of the stamps on this card are from a Gina K set. I added a strip of Washi tape across the top and matted with matching cardstock. I mounted on foam squares and added the image panel at an angle on the card front. The image panel and card base are ivory.


Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Hello Birdie

Another short stint in my stamping room, and more card parts:)

This bird was already cut and colored and mounted on foam squares, so I combined him/her with another scrap on my table - the white strip with the lines embossed with my Scor-Pal. I added the "hello" which I cut using one of my new Darice sentiment dies. I matted the white piece with a leftover scrap from the piece I covered the card front with. I also mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares. The patterned paper is from a new Bo Bunny pad I got for half price at JoAnn's.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Calendar Files Uploaded

Just a short "FYI" post for today. Yesterday afternoon I added the links to the Excel files for the calendars for 2018 and 2019. You can find the links in the tab under my blog title.

I'd love to hear from you if you use them! (Thanks, Sharon, for the nudge I needed to get the new ones uploaded!)

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Stenciled Birthday

When I ordered some new embossing folders last month, I also got one set of sentiment dies and one stencil. For today's cards, I used different parts of the stencil. The stencil is by The Crafter's Workshop and has eight small patterns on it. For each card, I used a different design and a stamp from a Stampendous birthday set.

I used purple distress ink applied with a sponge on this first card. I added three flowers that I got in a pack from Hobby Lobby last summer. You can't tell by the picture, but they are glittery.

For this second card, I used Stampin' Up! ink and a stipple brush. I added three black "nail heads." The panel is mounted on foam squares.

This one again uses distress ink applied with a sponge, and is also mounted on foam squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

More Christmas Joy

I had previously stamped and colored this image from Inkadinkado with Copic markers. I also added some sparkle with Wink of Stella on the bell. I simply matted with black and added to a scrap of green that was sitting on my table. The image and the cardbase are ivory.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Christmas Joy

More card parts - a great way to get one's mojo back! :)

These three stamped and matted letters were in my card parts. I mounted them on foam squares and added them to a strip of red that was also in with my card parts. The letters are from a Stampin' Up! alphabet set (I believe, anyway) and were cut out with a punch. The matting was done with a punch, too. I had first used a pearl-y shimmery paper for the embossed background, but it was too "fancy" for the whimsical letters, so I did it again with plain white cardstock. The snowflake embossing folder is from Sizzix. I've now got a start on my 2017 Christmas cards!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Rose Sympathy

Yippee - I have some cards to share with you! Yesterday while Jim went to have coffee with friends, I went into my stamping room. And during the night, when I should have been sleeping but I was wide awake, I went back into my stamping room. And then this morning when I got up (after just about three hours of sleep) I went into my stamping room to take pictures of the cards I had made, and I finished one more! It was fun. I now have six cards to share. Nothing spectacular, but it's a start. (We also tackled our closet yesterday. We took EVERYTHING out of it, except for the hanging clothes that we decided to keep. When we moved in four years ago, the master closet became the "catch-all" and we had never gotten around to fixing that. Yesterday was the day. We've not quite finished putting everything back into it, but we've pretty much gone through everything. THAT feels good, too!)

Anyway, back to this card. The stamped and matted rose was in my card parts. I believe the stamp is from Inkadinkado and was colored with markers. The ovals were cut with Nestabilities. I mounted it on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey. The image was stamped on a textured paper and the cardbase is ivory.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Paper-Pieced Birthday

It seems like forever ago since I've able to spend some "alone" time in my stamping room. Maybe this week:) I did spend some time with our granddaughter in there last week while they were visiting with us, though. That was fun!

So, I thought I'd show Amelia paper piecing. I still had my "new" items from Gina K out on my table. (The stamps I used on this card are both from a Gina K set. I think I got my Gina K order in November.) I stamped the bird on some light blue dotted paper and carefully cut it out. Then I stamped it on a rectangle of white and colored the image, except for the bird's body. I matted with matching cardstock and mounted on foam squares. I embossed the background with a new-to-me embossing folder from Darice and matted with the same color cardstock. 

EDITED TO ADD: Hanny (and others), I did not get your private email. Sorry. The name of this embossing folder by Darice is Gem Swirl. I got mine from Consumer Crafts, but I'm sure it's available many places. Here is a link. (When I got mine, they were buy-one-get-one-free with free shipping at $30. I couldn't resist!)

Gosh, I hope to do something new sometime soon, but I still have so much that I HAVE to do - like go through my stamping stuff and purge, clean our closet, and, most importantly, go through the boxes and boxes of photos and papers from my mom and dad's house that are sitting on my treadmill, for lack of a better place to keep them. (We've been walking at an indoor dome.)

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Happy New Year!!! ... and January Calendar Page

Happy New Year to all!!!

Here is my first calendar page of the New Year. The snowman with snowflakes image is from Hampton Arts Outlines. The sentiment (which I cut into three pieces) is from My Favorite Things. I colored with Copics and added some sparkle with Star Dust Stickles. I matted with lavender cardstock.

If you would like to print and make your own calendars using my blank calendar file, you can find the Excel file and the cutting instructions in the Calendar tab under my blog title. I'd love to hear from you if you do!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Happy Birthday ... to ME!

Well, today is my birthday. It's almost over but I thought I would share my birthday cards with you:)

This first picture is all of the cards that I got. I know at least a couple more are coming.

This second picture shows the hand-made cards I received. The first one is from my granddaughter - how sweet!

Thanks so much to everyone who sent me a card or birthday wishes. I had a wonderful day!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!! I wish you all wonderful times with friends and family, and safe travels!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Thanks for the Cards!

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! And Happy Hanukkah, too!

