Hello and welcome. Time again for dear-old-sister’s chuckle of the month.
As soon as I saw the sentiment…“I have taken up cross-fit… I cross my fingers and hope that my clothes fit.” I thought of d-o-s because one of her granddaughters & husband own a cross-fit gym. The lovely lady image was found online. Edges of the white layer were cut on an antique paper cutter, then I used a cotton ball with Rich Razzleberry stamp pad to create a border.
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Hello and welcome. Today’s card, actually I made 2, are just because cards for our 2 kids. We usually send them a Valentine with little cash so they can enjoy a nice ‘romantic’ dinner. Well, this year we didn’t so they will be getting a just because card so they can enjoy a just because dinner.
All pp is from my stash. I decided to run the background piece through a Sizzix ef. I never embossed pp before but I kind of like it. Circle dies used are Stitched Circles from Die-namics. Red strip was run the Tiny Bubbles ef by Cuttlebug.
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A new to me sister challenge blog to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges for those cat lovers and owners. A cute and different challenge. Several cats have been our owners over the years but unfortunately after PennyLane we are cat-less.
My stamp set is an adorable release from Taylored Expressions “Endless Valentine”. A little bit of layering and a few additonal hearts complete my card today. My card will be shared with the Love My Cat challenge at the Crazy for Cats challenge blog.
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Congratulations and Happy Anniversary Darlene and Diane on the fun embossing folder challenge blog. It’s always fun to play along with your girls.
A few more Valentine cards that probably may not get in the mail this year unfortunately. My embossing folder is from Darice and patterned paper was from my stash. I had some really cute ephemera that matched nicely with the Happy Mail theme. If I made one of these barn door fun fold cards, I think I made at least three or four of them. Am I stuck? LOL.
Outside and inside view of another barn door flap using Taylored Expressions rotating heart stencil and sentiment strips from a recent “kids” kit (that I kept). Die sentiments from Gina K’s newest kit and the same Darice embossing folder but the debossed side. I couldn’t decide which way the lips should go??? See what I mean!! Stuck!
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One of my favorite flowers are tulips. When it gets close to spring, I always look for tulips blooming. The As You See It Challenge is to share my favorite part of spring.
My Favorite Thing About Spring is flowers blooming. I chose tulips today. This is a Gina K Designs set called Spring Tulips Mini. The dies used to cut the image are from The Stamps of Life. The dies used to cut the greeting is a Stampin Up die set that goes with Harvest Apples. I like how it has a little flower on each side. I used alcohol markers to color the tulips.
Thanks for stopping by. What is your favorite thing about spring? It is 58 degrees today, so I am definitely thinking of spring.
Hello and welcome. Today’s card is for our breakfast server. She’s a glittery kind of gal so just had to have glitter on her card. I had seen several versions of this card on Pinterest. For the strips I covered 1/4′ double back tape with glitter. Sentiment is from Gina K’s Birthday Blessings set heat embossed with Stampendous Marcasite Opaque ep. Flower is Spellbinders Tattered Blossoms. To my surprise I found a small piece of shiny pink cs in just the right shade of pink for the flowers. To get the right size punch for the flower center I used SU’s Owl punch. Flower is popped up. Inside sentiment “it isn’t the birthday that’s important, it’s the person… let’s celebrate you! Because she was recently married, I couldn’t resist adding “Happy first Birthday as a married woman.”
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The theme for the February Stencil Fun challenge blog is the required stencil and optional challenge of including hearts. My card includes Taylored Expressions Rotating Heart Stencil. The bottom portion of my ‘barn’ door flap was embossed using a Sizzix embossing folder. The love die was cut from a previous project stenciled background and layered on Spellbinder’s Fancy Tags die cut in vellum. Martha Stewart Heart border punch was used for the scattering of gold hearts.
I was happy to share my card in this fun challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.
My card today will be shared with the Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges #14 which is Red, White & Gold Valentines plus the optional challenge of the blog namesake Dragonfly.
For my card, I decided on an American Crafts red & white double sided patterned paper from my stash for this fun fold card. My gold element is the Penny Black Heart Bow which is mounted on Spellbinders Classic oval & scalloped oval dies. To play along with the optional dragonfly, I need to fussy cut these teeny tiny dragonflies from a Gina K designer paper pack that is one of my favorites. Sentiment is also Gina K and the Fresh Florals stamp set.
Always a fun challenge for me. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.
It’s the February Anything Goes Halloween Challenge with the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge blog. Their mood board was made up of lots of hearts. So…….how could I incorporate Halloween and Valentines, you may ask? Well you squish them together and come up with a new holiday called Hallo-tine.
Keeping with the HALLO-ween theme, I used SimonSaysStamps’s Layered Spooky Icons layering stencils and inked each panel in soft colors. My little monster is Tim Holtz Sizzix Costume Party colorize die set. After using Spellbinders’ pierced hearts dies for my valen-TINE portion of my card and a stamped the Recollections sentiment on the medium size heart. I took another die into the LABoratory. to perform surgery and stamped the baby on the smallest pink heart. Punched the EK Success funky heart in red shimmer cardstock for my little monster bursting out of the heart to complete my card.
So I’m thinking that this may be the perfect card for Will for Valentine’s Day. LOL…not sure if he will appreciate it or not. Maybe I’ll put a removeable panel inside for the sentiment I can give it to him again on Halloween and wonder if he will remember that it’s the same card. LOL…..My excuse is that I’ve developed some crazy, itchy rash on my body that makes me want to rip my skin off. So this may just be the little monster in me because of my condition. Lotions, aloe, powders, nothing helped to relieve this except scratching which then made it worse. A visit to the walk-in was YUP it’s a rash but here’s a script for prednisone. First dose today and it resulted in a little relief and a knocked me out for a short, deep afternoon nap.
Sorry for the long story tonight but my brain kind of went into overdrive on this challenge. Thanks for stopping in for a peek. I appreciate you and your time. Take care and be safe.
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