Showing posts with label Dino Days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dino Days. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

My Guest Stamper

I, like I'm sure many of you, am missing my grandkids!  Although they don't all live near enough to visit regularly, I still like the thought of being able to visit when I want.  And because of these unusual circumstances, I can't.  So I'm making cards to send, like this one:


A few of my grandsons are dinosaur lovers, so I thought this would be appropriate for one household.  The Dino Days stamps and Dino dies had enough dinosaurs to make one for each child.  I even labeled them so there wouldn't be any fighting over them!  😄


After stamping and cutting them out, I added them to a Whisper White Stitched Rectangle, but I needed to fill in the back, so I cut a few of the Timeless Tropical palm trees with the In The Tropics dies.  And mounted it all to some of the Tropical Oasis Designer Series Paper.

Now little Charlotte, who is 3, just sent me a card that she made.  As the "stay at home" orders began coming out, I knew that my daughter-in-law would need help with 4 kids under 9 years old.  So I packed up a full box of card bases, lots of punched pieces, and a whole bunch of retired bling, and sent it off with instructions to send cards to friends and family member whom they can't see right now.   And I got this:


She got a little help with the printing from her mom, but she did this all herself.  Look at the inside:


There's even a picture of Charlotte and me!  L.O.V.E!

And the back:


And here she is: Charlotte, creating her card:


I heard that the flower and dot embellishments made great stick-on earrings for Charlotte and her little sister, Matilyn (age 18 months).  😁


I miss my little Charlotte (and her sister and brothers!), but am stayin' in touch through Stampin'.  How about you?


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Friday, February 28, 2020

A Dinorawr Welcome

I have a new grand-nephew!  Wow, that makes me sound really old!  My niece recently gave birth to her son, and I commemorated the occasion with this (and a gift 😄):


My grandson is a total dinosaur freak, so I thought I may as well start my new nephew off on the right foot.  

This card didn't come out ANYTHING like I had planned, but I was really happy with the results.  What started with the panel with the name cut-out blossomed into a 5-1/2" x 5-1/2" card!  Does that ever happen to you?


So this is where it all started.  Then I needed to build around his name.  I absolutely adore the Hand Lettered Prose alphabet dies!  They are so easy to create ANY word with!

My Balmy Blue panel was cut with the letters, embossed with the Subtle embossing folder, and mounted with Dimensionals over a piece of Night of Navy.


Then came the dinosaurs--each stamped with a different blue (Night of Navy, Pool Party and Seaside Spray) and cut with the coordinating Dino dies.  So cute!


My card "grew" when I realized I couldn't fit everything on a standard card base.  So I just added some Granny Apple Green (embossed with the Layered Leaves embossing folder) and more Night of Navy, which then gave me room for the palm tree (also part of the Dino Days suite).  I just had to add some grass (Lakeside dies) to finish off the card.


I'm sure little Max will be a Dino lover before long...

Check out Hand Lettered Prose - being able to create any word you want makes this SUCH a versatile set of dies!  I know you'll love them as much as I do!


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