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Anna Griffin's Feel Better Card

Happy Craft Month ya'll.

HSN has been on the telly since midnight. Anna Griffin was on and she got my crafting mojo going, so I got out her Botanical Card Making Kit I bought a while back. Unfortunately, I have someone in mind to send a get well card to. You might be familiar with the situation when someone dear to you tells you someone they love has cancer. It is hard to know what to say and how to comfort someone when they are going through such a rough time. But, I think, Anna Griffin's Feel Better card will at least bring a warm smile to the recipient of such a pretty card.

Pink Poodle Split Background Card

   Here is a birthday card I made for my sister who owns 3 poodles. 

The poodle stamp was a loose red rubber stamp I bought for 3 dollars at a craft fair. To make it a cling stamp it was mounted with "e-z mount stamp and store" padding. I used versa fine black ink and stamped the poodle all around one piece of 4" by 5 1/2" white cardstock. I colored the poodle with pink chalk.  To see how I made this card check out Darlene's you tube video on darlene's blog as she shows you the "split background card" darlenedesign.com/wordpress/  

or click on the link below and go straight to the video then check out Darlene's blog.

http://youtu.be/uhhQHr9k9M0

"Old as Hell" Angels Birthday Card

inside sentiment:   

Good News, "the old as hell" angels want you, 

Happy Birthday

I have to thank Bird's Cards for giving me this cutting file. This is the third and final card made for my friends and family born in February. This really is a perfect card for someone who owns a motorcycle and this FREE cutting file really is smoking good. I encourage you all to check out Bird's awesome site.

Here is the link to make this

www.birdscards.com/for-the-biker-in-your-life

Girlfriends at the Health Club Card

Here is another birthday card for another friend who has a birthday in February.

 We once had a conversation about those "big balls" and how we have used them during exercise classes so when I saw this Art Impressions stamp at the recent Mesquite scrapbook convention I know I should make a card with this image for her.

Another Butterfly Card

I really enjoy creating cards with a butterfly motif. They really make a card pretty. I have 3 friends with birthdays in February so I have to get out my butterfly net and round up some pretty ones for my cards. 

             

Here is the first one for a friend who loves purple.

I used watercolor paper to stamp and color with copic markers one of the stamps from the Anna Griffin 18th Century Garden stamp series.

I used Sizzix's stamp and die-cut "Framelits" butterflies #3 to create the butterflies. Some stickles and copic coloring on the butterflies made them really pop. They were attached to Spellbinders die fancy tag two.

Some paper source 1/4 inch cream ribbon and Martha Stewart's arch punch completes the recipe.

 I am entering this in My Time To Craft #206 'Things with wings' challenge

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To Thank You

Being a paper crafter I have a room full of supplies at the ready in case there is a need to make a card fast. I needed a thank you card and this what I came up with on the fly.
It didn't take too long to whip up after I pulled out the big shot, scoring board and fired up the cutting machine❤
Aren't the butterflies pretty? They are from Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Butterflies Die Collection.
The purple paper is called "beet" from Paper Source.

Freebie Friday--You Are Just My Type

I saw this on Paper Craft Inspiration's blog and thought this could be used for Valentine's Day, it is so cute.

http://papercraftinspirations.themakingspot.com/blog/free-valentines-day-dinner-set-printables-by-sj-dowsett

Freebie Friday Super Bowl Sunday Invite

How about an invitation to send by email. If you customized it in either your word processing or image manipulation programs you could send these.

I know, I know, I did not do a good job with these but I thought what the heck. I definitely need to spend some serious time working on my photoshop skills.

Does anyone know a good on line class or you tube series that could help build PS skills?

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The font I used was Myriad 24 and 14 point.

Happy New Year from Cissy and Fran

freebie friday 2013 calendar

It is another freebie friday and what better time of year than to give you a desktop calendar. Each month measures 3 1/2 " square.  Print out on letter size paper and if you have a corner rounder punch use that to finish off the look. Find yourself a little easel or put it in a dollar store lucite frame and maybe you can be more organized this coming year, if that is a new year's resolution of yours.

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Sympathy for a friend

It snowed for Christmas here in the deep south ☃ and so I thought I would show you all an almost all white card I made while looking at a white christmas just like the ones I use to know up north.

The technique is called Double Texture Embossing by Dawn Olchefske www.youtube.com/watch

I like this layout with the swiss dot embossing folder and the oval frame with a pretty stamped image inside. This technique of not embossing all of the paper in order to leave room at the bottom for a stamped sentiment is great and so versatile.

Did you know that in Eastern cultures white is associated with mourning?

Freebie Friday Font

The holiday season is in full gear and I hope this finds everybody getting their cheer on!

I have been reading a book about fonts called "Just My Type" by Simon Garfield and have been looking through the fonts in my computer and decided to do a post on fonts for friday's freebie. 

www.fontpalace.com

And to continue the celebratory theme (since we made it through the mayan end of the world prediction) AND we have so much to be thankful for I have included a link to a New Year Font.  

I have been making "font map/directories" for my ding bat fonts and have included this one for you, here is what it looks like 

Go here to download New Year font   fontspace.com/category/party

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Freebie Friday

Here is a bottle tag to place on the champagne that you know you are bringing to every New Year's Eve party!!!!

       HAPPY ALCOHOLIDAY 2013

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Freebie Friday Dover Christmas Cards

Dover Design Sampler this week had these old fashioned Christmas cards and I thought they would be nice to share with you if you don't already know about them. Dover Publishing offers free images every week. Here is the link to go to their website www.doverpublications.com or download them from here.

         Hope your holidays are becoming Merry and Bright!!!!!

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Freebie Friday Funny Xmas Card

Even Santa has to be politically correct these days

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Merry and Bright

As I was thinking about what kind of card I wanted to make for my Christmas cards this year, my mind was still on the glamour and glitz challenge. 

 So I whipped out my Lifestyle Crafts Letterpress equipment and using silver ink and silver rhinestones I played around until I found my christmas muse and it became merry and bright!

I love the debossed look of the dots from the letterpress plate on heavy weight, high cotton paper. I used my trusty silhouette cameo to make the sentiment and it's shadow and bada bling, bada boom the angels began to sing.

I will enter this card into the challenges for bling and texture.

A big thank you to Cissy for helping me find these challenges. Everyone must have a crafting girlfriend to share every craft idea that comes along!!!

simplylessismoore, allsortschallenge,  brownsugarchallenge, stampinfortheweekend

Dwell in Possibility

Here is a card I made using my new Anna Griffin 18th Century stamps and my new SU designer frames embossing folder and punch.

 The stamp was colored with copic markers Y15, R83, R85, BV02, BV31.

I  went looking for a challenge to enter this card into; no easy task to find during the holiday season.
But I did find a couple that wanted bling, so out came the rhinestones and now it is good to submit there, an anything goes (love those challenges, so easy to enter) and a texture challenge cause I have some embossing on the card.

Here are the links:   simplylessismoore , allsortschallenge, brownsugarchallenge, stampinfortheweekend

FREEBIE FRIDAY-- Queen of Shopping List

For all you gals out there who like to make lists and check them twice !

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