Follow His star – Nov. 6

This is a simple Christmas card that really comes together after all the images get colored. The scene is all one stamp! To change the message on the card, the words at the bottom can be switched up. I have some in progress but didn’t get to color them yet as we decided to go to a holiday craft show at the high school for the Saturday afternoon.

To add some sparkle, I used a Nuvo Glitter Marker along the snow hills. Another option I want to do is dry embossing the words. Endless possibilities!

In the bottom photo, you might see a fish stamp… card coming to the blog soon!

Stamps: K020 Snowman Scene Large, D240 Those Follow His Star

Christmas scene on handmade card in front of a white background

Christmas scene on handmade card in front of black background

Thinking of you bouquet – Nov. 6

Dull Glossy Paper, Thinking of You

How cute is this pink and brown combo!? The white background piece on this card is white felt and the smaller white piece is dull gloss. The bouquet is colored with alcohol ink markers. This thinking of you comes as a set of 4 mini word stamps. The three other phrases with it are: Thank You, Happy Birthday, and Just Because.

White felt paper link (The Paper Cut)

Dull glossy paper link

Stamp links: DD13 Word Fun Cube, G375 Floral Bouquet 1

We are slowly getting back into our regular routines post surgery. Recovery is much quicker after this, hopefully, last surgery. Still resting but there’s also much to do!

Holiday cards – Oct. 13, 2023

Dull Glossy Paper, Halloween, Holiday, Thanksgiving

It’s almost holiday season! Thanksgiving is the holiday some of our extended family and friends can join us for and it is always a wonderful and special time together. We look forward to it every year!

For those who we are not able to get together with, we can send cards! It is not the same as being together in person but most years it is just not possible with family and friends spread all across the world.

Stamp links: F214 Every Thought at Thanksgiving; EE60 Pumpkin Pie; EE61 Carving Turkey; E308 Cooking Pot

Links: DD44 Ghost; CC54 Black Cat; FF39 Pumpkin Trio; B259 Boo! Bubble; C296 Treat for you Heart; A231 Spider Small

Wishing everyone a happy Friday!

Celebrate rose

Dull Glossy Paper, flowers

Happy Thursday! We went back to a familiar layout and circle rose for this card (link to previous post at the bottom!). We just skipped the extra piece of color backing the front white swatch and pop up. Opting instead to put directly on the white felt background. This makes the card easier to mail. We have a lot of half done cards but just need to get some time to complete them and take photos! Hopefully more posts soon. Stamp links are below.

Links: DD47 Circle Rose; C287 Celebrate; C320 handmade card inside

Three Potted Rose cards

Thank you and thinking of you

Creatures, Dull Glossy Paper, Frogs & Bugs, Thank You Cards, Thinking of You

Sharing two simple cards tonight. Both stamped on dull gloss paper and colored with copic markers. The grass on the lamb card was made with marker but the set does come with a grass stamp. I just didn’t use it for this card because it would have been too much for the layout. Although I might need to try some variations and you could give me your opinions! All for now, links are below.

Stamps:

CS104 Lamb Set

B305 Thank you

C320 Handmade Card Inside

Stamps: E343 Butterflies, E041 Thinking of you, C320 Handmade Card

Birthday Ewe!

Birthday, Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, Dull Glossy Paper

Things are starting to look up around here. Healing is making big leaps and bounds and I am feeling more like myself.

Today is a cute and simple ewe card! Enjoy.

Stamps Used: F235 Triple Flag; C206 KB’s Lamb med ; EE59 Ewe Fun Cube; DD71 Cake Time Fun Cube;

Oppsy Daisy!

Quickutz, With Sympathy

We thought we’d better update anyone who tried to place an order in the last day or two – We used Square process for credit cards and they suddenly quit working. We disconnected and tried to reconnect (Go Daddy told us too!) and now it doesn’t recognize our passwords. We tried calling square only to be told there is an “uncommon outage” whatever that means! We have reconnected credit cards to Go Daddy so the website is again accepting credit cards! Thanks to Lynn who called me to let me know she was having trouble! So a few quick cards I made for my son – hard to stay away from flowers!

