2018 Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing you heartfelt happiness today and every day!

Below you will see close ups of a few cards.




 

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Christmas Cards 2016

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my friends, near and far!

Made a few Holmade Christmas cards this year...and at the last minute.
Though busy, it sure was relaxing going into a zone
while playing with papers, inks and stamps!

My friend, Lynette, found this SU set, City of David at a garage sale for me!
Thanks so much for being my personal shopper, Lynette!
In addition, she found this card on pinterest for inspiration
which directs to Peggy Murwin's card on her Stamp with Peggy blog.
The dry embossed background was made from the embossing folder
in the Tim Holtz Bird Talk 2 clear stamp set by Sizzix.

Combined a dry embossed snowflake by Sizzix, Tim Holtz with Michael Strong's Cloisonne Christmas tree, a Penny Black sentiment and some twine on these.

Used Michael Strong's Cloisonne Cameo-snowflake, a SU sentiment, printed papers, ribbon and a cuttlebug snowflake dry embossing here.

Variations on a theme...adding eyelets to the Michael Strong Cameo

A closer view

Inks used
Stampin' Up! ballet blue
Versamark black onyx
distress festive berries, crushed olive & peeled paint

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Bird Talk Tag and Card

Just love these little birdies from Tim Holtz' Bird Talk clear stamp set.

My friend, Lynette, let me stamp up some on old book paper when I was at her house awhile ago.

Used her colored pencils to color them. Then they sat on my stamping table for a long time.

I found a partially made tag in my stash and used this birdie on it.

Using a recycled a coffee cup liner/wrapper, I cut my own little branch.

For the sky, I cut a my own cloud template, then sponged with distress broken china.

Here is a light purple card using another one of  Tim Holtz' Bird Talk Birds.

On each side of a white layer, I dry embossed a zig zag design

using Patterns & Stitches, a long narrow embossing folder by Tim Holtz/Sizzix.

Sponged with distress seedless preserves.

Created the same type of branch as in tag, added twine fibers and another Bird Talk birdie.

The sentiment is by Wendy Vecchi, A Form of Art-LCS048.

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Flip-its Stampfest with Linda

On Wednesday, Linda and I spent the day visiting and also stamping. She brought her Big Shot and cool Sizzix Circle Flip-its #4 die set, lots of other dies and stamps along with beautiful printed papers!

Here's Linda designing!

 The Circle Flip-its #4 die set contains 21 pieces. There were lots of small accessory pieces and a few words. I wanted to use the "Get Well", but the "Well" part was not cutting completely. Not sure why.

 

Linda's cool clear stamp set that contains the Happy Birthday and outline was great.

The die fits perfectly around this. I need to ask her for the name of that set, and will add later. We sponged the edges on some of the layers.

We incorporated some book paper on our cards. Some of the scalloped circles are from the sizzix die set. Others are punched with Stampin' UPs punches.

 

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3D Card Stampfest with Linda

May has been a great Stampfest Month!

On May 6th, Linda invited me to her house to visit and stamp.
We used the following Sizzix dies to make cards:

  Pop N Cuts XL Card Horizontal A2 w Circle Label (first 2 cards)
and Mug & Heart (3rd one in pic below)
plus
Fancy Frame Flip-its #2 (scroll down)

Whew, what a mouthful!  Long names on those dies!

You will see the inside of the "mug" card at the end.  Linda sent me a thank you using it.

Here's a close up of Linda's card.

and my card.

Here are those darling Framelits Fancy Frames Flip-its #2

 And another view.

Here's a pic of Linda's stamp room!

Look at the nice dinner Chez Paul made for us! He's Linda's husband.

Linda's daughter, Lauren stopped by-what a treat to see her!

Here is the front of the Mug & Heart Pop up card that Linda mailed me. Isn't she sweet to send ME a thank you! She was the one who hosted our stampfest!

The inside of the Mug & Heart Pop up card.

Dry Embossing & Sanding

Finally made a card with a layer of Core'dinations paper that was embossed and sanded with sandpaper.

I made this quick card for my friend, Joanie. We took a walk Friday and I commented on some pretty red bee balm blossoms. Later in the day, she brought me a bee balm plant with a vibrant red blossoms!

The "thank you" was stamped with my brand new Hero Arts set: Everyday Sayings CL34. Michaels had stamps on sale for 44% off, plus I had a coupon for 15% off everything, including sale items. I couldn't resist!

I wrote Joanie's name with my permanent Zig marker pen. The "thank you" was stamped with frayed burlap.
I made the flower with my scallop punches, crushing them and adding distress inks, antique linen and broken china, to the edges. An eyelet secured the petals together.

Another Easel Card

Another Easel Card
Materials used:
Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing folder, Birds & Branches for the top and Cuttlebug Victoria for the bottom
Distress inks-scattered straw, shabby shutters and  broken china
EK success Medallion chain large edger punch 54-50030
DeNami Design stamp