Starburst Card 2

Another starburst card.

Sunburst Card 1

My very first ever Sunburst card.

I really really like the results.

The cross die cut is from Spellbinders and the 

layer under it was hand cut.

I drew around the die with a sharp ball point pen

and that made it a lot easier to cut.

Clean and Simple

I have attached some DP to the front of a card base.

Next step - die cut a Cathedral Window by 

Cheery Lynn Designs and place it over the top.

So elegant and so easy. 

The Cutie Patootie Series

 My daughter had a baby a few months ago and she

received a card that kind of looked like these.

It was a commercially done design.

I took the basics which was the phrase and

the baby item and played around.

The pacifier and bottle came from Cricut's

Stork Delivery cartridge.

 I did the phrase on my computer and after

multiple trial and errors got the size of the

text right for the regular card and the flip card.

 I am very pleased with these designs and

hope you enjoy copying them!

Elegance

A plain white card base starts this design.

Cheery Lynn Design's lattice cut in vellum is

attached to the front of the card base.

Again using a Cheery Lynn Designs die,

the word "blessings" was cut from a

dark metallic bronze or brown gift wrap 

that had been attached to card stock.

Mother's Day Cards

 This is a huge card.  It's a half sheet.

The stamp is my very very first Magenta.

That means I have had it about 23 years.

The top card is stamped on craft paper

with white embossing powder and

the coloring is water color.

This card has been embossed with black embossing powder

on white card stock.

Sympathy Cards

 A very basic yet elegant design.

I have a SIL that need lots of sympathy cards

so cards are her Christmas and birthday gifts.

I used a light colored card base.

The corner die cuts are by Cheery Lynn Designs

The phrases are computer generated

and die cut using Spellbinders dies.

Baby Scrapbook Pages

 My daughter is going to have a baby girl.

She is a very busy woman and does not have 

the time or the product to make a scrapbook 

for her baby.

So mom and grandma (to be) to the rescue.

Here are the first five pages.

 I have used die cuts, punches and

die cut images from Cricut's Stork's Delivery cartridge.

 The paper are from K & Company.

Car Cards

 I have these dies from Marianne.

They are a lot of fun.

 The word dies are from Cheery Lynn Designs.

The map papers are from a Paper Studio mat stack.

Thank You Card

I began with a plain white card base.

The pink is polished stone, which always looks

better in person.  It is layered over black

and that is cut to a narrow border using my 

layering rulers. 

The thank you is cut from black card stock

using a Cheery Lynn Designs die.

Puppy Update

Now 9 weeks old and getting busier by the day.

They now prefer to do their business outside.

Available for adoption.

Have had their first parvo shot.

On puppy chow and relatively pad trained.

That means their nose might be over the pad 

but their rear ends may not.

But at least they have the general idea.

Things they have learned -

munching on the cats tail is dangerous

howling gets dad up

Pixie (the mother) can get very cranky if you chew on her tail

stairs are not as hard as we first thought

BUT the up part of stairs is way easier than the down part

snow is fun 

Male Birthday Card

It's perfect for my Harley riding brother-in-law.

The motorcycle die is from Marianne and the

phrase from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I love the Cheery Lynn word dies.

The happy and birthday have to be ordered separately,

BUT each word or phrase come in two sizes.

The words here are the small size.

The map paper is from Paper Studio's

Uncharted mat stack.

I did some heavy sponging around the edges.

Over Run

When I got up this  morning I happened to glance out

the sliding glass doors to the snow covered wheat field

that is about 1/2 mile south of our house.

It was covered with ELK.

They are vermin, rats of the hill country.

My estimated count it around 66 head, give or take a few.

These nasty creatures are devastating out wheat field.  

They paw through the snow and literally dig out the

wheat plants and eat them.

Deer will merely paw through the

snow and nibble off the top of the wheat plant.

