Happy Valentines

Here's a Valentine I made for my Mom.... I tried some fancy cutting here for my background...

Since I made a long thin card 3 x 6.5 none of my dies would work here... so I cut them... for the fancy background I used a Cherry Lynn  Die Wedding Vows and just used the border. Cut 2 and then cut each of the arches in half.  Then you place them on the paper and just cut in the middle and you have a perfect end peace.  I did this for both ends and then did the same then in the middle... covered most of the cut lines with the ribbon and heart so all you see is the pretty cut background.  I you would like a better idea of how I did this let me know and I'll do a How-To-Post.  

 

Here's a view a little further back....

 

 and this is the inside.....

Let me know what you think or how you re used some of you dies a different way, I'd love to know.

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Sweet Peas

For the last few days I've been working on a New to me Flourishes stamp set called Garden Fresh.  I stamped the basket of Sweet peas and then colored them with my Memento Markers and SU Watercolor Crayons and a Aqua Pen to soften it some... I used this method on all three images. 

 

 

Here's a close up of the frist one....I'm going to use this for my Honny's card for our Annversary next week.  He'll get kick out of it... (I hope)

This whole layout was barrowed from a blogger I just love Dawn B. from a July 8, 2011 post she did with this same stamp set. I had saved it even thow I didn't have the stamp yet.  So when I went looking for a way to use this I came across her card that I had saved... and this is my version.

 

Here's the inside......

 

this is my second one, I used some different dies and a little different layout too... but used the same papers

 

and here's the inside of the second card.

 

Now on this one I went a little too wild maybe with my border die... I had the cut the border for the left side of the card and had this leftover pice so I used it for across the bottom... Maybe a little to much but it was fun!

 

and this is the inside of the last one....

 

If you have any question let me know I'll be glad to try and answer anything....

 

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NEW Die Storage

Hi All,

Today I'm showing you something I bough from the Stamp-n-Stoage store.  Just wait till you see my before and after pics....

Anyone that has metal Dies and is looking for a way to store them.... I have found just the thing,  I saw this system on a blog that I follow called Darlene Design.com check her craft room out.... Wow!  Among many of her ideas she showed how she stored her metal dies.... will I had to have that... I've been storing my dies in CD and DVD cases with magnetic strips, but even that takes up space...

As you can see here;

On the second shelf is were I store all my metal dies.  The cases from the wall to the flat stack in the middle are all dies in CD cases... the flat stack are DVD cases with larger dies that did not fit in CD cases... and then next to that are some empty CD cases that needed to be filled but I was just not in the mood to cut magnetic strips and make a index for the end and cover sheet, I know that's all self inflected work but it would help me find things I though.  I still just flipped thru my stack till I found the one I was looking for, and never looked at the index strips. Why brother...?

here's a shot of my Big Shot cutting area with my dies above... ( Boy I need to do something with all my wires, what a mess)

Here's a shot of all my now EMPTY CD/DVD cases 20" tall, next to my New stack of 5X7 Magnetic Cards  only 3.5 " tall LOADED....I just could not believe it...

On the first card I was able to put both the original Labels 4 and the Small Labels 4 on the same card.  On the other 2 cards I just put one die set.

Now on the second card I put 5 MFT borders on one card, and the last card I have both of the MFT Fish Tale dies sets.

It was SOOOoooo easy to do this after I received my 5x7 Magnetic Cards I think it took me less then 45 mins to get all my dies on these cards.... but now I have to label them.....I'm going to make labels for the back of each card so when I need the info it's right there. The Magnetics are adhered to a thin cardboard so they are not floppy but do have some give to remove your dies easily.

I'll add more pics when I have them in there new box, labeled and divided up.

Let me know how you have your dies stored.

If you have any questions let me know I'll be glad to help if I can.

 



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A New Prayer.

Hi All,

Today I made a card using the 4 Ladies at the beach by Ai-Art Impressions called Friends.  Here they are right after I finished coloring them.... there just on Watercolor paper here...

 

I just love each of the ladies, I'm the one in the pock-a-dot pink bathing suite... will because she has the smallest boobies..... :)

I printed the words for the front of the card on my PC  (Spell check did not find my spelling error because it was not spelled wrong..... but my hubby said it's just not used right,,,  so now it reads "Prayer" not Pray. Thanks Honny!)... to go with the inside....you'll see why.

 

Here's how the front looks not so close up.....

 

And here's the inside.... I just love this saying....

Just in case you can't read it;

 

Dear Lord

If you can't make me

skinny,

can You make

my friends FAT?

 

I've had this stamp for a LONG, and just had to have it when I saw it but when I went to use it I could not think of a way to use it without hurting someones feelings....which is not what I meant to do at all since I'm always fighting the battle it just strikes me funny that's all...

 

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With Age......

Hi All...

Today I'm posting the card I finished that I was talking about in last weeks blog.

This is the new stamp I started with....I had pick out my papers but had not put anything together yet...

 

Will here's what I came up with...remember I said I had stamped it kind of low on my paper and when I went to cut it out using the die I wanted it was a little too low... will this was how I got around that.  I just moved it down to the very bottom as if that was just how I wanted it to be.....te he.....

 

Here's a full front view, I think it worked out just fine....?

 

and here's how I dressed the inside.... love that saying ;)

 

The main stamp was by Ai-Art impressions, and the saying came from CTMH...the punch on the inside was a Martha Stewart border, and the die was by Spellbinders. If you want any detail info just let me know and I'll be glad to get it for you.

 

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Getting Older......

Today I'm posting a BD card I made using a new IO-Impression Obsession stamp I found before Christmas and just had to have it....

just look at the cute little cup cakes on the end of the candle... Love that...

After coloring my little cakes and candle (wow-big deal) I left a little of the candle and the glass stick out of the die when cutting... I edged the white and the blue with Smooch Gold Lame, and I used crystal effects on the booz in the glass (but you may not be able to see that)

Here's a look at the full card front...

The saying came from CTMH- Just a Number Occasions set (D1514). This set has some really fun BD saysing, I'm sure I'll be using this set a lot...

And this is the inside...

 

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