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Surprise, more more more!

Hi friends

I am still here! hee hee

Today I have more to share so let's get to it now...

I don't know if you are aware of the company Just Rite online.  But I am really fond of their images as well as they make stamps, rubber and acrylic, the rubber ones are clinging type ready to use on Acrylic blocks.  Anyhow, they also make background stamps and they have Spellbinder make special die cuts for their framed images.  This is where I come in.  I love love love the framed images so you can pick the sentiment you want and they also have images like this one on today's card that I think is to die for LOL.  Well you know what I mean right?

Here I am advertizing for them LOL.  But I have fallen for Just Rite and get sets sometimes that will appeal to my sense of coloring.

Speaking of coloring, I have taken my Copic markers out again.  I say that because I grew frustrations with using them and went back to Prismacolor coloring each time.  I have watched several Youtube videos on how to color with Copic markers and I finally was able to feel at ease enough to color this image.

I was looking at the stamp packaging to color it because the colors I had seen for it was the reason why I had gotten this stamp so I could mimic the colors.  So this is what I was left with, which made me a little prouder of myself to have tried it again.

As you can see the making of this card is basic. 

(Focal image) After the coloring is behind me the rest becomes easy and much quicker. I used the matching Spellbinder die cut for this stamped image to cut around it and then pencilled around the outside edge to make a matting layer under it in Yellow.  I took another Spellbinder label and but it out in purple to add behind the focal image.

I had some older die cut that Cuttlebug came up with at the beginning of it's popularity 4-5 years ago or longer.  I used one of them for my corners adhered at the very end.  I did the corner die cuts in purple.  My card base was in yellow and I layered the card with purple and then a vertical lined pattern paper.  Very simple

Sharing a card

Hi Friends

Here I am again I'm on a roll hee hee

I have another card to share today so sit back and enjoy. I am including the recipe for it as well.

Birthday card

I was shopping online a while back and decided to break down and buy some of the images I had in front of me.  I am getting fonder of digi stamps.  Since where I live there is rarely a store that I find attractive to buy anything other than paper, I am finding myself to shop more and more online these days.  So that is one of the fantastic finds these days.  Papershelter online store is where I have found images I really loved.  They sell the image and the colored image also.

I wanted a really nice Extreme Birthday cake and I found it!

I colored my printed out image onto some SU Whisper White CS.  Cut around it to leave a small white border, which adds a dimentional aspect once on the card.

I used some Spellbinder Label die cut for the Birthday cake to sit on. I made sure to ink up the die cut while it was still sitting on the die cut.  Then witha pencil I traced around the outside of this same die cut to get a mat in bright pink and cut around the pencil mark.  My card base is in white CS (SU).  The matting over it is in hot pink, I then picked a yellowish swirly paper design to sit my focal image on.

I also ran with my stickles bottle a glitter line around the yellowish design for more interest.  Afterall it is a Birthday card.  Glitter is needed!

Then with another Spellbinder die cut this one is a tag made for Just Rite Stamped images.  I cut out my white CS, inked it up while in the die cut with pink ink on a sponge dauber and applied gently with small circle motion.  Stamped the Happy Birthday Sentiment.  I traced another mat with pencil on the outside edge of this tag die cut the same manner I did with the die cut for the cake.  That's it!

Enjoy!

So grateful to wake up to a brand new day, everyday...

Big heat wave for us Southwesterners right now

Hi Friends

Well we are having so much heat these days we can only hope for some cooler weather comes the Fall Season.  With some rain sometimes it cools for a few hours but we don't even get that this week it is too hot to rain.  The clouds are afraid to come near us LOL  I even dare dreaming of Winter but we are near the 100F mark and it is more than enough for a lot of us LOL

On a cooler note I have a card to share today

This card has been made with the help of a magazine I purchased a few months ago.  It is a magazine called Making cards.  UK magazine as well, so there is another reason why I like it so much.  But this magazine has pages of paper and some images to 3D so I was right at home when I saw what it had to offer.  So this is one of the cards I was able to make with the magazine pages.  Loved the paper.  This Issue is Vintage Special 2012.  If you are interested

I started with a green base card and added the pink pattern scripted paper.  Then added the long strips (4) pre-measured to make my A2 size card.  Then came the stripe going across the horizontal with the same green from the card base and more pink pattern paper matted on it.

Then I added my image matted on the same green CS I only used one dimension since I had to keep this one flat as well.  The circle sentiment came but before I ended the card I wanted to use some Liquid Pearls by Rangers to look like pearls on top and bottom of the strips and the focal image as well.

That's it!  I have scanned the paper so I can make more in the future if I want to

Have a fun day!

Keep on smiling, it's free!

Another card to share with you

Hi Friends

Saturday is here and so much to do.  But before I go on I decided to stop and share another card with you.  I hope this brings a little smile on your face along with some inspiration.

