Altenew Thank you!!!

I love this Hennah Elements stamp set.

I have used it here for my birthday"thank yous". I had to try this 'masking of the middle for the sentiment' technique.

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Water Color Fuschia and Butterfly

AAahh..... the end of the weekend.... :-(

I thought I would post one more card......

This is a Technique Tuesday stamp called Fuschia. I stamped it with Ranger Archival Ink on Strathmoore Cold Press paper. I used Tombow Dual Brush marker ink and a waterbrush to color the image. This color combination in the real plant world is called "Dark Eyes" and was my mom's favorite fuschia. I added Pretty Pink Posh's sequins and droplets. The butterfly is from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the 'Burbs set. I used My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Die-Namics.

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Watercolor Flowers and a Butterfly

This card is stamped with Technique Tuesday's Bleeding Heart.

It is watercolored with Tombow Dual Brush Markers. I used Stampendous White Detail embossing powder. The butterfly is from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the 'Burbs set. I die cut the watercolor paper and gray card stock with My Favorite Things Rectangle Die-Namics. I also added droplets and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

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Having a Ruff Day!

Hello friends! 

This card is for a pal who needs a little boost!  

I think it would put a smile on someone's face, don't you?

I stamped using the My Favorite Things "You Make My Tail Wag". I also used Hero Arts Ink,

Distress Inks and Copic Markers.

 

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Birds of Paradise!

This cute card is made with My Favorite Things Birds of Paradise.

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Have a Heart 2!

Here is a cute little card inspired by Catherine Pooler. It has Simon Says Stamp set "Circle Sayings" and SSS die "Dots Circles". The gift is from the "Crazy Things" set of Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz collection.

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A Little Ray of Sunshine!!!

What a little ray of sunshine is this birdie? She is going to be someone's birthday surprise!!!

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Have a Heart!

I love this holiday!  Well, I love any holiday that I can make cards for my friends and family!

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Christmas!

I spend the day making preparations for the holidays  - shopping, cleaning, wrapping, cleaning, preparing and my evenings in making cards. The tree is up, the gifts are wrapped and mailed, and the cards are made and sent. Here are the cards that were mailed......

Some are unique and some are variations on a theme. Some you can see the outside and the inside.  I love them all and they were each sent with lots of love. Some were hard to part with - that is funny! Oh Me!

I hope your holidays are filled with love!

Thanksgiving, two!

So much fun!  Harvest Mouse and Stitched Cover-Up Companion, Diagonal by My Favorite Things, Fall Trees by Hero Arts, Pretty Pink Posh sequins equal fun!!!!

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Thanksgiving!

I love making cards!  I love this time of the year - autumn. I love these Harvest Mice from My Favorite Things!

I also love the Droplets by Pretty Pink Posh!

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Spooky - The Last But Not Least

This card is for my youngest daughter. She loves our Dachshund sisters as much as I do. She accepts their quirky behavior. They are cute and funny and snuggly and happy. But they are also fierce hunters. This is a trait that has not been bred out of them. Their name, Dachshund, means badger hound in German. They would go down the burrows to find badgers (who are very ferocious) and alert the hunters. 

We adopted these girls when their mom had to go into an assisted living home and could only bring one dog. She knew it would be very difficult for the sisters to be separated so the woman bravely put them up for adoption.

We have a chainlink fence surrounding the dog yard.  Really secure, if they got out they would follow their nose looking for prey and I would never see them again. In the first 6 months three rabbits squeezed through the gates and lost their lives in rapid fashion! Wow! My cuddly critters are merciless killers!  

So this card relates to their hunting abilities!

Kinda funny? or not after that story?????

I used Distress ink for the background, Tim's Crazy Bird, The Rubber Cafe's stamp set "Too Cute To Spook",  Sentiment is a font with puppy prints and printed on vellum, and the tree and bats are from My Favorite Things "Spooky Scene".  The hemp is from my stash.

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Spooky!!!! # 6

This is a fun card using the My Favorite Things "Spooky Scene" Die!

This is such a great set that contains all the elements to make a  great Spooky Scene!  I added Distress Ink to make the background, a circle die cut for the moon with Distress Ink, Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, and Stickles for the eyes of the ghost and the bat!

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      My Favorite Things

I am thinking about Halloween!!!

I am so excited to get back into my craft room after a very busy summer!!! I have been watching all the new releases and checking my existing stamps, dies and supplies.  I am trying to plan!!!!

Here is the card that I have been wanting to work on.....

I used all MFT stamps and dies plus a little Copics and Stickles!

The MFT dies are a Spooky Scene and Pure Innocence Mummy stamp and die set.

It is good to be back!

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Stars and Stripes

It is almost the Fourth of July. Our town puts on a big parade. The military from the local reserve units as well as from Joint Base Lewis McCord participate. It is such a great time to remember how lucky we are to live in this great country!

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Flowers - Zentangled!

I love to color! These flowers remind me of my youth when I doodled flowers like these! This stamp set is from Newton's Nook.

I used My Favorite Things' Cheesecloth background stamp with Memento's London Fog ink.

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Sunny Skies

We are going to have sun for the next week!  Here in the Pacific Northwest

it is very exciting!!!

I thought this card would be perfect for the week!!! The background was made with Ranger's Embossing Dabber, Stampendous White Embossing Powder, My Favorite Things Cloudy Day stencil and a couple of Distress Inks. I used Lawn Fawn's "Sunny Skies" for the elements and sentiment.

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A Heart Bouquet

  

I had the perfect occasion to send someone a little pick-me-up.  This cute image does just that! The 

stamp is Heart Bouquet.

I used American Crafts "Dear Lizzy" patterned paper and Copics to color it.

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Playing along with My Favorite Stamps Shakers!

I am still playing with the  My Favorite Things Circle Scribble Flowers set.  I wanted to play along with MFT's Shaker Cards.  This was not as easy as I thought it would be. It was not as easy lining up the stamps with the die cut flowers. And I wanted to add the stamp with the flower outline as an afterthought. I tried white opaque Stazon on the  transparency but it was transparent not opaque. So I used Uni-Ball Signo white pen and it came out a little shakey. Oh well, it was fun putting it together!!!!

A Peek at Easter!

 The stamp and die set is Lawn Fawn's Eggstra Special. The window die is My Favorite Things

Square Grid cover-up. The fence and grass are by Lawn Fawn. The cloud is from the Sunny Skies 

set by Lawn Fawn.

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