I thought I would post pictures of the wonderful hand-made cards we have received this year. We appreciate them all SO much! We also appreciate all of the non-hand-made cards, too!!! But, since this is a blog for hand-made cards, that's what I am sharing:)

This first one is from Georgia. I will post the names under the other cards, with links to blogs if there is one.

In no particular order, here we go!

Leslie

Vicki

Nancy

Michele

Annie

Donna

Bea

Gloria (But I think it was made by Karen.)

Kris

Sheri

Terri

Pam

Donna

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Celebrate

Kind of a boring card, but it was really nice to have a few minutes in my stamping room and use some new stuff. A few weeks ago, I got some new Gina K stamps, patterned paper and cardstock.

I used one of the new stamps and some of the patterned paper. I matted the image and the background paper with olive cardstock. I mounted the image panel on foam squares. I colored the image with Copics to match the paper and also added a bit of sparkle with my Wink of Stella pen.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Happy Birthday, Sheri!

Today is my friend Sheri's birthday. This is her birthday card, even though it doesn't say "birthday" on the front:)

The stamps are all from a Tim Holtz set, and the bird is cut out with a die that came with the stamps. I colored the bird with Copics and mounted him on foam squares. I matted that panel with matching cardstock.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Happy Birthday, Owen!

Here is the card I made for one of our grandsons for his birthday, which is today. He is now six already!

He loves Legos, and especially Star Wars Legos. A friend of ours lent us his Lego Death Star for Owen to play with. So, I thought I would put a picture of it on his birthday card. I cut it out with a circle Nestability and mounted it on a square piece of black cardstock. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Happy Hanukkah!

Here is my Hanukkah card for the year. I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut out the "Happy Hanukkah" from "holographic" paper. (The paper/cardstock was from Crayola. I bought it MANY years ago from a dollar store. I THINK that this is the same stuff, from Amazon.) I added the cut-out to an almost navy cardstock, then matted with shimmery silver paper and mounted on foam squares. The background - with shiny silver snowflakes - is from a large matstack from several years ago from Recollections. I matted it with the almost-navy cardstock.


Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Christmas Blessings

The last of my Christmas cards for the year. I made a total of twelve of these cards - with various embossed backgrounds and orientations and slight design variations.

The sentiment and the image are from the same Stampin' Up! set. I used detail gold embossing powder for them. I cut the image and the sentiment with stitched rectangle dies. I mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares. I matted each embossed background with shimmery gold paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

December Calendar Page

And my last calendar page for the year. :) Next year's pages are done already, thank goodness. It's so nice to (mostly!) get them done in the corresponding month - doing next year's January page in January of this year, etc.

My December page is almost always embossing on white. This year is no exception. However, I usually use silver embossing powder and this year I went with gold. The embossing folder I used is from Darice. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I matted with shimmery gold paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

More Holly Leaves

The last of the cards from my Recollections matstack - a total of twenty-one all together. (Some were duplicates - if I had two sheets of the same pattern - and some had multiple cards made with the same sheet.)

The green piece on the left is from the matstack. The holly leaves were stamped with a Stampin' Up! stamp. I colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

I had so much fun using up this matstack! I am so looking forward to purging and using more supplies starting after the holidays. :)

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Joy

The next-to-the-last card using my Recollections matstack cardstock. The green background has Christmas words on it. The "JOY" panel is matted with patterned cardstock and mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. I colored with Copics and added Wink of Stella shimmer to the bell. I added a few score lines with my Scor-Pal.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Tin Soldier Christmas

Another card using my Recollections patterned cardstock. I trimmed down the tin soldiers and mounted that piece on foam squares. The bottom, fairly solidly colored piece is also from that matstack. I embossed it with a Sizzix folder and lightly sanded. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The cardbase is ivory.
Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

"Cheater" Cards #3

 Three more simple designs using patterned cardstock. For this first one, I matted the patterned piece with shimmery gold paper. The mostly-solid piece on the left is from the same matstack. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is embossed with gold detail embossing powder. The card bases are all ivory.

 I matted this image, and the sentiment, with dark green cardstock. The sentiment again is from Papertrey. I mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares.

Matted sentiment with shimmery gold and mounted on foam squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Color Swap - Brown and Silver

The colors for this month's color swap in my stamping group are brown and silver.

I used one of my favorite browns - Soft Suede from Stampin' Up! I also used shimmery silver paper for the matting. The background was stamped with a Stampin' Up! stamp using Versamark and then embossed with silver detail embossing powder. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is also embossed with silver. The sentiment panel is mounted on foam squares. The cardbase is ivory. I liked this card so much, I made another one for our son-in-law, whose birthday is on the 30th.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Happy Birthday, Harriet!

Happy Birthday to my good friend, Harriet! Hope you had a great day yesterday!

The base of this card is ivory. The bottom layer (brown) is Soft Suede from Stampin' Up! I love that color! The butterfly paper is from Gina K. I cut the butterfly paper in two pieces and stamped the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) directly on the bottom layer of Soft Suede. I stamped it with Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I added a couple very thin strips of ivory. I also cut out two of the little butterflies from the patterned paper and added them by mounting them on foam squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! I wish you all safe travels and happy eating. Give thanks for your blessings.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!

"Cheater" Cards #2

 A few more of my "cheater" cards. For all of these cards, I simply used the patterned paper from my Recollections matstack, matted it with coordinating paper/cardstock, and added a sentiment. The sentiments for all of these cards are from Papertrey Ink. For this first card, I used shimmery gold paper for matting and embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder. The card bases are all ivory.

 I guess no matting on this one:) Just gold embossing powder for the sentiment.

No matting on this one, either!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!