Mojo Monday 300

Here is my take on the historic Mojo 300 sketch. Thanks to the Mojo group for the opportunity to enter to win such awesome prizes!! Good luck to all.

Birthday Card for Friend

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Just a quick post with a birthday card I did for a friend of mine. This isn't an original design, but one I copied from a friend. I did, however, make my own designer paper with one of the new Stampin' Up floral stamp sets and a piece of yellow DP from a floral Stampin' Up designer paper pack. I love the new Stampin' Up embossing folder too. On the inside of the card, I used two spellbinders dies and then I cut a couple of flowers out from my homemade dp to use as accents. I love the bright colors on this so thought the sentiment was a good match.

Thanks for stopping by for a peek.

Birthday Card for friend

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Here is a card I made for one of my stamping friends. In the past, we have enjoyed a few bottles of wine while stamping:))

Birthday card for Daughter-in-law

Just a quick post to show you the card I did for my daughter-in-law, who's birthday is on May 5th. My attempt at a vintage card.

The gorgeous butterfly image on the left corner of the card is from Inkadinkado. The musical stamps are from Hero Arts Clings and the vintage lady stamp comes from a new set by Hampton Art called "Cling Vintage Ladies".

Hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping in for a peek.

Easter Card 2

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This Easter card was for my other sister. Hope you all enjoyed your Easter as much as we did.

Easter Card 1

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Here is an Easter card I made for one of my sisters.

Birthday Card for Hubby 2011

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It's about time for me to post a few cards again. This one was for my husband's birthday on April 11th.

Valentine for Hubby

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Just a simple card for my Hubby for Valentine's Day. I just love this "Henry Hugging Heart" image from Whiff of Joy stamps. The little "You Have My Heart" sentiment is from a Studio G set and the inside sentiment is from a Clings set by Hero Arts called "Valentine Sayings".

Valentine for my Sister

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My youngest sister and I both enjoy dark chocolate, so every occasion is a reason to send some to each other. We are lucky here in Madison, WI, to have 3 of the countries top chocolatiers. Anyway, I'm always looking for stamps about chocolate and this darling stamp set, called "A Box of Love" is from MFT (My Favorite Stamps). The background papers are in a dark chocolate color. I had fun making this card. Thanks for peeking in and checking it out.

Valentine for Grandson

Here's this year's Valentine's card for our grandson, Max. The image is a free download from Dustin Pike. Max loves all things dragons and dinasaurs.

Friend Valentine Birthday Card

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One of my very good friends was a Valentine's baby. It's easy to tell because she's one of the sweetest people I know. This is her Valentine/Birthday card for 2011. I've also attached a photo of the inside of the card.

Two Xmas Gift Tags

I was inspired to make these cards when I saw this post http://itsastampthing-vicki.blogspot.com/2010/11/penguin-gift-card-holder.html on Vicki Burdick's blog. I love all of Vicki's creations.

Every year I try to come up with something new for my gift card recipients. These were a lot of fun and I was pleased with how they turned out. Thanks so much for the inspiration Vicki!

A couple of final 2010 Xmas cards

Here are some of the final Xmas cards that I did and didn't get posted before year end. I first saw this really cute image on one of my favorite blogs (http://debby4000.blogspot.com/). Debby is an amazing card crafter and a real inspiration.

The image is Penny Black and I had to go on EBAY to find it, as it is an older stamp set. The second card was done for my daughter-in-law, who loves snow and winter. I think this image is perfect for a snow-lover.

I'm really loving the circle lacy nestabilities. They will be a favorite for my cards going forward. Please contact me if you want specific information about any other products used for these cards.

Thanks for stopping by.

Xmas cards 2x2 at last!

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It seems like forever since I last posted to my blog. Here are a few of the Xmas cards I made this year. The first and last ones were variations of cards we did at an SU stamp-a-stack put on by Jen Sannes (http://www.simpleandsincere.com/). The insides of the cards were my own design. The peace doves were cards I designed. The first peace dove card was done with the new MS dove punch. The other card was a Hero Arts peace dove stamp. Thanks for visiting my blog.

Life has been a bit crazy for our family lately, so even though I have not had the time or motivation to work on cards, I have been following most of your blogs and making comments as time permits.

Mojo Halloween

It's been a while since I've done a Mojo Monday sketch so it's about time I take a stab at one again. Here's my take on this weeks sketch with a Halloween theme.
The cool spiderweb paper is by Paper Studio. The scary bat and dracula are from an old SU set, colored with copics. The cute little "Boo" is from a Gina K Halloween set and is backed with a nestability. The spiders were created with an EK success punch. The goo border is from Martha Stewart. I also used a couple of CB embossing folders on the green backing and the pomegranate paper. The ribbon is something from my stash. Thanks for taking a peek.

Anniversary Card

Just a quick post today of the anniversary card I did for my daughter and her husband. I used one of my clear acrylic stamp sets and cut out and popped the monkeys and the vine. For the background, I used the branches embossing folder by CB and then brayered over the embossed paper with brown ink. The sentiment is from SU and stamped on a Spellbinders die cut label. I used some scrap yarn to accent the label. I've included a picture of the inside of the card as well. I created the sentiment on my computer and then cut it out with a Spellbinders Nestability, backed with brown paper that I hand cut.

On to Halloween cards.

Birthday Card for stamping friend

Just a quick post of a birthday card I did for a fellow stamper.

Anniversary Card

Just a quick post today of an anniversary card for my son and his wife. I'll try to get out to post the details soon.

Birthday card for friend

Hi all! I'm finally back from a wonderful vacation in Alaska. It was absolutely gorgeous...a trip everyone should do at least once in their lifetime. Can't believe I ate seafood everyday and I'm still not tired of it.

I'm here with the first of what will be several posts for upcoming birthdays, get well wishes and anniversaries.

Today I'm posting a birthday card for a dear friend of mine. My DP is from Stampin Up, featuring barely bannana, pumpkin pie and bashful blue. My stamp images are from various clear stamps sets I own. I believe the sentiment is Stampin Up. Nothing too fancy here, just lots of layering and a little glaze pen on my cake icing and ice cream cone. I added some EK corner punches to accent my sentiment. I'm also including a peek at the inside of the card too.

Now I have to spend some time checking out what all of you have been doing on your blogs while I was gone.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Get Well Card for Friend

Just a quick post of a get well card for a friend who had knee replacement surgery last week. Hope she gets a kick out of it.

The image is "House Mouse Designs" by Stampabilities. I colored it with my copic markers. Then I layered different parts of the image for dimension. I used some nestabilities for mounting and the cute DP is by Paper Studio. I created the sentiment on my computer.