handmade greeting cards

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

Naked Rubber deal!

Baking, Birthday, Camping, Coffee, Creatures, Father's Day, Friendship, Frogs & Bugs, Graduation, Halloween, Hello, Holiday, smile, Snowman, Thinking of You, Valentine's Day, Winter

Hope everyone had a fantastic Labor Day weekend! We are offering grab bags of naked rubber online. These are rubber images that are not mounted on foam or wood. There are currently two options. First is 10 pieces for $1.99 and second is 25 pieces for $3.99. Images range from butterflies to birthday phrases to snowmen to circles to baking to Christmas, etc. Bags are completely random and not exchangeable or refundable. Link below!

https://shopec.com/shop/ols/products/tb-tiny-rubber-bag

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.

Other Options!

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

Pickles done!

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!

Hello!

Birthday, Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, Frogs & Bugs

Good Afternoon! I hope all are well. I’m getting better – I think! It’s been a tough road but we are moving on. We have a friend who turned 89 a few days ago – yep my card is late. Always running behind but I had some fun making him a card. I sometimes forget how much I like to stamp when I haven’t done it in a while.

I decided not to color the bees because I didn’t want to ruin it and then have to start over 🙄 I did have to split the Happy Beelated Birthday stamp. Here is the link for that stamp: C329 Happy Beelated Birthday and the bee stamp: CC31 KB’s Bees – this is also used on the inside

I’ve been organizing my cupboards while recouping so I best get back to it and clean up the mess!

Stamp links: DD57 Bee Fun Cube and E347 Bee Best Year

Handmade cards for gifts

Baby Cards, Dull Glossy Paper, Thank You Cards, Thinking of You

Handmade cards make wonderful gifts! I had a stash of cards ready and picked a few to give to a neighbor as a thank you gift along with a mum flower. She loved them and now I’m inspired to make more as soon as I have more energy again!

Links are below

Upper left card: Baby Set – link, C027 Baby Feet – link, A190 Tiny Heart – link

Upper right card: DD47 Circle Rose – link (tap/click here), CMO121 Congrats Set – link (tap/click here)

Bottom left: B127, Thinking of you today

Bottom right: AA31 Butterfly, C237 feel better soon, FF60 Daisy in Vase, C320 Handmade Card Inside

C303 Thank you – link

Another Thank You!

pattern paper, Thank You Cards

So today I have a very simple thank you! Pattern paper and two stamps! It doesn’t get much simpler.

Stamps Used: D328 Sending Thanks; F210 Fancy Rectangle;

So I have to admit I cheated a little on this one and pulled it from my stash that my daughter made! Hence the Handmade in Minnesota!

C320 Handmade Card Inside;

C244 Handmade in MN;

Thank You!

Cutting Dies w/ matching stamp, Dull Glossy Paper, pattern paper, Thank You Cards

I’ve needed to make some thank you cards lately to thank people for all their help during my surgeries and recoveries. Recovery goes a bit too slow for me – anxious to be feeling better but was fun to make a few cards. Today was really my first day alone – everyone back to work or gone so was able to just enjoy sitting at my desk and coloring!

One of my favorite stamps sets the CMO104 Trio Aloe Vera and of course it’s matching Cutting Die CDCMO104 Trio Aloe Vera Cutting Die; I also love the size of this thank you- C332 Thank You fits in a 1.75” circle