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Bright Blossoms birthday card

Bright Blossoms birthday card

Today's card is sweet little birthday card. Have you figured out yet that I'm using up my 2012-2014 In Colors? They'll be retiring at the end of June (or possibly even earlier depending on stock levels) so I'm sharing them with you while they're still available. The...

Create a cupcake birthday card

Create a cupcake birthday card

Today's birthday card is to play along with a SUDSOL CASE challenge. This is the card to be CASEd: And surprisingly (very surprising if you know me 🙂 ) I don't have these items (though the embossing folder is en route even now, lol). But that's the great thing  about...

Another Great Year cheery birthday

Another Great Year cheery birthday

Another week, another SUDSOL sketch challenge and this week it's this: I've used Another Great Year to make a masculine card before but wanted a younger, more cheery version with the stamp set this time. The card base is an A6 portrait of Summer Starfruit, matted with...

Hello Doily in a blue fade

Hello Doily in a blue fade

Today's card is a veritable froth of lace and ruffles 🙂 Lots of doilies, large and small, a definite ladies card this one. The card base is an A6 portrait of Midnight Muse. Hello Doily (Wood 128610 or Clear 122847) was stamped with Versamark ink (102283) onto Whisper...

Summer Silhouettes April thank yous

Summer Silhouettes April thank yous

Here's the card that went out as a sweet little thank you message to my customers in April. The card base is a small square of Daffodil Delight. Using Gumball Green ink, the flower stem from Summer Silhouettes (Wood 132082 or Clear 126447) was stamped onto a Whisper...

Morning Meadow thank you

Morning Meadow thank you

Today's card uses another of the stamp sets that are exclusive to our hostesses. Our current catalogue runs through the the end of June, so there's only a couple of months left to host a workshop if you'd like to get hold of one of these great sets. What's involved in...

Secret Garden Zentangle

Secret Garden Zentangle

Wow, am I running late today! For the very best of reasons though 🙂 I had some crafting pals around to play and the day just ran away with us and then I needed to go with hubby on a visit. So I'm just getting today's post done and then I can have some tea, lol. The...

Simply Sketched masculine birthday

Simply Sketched masculine birthday

Back with another SUDSOL sketch challenge and this is the sketch this week: I opted to create a masculine birthday card with it: The card base is an A6 portrait of Early Espresso. A mat of Baked Brown Sugar Core'dinations cardstock (129958) was run through the Big...

Summer Silhouettes sympathy card

Summer Silhouettes sympathy card

I'm sure that I'm not unusual in disliking creating sympathy cards, but they are so important that I also don't like to buy them ready made, as it seems so impersonal. To make the job easier and have a sympathy card on hand, I decided to CASE (Copy And Share...