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Those Punny Cards

are sometimes my type, sometimes not.  This would be cute for a kid's birthday.  Or an adult with a sense of humor?

 

Due to insane life, no time for the chit or the chat so here are the supplies--

Stamps:  PTI Green Thumb and Memory Box Modern Elements
Cardstock:  A Muse Studio Sugar and Lime (yum) and Papertrey Kraft
Ink:  A Muse Studio Lime and Versafine Onyx
Other:  Papertrey dies; Stampin Up ribbon

MOOD WHEN DONE = Hoppy (I know, I know)

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And Erica asked about my decision to get a Silhouette vs other machines.  Will report later this week on my extensive research and what I plan to DO with the Silhouette.  Hint -- the purchase is directly related to my Mom's refusal to move to assisted living!  Can you say stress?

Layering Sentiments/Memory Box Paper

Card Construction Details:

1. Selected Robin's Egg Memory Box paper.  Stamped flower with Versamark. Embossed in white.

2. Stamped small sentiment repeatedly in gray, moving roughly along the edge of the flower.  Set aside over night to avoid getting embossing powder on the gray sentiments.

3. Rubbed embossing buddy over card.

4. Stamped large sentiment with Versamark over the smaller sentiment.  Embossed in white.  Happy with the layered sentiment thing.  

5.  Colored center of flower with Gray SU marker (no bleed through).

6.  Added glue pen over center of flower and along the open petals along the edge.  Added loose glitter.  Loose glitter is easier to control than Stickles and is a more even, elegant look.  

Mood When Done = Satisfied++

Supplies:

Stamps:  PTI Year of Flowers Violet and SweePeas; PTI Around and About Sentiments
Paper:  Memory Box Robin's Egg
Ink:  Memento london Fog, Versamark
Other:  White embossing powder, embossing buddy, glue pen, glitter, SU gray marker 

 

 

Keep in Touch

A bright happy card -- 

Card Construction Details:

1. Stamped various images and colored just a bit.  Aiming for just a bit of color to balance out the bright card.

2.  Punched with various sized circle punches.

3.  Adhered circles and stamped sentiment.

Now that was fast and easy.  I think I'll use this layout many times...

Notice the card?  It uses Memory Box cardstock, which comes with a white side.  I'm going to be reviewing this in a later post.  A fun alternative that has a finished look that I love.  More on that later.

Mood When Done = Bright!

Supplies:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Year of Flowers: Violets, Flutter By, and Take Three: Fall
Cardstock:  Memory Box (color unknown); PTI White
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo
Other:  Circle Punches, adhesive, Copic markers.

 

Dreams

This card is for one of my son's teachers, who is leaving to attend graduate school.  I hope she likes the card (and grad school!).   It has exactly the look for which I was aiming -- feminine, hopeful, pretty, just like the recipient.

Here's the companies I'm keeping afloat with this card:  Memory Box In the Garden (bee, dotted swirl and flower), Papertrey Ink Pond Life Sentiments; Martha Stewart scallop punch; Stampin Up Marigold Morning Cardstock, ink, blender pen, black and white cardstocks and black marker; unknown ribbon. 

It's 2 am; I get up for work at 5.  Wish me luck!

Plain, But Not Butt Ugly...

I needed a little treat for my husband and son for Easter.  We don't celebrate Easter the way we used to anymore, but I figured since I have $70,000 worth of stuff in my craft room I should be able to put together a couple of Easter things. 

The first box I made is so butt ugly that I don't have the nerve to post it (oh, maybe some day when I've made something awesome to counteract the butt ugliness!!), so the super ugly one went to my husband, who aimed right for the chocolate anyway... 

This one is the plain/nothing special/but not butt ugly/kind of cute, in a kindergarten kind of way, KWIM??  HA!  I'm not sure my son even noticed the box, but I bet he did.

I used some lime Memory Box paper, and added some white Love & Happiness Rub Ons from Stampin Up.

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Update on life for those interested:

Surprise, my mom's kidneys are fine.  Frankly, we both had mixed reactions to this.  She said that part of her was hoping that she was slipping away.  I detest seeing her so sick and in so much pain with no known reason.  She is still miserable with severe nausea and stomach pains and is in the hospital with an admitting diagnosis of "ambulatory disorder."  I LOVED the sound of this -- I think I have it too -- I can't run away!! LOL

I'm glad she is in the hospital as IV Morphine literally morphs her into a different person, and it is a nicer one!  Now I know where the slang morphs comes from!!  Maybe they will figure out what is wrong and she can regain some quality of life.  And, when my Mom is in the hospital, I get a bit of respite from the daily grind (just being honest...). 

