Yappy Birthday...

 Happy New Year!  One of my crafting goals for 2022 was to work on my picture taking skills.  When I upload my photos, they are decent here, but then they are either huge or blurry on Instagram and FB.  Another goal was to upload/blog my cards in a timely manner, not weeks and months later all at once.  My last goal was to make and send more RAK's.  What if any are your card making goals for 2022?        

This is for my mother in law.  She's done rescue for Poodles for many years.  This cute little poodle reminds me of one of the recues that she kept, Shelly.  I used last weeks MFTWSC574.  I started out by making my background scene with the Small Brick Wall Stencil and Versamagic Chalk Inks.  I stamped my image from the Canine Companions on Neenah with Memento, coloring with Copics, then die cutting with coordinating die-namics.  Then I stamped my sentiment.  Basic Grey paper and Crumb Cake card base.

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Valley of Green...

When one card order leads to another card order...  I posted on my fb page the thank you card that I made for my friend to thank you for her card order.  Shortly after I got a message asking me if I could make some thank you cards...why of course!

These are CAS cards and fairly quick to put together.  I used Crumb Cake, Shaded Spruce, Black and White card stock.  Denami Design Thank You Circle Stamp in Shaded Spruce, stamping Hero Arts bicycle in black in the center.  

Have a Happy New Year!

 

Purple Power...

A custom card order and a thank you for the card order.

A dear friend of mine asked me to make some thank you cards for the local triathlon club.  I just happened to have a custom stamp with the club's logo from when I was on the board a few years ago.

 

Gorgeous Grape was perfect as the clubs color is purple!  I stamped my image in Gorgeous Grape and ran the main image panel through a cuttlebug folder in Gorgeous Grape.  I did two sets of 3, one set in Smoky Slate, the other in Black.

I made a coordinating thank you card to thank my friend for the order and to also thank her for her patience/delay it took for me to make them.  We have been working on our home so my card making time has been limited.  I stamped the Thank You Circle in Gorgeous Grape from Denami Stamps and the bicycle from Hero Arts in black.

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Merry Christmas 2021...

My Christmas Cards for 2021.  I made 43 this year.

 I went back and forth on making Christmas cards this year.  I haven't had a whole lot of time to spend on creating cards this year with all the home improvements we've been working on.  This was a last minute quick card I put together.  I used the My Favorite Things Merry Christmas Tree stamped in black, I went over the star with a glitter pen.  I mounted that layer on Smoky Slate.  I ran a piece of white card stock through the cuttlebug using the snow fades folder and adding a piece of silver glitter ribbon then mounting it on a black card stock base.

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For My Sister at Heart...

For my bestie for her birthday

I follow Emily Midgett on Instagram and just lover her card designs and creations.  Several months ago she offered her images up for purchase.  I was just thrilled to purchase some of her artwork and use them to make my cards.  This is one of her pieces in the "Framed Florals" collection from her company, Sixth Street Sundries.  I colored the image with copics and mounted it on a Rich Razzleberry card stock base.  I finished off the card with a few iridescent bubbles and a sentiment from My Favorite Things Sassy Pants Birthday Greetings #3.

Me and Kellye.

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Sending Warm Birthday Wishes...

For my best friends mom for her birthday.

I started out by stamping my images on Neenah with Memento ink then die cutting my images with coordinating die-namics.  I colored my images with copics then mounted them with foam dots.  For the next panel I ran a piece of Pool Party card stock through snow fade cuttlebug folder.  I then die cut snowdrifts die-namics.  I put the two together and die cut them with the A2 Stitch Rectangle Stax die-namics.  I mounted the layer on a white card stock base.

Me and Linda waiting for our Cruise in 2020.

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Happy Birthday BadA$$ Brooke...

For one heck of a BadA$$ for her birthday!  If you have the pleasure of knowing Brooke, then you know that this girl does it all and puts it all out there.  She's a wife, a mom to two beautiful girls, a triathlete, a ride leader, and the list goes on.  She juggles a busy schedule with her family and still manages to train hard, do all the things and is a complete and total BadA$$ at it.  I wanted to make her a card to represent her badA$$ery and got her a t-shirt to match! 

I found a digital image on etsy that I purchased, and had my hubs print out 'case I'm so not tech savvy!  I colored it with copics.  I found a piece of EP paper that I used and had her age visible on the side.  The sentiment from My Favorite Things Sassy Pants Birthday Greetings #3 was just perfect for her card!!!

"BadA$$ Brooke" 

She said this was her knew favorite shirt, ha!

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