Fun with hearts

I got to play with 2 new toys on this card.

It uses the new adorning accents embossing folder and the new fashionable hearts sizzlit. 

The sentiment comes from 3 little words.

 This picture is a sideview so you can see that I popped it up on dimensionals and then popped up the hearts too.

What a fun card just to tell your special someone that you love them.

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Have a wonderful day today.

Bundle of Love

Well after making the wedding cards I posted yesterday, I figured why not make some baby cards as well.  Those are always needed too.

This is another sketch I "borrowed" from Jill Hilliard.  I just thought it was too cute and made up fast and easy.

I used the new edgelits in the occasions mini catalog for the edge on the bottom.  I love all those new framelits and edgelits in the catalog.  So much fun to play with.

 I also ran the middle section through the polka dots embossing folder to some texture...why? well because that's how Jill's cute card was....hahahaha  But I think it adds such a perfect touch.

 And my stash of four.

I have these posts preset to publish, so as I write this no baby.  I should've waited to post these cards AFTER I had a baby photo to share.  Oh well.  I will still post a picture, because that's what Grandma's do right?  At least this Grandma does. !!!

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Make it a great day.

Wedding Wishes....

I'm still working on my card stash and love that is growing.  One card that I never seem to have around when I need one is a wedding card.  I realize that at most weddings we are given PLENTY of notice to have our acts together enough to purchase a gift and make a nice card.  Oh, not me, I seem to like to put it off until I'm panicking and need it NOW!!!

I saw this fun card a while back and loved the little corner details on it, and knew I needed to add this card to my stash. 

I made this one in Marina Mist, and then was going to make 3 more in different colors....but alas....that didn't happen.  So, the next 4 weddings I go to will get a blue card no matter what their colors are.....(insert big grin here)

 I had to add some cute details to the inside too.

 These were fun and fairly easy to make too.

Well, I should be a grandma again most likely by tomorrow.  My daughter in law went into the hospital early this morning and was sent home, much to her disappointment.  She is dialated to a 4, but is not effaced.  They are walking even as I type this to try to help things along.

I'm very excited to meet my new little grandson here soon.

I will keep you posted and add a picture when there is a picture to share.

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Have a wonderful day.

You can never give enough thanks....

Before I even get started, I have to say that the stamps used on these cards are both retired. 

Last year on Angie Juda's blog, Chic n scratch, she had made these cards and I LOVED how sweet yet simple they were.  So, I made some and only had one left.  Everytime I went to my stash of cards for a thank you card, this is the one I wanted to use.  I just couldn't bring myself to use the last one, because I wanted to keep it as a sample so I could make more.

Well, as you can see, I did just that.  I used the new In Colors on these and decided I needed 8 of these, not just 4.

 Seriously, how sweet and simple are these adorable cards????  They could easily be replicated using current stamps.  I just used a sponge dauber to add a little color to the inside of the butterfly.

I made all 8 of these cards in no time.  It took longer to cut the paper to size than it did to actually make them.....(okay, maybe not, but it seemed like it).

So, if you get one of these adorable cards in the mail from me, you will know that I really did appreciate what you did, because I gave up one of my favorite thank you cards for you....: )

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I can't believe it's Saturday and my Christmas vacation is almost over.....BOO HOO!!!

Such a blessing in my life....

I don't know what it is about this card, but it is one of my favorites right now. 

I saw this sketch on one of the stamping challenges from my sidebar....(I'm too lazy to go check which one right now...sorry)  Then, while I was blog hopping, I saw a card from DeAnn Rauzi that was very similar to this one.  I just changed a few things. 

I only had time to make one of these cards, but you can best believe that I will be going back and making a LOT more for my stash. 

I used that great new Everyday Enchantment DSP from the sale a bration catalog, and can I just say, that I am very sad that it is only available for a short time.  Because, I LOVE this paper.

I embossed the Poppy Parade background with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder and then took some Soft Suede ink and a sponge, and sponged over the raised image to help make it pop a little bit.  I also sponged all the edges of each piece.  The border, in Pool Party, underneath the sentiment is a very sadly neglected stamp that had never even touched an ink pad yet, Borderlines.  Then from the Blessings From Heaven stamp set, I stamped the sentiment in Soft Suede.

So, I hope you like this card as much as I do.  Thanks DeAnn for the wonderful inspiration.  There are so many stampers out there in blogosphere that inspire me.  I wish I had more time to just blog hop and get even more inspiration.  Thank you to all the wonderfully inspirational bloggers out there that share their creations so I can copy them....(insert big grin here).

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Have a wonderful day today.

My sister's birthday card

My sister's birthday is on the 11th of this month, and starts us off with a whole bunch of birthdays from now until April....and my daughter in law is due any day and going to add yet another birthday to January.....I can't wait.

This is the fun card I made for my sister.  It uses a lot of the new products from the Occasions mini catalog.  Have I mentioned how much I love these new framelits????  I hope Stampin Up starts crankin these out like they did the dies.  I will be a happy girl. 

I just cut out a larger frame and put it inside for the sentiment.  The sentiment is from Happiest Birthday Wishes from the Hostess selections.  