Thanks to Liz and Colleen, who sent birthday cards to her.  Very kind, especially since Colleen dropped it off at the house personally.   Ooh, and they were both so cute! 

Oh, it is later than I thought, off to work!

 

Inspiration, A Card and a Day

I'm taking Julie Ebersole's Simply Great Card Design on My Creative Classroom.  It is everything I wanted and more! Highly recommend it if she offers it again. 

 

The Lord & Taylor bag served as the inspiration for this card.   I just love it (the bag, that is)!!

I knew I had some beautiful melon/white duplex paper from Memory Box that this bag reminded me of, and voila a card is born.

I simply flipped the paper so that the melon outside was inside, punched a hole for the heart (from Love Matters, a retired Stampin Up! set) and made a little black circle frame to go around the opening with a couple of round punches.  The sentiment is also from the same set.  The inside heart edge has some glitter around it to add a bit of bling.  This card is for my husband, whose birthday is today!  Happy Birthday Mikey!! 

To read more about my life...click..otherwise, go stamp!

Carte-licious -- Part 3 -- Ready or Not!

Melissa, Sue,  Rose Ann and I participate in these fun challenges, in which we get stamped images from each other and all agree to post a card on the same day.  If you haven't already, please click on their names and check out their adorable versions of "Veggiebella."

Mine should have been posted yesterday, December 11th.  However, I didn't like how it came out and I have a new resolution not to use or post cards with which I am not happy, including the photos of the cards that don't capture the image properly.

However, since I'm letting down my challenge partners by not posting a thing, I am posting this card, which I made earlier this morning.  I have issue with it and the photo, but hey, I can't withhold my goodies forever!

I'll have to provide the supplies, details later, but I can say that this is Veggiebella watercolored with Peerless Watercolor sheets.

Thanks for playing this challenge ladies. It is now my turn to pick an image...

Too Much!

My "screaming at my neighbor" post was really too much and you guys were terrific in talking me down off the ledge of life.  I swear I'm normal, whatever that means.  However, I've given some serious thought to my neighbor and to me and your comments helped me with that process. 

And speaking of super nice, did you see Julia Stainton mentioned me on her blog, Belle Papier?  Well, not me, but Dear Paperlicious!  Thanks, Julia.

I'm a huge fan of Julia's work, which is frequently featured in papercrafting magazines.  She is the "Queen of Sewing on Paper."  So, if you click on my link to Belle Papier, it will take you to a link to Paperlicious and you will be in the vicious circle of blogs!

I posted a card here earlier today but it was bothering me.  My eyelets were crooked.  So if you saw a card here earlier, you aren't imagining things.  Hopefully, I'll have time to re-do the card tomorrow. 

 

Skater Girl

I guess it is time to get serious about making the rest of my Christmas 2007 cards!  I always promise myself that I will start them early in the year, but that never happens.  Please don't tell me if yours are done already! 

I love my little skater girl card -- the sentiment is clear and crisp in real life -- I just can't get a good picture lately.  I colored her skates blue because I had blue skates when I was a little girl!

Supplies used:  Stamps:  Memory Box Doodle Christmas (clear set); Memory Box Homespun Paper; Memory Box Holly Notecard; Stampin Up red cardstock, wide ribbon and jumbo pewter eyelet; Amuse Arts twinkle; Beckett's Expression #80 white cardstock; Prismacolor pencils; SU Markers; Bashful Blue classic ink; corner rounder punch. 

Read on if you'd like to know more about what's going on in my life. 

Two Versions/Same Card

Not surprisingly, I'm unable to sleep tonight.  Sometimes stamping is just the ticket to soothe the soul and other times it is simply too much.  Tonight, it was the ticket.   

This card ended up nothing like my original plan.  When I was done, I thought -- cool spring colors for a winter card??  And then the string of self criticism began -- should have matted the image in black; the cup isn't centered, etc. 

Luckily, I remembered this post by Asela Hopkins and I was able to stop the criticism and just enjoy. 

But, I still wondered what the card would look like with a different color scheme. 

The miracle of computers!   I fooled around with photoshop and changed the color of the card.  I had taken several versions and the one posted below was with a black background.  By adjusting the hue, my purple and green card is now pale blue and brown! 

Hey, I like the second version better!!  Can't send it in the mail, but who cares?  Make believe I sent it to you and enjoy! 

Supplies to make the card:  Cup and sentiment from Memory Box Doodle Christmas clear set; Black Sakura Jelly Roll Pen; Black Memories ink; prismacolor pencils; Marvy scallop punch (the little yellow one), and Making Memories Embellishment Paper (MM Kids Collection - Emma).