Happy Leap Day!

Happy Leap Day Everyone!!

Will I'm here today to Leap off onto a new adventure... I know how much more excitement do I need than to visit all of you each week on WOYWW... (which takes me all week too!). But here it is ... I've see so many of the gals that I Love to visit have a shop on Etsy and often though, I should try that... but it's taken me over 2-years to do it...

Yep!! I'm going to be selling my cards and creations on Etsy and here's my link to Dotty A Designs. Or you can get there by clicking on the Etsy button to the right, it will take you there too....

Please give me your feed back on my adventure as I need all the help I can get... I look forward to your ideas and comments. Can't wait to hear what you have to say!

Tell all your friends and family, send them my shop link, and maybe I'll be able to make a go of it.
Will off I go to start visiting all of you...!

Thanks for stopping by again!

Hope you Enjoyed!!

What's in the Basket....?

Hi Everyone!!

Here's the last card for the Gift set I've been working on....
This is from the MFT-Summer set....
On this one I did paper piceing for the blanket and popped the basked up on that....
(maybe to much green, next time I may use a different paper for the blanket)
I used the same backgound papers and embossing folder to tie all the cards together.

here's the front....

and the inside......

Here's what I used;

• Card Size finished / 3.5 x 6.25
• Papers/ Creative Memories, SU, Canson-Watercolor 140-lb
• Inks & Pens & Coloring/ Close to my Heart- Desert Sand- sponging, Memento- Rich Cocoa-sentiments, SU-Watercolor Crayons for coloring.
• Images & Stamps/ My Favorite Things-Summer & Sentiments 
• Misc./ Ribbon-stash, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Swiss Dot

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Hope you Enjoyed!!

 

"Summertime" Lemonaid

Today I'm posting another card I'm making for a Gift set....

This is from the MFT-Summer set....

If you look close at the glass and pitcher you might see were I used both Crystal Effects and Rock candy on the yellow to make it look wet and icy.

I used the same backgound papers and embossing folder to tie all the cards together.

and this is the inside.....

Here's what I used;

• Card Size finished / 3.5 x 6.25  
• Papers/ Creative Memories, SU, Canson-Watercolor 140-lb
• Inks & Pens & Coloring/ Close to my Heart- Desert Sand- sponging, Memento- Rich Cocoa-sentiments, SU-Watercolor Crayons for coloring.
• Images & Stamps/ My Favorite Things-Summer & Sentiments,
• Misc./ Ribbon-stash, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Swiss Dot

Thanks for stopping by again!

Hope you Enjoyed!!

 

"My Sentiments Exactly" Challenge #122

Hi Everyone!!

Today I'm going to enter "Mo's Digital Challenge" and this weeks theme is "My Sentiments Exactly", you can use ANY sentiment on your project... Perfect!!! and of course you have to use a Mo's image too!!! Which is so easy to do because she has some of the best out there, I really do Love them all and so glad I found her.  

Here's a close up of my entry;

and this a view of the whole front....

and the inside... I love these words, "Summertime and the living is easy..."

 I'm make this card to go along with a gift set I'm making with 4-cards... a few of the others I've already posted, but not all... so hope you come back to see the set when it's compleated!

Here's what I used;

• Card Size finished / 3.5 x 6.25
• Papers/ Creative Memories, SU, Canson-Watercolor 140-lb
• Inks & Pens  & Coloring/ Close to my Heart- Desert Sand- sponging, Memento- Rich Cocoa-sentiments, SU-Watercolor Crayons for coloring.
• Images & Stamps/ Mo's Digital Pencil- Fishing, My Favorite Things-Summer-Sentiments,
• Misc./ Ribbon-stash, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Swiss Dot

Thanks for stopping by again!

Hope you Enjoyed!!

 

Summer Afternoon......

When I got the stamp set from MFT I know I would use this Tree first.... and I did...

Really this could be used for just about any occasion or just a friendly Hi too.

this is the front......

and here's the inside.... I love this saying!

I though I would show you how I came to use the olive color on the tree...

I usually do a sample using a few different colors so it would give me an idea of the outcome... sometimes this works and sometimes it just looks compleatly different when its all done.

Anyway, this is my sample with the SU-Crayons colors I used.

Thanks for stopping by again!

Hope you Enjoyed!!

 

WOYWW-141

Hi All!!

Here's my WOYWW pic for today;

Finished this yesterday and though I would share with you today...

Not to much of a mess yet.. I just cleaned it up before starting this card, so it's still in good order... will let me see what I can do to change that today..:)

Will off I go to do some visiting......

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Hope you Enjoyed!!

Kisses & Smooch!

Hi Everyone...

Will I finally ordered from Mo's Digital Pencils, I have received a Gift Certificate from Dawn from My Stamping Thyme, she had was asking for blog ideas and she picked 2 of us that left comments... I was just thrilled becasue I stop by her blog for a visit with every new post and several times for just fresh ideas... she is VERY talented.....

Anyway she is always using images from Mo's Digital Pencile, and I had never used any digital images so this was the perfect time to try some out... Today I am post a few I got and used on this cut "V" day card!!

Tell me what you think...???

This image is called Kisses, she is just so full of it, isn't she??

and this gal on the inside is called Little Smooch, she to is full of it too!!

It's kind of a Before and After card....te! he!!

Let me know what you think, and check out both Dawns and Mo's sites you won't be disapointed.

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Hope you Enjoyed!!

 

Deep Sympathy

I don't know about you but Sympathy cards are the hardest for me....

It's for such a sad occasion and yet you want to bring them a smile too... it's just so hard to balance.

Last week a dear friend of mine lost someone very special to there family, they had to fly out of town and would be back later this week.  So I wanted to have something waiting for them when they got home. 

Here's what I did.....

This is the front... I popped up just the wing tips on the butterfly, and did the water color technique on the flowers.... you know when you color your stamp with pens and then spray mist on it and stamp a few times to get that look....I sprayed  then crumpled my seam binding with some Glimmer Mist and let it dry to get that crumbled look.

here's a close up......

and here's the inside....

I hope she smiles when she read it and remembers a happy time.

Here's what I used;

• Papers/ Creative Memories and SU
• Inks & Pens/ Close to my Heart- Desert Sand words and sponging, Vineyard Berry and Garden Green flowers
• Stamps/ SU-Nature Walk, My Favorite Things-Essential Sentiments, and Clearly Sentimental about Sympathy
• Punches/ MS-Woodland Branch
• Misc./ Glimmer Mist-Gold, Seam Binding by Hug Snug-Eggshell

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Hope you Enjoyed!!

 

Hugs & Kisses

Hi Everyone!!

Today I decided to make my hubby's Valentines card...

Here's the front;

 and here's a close-up.....I love how all the layers worked out

And the inside...... 

Here's the saying in case you can't see it;
"To love and be loved
is to feel the sun
from both sides."
by David Visott
Not to mushy but lots of Love!!!

Hope he likes it!!!

Here's the things I used;

• Close to my Heart stamps/Heartthrob (D1309) for background inside
• Papertrey ink stamp set / Handwritten Notes Vol.3, No. 5 for the Hugs & Kisses front
• Cloud 9 Simple Thoughts-Love for the inside words
• Cuttlebug Embossing folder / Heart Blocks (37-1139)
• Memento Texedo Black ink
• Ribbon; Celebrate It-5/8" Pink, and some black and white from my stash
• Paper used; Creative Memories-Black, Pink Lemonade, SU-White
• White and Red paper lace doilies
• Finished Card Size; 4.25" x 5.5"

Thanks for stopping by again!

Hope you Enjoyed!!