For Angela's answer to her question in the comment area the packaging was from some designed pearls I purchased that were made to stick to phones or in my case "cards".  Once I opened up all the packages and realized before I tossed it, that Mmmmm, I can cut around the golden framed area and add on a card, so no waste, as we now call this recycling, but in my case it was by pure accident so that is how it all came about.  Thanks for your question Angela.  I was happily surprised that this could go well on the card I shared the blog before today.

For today's card here it is and included it's recipe

I decided to add more than one card since I took a picture at night and a few during the day so you can see what difference it makes when you take pictures au naturel!

It was another easy card to make, the concept was a little longer to think through but in the end I think it all worked out and got the effect I was after.  Remember I make cards that are mailable.  I make others that are more fancy but I have time to show the ones that can easily be mailed without extra cost.

I needed for this card:

1 magnolia rubber stamp (SU stash) Sympathy rubber stamp (Stash)

1 window die cut (Cheery Lynn Designs)

Pattern paper that looks like it could be wallpaper (Stash)

White CS for card base, green (bazzil) for matting and shimmering off white CS for Window

Paper punch (small square)

Prismacolor pencils (no watercolor pencils for this) I used paper stumps with some Odorless Mineral water, after coloring the edges of the image.

So as you now know what I needed to make this Sympathy card it is easy to put it together.  Voila!

Enjoy!

Have a great weekend, keep on smiling!

 

Another card to share

Hi Friends

I am so glad to be able to post another card today.  Who knows it may become a habit of mine again hee hee.  I have so many projects I want to get done but one thing that seems to be a priority at this time is to learn how to use my Copic markers I am on Youtube every chance I get as I want to be certified now that we are back into this country I am looking for classes.  I may take one if available when we are in California this September.  If you know of a reputable website that offers the 3 classes please share the link with me I will consider it.  One can't get too much training.  I love to color with my Prismacolor, Dewent and Faber Castel pencils BUT, I have markers that I want to use the right way, but I need more guidance. I want to expand my horizons in the coloring for cardmaking a lot more. 

Here is the card for the day!

Here is a quick recipe for today's card

1 recycked golden edge from packaging

Pink, white and pattern paper

Stickles (Ranger Industries)

Pink and black ink pads, sponge dauber

Gingham white ribbon

Spellbinder made for Just Rite die cut

A matching the die cut Just Rite stamp

Get well rubber stamp sentiment

Butterfly punch (MS) Martha Stewart

White peel off corners for flat embellishment

With a pink mat that is already cut to size to adhere to the white card base A2 later, add another mat with the pattern paper of choice to the top of the pink CS.  Then add a ribbon across the lengthwise of the card and secure it behind the matting work.  Then adhere to the White card base securely.

For the rest of the card, I added my recycled golden frame on top of the ribbon centering it.  I stamped the frame with Black Memento ink on white CS then die cut and embossed my focal point image.  Then inked up edges with some coordinating pink, stamped the Get well soon sentiment. With my stickle bottle I ran around the sentiment frame to add some glamor.  Last but not least, I added the punched out butterfly as well as the peel off corners.

I hope you get a good view of it, I tried many angles to offer a better viewing experience.

Waving at all of you!

Hi friends

I seem to have fallen off the edge of the earth but oh no I am still here, just not too active on the blog at this time.  I guess I can call Summer my busiest time ever.  Yes I have too much to do but eventually I get there it just takes me a while longer is all. lol

I have many cards to share with you not sure how much time I have for the recipes but I will try and come as often as I can to post one for you.  I have loads to share I just didn't have a chance to resize and copyright them.  I used to do this in a flash now it takes me forever and a day hee hee

So here is the one card share for today:

Quick and easy recipe

2 CS were used, lavender and white.

1 pattern paper from my stash

Spellbinder scallop squares I made 3 out of pattern paper CS

1 Butterfly die from Cheery Lynne Collection I cut out 3 of them, 1 for each square

1 Birthday rubber stamp sentiment from my stash

On my white card base, I used the lavender CS measured the area between the squares up and down and with my Scor Pal I embossed 2 lines on top and bottom as well as I added a MS (Martha Stewart) fancy border for looks.  I attached my squares to the card on top of the lavender CS, measuring the distance between them and this card was done. 

This covers today's share.  I hope you are all doing fine and sorry for being so tardy in posting anything.  Thank you to so many of you wondering if I was ok since I hadn't posted anything for a long time.  But I am fine I promise, just so busy.  I have such caring fllowers, thank you for that.  Hubby has changed shifts for work so it has changed my whole schedule so I had to adapt to his 12 hour long days versus 9 hours.  He works 4 off 4 days, works 3 off 3 days something like that so everything has suffered because I am adjusting LOL.  I must be getting older, changes are not phasing in as easily as it used to LOL.   But it is making me and my schedule a little dizzy.  Thanks for caring and visiting.

P.S.:  All water problems are now under control, fixed.  I hope I am not jinxing ourselves by my saying this