All using the same stamp and random cutting dies I found in my stash – really old ones!

D334 Heartfelt Sympathy

More!

Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, flowers, With Sympathy

I have been having a good time stamping since my mobility is decreased due to the belly incision not healing right. I think it’s getting better but hard to tell! I start back to work 4 hours a day today – that’s probably all my brain can take. Looking forward to getting some kind of routines going again. This card is so elegant in real life- pictures don’t tell the whole story. Happy Monday!

Card Layout Continues

Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, flowers, With Sympathy

G371 Heartleft Sympathy & GG51 Daisy Vase Lg

So I did take Kevin’s advice yesterday and didn’t “over due it” and stamped pretty much all day! I love this layout! I started with several sheets of 8.5×12 card stock and cut at 5.5” on the 11 inch side; then cut two pieces 4×5.25” and 3.75×5”. I discovered that you can’t score the paper under the circles to just cover the circles to save paper. You have to use a full 3.75×5 piece. Well, I guess you don’t have to but if you want your card to look good you need to! What I like about cutting several cards is then I can just make cards and not have to get up and cut every time. I did take two circle die cuts and cut out of the 4×5.35” paper- they did go on random – in other words I didn’t measure to get them in an exact spot. I scored the 3.75×5 all the way across- again it makes the cards even across.

Normally I would not tape these pieces together and stamp but because of the curl on the scored paper and I wanted a photo- I had to.

Will let this be all for now- but more to come!

Happy Saturday!

Flipped Layout

Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, flowers

Good Morning!

I wanted to flip the layout on the cards that I’ve been doing. My sister also suggested I make a frame around the square. So I did both!

I did also sprinkle some gold sparkle on it too. Again I left the square empty since I’m not sure what kind of card it will be- more than likely Sympathy.

Lily of the Valley stamp link: EE46 Lily of the Valley Stamp and Cutting Die

I think I’ll go do some more stamping! I have 3 inches of my belly incision that has “wound delayed healing” which actually means a painful belly🤪 I was planning to clean bathrooms today but when Kevin left he said “don’t over due it today” so stamping it is!

More Sympathy

alcohol ink, Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, flowers, Uncategorized, With Sympathy

I got started making sympathy cards and couldn’t stop. I also want to try this same card layout but change it up a bit today – we’ll see how the time goes. I’ve got a doctors appt so that kills a lot of the day.

I did stack these die cuts. One of my favorite things to do rather than use 3-d-dots. I just cut two extra layers and glue together. Love the look and feel! Stamp links: GG47 Hollyhocks; CC31 KB’s Bees; C331 Heartfelt Sympathy Sm;

Here are some directions for the layer: The layer (4×5.25”) card stock is usually the same color as the base card. score as below.

I do score twice. I score, then take a 1.5” square cutting die, and line up.

Cut out and then re-score since they get smashed in the Die Cutting machine . You could cut first and then score but I like the visual of knowing where the scores are. My score tool is just holding the paper down for picture.

I decided to leave this blank and stamp when I know what kind of card I need.

Beautiful Day

2021 Releases, pattern paper, With Sympathy

We have a gorgeous day here in Wisconsin. I feel like we’ve had a very cool summer which is probably ok since we didn’t get the pool open this year.

Last night after supper I decided to make some sympathy cards since I was down to none. Our son is a minister and he asked for some sympathy cards the other day and I only had two! He likes them simple with nothing inside so I went to work last night.

I started with this card…I had seen the layout and I wanted to try it.

The pictures don’t really do it justice but it is simple and clean. I used an old cutting fern die – I think from Making Memories. The stamp was C331 Hearfelt Sympathy Sm

Made a couple of other quick ones…This one uses the larger D368 Heartfelt Sympathy Med

Enjoy your day! I have this boatload of cucumbers to get pickled!

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