Friday, August 30, 2019

A CASE for Baby

Our new next door neighbors have a new granddaughter.  Fun fact:  On Easter Sunday, my husband and I left our old home in CA to move to our new one in OR.  We had not yet seen the new house we were building, so as soon as we arrived in our new city we went directly to our new homesite.  As none of the other houses were yet completed, there was no one else around at 4:30 Easter afternoon.  But as we stood admiring our new home (from the outside) a car drove by and stopped.  It just happened to be the daughter and son-in-law of our future next door neighbors.  So Diana was the first person we met in our new town.  And now she is a new mom.  I felt I needed to make her a card:


And having seen a similar card in the Annual Catalog, I wanted to recreate it.  I love the Highland Heather gingham pattern and the Lined Alphabet letters.  Pairing it with phrases from Well Said and Well Written completed the card.


The Balloon Bouquet punch gave me the perfect embellishment; I added some Whisper White bakers twine and a cute bow stamped with an image from Beautiful Bouquet and cut with the coordinating dies.




I find that first stamping the letters from Lined Alphabet makes it easy to line up the Layering Alphabet dies.  I love the way they make chevrons with the letters.


Isn't this the sweetest card?  Check out Lined Alphabet and the Layering Alphabet dies.  Good for any occasion; so sweet for a new baby!


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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Tags, Tags, Tags

Are you a tag maker?  Do you need little labels for all those Halloween treats, Christmas gifts or Valentine's goodies?  Then this is for you:






Pick up the Tags Tags Tags Bundle and make short work of a holiday, gift-giving chore!  Coming in the Holiday Catalog, September 4th.

Don't have a catalog?  Contact me to find out how you can get one for FREE!

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Buy 3 Get 1 FREE!

It's back!  The "Buy 3 Get 1 FREE" sale on Designer Series Paper begins September 4 and will last all month.


Now is your chance to stock up on all those gorgeous papers that make your projects "zing"!

Here is a list of the papers that are on sale:

Item Number

Page

Description
Price
149100166Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper$11.50
149443166See a Silhouette Designer Series Paper$11.50
149481167Come Sail Away Designer Series Paper$11.50
149484165Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper$11.50
148488165Garden Lane Designer Series Paper$11.50
149489165Follow Your Art Designer Series Paper$11.50
149497165Woven Threads Designer Series Paper$11.50
149589166Dinoroar Designer Series Paper$11.50
149592166Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper$11.50
149500167Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper$14.50


Add these beautiful designer papers to your Holiday Catalog order, starting September 4!


Monday, August 26, 2019

Are you Ready for Christmas? A Sneak Peek!

I'm not ready for Christmas.  I love the fall holidays, and hate to rush right into the Christmas season. That said, I purchased a few of the upcoming Holiday Catalog stamp sets in order to get a head start on my holiday cards for my stamp classes.  So here's the first I've been playing with:


Tidings All Around, along with the coordinating All-Around Wreath Dies, will make it easy to celebrate the season.  Oh, and don't forget the beautiful Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper!  Just look at this gorgeous combo!

My card base is Garden Green.  The Toil Tidings DSP has lovely patterns with Garden Green on one side of all the papers and Real Red on the other.  So making a card with coordinated patterns is easy!

This is a fun-fold card, a change-up of the Joy Fold Card.  For my front I used two patterns of the DSP, and cut two of the wreath images from the dies (no stamp used for the wreath).  I layered the two wreaths on a small ring of Very Vanilla (just to help it stand out a little against the DSP), and added a stamped banner and some Red Rhinestones.


Open the card and see two of the patterns of paper, then...


open the next layer and see another small card with more patterns of paper.  So pretty!

And finally...


Open it all the way and see the message inside.

I don't know which I like best - the gorgeous papers or the beautiful wreath!  What's your favorite?

Tidings All Around and Toile Tidings DSP will be available for purchase September 4.

Don't have a Holiday Catalog?  Contact me and find out how to get one for FREE!


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Saturday, August 24, 2019

A Unicorn for Charlotte

It's my granddaughter's birthday!  Charlotte is turning 3 and here's her card:


What's better than a unicorn card for a 3-year old girlie girl?

I researched unicorn cards on Pinterest and then developed this one on my own.  I started with the unicorn "horn", which I hand cut from a piece of Gold Glimmer paper.  Then, using a an old mini star punch I "notched" it along each side so I could wind Silver Bakers Twine around it.  Once done, I had to figure out the rest of my unicorn's head.


I cut ears using the Nature's Roots dies, sponging Blushing Bride ink around the edges.  The flowers are from Beautiful Bouquet, stamped in Melon Mambo, Flirty Flamingo, Mango Melody and Highland Heather.

Then those eyes...I felt like a genius when I chose the "scales" from the Dino dies!


Just needed to sponge a little blush on the cheeks, and I was done.  Oh wait, here's the inside:


Another retired item, my sentiment is from Magical Day.  I used Stampin' Write markers in the colors of the flowers on the front of the card to ink up the "Magical".


Happy Birthday, darling Charlotte!  I hope it's simply magical!


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