Baby Girl Card

This Tuesday's RefuPeas stamping challenge was to use the colors white, pink, green, and gray. That was harder for me than I expected, but I did find a couple of papers that finally got me going. The green and white background was "Carrots" from the Echo Park Happy Easter collection. (The other side of the paper is just carrots.)

The border, individual flower, and onesies on the clothesline were all fussy cut from a sheet of paper called Sugar & Spice from the Baby Mine collection by We R Memory Keepers. The clothesline actually had a yellow onesie in it, so I fussy cut a pink onesie from another part of the banner border and glued it on top of the yellow one to keep the colors limited to the challenge. I found the pink BoBunny Candy Dots at Tuesday Morning just this week.

"The Snuggle Is Real" banner was stamped with a set from the Queen and Company Baby Shaker kit, then cut with a Spellbinder banner die that I've had for years.

Birthday Cupcake Shaker Card 2

Tonight I played around a bit more with the Sweet Shop shaker kit from Queen and Company. I used the papers that came with the kit to make the card.

There are a few things on the card that are from other companies, such as the die that I used to cut the happy birthday banner stamp. The stamp is from Hero Arts. I don't remember who makes the banner die. It just happened to fit fairly well with the stamp, and I liked it better than the banner die that came with the Hero Arts sentiment stamp set. I cut the hearts with a Karen Burniston die.

I made this card partly for a challenge on the RefuPeas stamping board. We were supposed to use 3 different papers from the same collection. I loved the little Sweet Shop paper pad that came with the shaker kit, and I wanted to make another shaker card. Win win.

Sympathy Card

A dear friend died recently.  Below is the card that I made for his widow, an even dearer friend. Today, a neighbor died, so I will be making another like this.  Both families receiving this card are people of faith, and so am I, so this card reflects that. It is a slight adaptation of a different card that I posted relatively recently, but I love the bird cage and the lilacs.

The stamps and die that I used are from the Heartfelt Creations Lush Lilacs collection. The embossing folder I used for the background (which doesn't show as well) is from Sizzix. The bird cage die cut was cut from a metallic black card stock.

Birthday Shaker Card

I used to make shaker cards decades ago (literally). I still make them once in a blue moon, but after seeing some really cute dies with shaker kits from Queen and Company, I placed an order last week. 

I had my order two days later. I made this card for a friend whose birthday was in January, and I missed it. It also meets the Feb. 11th challenge on RefuPeas.

The card stock is a Bazzill bling that I found at Tuesday Morning. The embossing folder that I used is a really old Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The shaker die set is from Queen and company. I used slightly different fillers for the sprinkles. I don't remember who the stamp set and banner are from.

Very Simple Birthday Card

I've been asked to make birthday cards for the women at church. I'd need to make up to 18 per month. In order for me to do this, they would have to be simple, because I would have to sort of mass produce them.

This is the first possibility. I used Graphics 45 Cafe Parisian papers. I fussy cut a rose from the paper and although it isn't obvious, I popped it with foam tape, as well as the banner. The birthday banner is a Heartfelt Creations Young At Heart stamp, but I think that set has been discontinued.

2020 Feb Card Night

None of these will be a surprise. I've already posted them, but these three are the ones that my group will be doing for card night. The card on the right was tweaked a bit, but not that much.

Anyone who wants can do their own thing instead. That's what they have been expecting, anyway, with some flower instruction thrown in.

Tuesday Morning

In Virginia, I lived minutes from the LSS. I worked there for years. I started by teaching and overseeing their classes. Later I did their monthly Make & Takes. I did their Make & Takes for Convention, too (typically made 300 kits). The owners were neighbors, and they were friends.

My friends and I met there to scrapbook once every two weeks during the day.  I shopped there (a LOT), made friends there, and it was a special place. I had a nice stash, but typically I took my photos with me, picked out papers, and sat down and scrapped them. Then they announced that they would be closing. I bought heavily from their sales each week. I helped them pack up what was left at the end.

I had shopped at Tuesday Morning here and there, but I rarely found much in the way of scrapbook supplies that I wanted. After the LSS closed, I shopped there more often, and I found more things.

Then we moved to a little town in Texas that is near DFW, but it takes 17 minutes to get to church, grocery shopping, my second son's home, and restaurants. Costco and Sam's Club are farther. And so is Tuesday Morning.

I had to learn when the trucks come, and when the new stuff is put out in order to find anything good, but I often find something. Sometimes I find a lot. Sometimes I leave empty handed. My stash, however, has grown significantly, and a lot of it came from Tuesday Morning after the LSS closed.

I'm not one to post "haul" photos or videos, but today, I thought I would leave with one die set. I took my time, though, browsed through the items on hangers and shelves, and found a bit more. Then I turned to leave and realized they had more goodies on the other side of the aisle. I spent more than I should have, but this is what I found, even though I was not there when they first opened (which would have been prime time to get the newest stuff):

I found gold metallic HTV (heat transfer vinyl),
Tim Holtz stamp set that I hadn't seen before
Stamp cleaning chamois
Adhesive tape and Red Line tape
Milk Carton boxes
Shaker fillers
10 6x6 paper pads, 4 of which are good for Disney projects
Two 12x12 packs of cardstock in colors I can use
Two 8.5x11 packs of cardstock in colors I don't have
A stamp set that goes with two die sets I also found there
Embossing powder set in clear, white, and black

I usually prefer patterned papers, and I really love the 25 sheet packs, which seem to be rare these days. Sometimes I buy the paper pads or a paper collection, but not today.

No, I don't resell. I do, however, use a lot of what I buy for my card group. I don't charge for the card projects or anything, but because the prices are so affordable, I don't feel that I need to. I thought doing the card night would put a dent in my stash. Nope. And my frequent visits to Tuesday Morning are a big reason why my stash keeps growing instead of shrinking, despite our card nights.

Valentine Hugs Card

I wanted to make a Valentine card for a friend, and most Valentine cards are for sweethearts. This cutting file from the Silhouette Design Store seemed perfect for a platonic Valentine. I adapted the cutting file slightly by adding a mat, as well as the bottom heart border (the latter is also from the Silhouette Design Store). I had to pop it out with foam tape in order to use my thicker twine.

The hedgehogs are from a Penny Black stamp set called Every Which Way. I bought the stamp set awhile ago but used it for the first time on this card.

I made this card more than a week ago, but I held off posting it, since I am the stamping/card making challenge hostess on RefuPeas this week. The challenge is to make a Valentine card for a friend instead of a lover, with one or more hearts, but with a non-mushy sentiment. It does not need to say, "Happy Valentine's Day" unless you want it to.

If you are part of a challenge group, add a bonus point if you use a stamp set you have never used before, or one that you have not used for more than a year.

Jan 28th Card Challenge

The last card challenge was to create a card based on a specific card design posted by the January 28th hostess on RefuPeas, like creating a card from a sketch. I did vary slightly in that I used a 3D flower instead of a stamped image for the center of the scalloped circle, and I added a die-cut sentiment at the bottom right of my card.

The papers I used are very old, from the Bazzill Basics Divinely Sweet line. I made the ruffled flower using Heartfelt Creations Poppy stamps and die.