Mosaic Card 2

Today's card is inspired by a sample in

an old Stampin' Up! catalog.

Everything used on this card came from

Stampin' Up! over the years.

Thanks for looking =) 

Mosaic CAS Card

Today's card is very similar to a sample in

an old Stampin' Up! catalog.

Other than the large orange enamel dot,

everything used on this card came from

Stampin' Up! over the years.

Thanks for looking =) 

Go Fly A Kite

I put scrap booking on hold for a while.

I've been busy making cards instead,

so I'll be sharing them over the next couple of weeks.

We were in an oppressive heat wave from late July

into the first few days of August. Miserable.

We have a break in the heat and humidity right now,

so I'm enjoying the breeze coming through the windows

 in my craft room. We've had two days of fall like

weather, but the "dog says of summer"

move back in tomorrow. Yuck.

Since it would be perfect kite flying weather here today,

I decided to share this kite card first.

It is made with a kite die set.

I don't know the manufacturer, sorry. 

I found it at a yard sale and there was no packaging.

The banner dies, clouds embossing folder, stamp sets,

card stocks and inks are all from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking =) 

57th Anniversary Card

This is another one of those 3+ hour cards

I tend to make. Time gets away from me

as I try out different ideas until I ultimately

settle on something and get the card finished ;) 

My husband's long time friends 

recently celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary,

so I wanted a special card.

I was a bit stumped at first on what I wanted to do,

then this came together after some trial and error. 

It was a bit difficult for me to line up the stamped 

flowers and the die cut inside.

I ended up cutting larger pieces then trimming them

down to fit after stamping and die cutting. 

Maybe I should look to see if there are some tips 

on how to make the process easier?

Everything, other than the little metal heart,

came from Stampin' Up! and are no longer available. 

Thanks for looking, have a great day =) 

Classic Chevy Card

It was fun combining different things to come up with

this masculine card.

I even used a tufted embossing folder to

replicate fancy seat upholstery some classic cars have.

I have plenty of more masculine type things I could

have used for the background, but the man I made

this for used to do upholstery. 

The image is water colored with inks from my

classic dye ink pads and an aquapainter.

A metallic silver pencil was used for chrome details.

Everything used came from Stampin' Up!

although most things are retired now. 

Thanks for looking, have a great day =) 

Groovy Late Birthday

This was a fun birthday card to make!

Everything other than the embossing folder

came from Stampin' Up! and most

are no longer available.

The colors are some I rarely use

(Calypso Coral and Groovy Guava)

The layout is similar to a sample

on the cover of the new Stampin' Up! catalog.

The stamp set is an oldie called 

Furnished With Love.

I water colored it with an aquapainter

and inks from my ink pads. 

The embossing folder by Cuttlebug

is Flowers and Vine.

Thanks for looking, have a great day =)

Sympathy Shimmer

I had this floral die cut panel sitting in my

 to-do-something-with-someday box.

I cut an extra when I made a wedding card earlier this year

to save a little time if I needed a card that it would work for. 

Unfortunately, we needed a sympathy card recently

and I didn't have any already made on hand. 

The die cut piece is Whisper White card stock with

a shimmery paper layer behind. 

I added organdy ribbon, a die cut butterfly, sentiment banner

and adhered the entire panel to a Buckaroo Blue card base. 

I finished off the inside to coordinate.

All supplies used were from Stampin' Up!

(except the ribbon) 

Thanks for looking, have a good day =) 

Goodbye Kitty Pages

A couple more pages made with papers that I was recently gifted.

As soon as I saw these two, I knew what photo 

I wanted to scrap. 
These are last photos of Kitty after she had a stroke.

Now I have a couple of tips to share :

Glad Press 'N Seal to help hold die cut letters in place!

I haven't been able to figure out how to make the

letters connect into one single die cut

on the old Design N' Cut machine I bought used.

Each letter cuts out individually, which can be

challenging to glue straight onto a scrap page.

I read a tip recently to use Press 'N Seal to hold things

in place on scrapbook layouts. Hmmm, interesting. 

I've never heard this tip, or even of the product. 

Surprisingly, when I went to buy some at a local store,

it was nearly sold out! No joke, there were just 5 boxes

of it left on the shelf. It, like so many other products,

are still hard to find at times in our local stores. 

How I did it:

I cut the word out on the old Design N' Cut machine.

I removed the bits from around the letters while

 still on the cutting mat.

I applied Press N' Seal to the die cut letters

then carefully removed them from the mat.

I flipped that over and applied some 

clear drying liquid adhesive, just barely,

to the backs of the letters.

Flipped the entire piece (Press N' Seal with the letters adhered)

right side up and stuck them to the page.

The Press N' Seal was easy to remove,

leaving the letters in a nice row. 

I've done this on two pages now and it worked well.

Yay! 

Tip 2:

I wanted some flower elements to add to my pages,

so rather than cut up another piece of paper, I decided to

cut them out of my scrap page itself!

Back of page in photo above

The photos on the front cover the cut out area perfectly.   

No one will see the back anyway since it will 

have another page behind it! 

I will cut the centers out of card stock mats for photos, too.

The scraps can come in handy. 

Thanks for looking , have a good day =) 

Beautiful Kitty Page

Bo Bunny paper and elements, Tuscany set

Thanks for looking , have a good day =) 

Catitude Page

Lawn Fawn cat stamp image.

Random bits and pieces, unknown.

Paper punches and gray card stock, Stampin' Up!

Thanks for looking , have a good day =)