Hello and welcome. It’s hard to believe we can have a great-grandchild turning 19. Yikes, time goes by fast.

I saw this design on Pinterest and thought I should try it. Card base is 5×5 square. Patterned paper was found online, numbers are from the Silhouette, sentiment was printed on the computer. The numbers looked kind of blah, so I dry embossed them. This was very easy to make.

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Hello and welcome. Another card for my Halloween stash.

Background paper and image were found online. Window die is Small Madison Window by Memory Box, run through a wood grain ef by The Paper Studio. Sentiment was printed on the computer then I cut the strips using my antique paper cutter. Window frame and strips are lightly sponged with black stamp pad.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for the couple that bought our MN house 24 years ago. We have maintained contact with them all these years and on our recent trip to MN they invited us to the house for a wonderful dinner.

Background paper is from my online stash, die cut is Stitched Squares by Die-namics, sentiment was printed on the computer. The pink strips were cut 1/8″ wide and blue strips are 1/4″.

Seeing family was so good. Our 5-year-old great-granddaughter loved pushing me in my wheelchair. Now the bad part of the trip. The first day of our 3-day drive something twisted in my back and was pushing on the sciatic nerve, so I was in pain the whole time we were there. The day after we got home, I saw the doctor and was put on Prednisone and that is helping.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for one of our daughter’s best friends whose mom just passed away. Card base is Balmy Blue, pink panel is a scrap piece, pp paper was found online. Die cut is Flourish Thinlits by Stampin Up, sentiment was printed on the computer, gems are from my stash. I’m hoping it will bring some comfort.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our grandson-in-law. You guessed it, he’s a big MN Twins fan. Background paper was found online, sentiment & clip art were done in my Hallmark card program. Before cutting the strips, I ran the paper through a dots embossing folder for a little texture. This is weird, when I look at the photo the center looks a little off kilter, but it doesn’t in real life. hmmm.

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Hello and welcome. The pinwheel design has become one of my favorites for masculine cards. Embossing folder used for the background is from Sizzix but unfortunately, I don’t know what it’s called. Patterned paper is Stampin Up. Center circle is hand punched and covered with Glossy Accents. Banners for computer printed sentiment were cut on my paper trimmer.

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Hello and welcome. Yay!! I’ve got good jump on Christmas cards this year (that is really unusual).

Embossed background folder is a no name one I bought on Amazon, ornament is Holiday Ornaments Thinlits from SU. After foiling the ornament with the Mini Mink I embossed it with a snowflake ef by The Paper Studio. For the ornament top I fussy cut a piece of gold glitter paper, cord is from my stash. At first I wasn’t too sure about it, but I like it.

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Hello and welcome. Today’s card is the first sympathy card for a pet that I’ve made. The other day a good friend was telling me that she had to put her pug, Buttercup, down. When she was telling me she was so sad and crying I just had to make her a card.

The background paper has been in my stash for a long time. Pug image is computer clip art fussy cut and adhered to cardstock. Sentiment was printed on the computer. The focal cardstock piece looked kind of plain so added 1/4″ background paper strips to each side.

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Hello and welcome. I just couldn’t resist using this online coloring page image again. Background paper was found online. Sentiment was printed in my Hallmark card program, bats are Hallmark clip art. I kind of messed up the bat’s eyes by using a toothpick to add a little red Stickles. Image was colored with Copic’s and popped up. I actually think this is kind of cool.

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