Happy Retirement

My husband asked me to make two Happy Retirement

cards for former work friends who are retiring.

The first one is a CASE of a beautiful card that Melissa Phillips made.

I love it and think it makes a fabulous retirement card.

I used Feathered Friends 12, Border Bling Flowers and Some Like It Hot (flowers) 

from Papertrey Ink.

I used BotaniCuts Palm from The Greetery and

Enjoy the Journey from Gina K. Designs.

The embellishments are from Trinity Stamps and called Bubble Blow Out.

On this card, I used the Little Pickup from Honey Bee Stamps.

The Cuttlebug Diamond Plate Embossing Folder,

the Stitched Arch Stax and Cloud stencil from My Favorite Things,

Country Roads from Gina K. Designs.

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Congrats Class of 2021

I was in need of a card for 

a young lady graduating from our local high school.

This is what I came up with.

The school colors are white, royal blue and orange.

The  cap looked plain, so I added a sprig of flowers 

to dress it up a bit.  

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe.

The cap is from the PTI set called Graduate

The Congrats, Bold Numbers and Alpha Bud Bold Florals

are from The Greetery.

The tag is from a Gina K. Designs set called Tag Trio.

The embossing folder is called Dotted Lattice

from Taylored Expressions.

 

Love You to Pieces

 Today was a Valentine play day!

I pulled out an old set from Papertrey Ink

called Love You to Pieces Fox 

and Love You to Pieces Airplane.

These sets are so sweet and make a little punch out

toy that can be assembled.

The girls get a fox and the boys get a plane.

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Lots of Birthdays

When I received the new release from

The Greetery,

I stamped lots and lots of images.

Those images combined with some from

past releases are used in the following cards.

I apologize because this is a long post.

For those of you who hang in to the end,

I thank you.

Reverse Confetti Stitched Circles

The Greetery Mason Around

The Greetery Oopsie Daisy

The Greetery Budding Beauties Summer

The Greetery Lemon Blossom

The Greetery Sentiment Suite Birthday

Reverse Confetti Stitched Circles

The Greetery Oopsie Daisy

The Greetery Robin & Wren

The Greetery Mason Around

The Greetery Lemon Blossom

The Greetery Budding Beauties Summer

The Greetery Budding Beauties Spring

The Greetery Mini Eucalyptus

Reverse Confetti Stitched Circles

My Favorite Things Cross Stitched Circles

The Greetery Oopsie Daisy

The Greetery Robin & Wren

The Greetery Sprinkled with Kindness

The Greetery Budding Beauties Summer

The Greetery Mini Eucalyptus

The Greetery Sentiment Suite Birthday

The Greetery Sprinkled with Kindness

The Greetery Oopsie Daisy

The Greetery Mini Eucalyptus

The Greetery Cozy Cup Coaster

Papertrey Ink Bitty Big Pure Black

The Greetery Sentiment Suite Birthday

The Greetery Sprinkled with Kindness

The Greetery Oopsie Daisy

The Greetery Mini Eucalyptus

The Greetery Cozy Cup Coaster

The Greetery Window Pane Plaid

 

The Greetery Budding Beauties Summer

The Greetery Sprinkled with Kindness

The Greetery Mini Eucalyptus

The Greetery Sentiment Suite Birthday

Reverse Confetti Diagonal Stitched Cover Panel

Papertrey Ink Bitty Big Pure Poppy

The Greetery Robin & Wren

The Greetery Sprinkled with Kindness

The Greetery Budding Beauties Summer

The Greetery Budding Beauties Spring

The Greetery Oopsie Daisy

The Greetery Mini Eucalyptus

My Favorite Things Cross Stitched Circle

Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop

Well, we are finally to the end!  lol

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Sending Caring Thoughts

 This card is for my grandson, Nathan.

He had a friend and classmate die last week

after collapsing during a cross county run.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

The Greetery Blooming Branch

The Greetery Robin & Wren

PTI Scallop Stackers Small & Large

PTI Words to Live by Caring

Life is better in flip flops

I have been in a beachy mood lately.

I guess it's because our vacation

was cancelled because of the virus.

