HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SWEET MAGGIE!

One of my nephews has a little girl named Maggie who will celebrate her very first birthday on Sunday, March 2.  Before mailing her card earlier this week, I almost forgot to take a picture of it.  The card is very simple.  She is probably too small to know anything about Mickey Mouse, but I think her brother who is a little bit bigger will enjoy it too.

 

I've had the dp for a long time and decided it was time to use some of it along with the Mickey Mouse sticker.

 

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BACKYARD BASICS - Bird

I discovered that I had a card made up ready to post on my blog.  

While I had the Backyard Basics stamp/die sets out, I made several cards using the designs.  For this card I colored the stamped design with SU Bashful Blue and Wild Wasabi.  The image was then cut out and embossed with one of the Spellbinders Classic Ovals.  That piece was then added to a Bashful Blue mat which had been cut with one of the Spellbinders Classic Scallop Ovals.  

I ran a piece of white card stock through the Cuttlebug using the SU Holiday Frame folder and then carefully cut it out because I wanted to mount everything onto a piece of dotted Bashful Blue dp.  

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Now I'm off to work on more taxes..............I'll be back later.

TIME FOR A BREAK

A few days ago I mentioned that posts might be a little irregular because I was going to be dealing with our daughter's tax return, my mother's tax return and, of course, OURS .  Well, that time has now come.  

 

I managed to file my Sales Tax Return on time January 31.  Last week I was able to complete and e-file our daughter/husband's federal return and print off their state return.

 

Today it is time that I start working on information for my mother and then the dreaded task of going through all of our receipts, bank statements, etc.

 

I may need a break from all of this "fun" so I hope to at the very least 1 card this week.  Stay tuned..............

PPA 191 Color Challenge

 

 

 



I rarely have used Pumpkin Pie as the main color for a card, but decided to give it a try for this challenge.  My card base was embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing foler to coordinate with the dotted Pumpkin Pie dp.  Before adding the dotted dp to the card, I cut one of the Tea Lace Doilies in half and then cut one of the halves in half again.  I sponged the 1/4 pieces with the Pumpkin Pie ink and added them to the back side of the dp.

 

The flowers and bird are from the Stampin' Up! Backyard Basics stamp and die sets.

 

You can sell all of the cards posted for the PPA 191 Color Challenge here:  PPA 191.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

 

After I posted several Valentines I had made for this year, I made two additional ones...........one for a very special friend and one for my mother.  I was very pleased with both of them but unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of them before dropping them in the mail!

So I thought I would pull out one of the cards I made for a past Valentine's Day.  It just didn't seem right to post anything else today.  Some of you may have seen it before but hope you will enjoy seeing it again. 

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BACKYARD BASICS - Butterfly #2

Using the same stamp/die set as yesterday, I decided to show you a card more like the one I saw on Pinterest.  I didn't want to case it exactly so I chose a different color.  I also chose a different sentiment and stamped it at the top of the card instead of at the bottom.

 

Tomorrow I'll have something different for you so I hope you will stop.  I love hearing from you so your comments are always appreciated.

BACKYARD BASICS - Butterfly

 

As you probably have read here before and seen on many of my cards, I LOVE butterflies.  This is another card inspired by looking at Pinterst.  My basic idea came from a card I saw there but my arrangement of the butterflies is different.  I cut the butterfly shapes in the white card stock first and stamped the "thinking of you" below the shapes.

 

The white layer was then embossed with the Swiss Dots folder and layered onto a piece of SU Bashful Blue cardstock.  The butterflies were stamped onto a piece of Bashful Blue dp.  I added glue just to the very center of the pieces and placed them on top of the solid blue areas that were showing through the top layer.  All of this was then added to the white card base.

 

 The side view of the card shows how I flicked the wings of the butterflies to give more of an appearance of being in flight.  I think this is a card that can be used for several different occasions.

 

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