 These next 2 cards also use the fun new DSP Sweet Shop from the Occasions mini. 

 Can you see the difference in the borders on these two cards?  I'm not sure which one I like better.

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Simply Soft

I decided to use some neglected colors that I really do like, but for some reason....maybe because of the Holidays, they haven't been used by me for a while.....Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz.

 I used the Simply Soft stamp set from the Hostess collection for the different flowers, but I used Sincere Salutations and Full of Life for my greetings on these cards.  The DSP is actually Nursery Nest.

 I even decorated the insides of these cards.  I left out any greeting inside in case I want to write a little note in there.

4 more cards for my stash.  It's getting pretty big....that stash of cards of mine.

And yep....there's even more tomorrow.

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Cheerful Treat

I finally used a few of my sadly ignored items on these cards.  The sadly ignored DSP is from the Hostess selections and is called Cheerful Treat....thus the name of the title of this blog post.  The other sadly ignored item is my Raining Flowers stamp set.  We got this stamp set free at Convention and I have never used it except for the projects at Convention.

 I saw this color combo (melon mambo and lucky limeade) on another card out there in blogosphere, and wanted to use it on my next set of cards for my stash.  It's a simple layout and the cards made up quickly once I had all the pieces of paper cut out.  The middle strip is just part of one of the pieces of DSP that has different borders, cut to fit.  I left the bottom melon mambo on there to give it some contrast.  Super easy.

 Here are my 4 for my stash.

Tomorrow I have some more cards using more of the Hostess goodies. 

I always seem to forget about those.

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Kindness Matters

Wow, what a task it has been to blog again.

I don't know what is up with my computers that they don't want to download my pictures anymore.  I really need to figure out what's wrong, because what I did to get the next few posts up was an all day process......hahahaha.....well almost. 

I was crazy busy during Christmas time, and then it came and we all had a stomach virus and were sick all day Christmas day, and then all the after stuff....taking it all down basically.  I feel like I haven't had anytime to play with paper. 

But, I finally did get to play, and boy have I played.

I have made a lot of cards to get my stash ready for the New Year.  That is one thing I want to do better, is get cards in the mail to people.  I mean, I make them.....I love to make them, and then they just sit.....how silly is that?

I saw a card made by Nicole Heady similar to this one, and knew I needed to make some of those.

It uses the Everday Enhancement DSP that you can get for free during sale a bration.  I LOVE this paper.  It also uses the new framelit dies available tomorrow from the Occasions Mini catalog.  I LOVE those too!!!!  I took the Kindness matters stamp set and inked it up with markers and added a little bling to the butterflies, popped it up on dimensionals.  I also wrapped some linen thread around the card a couple of times.  So easy, but so perfect.

 You can see I decided to make more than one.  I decided I was going to make 4 of each card I make for my stash.

So, if after a month and a half of no blogging, if anyone is still out there.....thank you for hanging in there with me.

I have more cards for my stash to show you tomorrow.

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Thursdays club projects and a baby picture

How cute is this little gingerbread house?

We learned how to make a house similar to this one at Convention and I've been waiting to share it with my club girls, and finally got the chance. I wanted mine to be more of a gingerbread house than the one we saw at Convention, so I changed a few things.

And you just lift up the lid and you can put all kinds of yummy treats in there for gifts for neighbors, coworkers, friends, whomever you see fit. It was really easy to make too. I have next week off from work for Thanksgiving, so I will put together a tutorial for this and post it here soon.

Then we also made these cute little stocking holders. We also learned this cute little box idea at convention. This Noel one isn't the one we made on Thursday. I just wanted to show the girls that you could bling it up a little and how cute it would be.

This is the one we actually made. I loved it and so did the girls. We ran the real red cardstock through the snowburst embossing folder before putting it together, and it gives it such a fun texture and look.

This is a view from the top, so you can see that we used the box #2 die for the middle to hold little treats. You just flip the box on it's side, and cut off what becomes the top of the box.

Here is a side view. If you look really close at the stockings themselves, you will see that we sandwiched two pieces of real read cardstock in between the white piece of cardstock that comes in the DSP package. It helps to give it some stability.

And then here's a close up of the box and decorations that we added to it.

What a fun little box this was to make too.We also made a cute little Santa topper for the new 1" x 8" cello bags filled with M&M's. I will have to post that another time with the tutorial, because it was just adorable.

Speaking of adorable, I just had to share an updated picture of my newest grandson.

Check out those cheeks!!! Those cheeks are for kissing!!!!
He's getting so big so fast. I can't believe that he is already 7 weeks old.

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Have a wonderful day today.

I took the day off work to go see the new Breaking Dawn movie.

I had a friend go last night and she said it is the best one yet, so I'm excited.

TTFN

Yep, more Christmas cards

I decided that today's post I would just add the remaining three Christmas cards I have already made  for my upcoming card buffet. 

As you can see I kept them simple.  I have a good friend who is Jewish, so I knew I needed to add a card to my card buffet that could cover my sweet Jewish friend as well.  So, this is the card I came up with.  The snowflakes are embossed with silver embossing powder and then I ran it through the polka dots embossing folder.  I added a few rhinestones and was done.

