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Thursday, April 21, 2016
Happy Birthday Claire!!
So my youngest granddaughter Claire has passed the one year old milestone this week! We are going to celebrate her birthday this Saturday, and I made this card for her. I totally cased a card I saw on Pinterest this week from a gal called Karen...here is the link Karen Hallam!! I used a couple different colors in my card but pretty much copied her design!! Of course Claire at 1 year old could care less what her card looks like, but her Mom might like it & put it in her scrapbook!! Thanks Karen for the inspiration!! Except for one coral colored sheet of paper from the Lawn Fawn Petite Paper Pack, all the rest of the patterned paper came from the Heidi Grace Designs Sunshowers 6 x 6 paper pad. I used a myriad of supplies to make this card come to life so I will just state them quickly & be done with it. I have actually vowed not to order many cardmaking supplies over the last couple of years, and was quite proud that what I did use, came from supplies on hand..some of which I had not used before!! The oval balloons...an inside die from Spellbinder's Fancy Framed Tags Two. The inner & outer scalloped strips on the left ..Spellbinder's Classic Scallop dies. The two circle dies that frame the number 1..Spellbinders. The 3 small stitched banner dies on the bottom right side of the circle are probably the only new item I've bought in the last year from Simon Says Stamp Bundle of Stitched Shapes set! The sentiment is from a Stampin Up set I bought years ago called "On Your Birthday"! Thanks for stopping by...hope you like it!!
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Baby Celebration
So my son & daughter-in-law are expecting their first baby around May 5th. They know they have a baby girl coming & they have chosen to name her Harper. We are having a baby shower for her this coming Saturday and I created her card using Fiskar's Up In The Air clear stamp set. The theme for the nursery includes hot air balloons, so this stamp set is perfect!! In fact, everything on the front of this card except the stork & baby are from that set. I did some masking first and then inked the entire front of the card up using Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass distress ink. I stamped the larger cloud, hot air balloon and stork/baby on white card stock, colored the balloon & stork/baby with Promarkers and then fussy cut them all out. I glued the stork/baby on, and attached the large cloud & hot air balloon using foam tape. The baby/stork image is from the Gina K "Mommy to be Diva" stamp set as well as the inside sentiment & pregnant mom image that I colored with Promarkers. I think she'll really like it! Sorry for the not so great photographs of the card...my photo program was not working correctly when I went to post this!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!
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Monday, March 28, 2016
Congratulations/Easter
This past Saturday my husband & I traveled up to Michigan to attend the Easter Vigil mass with my son and daughter-in-law Crystal. During this Easter Vigil mass, the candidates that have completed their studying to join the Catholic Church, in our case my daughter-in-law, receive the sacrament of Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion. It was a beautiful mass & we were very happy for her! I made this card to give her for this celebration. Both the gold foiled card stock (from DCWV stack) and white square were die cut with the same stitched squares die set. Sorry, but I don't remember the manufacturer. The scripture, which I heat embossed with gold embossing powder, is from the Baptism & Confirmation Verses set from Our Daily Bread Designs. The gold ribbon I used for the bow came from Michael's. I think it turned out really pretty. Thanks so much for stopping by!
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
Happy Birthday
Today I wanted to create a set of cards that I could donate, and decided to case a set of cards I saw on Pinterest using a rainbow of colors!! I had the exact embossing folder they used, and some of the exact fabric flowers they used...how weird is that!! The Happy Birthday embossing folder is by Cuttlebug, and I have no idea where the flowers came from. The Pinterest cards I cased used kraft paper for the base & ribbon for the cross hairs, instead I used matching paper for my cross hairs & card base. I love CAS cards & I really liked the results!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Another New Challenge
I don't know how everyone feels about patterned paper, but I am definitely intimidated by it most of the time when trying to make cards, especially large bold patterned paper!! I've been searching on Pinterest for cards made with patterned paper & came across a pin for a One Sheet Wonder tutorial on the Craftsy website. (http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2015/11/one-sheet-wonder/) I picked out a bold 12 x 12 sheet of vintage looking patterned paper in my stash that I would never dream of using on a card, & went to work cutting all the measured pieces shown in the tutorial. I used black card stock scraps to back them. The sentiments came from sets by MFT , Simon Says, Avery Elle, and Recollections. I made 14 cards (2 of which are not shown..ran out of room in the picture) and I was so pleasantly surprised with the results that I will definitely repeat this process with another 12 x 12 sheet of patterned paper. The picture does not really do them justice!! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!!
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