Fun With Vellum

I saw this idea in Cardmaker Magazine and wanted to give it a try. The original card used transparency which I had started using on the card. The problem with transparency is that water based markers do not dry on it so when I cut my edges with my Fiskars cutting board the ink ended up on my hands. I decided to use the same idea but substitute the vellum for the transparency. While I…

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Valentine Workshop Card

Hello! Sorry for the late post today but I had to wait for the sun to get my pictures. Today’s card uses an idea that I hadn’t used in quite a while – a mini envelope on the front of a card. I was looking through an old stamping magazine and ran across a page with cards using mini envelopes. I hadn’t done one of these in a while and thought it would be fun…

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Embossed Valentine

I saw a card on a blog I read where they had used the Cuttlebug Stitched Circles embossing folder to form a panel along the bottom of the card. I wanted to give it a try and this is what I created. I decided to try the Martha Stewart heart border punch for the inside of the card at the bottom. I like the idea. I love the look of this and may have to…

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Please vote for me!

Second Post, scroll down for first. Do you remember this card and this card? I created this card for a contest that Page Plans is having. I would love it you would click on this link and vote for my cards. It will be fun to see who the winner is. Of course if you check out the entries and think someone else should win I would understand! lol Thanks and have a great afternoon!…

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Cute Sledding Penguins

Well I am back home and do I have my work cut out for me! My house is a disaster after the move. Now I have the fun of getting it organized and put together better so I can store things better. I also have 2 empty rooms now and only need to keep 1 as a guest bedroom (with one daughter in Hawaii and the other 7 hours away in New York, I don’t…

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Simple Sketch Punched Snowflakes

One of the blogs I read does a 10 Minute Monday segment. Becky at Clean & Simple Stamping usually uses a sketch to create your cards and you can create these cards in 10 minutes. I used her sketch from this week to make my card. I had these punched snowflakes from a die that I borrowed from a friend. I wanted to use them on this card but thought they might be too big.…

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