We are in no way compensated for feeding these unwanted

elk through the winter and are not even given ONE

hunting permit so we at least have some meat.

They are Game and Parks elk so Game and Parks

should feed them.

OK, rant over.

Quick Birthday Card

 The card base was die cut using Sizzix Movers & Shapers L

Diamond Flip It.

This is a thick die, not the thin wafer that I usually use.

The finished card is 5 x 5 inches.

 Above is the card partially unfolded

using the front view.

This view (above) shows the flip side of the diamond

where I would write my greeting.

Little Card, Big Thanks 2

Well here it is.  I said I was going to try this

and it's "okay".  

Nothing I am wild about.

I think I like the white and yellow better.

It would probably be good for a man.

What do you all think of it?

Little Card, Big Thanks

 Same basic design, just different colors

and different Washi tape.

 The center card is a cream base while the top and bottom

cards a white.

I used a different embossing folder

with each card.

I do like the washi tape in the horizontal

better than the vertical.

The square that the Washi tape is wrapped around

is thick cardboard.

The phrase is raised with my usual

flat pieces of paper egg cartons.

While I am not a big fan of bright yellow,

I just love the yellow card.

Next I want to try some with the phrase

printed on kraft paper card stock.

Still working on the particulars of that one.

Oh Baby!

Well, much to my shock, I am going to be a grandma.

Our daughter announced the first of August that

she was expecting.  This is a much desired and

planned for baby.  She is 37 and our unwed son

is 41, so we never expected to be grandparents.

Above is the quilt that I have been working of for the last month.

Had to take my trusty 39 year old Bernina 830 Record

to be cleaned as I had moved my sewing room to the basement

and then discovered that I absolutely hated working in the basement.

My son and husband helped me move the

oak sewing cabinet up to a spare bedroom.  I have been 

sewing like a maniac for the past month

with several other projects rattling

around in my mind.

(not all of them baby either)

I found these panels at Pat's Creative.  This is an amazing

quilt store that is way way out in the boonies.

There was no sample sheet, just the large panel

and the six little ones.  I spent nights pondering

just exactly how to make the perfect

little girl baby quilt.  

Forgot to mention this baby is

a girl, due the end of February.

My Life?

So in the middle of October we had this little doggie show

up at our place in the middle of the night.  

Now you have to realize that we are 20 miles from the

closest town and 6 miles from an oil road.

Our house half a mile off the gravel county road and

we do NOT have a yard light on at night.  

If you are out on this lonesome road in the middle

of the night we don't want you to know

that there is even a place here.

Pixie came through the cattle panel dog yard fence (she is

very slender) at 11:30 pm when my husband let the

Scottish Terrier, MacDuff out for his final potty break

of the day.

Pixie immediately began to "fatten" up and 

four weeks after her arrival had four puppies. 

One of them died shortly after birth, but

the rest as of today are double the size shown in last 

weeks picture.  They are keeping my husband

up at night and we have had to find somewhere 

to keep them with higher sides than the original box.
We don't want to have to crawl under the bed

to dig the little rascals out.  In about four to six weeks

the two males and one female will be up for adoption.

And shortly after that Pixie will be spayed.

Christmas Cards Part 5

A black card base.

Now add an image cut using Cricut's Inspired Hearts.

Place the image on brushed silver gift wrap.

Very simple, very elegant.

Christmas Cards Part 4

Green sponging around the edge of the card base.

The snowflake embossing folder layer was cut to

4 x 5.25 inches and the edges were sponged with green.

I used a Spellbinders ornament die in three different sizes.

They are raised over the card using the flat portions of

paper egg cartons to create the 3-d look.

The oval has been cut out of the center of the largest

ornament.  I used the ovals to cut the very narrow

dark green oval the frames the word.

The word has been embossed with fine line gold.

I love the design, but will not be making very many of them.

The design is very intricate and time consuming.

As I have orders for seven dozen Christmas cards

they are going to have to be a little easier to produce.