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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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

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.

 

Fun day in my craft room.

 Today was a crafting day for me

and I have had such a good time.

I was able to make two cards with some of the stamps

and dies from the new The Greetery collection.

I love the Flower Market Bouquet!

I stamped the first step on the flowers with ink,

but the second step I stamped with VersaMark

and embossed with red and pink embossing powder.

I as so happy with the way it turned out.

I am entering this card in the Seize The Birthday challenge.

The Holding Hands set is so sweet.

I used Fond of Foliage on the background.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

TG Flower Market Bouquet

TG Happy

TG Fit to Be Tied

GKD Master Layouts

GKD Red Hot EP

Ranger Pink Peony EP

PTI Chicken Scratch Patterned Paper

TG Holding Hands

TG Crimped Circle

TG Fond of Foliage

Congrats

 I needed an anniversary card for our daughter and son-in-law 

and decided to use the beautiful Flower Market Bouguet

from The Greetery.

The background is the Fond of Foliage background stamp

 from The Greetery.

I stamped it in Sea Glass ink onto Sea Glass card stock

from Gina K. Designs.

I love the subtle look and the gorgeous color.

The bouquet was inked with Distress Oxide inks.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

TG Let's Have a Word Congrats

TG Fit to Be Tied

TG Postal Frames

TG Flower Market Bouquet

Picked Fresh

 I had such fun playing with the new

BotaniCuts Tulips and Flower Market Basket

from The Greetery!

I inked the tulips in shades of pink.

I used a copper foiled card stock for the wire basket

and the liner is cork.

The background is one I made using

a gel press a few weeks ago.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

TG BotaniCuts Tulips

TG Flower Market Basket

TG Crimped Circles

TG Flower Market Bouquet

DCWV Foiled Card Stock

DCWV Cork Solids

Apron Strings

 

I love old fashioned aprons!

The set is called Apron Strings

and is from a company in Canada

called Pigment.

This one was stamped with  Print Shop Fresh Floral

from The Greetery.

This one was stamped with Make It Market Herb Garden

from Papertrey Ink.

This one was stamped with Lemon Blossom

from The Greetery.

This one was stamped with Pocketful of Joy

from Pigment.

My grandmother always wore an apron when she cooked.

She past away  twenty three years ago and

my uncle moved into her house.

After he past, it was my job to clean out

the house and get it ready to sell.

I moved the door in the kitchen and there hanging

on a hook was one of my grandmother's aprons.

This stamp set reminds me of her.

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Praying For You

 Lots of sympathy cards today.

I used Print Shop Floral Frame

and Square Dance from

The Greetery

and Graceful Greetings II from

Papertrey Ink.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

Easter Bonanza!

 I'm giving you fair warning that this is a long post.

Many thanks to all who stay until the end.

I've been making Easter cards for days,

so here we go.

The sets I used for this card are from

The Greetery

called Empty Grave and Print Shop Floral Frame.

I also used Gina K. Designs Wisteria Lane  patterned paper

and a Pierced Feature Frame from Papertrey Ink.

The cute bunny wreath is from a new set called Bunny Hop

and the pretty Easter bow is a new set called

Put A Bow On It from

The Greetery.

I also used the Window Pane Plaid stamp from The Greetery

and Master Layouts 4 from Gina K. Designs.

This card is a CASE of a card I saw on Pinterest by Nicky Noo Cards.

I thought it was adorable and had to create my own.

The stamp set is Simply Spring Borders by Papertrey Ink

and the die is called Snow Drifts Cover Ups by My Favorite Things.

The bunnies are a set from Papertrey Ink called So Sweet.

The yummy carrots are new from The Greetery

called BotaniCuts Carrots.

The sentiment is from a set called Empty Grave and the

sentiment die from a set called Pretext Sentiment both from The Greetery.

I used Bitty Big Hawaiian Shores patterned paper from Papertrey Ink 

and Master Layouts from Gina K. Designs.

The Bunny cards are a set from Papertrey Ink

called Bunny Blessings and Egg Stripes.

The stenciled background is called 

Garden Gate Stencil also from Papertrey Ink.

The Easter die is from a new set from

The Greetery called

Let's Have A Word - Easter.

Easter cards for the Grands!

This sweet little card is from a new company to me called

Colorado Craft Company

and is called Happy Easter.

I used Bitty Big Lilac Grace patterned paper

from Papertrey Ink

and Master Layouts from Gina K. Designs.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

I found the one whom my soul loves.

 We received about two inches of snow last night and now are waiting for the second wave to come through.  The Weather Service is talking about a total of eight to eleven inches of snow along with blowing and drifting.  It should be interesting.  Fingers crossed that we don't lose our power.

This card I love!

I was so excited to pull out the Boxwood dies

and the BotaniCuts Forget Me Nots die.

These are so beautiful and fun.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Please stay safe and warm.

It looks like this weather system is affecting a lot of us.

Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

The Greetery Love Song Sentiments

The Greetery Boxwood Heart

The Greetery BotaniCuts Forget Me Nots

The Greetery Fit to Be Tied

Creative Expressions Quilted Heart EF

Love is ........

 For my hubby for Valentine's Day!

I was so happy to finally pull out these gorgeous

stamps and dies to play with.

I used The Greetery's  Lovely Blossoms,

Bigger Blooms, Heart Leaf Jumbo Posy Pocket and

Love Is.

The embossing folder is called Hearts Diagonal

from Darice.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

It's Your Birthday

 Good Morning!

I made this for my son-in-law.

I know my seasons are a little out of whack

but I wanted to play with some of the

new things I have neglected.

I love the masculine feel of this card,

that is something that I struggle with.

The wood slice, mushrooms and the oak leaves

work so well together, and

I was able to find a Cuttlebug folder in my stash

called Oak, that worked beautifully for the background.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe:

The Greetery Wood Slices

The Greetery BotaniCuts Mighty Oak

The Greetery BotaniCuts Toad Stool Garden

The Greetery Sentiment Suite Birthday

Cuttlebug Oak EF

GKD Mastercuts 1

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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Happy Anniversary

I adore the Cherry Blossoms in the new

Budding Beauties Spring set from

The Greetery.

Don't they just scream Spring!

I used Sketchbook Roses to create the background,

Just Mason Around for the lovely layered jar, and

Budding Beauties Spring for the Cherry Blossoms.

I had a lemon and blossom from the

Lemon Blossom set that I added to the base of the jar, and

the sentiment is from the Sentiment Suite Spring set.

All sets are from The Greetery.

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Your kind comments are always appreciated.

The Recipe

TG Sketchbook Roses

TG Budding Beauties Spring

TG Just Mason Around

TG Lemon Blossom

TG Sentiment Suite Spring

 

Think of You

This week Betsy showed us how to use our Distress Oxides in a new way.

We all know that Distress Oxides are wonderful for blended backgrounds, but 

now we can sponge the color on our stamps and make beautiful colored flowers.

The flowers I'm using are from The Greetery and are called Fleur Impressions.

Aren't they gorgeous!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Your kind comments are always appreciated

and make my day!

The Recipe:

TG Fleur Impressions

TG Sentiment Suite Thinking of You

SSS Gingham Stencil

MFT Grid Stencil

DO Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Squeezed Lemonade, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Old Paper, Peeled Paint

GKD Innocent Pink, Lemon Drop, Barely There card stock.