Courtney's confirmation card

Hello again,   I wanted to make a all white card, but just did not like it without a splash of color...

lost both Aunt and Uncle

yesterday my mom calls to tell me that my Aunt  and Uncle both passed with in hours of each other. They both were in their 90's and lived a good life. They had been married for over 73 years. I will not be able to attend the funeral because of a surgery I will have on Friday. But I will be with them in spirit.

Jacob's baptism card

Hello to all, it is snowing like crazy once again, so glad that spring is right around the corner...
this I made for my grandson Jacob.

lifted

Hi all, I found this on You Tube under CardzTV,  then I looked a bit closer on Mary's blog and found it under coffee and cards episode #32
Donna over at    http://www.scrappinwithjack.blogspot.com/

made this cute card and I just had to make it...so I made 2

 I deleted all the cut marks with my design studio, but after taking a closer look at Donna's, she left them on.

3 sympathy cards

good morning to all., a young woman of 50 died this week from my church, I was not close to her but 2 of my good friend were, so these sympathy cards are for them...

I let the paper work for this card, I had a different card layout on my DS, but when I saw this beautiful paper  I did not want to cover it up with layers

 I love this butterfly and works well for sympathy cards this time of year

 Made an extra for my stash,, had enough deaths this year already, 

iSpy Sketches #7

good morning to all, for this card I have been looking at it a few days now, wondering if I should add a sentiment to it and I decided not to, I made one but it just takes away from the fancy cut on the bottom, so I left it off, this will go to my M-I-L for her bd next month

Birthday Card for friend

Hi all, My girl friend just got back from an exciting sewing weekend retreat,,, must be the time of the year for crafting retreats, my sister was on one the same weekend but for stamping...I made it to look like a quilt because years ago I helped her make one large one for the women community and a small baby one. our homemakers club got together and tied it. It was a fun project
 lots of inking, brads, little doodling and pop dotted
I wish I had taken a picture of the quilt before I added the sewing machine!!!

    the inside..... when I think of something clever I will add it then

card base is 5 3/8 sq.
scalloped   5 1/8 sq;
punched start with 5 inch sq
green   4 " sq.
white  3 5/8 " sq.
flower pattered paper 3 1/2" sq
quilt sq's are 7/8 inch sq.  cut in half on a die-angle

birthday card

good morning to all, I can tell it is Saturday, I can hear the TV through the floor, Britt must have something interesting on...this is another of Kim's backgrounds that I had to work with
I cleaned my craft room and organized my papers and scraps, this card was made from all scraps, lots of inking... 

                                                     the inside

5 1/2 sq.
scalloped edges   5 1/4 long
bl 5 1/4 x 3 3/4
dotted  5 1/8 x 3 5/8
bl 4 1/4 x 2 1/4
gray dot 4 1/8 x 2 1/8
bl  3 1/2 x  2
 blue 3 3/8 x 1 7/8
scalloped 3 1/2

Christmas cards

Yes,That is what I said....I had nothing in mind when I came into my craft room this morning, so why not Christmas!!!
I decided to make 2 of each when I get the whim to make them because I always seem to run short come Dec..

Laura's baby shower card and our 1st snow!

Hi all, this is for my girlfriend who has been through breast cancer, now expecting  a baby and after she was pg found out she has liver cancer, her and baby are doing fine with chemo,
the invite had cute little baby feet on the cover so I went with that for this card, I believe this is an old mojo sketch.

 this is 1/2 hour into the snow storm that we are in, expecting 3 to 5 inches of heavy wet snow, we have a lot more now!!

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more snow as the day went on

it snowed all day and we got another 2 inches after this picture

Job well done!!!

the church secretary celebrated 40 years with our church,

cricut 360 challenge # 2 (thank you, circle) and cooking with cricut, anything goes

Hi all, today I am combining 2 challenges, cricut 360 and cooking with cricut,
this does not happen often for me but anything goes today with one...
this one came together nicely for me,
for the large flower I used my welding on my DS
storybook pg. 75 the accent blackout, (shift) @ 5 3/8 " turned one 45* and weld.
lots of inking and doodling,

 

will fit into a envelope for 5 1/4 square card.

breast cancer survivor

Hi all, about a 18 months ago a friend of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age of 36, I am happy to say she is cancer free and much to my surprise pregnant with her 2nd child. she would tell you herself that God has blessed her in so many ways and kept everyone's spirits up even through the treatments and ups and downs she has had. I made this card for her.
lots of inking, tiny pearls, layering and cuttlebug

 

card for Becky

Hi all, this morning I have a card for  my good friends daughter, she likes to claim the cards that I make for her so I thought maybe Ruthann can retrieve it if I send one out special...this idea came from Kim at paper in the works...Kim does so much more with her cards (sewing, lace, buttons) that I sure hope that I do justice to them.

lots of inking, some beads..
 white 4 3/4 square                            inside white 4 3/4 x 4
blue 4 5/8 square                                          pink 4 5/8 x 3 7/8
pink 4 5/8 x 2 3/4                                        black 3 3/4 x 3
orange 4 5/8 x  1 3/4                                    blue 3 5/8 x 2 7/8
white 4 5/8 x 1 7/8                                 white sentiment  3 3/8 x 2 5/8
black 4 5/8 x 2
for the black and white on the pink I just added a 1 inch stripe x 4 5/8 and eye balled it.

Mother's day color challenge

Hi all, I found this color challenge over at Cardz TV...Mary asked only blue, green purple and white be used
on a mother's day project. I had the hardest time finding purple, not a color I use much, and when I found the right paper ...it has all of the colors on it, plus it is double sided !!! great for me, the bottom is the other side...

mojo monday # 187

what a great sketch over at Mojo Monday this week!!! I had no problem picking out papers, and I even like the ribbon I added to it...looks better in real life,, colors are a bit washed out here.
lots of inking and pop dotted.

 

 I  did have a problem with the 9,,,, it looked more like a g  (wanted this for my daughters 9th anniversary coming up in June)  anyway, I will fix it later.

mojo monday # 184 round

Hi, I thought I would give Mojo Monday a try in round....

                                                                      the inside

mojo monday # 184

I don't know why I let some of these sketches stump me so, but I was with this one...anyway I used the same paper as the last and it came together nicely.....

                                                                        the inside

the owl is at 2" and the swirl was stretched on my DS  both from storybook

wedding card for Karol

Hi all, this  is for a good friend of mine, for this card I wanted lots of layers and for it to be square, and it had to have a cross. I started by cutting out all of the squares and inking and   lots of measuring to make sure things looked right, but it just did not have the right pop to it, so I went to Jeannies blog, looked up under weddings and much to my surprise she had a layered card...find it here...
http://aplaceformycards.blogspot.com/2009/06/third-picture-of-this-post-shows.html
all I had to do to mine was add the swirls which really made a huge difference ( I was so glad to see it matched the cross) and tilt the square under the cross.
I also pop dotted 3 layers and did lots of inking on this card...

                                                                  the inside

card is 5 1/2" square
mat 5 1/4 square
small squares 2 3/8   white  print   2 1/8
med square  white  4",   mat  3 3/4,   swirls   3 1/2"
behind cross   white  2 3/4,  &   2 1/2"
cross is 2 1/2",  2 layers, shadow and swirls in white glitter paper
                        2 layers  shift base and black out in blue
papers are from  K & Co.  floral dreams
glitter paper from linen closet card stack stack from DCWV