Benjamin's Name Frame

Made a name frame for our newest member of the family, Don's nephew's son, Benjamin.

 

Without the frame.

In an 8 x 10 inch frame.

Here is the baby card. Started this at Lynette's house earlier this month.

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.

Aunt Laura's 60th Jubilee

My dear Aunt Laura celebrated her 60th Jubilee of being a sister (nun). She belongs to the order of sisters called
The Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate (Joliet Franciscans).
The card I made for her is a 4-1/8 x 5-1/2 inch booklet. I cut purple cardstock in half (lengthwise) for the cover. I added 2 sheets of white cardstock for the inside to make more pages. I trimmed them down slightly so they would not show "through" the cover. I bound the booklet with fun fur yarn by punching 3 holes on the center fold with my 1/8 inch punch. Stitching directions and diagram are below.

Cover

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

last page.

Here are stitching directions for binding the booklet. You can use twine, floss, ribbon, yarn--use your imagination! Hetty Sanders' tutorial for her card sized booklet is my inspiration! The paper size is different in the Jubilee card above, but the stitching is the same.

You can see my Aunt Laura and me at her OLA Jubilee celebration on May 15, 2014.

Stampscapes, Etc. Stampfest with Lynette

On May 5th, Lynette and I spent the day at her house making cards. 

We worked as a team on the Pin-inspired cat card called Banner Kitties, found on Diane Roberts' Score at Four and a Quarter blog.

The spring design on our ATC (scant 3-3/4 x 2-3/4 inch) was inspired by the Tim Holtz' March 2014 tag. This size fits in one of the 12 spaces of the 7 Gypsies Shadowbox tray that Lynette has on her wall in her stamping room! Maybe I'll copy her idea and get one of those shadowboxes too. We found many websites to inspire us on the stampscapes cards.

Here we are after a fun day of stamping!

Butterfly and Dragonfly

In addition to being a birthday card, this card will be submitted to the Enjoy Michael Strong Stamps Yahoo Group for the May Challenge and it will also be shared on Hetty Sanders' Craft Chaos blog. Hetty is offering a chance to win Michael Strong's new Cloisonne Pony stamp to those who submit an entry with at least one Michael Strong Stamp. Check out the details on her blog.

Here is my "interpretation" of it. I did not follow the sketch exactly.

I used Mike's Cloisonne Mosaic Frame, Mini Cloissone Wings. 

...and the flower from Mini Cloisonne Shapes on the inside.

Materials Used:

Distress, Stampin' Up! and Versafine Inks

Hero Arts, Michael Strong and PrintWorks Stamps

Clear embossing powder on the butterfly and dragonfly.