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HI ALL!!!!
If you have never visited Julie's Blog You have to do so. I have found so many new and fun blogs that I would never have had the chance to see without Julie...
So here's my desk today!

I finished the card I was working on last Wed. and added one more.  I had just the Carrots and Purple Beats, but so many though they were Radishs that I could not help but to that too....

Here's a shot of each one, Carrots

 the Purple Beats....

and the Red Radishes too...

Thanks to all that visited last week and left such kind words, I so enjoy reading each comment left and visiting so many of your blogs to see what your up to also.

 

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Die Organization part 2

Hi All,

Will this weekend I needed some things in Wal-Mart...(I hate to go there, to darn big) anyway, I looked in the section were the containers are but could not find anything I could use.... So I went to the Bath STUFF and they had these GREAT baskets and they were 

****MADE IN THE USA****

 

Only 4.97 and the perfect size I needed, with a little room. 7x9x5.25 So I got two, one for my new Die boards and one for my Embossing folders..

That's not all I found........ I got a roll of White Con-Tack paper...... I know what on earth would I want that for...

Long story short, I have bad eyes with dark or shaded areas, I need LOTS of lights on to really see. 

With the Dies on the dark Magnetic boards I was having a hard time seeing them... So I though I'd try a cheap and simple fix and boy does it make a difference for me let me show you.

This how the dies look on the black magnetics, not bad in the pics but when there standing back to back in a box and your looking down into a little narrow view, will it was just not good for me.

Here they are with the WHITE  Con-tact applyed.

and here's a mixed view

And now in there NEW Basket....

 

as you can see there's lots of room left and I have 40 of the Magnetic boards loaded in this basket.

Ok that's it for today....

Let me know if you have any ideas that you use, that might help me too... believe me I can use it!

 

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WOYWW

Hi All,
Will it's been a LONG time since I visited WOYWW blog and though I would join in today...
If you have never visited Julie's Blog You have to do so.  I have visited so many new and fun blogs that I would never have had the chance to see without Julie...
So here's my desk today!

I'm working on a Flourishes stamp set that is new for me but been out for a few years now...Just using my Memento's pens to do my coloring, hope to have some cards made soon.
Now off to do some visiting!!!


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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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