Mom's Birthday Card

Today I finished Mom's Birthday card.... I think she's going to be 88...? I still have a few weeks to figure that out...

I've been following a new site I found and they have a once a month sketch for anyone to try.

So I decided to use the sketch from this month at  i(heart)2stamp site..check it out. Never did one of her sketches but liked this one so had to try it out.  I think it turned out pertty nice.

For the focal point I used the SU-Elizabeth stamp and did gold embossing then colored the flowers and leaves a little.

Here a close up, you can see some of the embossing and coloring too..... 

Here's the inside, I didn't do much with this, still may put a little something else in here just not sure what yet....

I know she will like this one... but then she's my Mom and she always likes everything so I don't know if she's the best person to ask... so how about you what do you think???

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Embossing Folders

Hi Everyone!
Today I was working with my Embossing Folders and trying to see which one I though would look the best on my project.  So I did what I always end up doing I cut paper and try several to see which one I liked best....... Will you see where I'm going with this right???  I decided I was going to make a folder like I did for may Border and Corners so I could just pull it out and have a look.  
This is what I came up with, tell me what you think!

Here the first flap open.....

2nd flap open

3rd flap open......

4th flap open...

That's it...

To make a sample of each folder I just cut papers 2.5 x 3.75 and then embossed, sanded, put it in the folder and labeled it with company name, folder name, stock #.....

Hope you enjoyed this... I know I'm going to save myself a LOT of time with this. 

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WOYWW-92 Leftovers

Today is WOYWW day which stands for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday.  It's a fun post to show if you dare what your working on or have been working on this past week and mess that's left behind.  Come and join the fun on Julia's blog, here's the link you won't believe all the people that are brave enough to post and all the fun we have snopping into each others workareas.....

Nothing new going on today...just all leftovers from this past week of finally getting to do some stamping and card making. 

Here you go... my mess in action...

Oh now I'm of to go snoop some of the other WOYWW's, By!

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Late Birthday........

Hi Everyone!!

We're all guilty of sending a late card for someones birthday, I know I am..... So I finally made a card to say Sorry!!

I used the same Dragonfly stamp from the Inkadinkado set Mindscapes-99121, and cut it out and then popped the wings up a little.  For the coloring I used my CTMH pens and then added some gold around the edge and spots on the wings and body too. 

Here you can see how I popped the wings up better and the Gold too. 

and this is the inside.

Will that's it... I'm going to take it easy for the rest of the day  and maybe work on card from the sketch on Jen's site here's here link....

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Deep Sympathy

Hi Everyone!!

I'm doing much better this week with my hurt shoulder, it's still not working quit right but MUCH better!!  Thanks to all you girls that sent me Get Well wishes!!

Today I'm show a Sympathy card I did to look a little shabby... Hope I didn't overdo things with it since it is a Sympathy card.  I'll let you be the judge of that?

Here's the front, I used my :Hug Snug" Seam Binding for the first time and put some Glimmer Mist-Wheatfields on it and the card too.  I always liked the seam binding all the girls used on there sites and I finally made the plung when on of the gals I follow sent me the link, Thanks Glenda!

The Dragon Fly is from the Indadinkado stamp set Mindscapes-99121, I just colored it in using my CTMH markers. The border is a Martha Stewart called Raindrop. 

Here's a close up of my bow and border.....

and here's the inside, the saying is from the CTMH set called Best Wishes (C1318), then i used the Raindrop border punch again with a little scrap paper I had left over from the front.

I forget to mention I spunged all the edges of everything with Desart Sand too.

Will that's it for this one... I'll be posting another card I'm working on using the same Dragon Fly stamp.... maybe later today.

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WOYWW-91 / Borders & Corners

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Will I'm still nursing my shoulder but though I would share with you something I did a few months ago and have been wanting to put up on my blog so this is the perfect time.
Here's the link  to WOYWW to see all the others that are showing off there work areas!

The reason I did this was because on my way home from Georgia one week I made my regular stop at all the craft stores in Albany, they have a Hobby Lobby and Michaels and many times have GREAT sales, better than at the stores at home (I wonder why?). Will like I said I stopped and back in the CLEARANCE bins I think it was HL they had piles of Martha Stewart borders and corner punches..... I had a few but there were several there for like 5 buck, I went WILD... there are a few I still wanted corner punches for so when I got home I decided to make up a card thing I could tuck into my purse and have but have since found I love it to decide what kind of border or corner I want to use on a card too.

Here goes it.....this is the front of my little folder thingie.  It's the size of a A2 card when closed 4.25 x 5.5.

 this is the first open view...I know not much but just wait...

 Here it is with both sides open, both sides fold into the middle that's why it looked like it did in the pic above.  I used three A2 cards and just taped fronts to backs untill I got the size I wanted.

 anyway back to the borders.... this is a shot of the frist flap, I did ever other one in off white so it would show up good and then wrote on each one the maker and name of the border punch if I still had that.

 this is flap two, and the start of my Martha Stewart punches I again put the names of each punch if I had it and wrote border and or Corner if I had both.  So now I know what I have or still need...

 Here's flap 3

and flap 4

I know this was a long post but was not sure how to show it so it got the idea across and not look like a mess.  It was really easy once I got started and I have room to grow too.... yea!
If you have a way to keep track of your punches please let me know I need all the help I can get!
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