Strawberries

Hi Everyone!

While I was cleaning up my work area I came across this set of note cards that I found in the dolor bin at Michaels. 

Will I didn't want to use them as is so I reworked them a few different way.

This first pic is of the card as it was out of the package.

 Now the below is my first try at reworking one.  I cut some of the gray border away and made a slit in the card at the middle of the bowl and behind the Just Because to run the Green ribbon through. Then added the Just Because from Just Rite.

This is a close up of the little strawberry I cut from the back of the original card and popped it up at the bottom.

Here's my second try.  I cut the card in half and backed it with red and did the same with the saying I used from Just Rite and backed it with red too.  I added a pice of white with red print paper in the back and then added the green ribbon with a bow.

Here's a close up.

And here's the inside

And this is the 3rd one I did.  This bowl of strawberries just looked like it needed a doily so I used a large doily and cut it away to fit the card and used the other half of the bowl of strawberries and added the border in red and yellow with the ribbon and bow.  The BIG bee is from the dolor bin at Michaels too. 

this is a closeup of the doily card.

and this is the inside of the doily card. 

This was simple and fun to do, the pack came with 8 cards and envelopes so I have enough to do several more.

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WOYWW-89

Today is my first time to join the WOYWW fun.  I've been seeing several of the Gals blogs I watch do this every Wednesday and it really looks like fun.  Here's the WOYWW link to see how to join AND at all the brave crafters showing there works in progress. 

Here's mine,,,,Yeaks!

I've been trying my hand a coloring, after pestering some of the ladies that I enjoy watching with all kinds of quesings.  I've been practicing, and practicing, and I'm not sure if it's helping.  I started using reinker for coloring and it's been a real chalange for me.  But I'm going to keep at it.....

I took this pic before I decided to stop coloring for a day or two clean up and make some cards.

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With Sympathy

This week we had a very dear friend of the family pass on.  He would sit with my Dad while I would take my Mom shopping each week.  This man was so kind to my folks it was a pleasure to see him come.  Always full of energy and fun, you just looked forward to his visit. It was totally unexpected and will be missed greatly by both my folks and me too.

His wife is such a dear lady too and it just didn't seam like enough to send this card.

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Hi Ladies!!

Today I was making an old card I did a few years back.  The flower and bee both are from SU-Bloomin' Beautiful set. And the saying is from CTMH-Card Sentiments D-1111 set.  I've been wanting to try my hand at coloring but haven't been to the craft store to get the Cold Press Water coloring paper so I tyred something else.   It's really not the look I wanted but I used it anyway because I could not wait any longer.  Call me impatient I guess..... I used SU-Glossy White paper for the flower, it kind of puddled up so I had to wait for it to dry after each color but I finally got this one done.  If I did maybe 5 or so and did all the same color on each one then when I went to do the next color it would be dry but ...... Now the little bee I just stamped directly on the CM-yellow card stock and inked him in. Below you'll see better pics.

Here's a close up of the flower........see the shin still on the stem? 

And here's the little bee.  He's not bad but.... 

Anyway that's my try at coloring with NOT having the right stuff. I guess it's not that bad it's just not what I had in mind... Now if I was going for the gloss I wouldn't have that.. you just never have what you want when you want it I guess....

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Hi Everyone!!!

Will this week I've been working on some Birthday cards... boy was I running low and needed to get a move on.  I used 4 different papers from Scenic Route Paper Co.  from my local craft store.  It's double sided which I love because it's colore coordinated from me.......Here I cut one piece with the big circles on it 4x5.25 and then cut in long ways at 1.5 and turned one over for the triangles....then sponged with black around all the edges...The border on this one is a corner punch from MS-Modern Garland in brown.  the WISH is from Fiskars-Make a Wish Quotes set.

Here's another paper from Scenic Route Paper Co. Same thing used the front and back of the paper.

Same thing except I used a differ MS corner punch this is Gothic Arches. 

Same papers... Love this one too... Used the Spellbinder Fancy Tags for this too.

The quote on the inside is from the Same Fiskars stamps above, and I used it on all 4 cards on the inside...

I'm very please with how these turned out.  Once I got going I ended up make several of these with different Quotes on the inside.

Almost forgot I used the Bow Easy for all my bows...

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Lady Bug

Hi Everyone!

As I mentioned yesterday I was working on the Lady Bug from the same stamp set Inkadinkado-Mind Scapes-99121. This one I did a little different coloring, I used my CTMH exclusive Inks pens.  I think it turned out good but I still need t do some real work on my coloring. 

For the border I used the same Martha Stewart corner punch Laurel Leaf. It looks completely different using it on pattern paper.  The Happy Birthday is from the CTMH set called Happy Birthday (C-1257). and the ribbon is from my stash I think it came from Michels.

Here's a better shot of the border. 

and here's the inside... I used the same Lady Bug to stamp the background with CTMH Sweet Leaf, and the saying is from Fiskars-Make a Whish Quotes. 

That's all I got for today,  I may try something different for tomarrow or the next day...

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