Easter Basket of Flowers

I realize that my blog posts have been MIA for the past few days - sorry about that. I thought that I was all caught up in advance.

Now that Valentine's Day has come and gone, it't time to direct my focus to some Springtime and Easter cards. I have already been asked if I was going to feature some faith-based Easter cards at our Tuesday classes. YOU BET!! I'd my very favorite time of year!!

I cased this card from Su Mohr

Such a cute card that can be used not only for Easter, but also for a "thinking of you" Springtime card.

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The basket is filled with flowers, using the Extraordinary Flora Die to cut Extraordinary Flora Washi Tape. This fabulous Washi Tape was adhered to Basic Beige Cardstock prior to cutting. Then, a bit of glue was used to arrange the flowers in the basket, and the basket of flowers was placed on Dimensionals.

The background is Basic Beige Cardstock, cut with the largest Branching Out Die, and embossed with the Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder. This layer was glued to a Basic Beige card base, 8 1/2″ X 5 1/2″, folded at 4 1/4″.  The tiny “for you” is from a retired stamp set, A Wish For Everything. I stamped it in Crumb Cake ink on Very Vanilla Card Stock, and used the retired Best Label Punch. As a last detail, I added a Linen Thread bow.

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Happy St Patty's Day!

 

Are you Irish?

I am not, but I think I have a tiny bit of several countries in me. Mom & Dad always said that we were Heinz 57! LOL!!

When I ran a day care, I did a lot of fun things for the kiddos and also for my first two grandchildren.

Now we have our two pups to have St Patty fun with

We are all wearing our green sweaters for St Patty Day!!

aren't they so cute!!

Tonight is our March Card Club and we are making three projects - 2 cards and one 3-D project, and guess what? the main color is GREEN!

Nothing to do with St Patrick's Day, but we are using the DARLING DINOS Bundle

Each project has a little spring or wobble to it... You can purchase the wobbles on Amazon.

I used them behind the card on the left and on the treat in the middle.

The card on the right we created our own "spring" so that the circle springs up.

You can check out my previous post for the measurements HERE

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We make 2 cards and one 3-D project each month and all you need to do is make a minimum purchase of $35.00 each month.

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I did make one St Patrick's Day card because I couldn't resist when I saw this idea from Whispers in Ink on FB (Jennifer Merle-Hamscher)

What a clever idea to make a clover with the hearts die from HEART SHAPED. I hope you snagged a set for yourself during Sale a bration because it was FREE with a $120 purchase - but you got the stamps & the dies!! I know that I will be using it in future Come Stamp With Me classes for sure.

Colors: Granny Apple Green & Garden Green with a flower punch using the Peach Pie Glimmer. What I changed up: I cut the stems from Painted In Lavender and I added the St Patrick's Day wish from a retired set call A Wish For All.

The Forever Plaid XL Embossing Folder & Basic Beige card stock. Thank you Jennifer for this fun idea! (this card was sent to my friend who winters in Florida. I always miss her, but was thankful to have 4 days with her at the North Carolina Stampin' Up! OnStage event this past weekend.

So "Lucky" to have a friend like you - actually "Blessed" - but you know, the whole St Patty wish of "may the luck of the Irish go with you"

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Playing With Robots

I decided to pull out my ROBOT BUDDIES kit and make up some cards to have on hand for kids

I started with this first one but it felt a little "flat" to me by using the stickers 'as-is' so I made the next one by popping it up. I had to de-stick it with my embossing buddy. The gifts are from a retired Christmas stamp set that I fussy cut out. I used the card base from the kit (Bermuda Bay) and cut it down to 3-3/4" x 5" then mounted it on Basic Gray 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" and then onto a Thick Basic White Base.

This next card I stamped the robots directly onto the white piece from the kit and the Happy Birthday from Slim Sayings. Then I embossed it with the Tasteful Textiles embossing folder. 

I added the eyes from the kit for the larger robot but added small black google eyes from my stash for the smaller robot.

The base on these next two cards is from the kit - the nuts & bolts pattern is very subtle, but I added layers which helps.

This last one was made on one of the bases that were included in the kit 

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• This month’s kit contains enough elements to create 18 treat boxes—6 each of 3 designs. This all-inclusive kit includes printed box bases and tops, die-cut paper pieces, adhesives, and more!
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Daffodil Daydreams for Easter

 I have been working on my Easter cards and I think that I am FINALLY finished. I make and send approximately 100+ cards for Easter. These include the staff at church and all the widows/shut-ins, etc. We are also in a small group at church. 

Other than cards for church friends, I send to all of my downline, and anyone who subscribes to the Paper Pumpkin Kit through me and those who participate in my monthly card club. I'm even sending an Easter card out to those who placed an order on line.

I absolutely LOVE to make cards and I also LOVE to send those cards out to encourage others.

Here are a few of the cards that I made for this years Easter cards. Thanks to the free daffodil designer paper that we could earn during Sale a bration, I was able to make these cards fairly inexpensively.

                                                            Inspired by Mary Deatherage

                                                             Inspired by Sharon Burkert

                                                Inspired by Beth Morrison on Pinterest. No blog

                                                                  My own layout design

                                                                             Inspired by Mary Fish

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More Christmas Cards

 It's nearly Christmas and I am pretty tired of making Christmas cards.

I have mailed out or delivered all of my cards. I've sold a bunch and donated some too.

However... I have some of Stampin' Up!'s gorgeous designer papers left and so many great ideas I wanted to try.

I figured since I need cards for NEXT year Christmas (and we start making Christmas cards in July), I could at least give some of these a try and see if I want to use them for next year.

Card #1 was inspired by Tracy Bradley

The Snowflakes Dies are so pretty - I especially like the framed die.

What I changed up: I changed up the sentiment because I am not a Happy Holiday's kind of gal. I much prefer to say Merry CHRISTmas.

I love the WHIMSY & WONDER Specialty Paper but I'm afraid that it is no longer available. I hope you were able to grab some before it was too late.

This second card was inspired by France Martin. The only thing I changed up was the size. To get a bigger bang for my buck I cut my card base down to 8" x 5-1/2" and scored it at 4". Therefore I could cut my designer paper at 5-1/2" x 4" and get 6 cards per 12x12 sheet of paper. Had I cut it the way she suggested I would've only gotten 4 cards per 12 x 12 sheet of paper. You can check out her cards HERE

The INSPIRING CANOPY DIES are found in the annual catalog so they are not in danger of retiring just yet. Same thing for THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH Designer Paper. This is such good news.

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