I am living through my stamps and

wishing I could jump into these card.  lol

The stamps are all from Papertrey Ink and

the Crimped frame die is from The Greetery.

I started with the fun flip flops and

built the scene around them.

I love flip flops!

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

PTI Some Like It Hot

PTI Palm Prints

PTI Text and Texture Ocean

PTI Flipping Out

TG Crimped Frame die

August Birthdays

Here are a couple of cards

I made for family birthdays

for August.

I love this cute car and sassy girl.

She reminds me of my daughter, so this

card is for her.

Stamps and dies are from The Greetery.

Top Down Day

Fir & Foliage No. 2

Silver Lining

Here is another favorite

for a grandson who loves the beach.

Stamps and dies are from Papertrey Ink.

Text & Texture Ocean

On The Wagon

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

Happy Father's Day

I  wanted to share the card that I made for my husband for Father's Day.

This is such a fun stamp set.  It is very appropriate for today and the family cookout we are having  to celebrate the wonderful fathers we have in our lives: my husband, our son and our son-in-law.  Of course, we are missing my father and my father-in-law who are no longer with us.  I hope everyone has a great day!

The Recipe:

PTI King of the Grill, Super Gingham

Lil' Inkers Stitched Circles, On the Diagonal

Lawn Fawn Happy Summer

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Just Us Girls #325 - Trend Week

This time at Just Us Girls it's Trend Week!  Sue is our hostess and she has chosen the trend of Metals or Metallics.

I am having a lot of trouble getting my creative juices turned back on after the holidays.  My husband was off from December 19th to January 4th, and I was not able to get into my craft room during that time.  I think my mojo went to sleep.  I finally had to force myself today to sit down and work on this challenge.  I used two beautiful sets from PTI.  I started with Background Basics Art Deco and used Kraft card stock and Kraft ink.  I love the subtle tone on tone look.  The other set is called Brushed Blooms.  I stamped them using some of PTI's beautiful inks.  The metal element I added is a charm in the shape of a heart.  The sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder.

Please visit the Just Us Girls page to see the wonderful cards the rest of the team and our Guest Designers, Deepti and Vicki, have made this week.  I hope you will come and play along with us.

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our January challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as our Guest Designer for the month of March.  Good luck!

The Recipe:

PTI Brushed Blooms & Background Basics Art Deco

PTI Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Hawaiian Shores, New Leaf & Ripe Avocado

PTI Summer Sunrise CS

GKD Kraft CS

GKD Kraft ink

Doodlebug twine

Charm  from my stash

Seize the Birthday - No Topping

This time at Seize the Birthday there is No Topping.  As always, it's "Anything Goes" as long as it's for a birthday.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and tonight we will be ushering in the New Year!  The past year really did fly by quickly.  My wish for you this year is Peace, Happiness, Good Health, Prosperity & Creativity.

Here's my card

I made this for my friend, Donna, who celebrated her birthday on Christmas Day.  I thought the fun colors would be a nice change from all of the red and green. The two sets  I used for this card are brand new from PTI.  Don't they scream party!  I love the confetti stamps.  I see many wonderful backgrounds in my future.

Please visit the Seize the Birthday blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team and our Surprise Party Guest, Tanja, have created this time.  I hope you will be inspired and come play along with us.

The Recipe:

PTI Confetti Toss

PTI Scene It:  Celebration

Spellbinders Standard Circles

PTI Hibiscus Burst & Aqua Mist CS

The Paper Studio enamel dots

Just Us Girls #323 - Trend Week

This time at Just Us Girls it's Trend Week.  Lisa is our hostess and she has chosen the trend of Sequins.  I've been seeing a lot of sequins in cards lately.  You can use a little or a lot.  Here's how I was inspired.

Christmas bells are so special, especially silver ones.  I was in love with this Enclosed Bell from PTI the moment I saw it.  I think a lot of other people must have loved it too, because when I went to order it it was already gone.  I finally got mine and I love it!  One of my favorite Christmas songs is Silver Bells, so this one had to be silver.  In fact it is a glittery silver thanks to some beautiful paper from DCWV called Glitzy Glitter paper.  The patterned paper is some that I happened to have in my stash.  It is from Me and My Big Ideas.  I was thrilled to find it because it has snow flakes in red, blue, green and silver.  I added a clear sequin and bead to the bell's striker and then scattered some around on the red panel.

