Yes, I'm still here!

I am still here. I have been very busy making graduation gifts, a bridal shower gift for a future neice-in-law, making things for a Craft Show in LaPorte, IN on the 27th of June, preparing for my Stamp Camps and getting Father's Day gifts finished. All of this along with a "bug" that attacked me. Today I am finally feeling better than I have all week. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow to scan some items or take pictures and show you what I've been up to.
I also had a birthday and want to show you what my great hubby gave me. So stay tuned!!

Another Father's Day Card

As I mentioned in the previous post this Stamp Set ("And Many Mower") and DSP (Manchester DSP) have become favorites of mine. I just couldn't resist making another card with it.

This is a Tent Fold Card. It is a piece of Kraft card stock 4¼" x 11" fold in half length-wise. I also used Baja Breeze card stock and Very Vanilla. I used Baja Breeze reinker and a Blender Pen to add the color to the stamped piece of Very Vanilla card stock.
As you can see by the picture to the right, I added a little surprise inside the card "Relax"!! This made this card extra fun! It would also make a great retirement card!

And I couldn't stop with making just one card, I had to try a second one with another pattern of the Manchester DSP. I sure wish that this DSP wasn't on the retirement list! I have truly enjoyed using it.

Father's Day is coming soon!

Father's Day is June 21st. It's time to get your Father's Day cards made if you haven't already done so.
Here is a Z-Fold Card that we made at May's Stamp Camps. This is a fun and easy card fold. I used the "And Many Mower" stamp set and "Manchester Designer Series Paper". I really do like both the stamp set and the DSP. They have become favorites for masculine cards!
The Z-Fold card is easy to make, you just take any size card stock (here I used 5 ½" x 8 ½" Kraft CS) and fold it in half then fold it back in half again. I used two different patterns of the DSP to make this card.

Here is a picture of the inside of the card. I have added a "hole, pole & flag" with the words from the stamp set "Hope your day is Par-Fect!". You can also distinguish where I used each of the different DSP. We also added "Happy Father's Day" to complete the card. I hope you will try one soon!

Another Congratulations Card

Don't you just love this bear! He is from the "Under the Stars" Stamp Set. I saw a version of this card on the "Rubber Room Ramblings" blog, and I just couldn't wait to make one. I did not put the graduation hat on the bear, as not all of my ladies have graduates to the give the card. It would make a nice card for any occasion in which you want to say congratulations!


I also made it patriotic by using the Real Red, Night of Navy and Metallic Gold card stock. To make it even more special we made the card into a pop-up card.
We took a 1 5/8" circle and cut in around and around to make a "spring" and added stars to the "pop-up spring". We attached the large stars to hide the beginning and end of the "spring". (I'm sorry
for the blurry picture. It was the best my scanner would take.)
This card was so fun and easy to make that I'm sure I'll be making many more. My neice Ashley really enjoyed hers! Congratulations Ashley! We are very proud of you! Enjoy college!

Graduation Time

Graduation is just around the corner. I had this idea in mind for a mortar board gift card. I found a very nice pattern by Alicia Coulombe, but it was too big to fit in a regular card envelope and I knew that I didn't have time to get larger envelopes before I need to have the cards made. So I took her idea and worked to resize the card. It took me awhile, but I did it. Here is the card I made. I also made it in black and orange for my neice, LeAnn who recently graduated from Anderson University, Anderson, IN. It has a pocket that a gift card or money will fit nicely in.

Here is the card open, so you can see the stamping. I'm sorry about the fuzzy picture - on the top (red part) it says "congratulations" over and over. The stamps come from the Great Grads stamp set. We made the tassel from red embroidery floss. The adhesive we used was Sticky Strip as the

card will need to be secure to hold the money or gift card. I am working a pdf of the pattern. I'll try to attach it here as soon as I get it figured out and how to attach it. Give this card a try, you'll enjoy making it and giving it!

Today I'd like to share with you a Double Pocket Bag and

Gift Card. They were easy and fun to make!

(As a matter of fact, I made 32 of them for a Mother-Daughter Luncheon at our church.)

I found the directions for this bag at SCS in the resources gallery where Jenn Diercks gives great directions. The bag is made using one piece of 12" x 12" Designer Series Paper. First you score one inch on the top and the bottom of the DSP, then you fold it down and glue in place. Then turn the card stock and score the 12" side at 3 1/2" and 8 1/2". Fold on the score lines and add adhesive to form a "tube". Next you score at 4 3/4", 5", & 5 1/4". You will then fold in half and using a bone folder to make nice crisp folds. Then continue folding and using the bone folder. You will fold it up to make a "W". Next add a small piece of Sticky Strip to hold the bags together, this will also help it to stand. Then using a slot punch you will make the openings for the ribbon. You will only punch through the top layer of the bag. Then add your ribbon of choice to finish the bag.

Decorate as desired. Here I used the Big Shot and the Daisies die. I added leaves made from the large oval punch, cut to a point and added "veins" to make it look more real. I also added ink to the edges to give a realistic look.

We also made a gift card to match by using a piece of 3" x 6" card stock folded in half and added the same flower only using the 2 smaller petal layers to make it fit well on the gift card.
This is a fun project and can be used to give many kinds of gifts, such as teas, cocoas, candy, etc... I used it for my Mother-Daughter luncheon to hold a booklet, a bookmark, a package of seeds and a pen. It made a nice favor and everyone enjoyed receiving one.

Another Mother's Day Card

Here is another Mother's Day card that we made. It is made using the Manhattan Flower Textured Impression Die and the Big Shot on Card stock Vellum. We then cut around the top of embossed roses to make a contrast. We added a butterfly using the Beautiful Butterflies die and then topped with pearls from the Pretties Kit. (We wished we had run the butterfly through again and added some texture using one the Texture Plates.) We then added some Whisper White Organza Ribbon. We added Happy Mother's Day using the Wide Oval Punch and the Scalloped Oval Punch.

It made a very elegant looking card that would also make a nice wedding card.

I'm ready to start sharing again! Thanks for your patience!

Hi Friends!

I'm back and ready to start posting again! Please be patient with me as I get a handle on blogging. I will do my best to try to post a few times each week. I am finally feeling better than I have for a while.
Today I'm going to show you one of the cards that we made at my April Stamp Camps for Mother's Day.

It is a flower pot card. This card is so much fun to make. The flowers were made using the Big Shot and are held together using brads. Three flowers were added to the top of the pot. Then the top two flowers were attached to a piece of cardstock that was inserted into the flower pot to be able to include a written message. We stamped the message "I just realized that I'm turning into my mother... (lucky me!) on the card also. The card is held shut by the ribbon that we tied onto the front. I hope you'll try to make one! It would also make a nice birthday or get well card!