Pansy anniversary card.

Back in August I showed you a card I made for my hubby after his surgery.  He was in a lot of pain and kept calling himself a pansy because he couldn’t take it, so I made him a pansy get well card.  You can see that here if you missed it.  I had actually intended to make him another later, but never got around to it and then decided after I looked at it closer that these 2 birds could be lovebirds and I used it for an anniversary card last month!

Of course, my favorite thing Stickles makes it sparkly.  Here’s another angle.

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See?  I love what you can do with a tiny little bottle of glittery glue!

Butterfly birthday card.

My hubby needed a birthday card for an old friend, so I went through my scraps and found this pretty polka dot paper.  I stamped the butterfly onto a white paper doily (it’s a Jenni Bowlin stamp) with ink to match as best as I could get it.

I love that ribbon from Little Red Cottage on etsy.  I took a glitter pen and outlined all of the butterfly’s lines with it.  Can you see the sparkle?

On a side note, there is a post at Practical Scrappers with some great pet layouts and cards.  You can check that out here if you’re interested.

Sympathy card.

Here’s another recent card I made.  This time I again used a cover from a catalog.  The rose and leaves are a stamp from Papertrey Ink and I stamped the flower onto sparkly My Minds Eye paper. 

See the sparkle?

Thinking of you card.

Here’s a card I made using a little of this and a little of that as a sympathy card for someone.  The background paper is actually from a 7 Gypsies catalog.  I used a journaling card from Bo Bunny, a brown flower from Lil Davis (yes, I’ve had it forever), and a sentiment card from Fancy Pants.  I’m working on a $0 budget right now, so I’ve got to really utilize what I have.

Sympathy card using leaf doily.

I actually made this card LAST fall and just found it on my computer where it had been hiding all this time.  ha ha

I used leaf shaped paper doilies from the Dollar Tree store and stacked 3 of them on top of each other, though you can’t really tell unless you look from the side.  Just went very simple with this and stamped the sympathy sentiment with my Hero Arts stamp and attached a button with some jute string.  Easy and simple.

Friends are Good card.

I made this card recently for a friend who had done me a huge favor.

We recently had a feature on Practical Scrappers on using mist sprays and masking on cards, and this card was shown.  I used Tattered Angels glimmer mist to spray the white paper doily and turn it blue.

I tried to do a bunch of layering on this one, which hasn’t really been my style but I like to change things up a bit every now and again.  I also mixed old and new scrapbooking supplies together here.  The paper for the background is old, the blue glitter paper I used to punch out the butterfly is old.  The journaling block, the rub-on sentiment, and that pretty chipboard flower piece (Pebbles Inc) are new.

 
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Pansy get well card.

So a week ago today my husband had surgery.  It started out pretty scary with an emergency room trip because we thought he was having a heart attack (he already has a bad heart) with severe chest pain.  Turned out his gallbladder was full of gallstones and one had probably gone down through the duct that is shared with the pancreas and irritated the pancreas so he had pancreatitis also (which isn’t something to mess around with).  The gallbladder had to come out so there would be no more stones ever. 

Hubby started complaining right away after the surgery that he was becoming a pansy.  He was in so much pain and doesn’t like to feel pain.  He sees it as a weakness.  Anway, he made the comment one day about turning into a pansy and when I told a friend that he suggested a pansy get well card and I thought it was a great idea!  I actually found 2 images of pansies on the internet and made two cards.  Here’s the first one:

The flowers are actually from a printable coloring page on the internet (can’t remember where!) and I colored them with my Copic markers which I’ve never used for shading before so it’s my first attempt and I don’t love it but knew husband wouldn’t care (and practice makes perfect, right?).

What do you think?

happy birthday jared!

I made this cute little bunny birthday card for a friend’s son who has special needs and doesn’t have parties because it’s too much of a crowd for him.  The bunny is a digital stamp that I printed and cut out and then used Stickles to make him sparkly.  Because it must be sparkly, right? 

Can you see the sparkles?  I hope Jared liked his card!

 
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Happy Anniversary to Practical Scrappers!

Practical Scrappers, the blog whose design team I’m on, is celebrating being 2 this week!  So Happy Anniversary!  We’re having all kinds of fun challenges over there all this week and a designers blog hop at the end.  Today the challenge is to make 2 cards using the exact same thing. 

I used this sketch for both cards:

It’s from Skipping Stones Design.

Here is my first card:

 And here is my second:

I did the same sketch, but I turned the card horizontal!

You can go here to the Practical Scrappers blog and see the other designers’ projects, how they used 2 of the same things for cards.  Check it out.  There are prizes being given away this week!

60th anniversary card.

My grandparents recently celebrated their 60th anniversary and I made them this card for the occasion.

I used wedding printed paper attached to brown cardstock and layered on the paper doily and the heart and butterfly.  The heart is a canvas material over chipboard, like a canvas you paint on sort of, and it was in the same kit from Quick Quotes that I mentioned yesterday that I’ve had sitting here for 3 years and finally opened!  The butterfly is felt and is from Heidi Swapp.  This is my last one and I have to get some more because I LOVE these.  I used a Making Memories straight pin for the butterfly’s antennae.  Just realized the straight pin is from their new wedding line, so how’s that for appropriate?  ha ha