February 2013 cards

Another great month of making cards. As you can see, I was a little busy.  

I made a "magic" card with a Stampin' Up sailboat.  LOVE IT!! So easy!

Then I decided to case a card I had seen.  This is using Stampin' Up! Stippled Blossom and Perfectly Penned.  I made 2 of each, one Get Well and One Birthday.

This is sad.  I found the most adorable little girl digi images and was buying them up left and right! They are from The Digi Garden, https://www.facebook.com/TheDigiGarden

Not too soon after I started buying them, the owner/artist, Jacqui, who lived in England, her and I started chatting.  Just once or twice, she was not feeling too well and was home recovering.  She even made an image of a little girl named after me!!!  Not even a day after my last email with her, we were told she had passed away.  They no longer sell her images.  God Bless you Jacqui !!! You are missed.  

I had purchased this Spellbinders butterfly die.  What a PAIN IN THE A##!!!!  Just saying, have a piercing tool ready. I was also told to use a piece of wax paper in between the die and the paper to help the die come loose from the paper easily.  I will have to try that the next time I make something with a detailed die.

This one... my Mother-In-Law bought me a Hot Off the Press kit with a cd of ideas and directions to make a lot of different things.  One of them was this card-box.  Check out the video.

My friend Lynn started me with this.  She got the Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch.  I JUST LOVE IT!!!  There are two sizes.  The circle behind it is a Spellbinders die.

This one is using two Stampin' Up embossing folders.  

Another card I've really been wanting to make.  I had to google the instructions on this, but it is SOOOOO easy!!! I love it.    The paper is a Susan Winget paper pack I purchased from JoAnn Fabrics with my 50% off.  Hey, it was 360 sheets of gorgeous paper!!!!

Thanks again for taking a look!!!!

Stamping at the Moose

Monday nights the IWIA Stampers (stands for I Want It All... hahahaha!),  we go to the local Moose Lodge and bring a project to stamp.  It's open to all crafters, knitters, stitchers, painters, whatever is your thing.  If you are in the Baltimore area and want more information, please email me.

Anywhoo...  I was cleaning my stamp room a bit (and boy it sure needs more cleaning!), and I found my chicken card I made for the Bel Air swap last year. It was during Hurricane irene.  My friend Lynn took my card since we high-tailed it out of the state to my parents house. But I found the box and it had a few pieces that were undone. So I finished those up.

And I needed sympathy cards.  Another friend, Robin P.'s mother passed away.  God Bless her.  And another friend, Crystal T.'s mother passed away a few days later.  I'm so glad I was able to get 7 of these done.  It's sad you need cards like this, but I'm happy to have them now.

Inspiring!

This is what inspires you... besides April teaching us to make a pansy with the butterfly punch... Rich and I went to spend an afternoon/evening with friends we haven't seen in years.  Gosh it was so wonderful.  Dee and Larry are retired (well deserved)... and she loves her flower beds.  Dee has gorgeous pansies... and I thought this would be a nice thank you card to send to them.

Gotta love those Stampin' Up jeweled brads!!!

And tomorrow is the IWIA Shoebox swap. The theme is Masculine cards or Patriotic cards.  This is what I made;

Rich was there when I was making this...  he said men don't like ribbons, buttons or bows.  He said we are simple creatures, and they like things plain.  So...  he loved this card.

Mary Hamre's Baby Card

Ok... this is my first attempt at "Paper Piecing". This is the Sizzix Sizzlits Die Set 4PK - Stuffed Animal Set http://www.sizzix.com/product/120, you can get on sale at AC Moore or Michaels, or use your 40% off coupon.

I have never done paper piecing, and even though, I'm sure it's been around forever... I wanted to give it a try.  You'll have to let me know what you think.

Used:

Paper: White, Going Gray, Basic Black and Rose Red

Ink: SU Basic Black Marker

Accessories: SU Chalks, Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Scalloped Circle, Stampin' Up Dots embossing folder, cuttlebug folder(don't know name) and Sizzix Sizzlits Die Set 4PK - Stuffed Animal Set

Whoops! Forgot Shawna's card!!!

I made this card last night for a friend... who is having knee surgery. This is my 2nd time using my nesties, and I love paisley. You can't see it very well, but the apricot paper has paisley from a texture plate, and the SU background paper has paisley, as does the bashful blue small paisly. I ran that and the pink through the SU daisy embossing folder. It's quite adorable.



And how could I forget Shawna's card?!?!? This is Changito hanging onto this fella's leg... I laugh every time I see this!!!! Great card Shawna!!!

10-25-09 Cards!!! Thank you Cards!

One of our members (Mary Ham) is not feeling well... so I thought I would break out my nestabilities (which I'm completely hooked on now), and make this cute card.

I made this with my nestabilities and then ran them through my cuttlebug. What do ya think?

And I just love this SU! set, bird on a branch. The branch I made using my Cricut. It's almost identical to the branch in the set.