Fancy Flowers!

As you may remember, I am working on making my cards more lush.  I thought 3-d flowers was a way to achieve that, and posted on SplitCoast for ideas on flowers to make, as opposed to purchase, as I am usually broke.  I got some great tips and links, and these cards are the result.
Sadly, I set out today to make cards I could SEND out for two upcoming birthdays.  Any of these cards would need to be mailed in boxes.  I wonder if the Postal Worker would believe me if I posted a box to England and filled out the customs form with "a card"?  HA!

Here is the first card.  I used accordian folds to make these cute flowers.  I had a bit of trouble, for some reason I didn't find scoring every 1/4 inch very even on my Scor-Pal.  Perhaps I should not have done every half inch then flipped it over for the in-between scors?  I will have to check the scor-pal site for tips.  Still they came out pretty cute I thought.

This card has more dimentional flowers.  They are ten-twelve layers thick!  The double sided paper works much better than single sided/white back paper.

Here is another made with that type of flower.

Here is a close-up of the flower:

Have a great week!

Anne

Spinners!!!!

I was SUPER excited when I saw the spinner hands in the SU! Occasions catalog.  When Salabration came along, I had to order them.  Originally, I didn't plan on getting the matching stamp set, but I was kinda ill when I placed my order and purchased it.  I am a bit disappointed with it tho- there are four stamps, and only two are usable with the spinner hands.  One is the birthday stamp shown below, and one is a "good job" type stamp.  The other two have more than one occasion in the spinner spots- so if you used one on a wedding card, say, they could spin it and it would say "Happy Baby!" or something inappropriate.  I want the spinners to SPIN, dang it, that is the point, so I can't see ever using the multiple occasion stamps.  Out of the four in the set, 1 I will use, 1 I might and 2 I won't.   Should not have spend the money, right?

Here is the birthday card.  I put the washer on the brad FIRST, then the spinner, and when I folded the legs of the brad down, I added a piece of chipboard to the back of the stamped image so the legs aren't too tight.  That way the spinner spins freely, and zooms around and around.  I do love the spinner!  (Remove the chipboard after bending the legs!)

Here is a thank you card that I made up the spinner board.  I found a blank divided circle online, and printed off some on cardstock.  I stamped things relating to saying thanks in each slice.  I didn't have as many as I thought I would, lol.  Some are a bit... different for a thank you card! I  am going to make some spinner boards that have less slices, so I can fit bigger stamps in them.

Have a great day!

Anne

bad week, but still some cards

Still feeling pretty poor this week, and the violent night sweating isn't really helping. My Reclast infusion yesterday went fine tho and I got to go to the big library and check out all the new books.  There didn't seem to be as many tho, and I hadn't been there in ages.

I made a few cards today anyway.. ha!

I have been obsessed with making felt flowers to add dimension to my cards, but I knew I only had flower dies that were the regular thin Sizzix, so they wouldn't cut felt.  Today I went thru all my larger dies, and found a Hello Kitty butterfly die that had a flower in her hair- and it is cute!  I cut some felt flowers this afternoon and switched the centers.   The flourish is from a PaperTrey sympathy set, and I had forgotten about it because it was with the verses in the Sentiment binder, so it was fun to pull it out and use it.

This is a quick card I made for my Brother-in-Law who spend eighteen hours working on passing the OSHA test for his job this week.  I put a graduation hat stamp on the inside.  HA!  Simple but he will be amused.

Have a great week!

Anne

Valentines and Book of the Month

Book Of The Month

I have been having problems getting the books I want from the library lately.  One actually disappeared from the library website- I think someone must have stolen it or something!  I did finally get one of the bunch I have been waiting for tho, and I loved it!

Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend

By

John Woestendiek

If you remember the excitement/slash horror when Dolly the sheep was introduced as the first cloned animal, but not really anything happening since then, like me, this would be a great book for you!  The author explains in plain American English everything you could want to know about cloning, specifically the most recent developments in cloning dogs and cats for owners who wish to have their favorite pet back again... even tho it isn't really the same animal!

What I found most interesting was the whole cloning thing was started by an eccentric but very rich man who gets bored easily and decided he wanted to clone his girlfriend's dog!!  Great details of the whole process, yet easy to understand.

And the stories and the TRUTH behind the some of the people that were the first to clone their dog was really fun also.

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Now on to the valentines!  Here is the card I made to send to my Godchildren this year.  I couldn't believe it when I realized I do not actually have a stamp that says "Happy Valentine's Day!"  Crazy, huh?  So I put "I adore you!" on them instead.  :)  Should embarrass the 18 year old boy, right?

The squirrel is from PaperTrey Inc.  The Magic Mesh (once again) was made by Minnesota Moms.   Cardstock by SU!, pattern paper from.... my bin of it.

Have a great week!

Anne

Scrapping with Jodi!

Jodi finally got to come over and scrap, so I got tons done this morning.  And lots of visiting too, of course!

Here is the card I did for each of my brothers' birthday.  They are a week apart, so they always get the same card, and Mom's always say "My #1 Son".  I do not say anything similar on mine, sorry.  :)

I did a fishing theme and finally got to use my baker's twine!  This one is brown and white.

Then I played around with some Magic Mesh (made by Minnesota Moms!) that I got from Anchor Paper after my doctor appt Thursday.  I added some flowers I cut from a strip I made with my MS deep edge punch, and a heart with scallop I had cut for an earlier project and didn't end up using.  I added some bling so I could show Jodi how the I-rock works.

After that I checked out the card rack to see what was getting low and saw I needed sympathy cards.  (Only one left!)  Funny to remember when I first started stamping I laughed that Jodi actually had a stamp SET for sympathy cards- and of course I ended up with several!

The card sketch is from Paper Therapy, pry slightly modified. I like the way they came out, I did four all mostly the same.

Happy Weekend!

Anne

busy week

I had a busy week.  Three doctor appointments!!  I did get new meds for the sinus infection, and think I am perhaps a little bit better.

Here is a card I made at the beginning of the week.  I am not sure what I think, it didn't com out exactly as I pictured, and I was mailing it so I couldn't do any 3-d stuff and I really wanted to.  :)

Here is Gregory's name frame.  I did the background with white cardstock and used my SU! roller to put tire tracks all over it.  His name was long, so I couldn't use any big stuff in the frame, and I decided to use some large diecuts actually on the frame itself.  I purchased them online and they were a bit bigger than I expected.

Have a great weekend!

Anne

Butterflies!

Today SCS had a challenge to use butterflies!   WT305

This reminded me that I had purchased a MS butterfly punch that included stamps to go with the punch.  I love butterflies, and they are the symbol for Lupus Awareness, so I had to pull it out to make a card. 

First I stamped and punched six butterflies.  I thought they looked good on the light pink cardstock, but I didn't just want to scatter them across the card, that seemed a bit dull.  I was looking thru my stamp book for a nice flower or something to put in the center, when I remembered I had colored a beautiful dancing little girl a few days ago. 

I popped the butterlies up slightly so they look like they are flying.

I added a nice blingy gem to her hair!

Did you notice I only used five butterflies?  The sixth went thru my Xyron X and onto the envelope so it matches!

Simple, but pretty.

Thanks for looking,

Anne