 For this card, I cased it.  I just punched the snowflake from the white cardstock and then stamped the sentiment.  Then I ran it through the polka dots embossing folder.  I added a pop of real red cardstock underneath the white and layered it on some Pear Pizzaz and Marina Mist.  I added the button with some bakers twine.

 This was also a case from Stampin Connection but I can't remember who it was that I cased.  I think this card is very pretty and elegant and also very easy.

Tomorrow I will show you the cute projects we made at club last Thursday.  I have been waiting to make these projects since I saw them at Convention in July.

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Have a wonderful day.

Pack of tags for thank you's

I absolutely love my club girls and appreciate their business and friendship  So, I wanted to give them a little thank you.  Thursday was our last club meeting for this round, and I knew some of the girls weren't going to be able to rejoin for various reasons.  I wanted them to know how much I appreciate them, so I made them some tags and packaged them up.

I have some other fun little gifts for them that I'll show you later.

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Have a wonderful day.

Shaker Frame card

As soon as I saw the Shaker frames in the new Holiday Mini catalog....I knew I had to have them. When I saw this cute card on Stampin Connnection, I knew that was the card we would be making as one of the cards at my Christmas card buffet. I actually made one before this without the red cardstock. What a difference that little pop of red made. I like this one soooooo much better.

I also love that wonderful new embossing folder. It is one of my favorites of all time.....well, until the next one comes out....hahahahaha

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I hope your not getting sick of Christmas cards yet because I still have lots left.

Have a great day.

Merry, merry

Here is yet another one of the cards I have for my Chrismtas card buffet. I'm trying to make them cute, but simple. I think this fits the bill for both. It's funny how little details can add so much to a card. Adding the cute little safety pin and the merry tiny tags really made a huge difference. Then when I added the snowflake and rhinestone brad, it made it even better.

So, I went one step further and added some dazzling diamonds to the base of the Christmas trees for the snow. Again, it really made a cute little difference.

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Have a wonderful day.

Snow much fun

Playing with paper can be "snow much fun". I have been working on my Christmas card buffet coming up pretty soon. This is the card I made last night. It was a case from Lisa Young. I thought it was so darned cute with the Distressed Dots stamp all embossed with white embossing powder for the snow. So clever.

I have more cards to share. I have been having problems with blogger, so hopefully it doesn't take me forever to post again.

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Have a wonderful day.

Gingerbread and sugared things

Can I just say that this is such a fun sketch to play with? 

I knew I wanted to use the gingerbread and sugared things stamp set for one of the cards for my Christmas card buffet, but wasn't too sure how I was going to use it. 

Then, I remembered this sketch from a card I made earlier, and viola, this is the card that evolved.

The only thing I would change is to wrap the ribbon around the whole card, not just the circle.  I had already taped down the DSP so it was too late.

I can't believe that we are already in November and getting ready for the Holidays. 

Where on earth has time gone?????

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I love it ....

I love it when you can take a card sketch, and just keep using it for all kinds of different cards.  We used this sketch in club to make a really cute Halloween card, and I figured why not use it for a really cute Christmas card too?????

This cute card sketch I originally found on Mary Fish's blog.  I just used the Christmas bingo bits stamp set for the 3 little windows and the Christmas Lane simply scrappin DSP with a little Lucky Limeade bow and viola.

I just love using Cherry Cobbler and Lucky Limeade together for Christmas cards, they really look nice together.

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Have a wonderful weekend.

Mr. Snowman

I saw this ADORABLE snowman card on Stampin Connection last year and LOVED it.  It was made by Doris Denman and this card is just tooo stinkin cute.

I'm trying to decide if we should make this cute little guy at my card buffet.....lots of details and glitter....and there will be people there that have never played with paper before.  It might be a bit much for first timers.....not too sure....But isn't he just too cute?

Again, like most cards with lots of detail, this card is so much cuter in person. 

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Oh Christmas Tree....

eThis is one of the cute Christmas cards that will be offered at my Christmas buffet class. 

In this view you can see that the middle Christmas tree is 3 dimensional and pops off the page.

 I love how it uses two different embossing folders, and the pennant parade stamp set, and coordinating punch.  It is really much cuter in person.  I saw a card similar to this online somewhere, but can't remember who it was.  I just changed a few things and I LOVE this card.

I hope the ladies like it too. 

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Have a great day.

happy Thanksgiving

I have been playing in my craft room and having soooo much fun this week. I don't think I have ever sent out Thanksgiving cards before....well, that is going to change this year. I love the French Foliage stamp set, but have never put it to ink yet, so that is the stamp set I choose to use this year. I also love the Gently Falling stamp set in the new Holiday mini, but I have been playing with that one. As you can see, I even made a matching envelope for the card.

And this is the inside. I'm going to list the things that I'm thankful for about the person that I'm sending this too, before I mail it to them.

Simple, but cute.

I have also been making Christmas cards for a Christmas card buffet that I am going to have in a couple of weeks. It has been fun creating and playing. I can't believe that we are almost in November already and thinking about Christmas again. Where does time go?????

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