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team have made this week. I hope you will be inspired and play along with us.

We don't have a Guest Designer for the month of December.  The team will be taking a two week break to celebrate the holiday season with our families at the conclusion of this challenge.  If you were a Chic of the Week winner in any of our October or November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as one of our two Guest Designers for the month of January.  Please check back with us on January 2, 2016 when our Word Week challenge will be hosted by Nancy.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Sharyn

The Recipe:

PTI Enclosed Bell

DCWV Glitzy Glitter paper

Me and My Big Ideas patterned paper

Pretty Pink Posh Twine and Bows die (silver bow) & Sparkling Clear Sequins & Silver Shimmer Beads

Just Us Girls - #322 - Word Week

This time at Just Us Girls it's Word Week.  Ina is our hostess and she has chosen the word Merry. Here is how I was inspired.

This is a little country Christmas card.  I used a cute set from PTI called Polka Dot Parade #9 and some of their pretty plaid patterned paper.

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the beautiful cards the rest of the team have made this time. I hope you will be inspired to play along.

We have no guest designer for the month of December.  The team will be taking a two week break to celebrate the Christmas season with our families.  If you were a Chic of the Week in any of our October or November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as one of two Guest Designers for the month of January.  

The Recipe:

PTI Polks Dot Parade #9

PTI Holiday Plaid patterned paper

MFT Cross Stitch Circles & Basic Stitch Lines

PTI Enclosed Bell - Holly

PTI New Leaf & Pure Poppy ink

Delicata Golden Glitz ink

Just Us Girls #320 - Color Week

This time at Just Us Girls it's Color Week.  Sharyn here and I am your hostess. The colors I have chosen are, red, green & gold.  Please remember, in a color challenge you are only allowed to use those three colors plus whatever neutrals you need. (white, ivory, black, brown & kraft.)

I decided to go very vintage with this Christmas card.  I just bought some fun plaid patterned paper from PTI and that was my inspiration.

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the wonderful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Louise Hodge, have made this week.  I hope you will be inspired and come play along.

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as one of our two Guest Designers for the month of January.  The Team will be taking a 2 week break in December, and therefore, will not have a Guest Designer for December.

The Recipe:

PTI Vintage Linens, Christmas Cheer & Nostalgic Notions

PTI Holiday Plaids patterned paper

Delicata Golden Glitz ink

The Paper Studios enamel dots

Stickles Gold

Just Us Girls #319 - Trend Week

This time at Just Us Girls it's Trend Week.  Maria is our hostess and she has chosen the trend of Water Color.

I struggled so much with this challenge.  I can't tell you how many backgrounds I tried to make only to throw them in the trash. Then I made another card that I was going to go with, but didn't really like.  I decided I could do better than that.  I'm probably going to sound like a crazy person, but when I go to bed, after I get my mind to settle down, if I think about a particular card I need to make, I will usually come up with an idea.  That is how this card came to be.  lol  I have been known to get out of bed in the middle of the night and lay out the stamps I have been thinking about.

I started with some Strathmore Water Color paper and a stamp set from PTI called Fall Florals.  I colored the stamps with Distress markers and spritzed with water, then stamped.  I was thrilled with the results!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Please visit the Just Us Girls blog to see the wonderful cards the rest of the team and our GD, Louise Hodge, have made this week.  I hope you will be inspired and come play along.

If you win Chic of the Week in any of our November challenges, you will be in the running to be chosen as one of our two Guest Designers for the month of January.  The team will be taking a 2 week break in December, and therefore, will not have a Guest Designer for December. 

The Recipe:

PTI Fall Florals
Distress Markers Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Abandoned Coral & Ripe Persimmon
GKD Pure Luxury Peach Bellini & Charcoal Brown
Strathmore Water Color Paper
Spellbinders Standard Circles & Scalloped Circles
Recollections enamel dots