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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Second Post of the Day, Wow!

I'm actually posting to my blog for the second time today.  Here's more of the flower tags/cards I am addicted to making.  I love these new dies and I also found PaperTrey Ink.  I just love their stuff, their papers are great and I love to get things that match and the flower dies also came from PaperTrey.

I have more tags that I will add on tomorrow.  Am I addicted or what, I do get carried away with my crafts.

I'll have to take a picture of all my new dies and paper packs and put them on my blog.  Now for the pictures of the cards.  I just love this polka dot paper.  The green swirls came from Stampin Up.


New Flower Ribbon Dies

As anyone can see, I am not an everyday blogger.  I guess I should put my cards here more often than I do.  I'll try to be better at this.

I've got some new Creatables flower dies from Marianne Design that I just love and just have to show them off.  I didn't do much to the flowers other than cut them out with the dies and add ribbon.  When you cut with these dies, you end up with little slits to put the ribbon through.  There is so much one can probably do with them, but they are still new and just had to make something so I made these little gift cards.  Now wouldn't they look nice tucked in a gift bag or tied to a gift bag, bouquet, or basket.  I have more new dies that I'm going to make gift cards with, when I do I'll show them here.  The cards here, I cut out with the Nestabilities, they are so much fun to cut with.

I love to make the gift cards when I have all the papers that coordinate.  Also, some of the dies are pretty hard to get the paper off.  I used waxpaper between the die and the paper and that made it a lot easier.  Before I bought the waxpaper, I used a cellophane bag and a plastic bag, both of them worked great too.  Where there's a will, there's a way and I'm sure to find it.  Enjoy!  I just love making the flowers.



Sunday, January 16, 2011

Valentine mode

I seem to be stuck in my Valentine mode, made these cards to put in my Etsy store.  My Etsy store seems to be doing pretty good considering I just opened it in Sept.  Two of these cards sold a couple of minutes after I added them.  I am so happy to have repeat customers who love my card creations.

I love all the pinks and reds, every day should be Valentine's Day.

All the images are Sassy Cheryl's Precolored Images.  Papers are from Stampin Up, Martha Stewart, and PaperTrey Inks.  They truly are much nicer than the pictures show.  Maybe I should take photography lessons to get better pictures.  Enjoy!











Sunday, January 9, 2011

Beary Special Hug

I created this card this morning, I love the reds and pinks together for this Sassy Cheryl's precolored image. Added glittered hearts and ribbon.  Made with supplies from Stampin Up and Martha Stewart. Sassy Cheryl creates such fun images to create cards with.

Now I have to get ready to go to our Stampin Up Workshop today, I wonder what will be in store for us when we get there.  Sally always has so many creative ideas.

I'm entering this card in:
Paper Sundaes Challenge #51 - Circles



Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Valentine Cards

More Valentine Cards I made today.  You can also find all my cards for sale in my Etsy store.





Be My Valentine

I created this 5" x 5" Valentine card for the challenge over at Sassy Cheryl's.  The theme this week is all about the color blue.  My card is not totally blue but it has blue on it, so I think it will qualify for the challenge.  I used Sassy Cheryl's precolored image Delivery With A Kiss for this challenge. (I feel like I cheat using the precolored images, but they are just so adorable and I love the colors).  The inside sentiment is computer generated.

I used SU tag punch, ribbon, and cardstock, the decorative papers are from my stash. Scalloped square is a Nestabilities, ya just gotta love those Nestabilities.  One can never have enough of them.



Monday, January 3, 2011

A Beary Special Valentine!

It's been quite a busy time over the Christmas and New Year's holiday and hopefully now I can get back to making cards.  I've made this Valentine card to enter in Sassy Cheryl's Challenge 43.  The theme for this challenge is "Teddy Bears" and it is her last challenge of 2010.  Nothing like waiting till the last minute to get my entry in.  Taking a break from cardmaking, it is not quite so easy to get back into.

I created this 4.5" x 6" card with MS papers and border punch.  It was such fun making layered flowers with some of my new dies and punches and added ribbon to the card. I used Sassy Cheryl's precolored Beary Valentine image and added SU Crystal Effects to the hearts for a glossy look.  I can't believe that I made a card without glitter, now how did I ever let that happen.  I decorated the inside and added a sentiment for a finished look.

Other challenges I am entering this card in:
Southern Girls-Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday Challenge
Craft Your Passion Challenge #39