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.