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

mytimetocraftchallenge

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.

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 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

Wanna do a handmade holiday card swap?

Carson over at Blue Button Press is hosting her first annual holiday card swap and we are playing along so we would love for you to join us over there too.

Peacock Alley

Hello everyone,

I wanted to show you a card I made after finding this lovely peacock cuttlebug embossing folder on clearance at hobby lobby.

I  used a couple of techniques on this card. I used the sandpaper technique on DCWV "white core" jewel colored cardstock after embossing the folder. The other technique was to run the sanded embossed card through the xyron (image side down) with the image receiving the adhesive and then once it was sticky applied glitter to the entire image. 

The peacocks needed a little more pop than the sanding and glittering so I used my white galaxy marker to color in the peacocks. The background paper is some very pretty paper I bought at Paper Source.

Give them a hand

SHAME ALERT : I waited 4 years before I had my recent mammogram.
Two of my dear friends are surviving breast cancer and they have shared their stories of multiple surgeries both for tumor removal and reconstruction, about the exhaustion that comes with the treatments, buying wigs and what size their new breasts should be. They got me thinking that I haven't checked my breast in a long, long time.
I waited because I was mad that I had to pay the full amount for 2 mammograms (the original and a call back) just because I used my own doctor and he was out of the network for my employer's insurance.
This time I had to go back again for more views of my left breast. I can't tell you how scared I was.
I was so UPSET with myself for not having yearly checkups and now I could have had CANCER all this time.
Well to make a long story short, this time was normal too but whoa I went through all kinds of scenarios from writing a will to who was going to get which of my possessions.

Here is my card for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
I found this free bra digi here http://beccysplace.blogspot.ca/2012/10/breast-cancer-awareness.html
and entered it into the 2nd Annual Linky Party at Link Up for Pink a Breast Cancer Awareness Blog http://www.linkupforpink.com/, this Linky Party closes on October 14th.

I used the Lifestyle Letterpress Celebrations Printing Plate to make my background in hot pink ink.

Anna Griffin Card Kit

I have been watching HSN's 24 Hour Craft Day Event for um 24 hours and I have resisted buying another craft item because I have already bought in the past 2 different sets of Anna Griffin card kits on auto ship.
We just celebrated my mom's 90th birthday last Saturday and she got some lovely presents so I got out my Anna Griffin Thank You card kit and made this for the neighbor who gave her a pretty lap blanket and slippers.

By the time I got the photo downloaded from my phone to my computer and then onto here I just spent 60 dollars to get her 18th century garden stamp set. Oh well, lady willpower only held out for 20 something hours

A Tim Holtz wannabe card

Doilies and Tim Holtz, who would have thought.

Copy Cat Kittie Kraft Card

I just love looking at
Kittie Caracciolo's blog kittiekraft.typepad.com

she makes such pretty cards that I wanted to try and make one too.

Here is my take

I feel a sin coming on

This card was made using a "Anne Taintor" style word stamp set that I bought years ago at one of the many stamp conventions I have gone to here in Dallas. I decided it was high time to use some of the craft items I once thought were good enough to buy.

Of course I am going to send this to a very religious girlfriend who is going through rough times.

HSN's Anna Griffin card kit card

Iphone pictures aren't really that good; I will need to find a way around this problem.
ANYBODY have a good Iphone camera tip?


I made this card for my dear old aunt's 89th birthday.
I think, correct me if I am wrong Cissy , but didn't we buy this wrapping paper at a 99 cent store in Dallas?

Leonardo DaVinci Vitruvian Man card

I am entering this in the Frilly and Funkie Renaissance Man Challenge at http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.com/2012/07/renaissance-men.html

This is what I came up with after watching Tim Holtz videos on alcohol ink techniques.

The blue background was made by dropping the alcohol ink colors stream , butterscotch and mixatives copper onto glossy white cardstock and with the felt applicator tool pounced the colors all around, then using the alcohol blending solution to spread out the color and achieve the desired effects.  To make the "leopard spots" strip, I needed to make my own stamp pad so I used Ranger's "cut and dry" stamp pad and placed the colors pitch black, latte and butterscotch on the stamp pad to get the leopard spot design  then stamped the custom inked pad all around glossy white cardstock.

My base card color is "curry" from Paper Source.
Stamp used is Just for Fun CB 9004 DaVinci Cube copyright 2000

Another Crafty Secrets Linky Party

I used a stamp from the "Thinking of you" small set to make this card. I just bought the Marty Stew's butterfly punch today for 50% off however the punch is very hard to use; you really have to apply a lot of pressure to get the cut out butterfly, I am not happy with it really. Anyone else have the same problem?