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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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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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.

Thanks for looking!

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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

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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Multi-media Tropical card

This was fun to do!  Lots of bright distress colors, Viva Inka Gold, stamps from my stash and stuff!!!

Can you see the little passport? You need one of these to go the tropics!!!

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Father's Day 2015

My husband has been camping lately.  He loves to sit back and just enjoy nature.  So here is the perfect stamp for him! We have two Dachshund sisters that we rescued last year. They came to us wearing purple and pink harnesses so we could tell them apart. I colored their stamped sweaters those colors. They came to us over weight so the rule was no human food. Guess who they know to be an easy mark for a treat?

So cute - Judy and Julie!!!

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Art Impressions Challenge #161 - For the Fellas

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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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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Bubble Talk

I love this little set, Bubble Talk, from WPlus9.  I used Distress Ink for the background.

This card will be linked to the WPlus 9 Throwback Thursday Challenge. I do not have an older set to use for this challenge!  I plan on this one being the first of many!

Whoop! Whoop! Let's Hear It For the Guest Hopper!!!

I am so excited to have won the Unity {be inspired} Challenge! One of the prizes (besides a BOAT LOAD OF STAMPS) is a chance to be a Guest blog hopper! So here goes.....

The Hop starts here on Thursday 2.26 with the Unity Blog.

I have a few cards to share with you.

This is the "birdie conversation" set. I colored the birdie with Copics and used Distress ink for the background. The patterned paper is American crafts and I die cut it using Stitched Rectangles and Squares.

The stamp is Donna Downey "poppies". The sentiment is from "Everything Easter". I watercolored with Distress Ink for this card after heat embossing with white embossing powder.

This is the front of the card and below is the inside. I used "Love Brings You Home".

I used the "J{our}ney" stamp from the "Explore. Discover. Escape." stamp set.

The background stamp is a map of Rome from Hero Arts.  The frame and stamp is from Sizzix. This card is for a friend's engagement. She is a world traveler!

This is the "Welcome to the Hood" set. Thanks to Angeline Choo for the inspiration! When I saw her cute card I knew I had to have that stamp!

I used Unity sentiments for this card.

I used "#Hashtag Kit", "Elephant Behind", and a "Age is Only a Number". This is my husband's birthday card. We have two black and tan, long-haired dachshunds, hence the coloring of the dog. The image on the inside of the card (the back end of the dog) wiggles like it is wagging her tail! 

Thanks for being with me today. Thanks to Unity for always supporting their customers. They are the most giving company around!

Here are the designers for Unity:

GROUP A

I love to read your comments!

Online Card Class Holiday Card Workshop

One-Layer Cards

Day 4

This is my favorite class so far!!!! Such cute cards!! Wonderful, new techniques!!!

I followed Jennifer McGuire's videos and techniques. So cute!

I used Spellbinders scallop dies and Lawn Fawn's "Critters at the Dog Park" stamps and dies. 

The sentiment and Santa hat are from "Holiday Hounds" by Newton's Nook Design.

A Thanksgiving Card

I love this technique of embossing the image in white and then adding the color.  I mounted the leaf with foam tape on top of the stamped leaf. I am all done with my Thanksgiving cards. How about you?

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Lawnscaping Challenge - Fall

having fun! with an angel!

This is a Phyllis Harris designed stamp by Unity Stamps. I used Copics to color the

image. I tried a technique of coloring the background by Jennifer McGuire (I couldn't find the video that demonstrated this technique but she does mention it here). I  went over the image with an embossing pen and then covered that with clear embossing powder and heated it.  I then was able to go in with Distress Ink to color the background. I wish that would have remembered to wipe my card stock with an anti-static because some of the embossing powder stuck to the card in front of her face
resisting the Distress Ink.  I will keep trying!!!!!

THIS CARD WAS A WINNER AT UNITY STAMP CO!!!!

Posting at Unity for FWF

                 Day 13 Copic Marker for Card Makers

A Fun Card 7.18.14

 I used Lawn Fawn's Love You S'More and Critters in the Forest stamps and dies. I used Sizzix's Royal Stand-Ups die for the card base. Inside the card is a stamp and diecut of a S'More. I told my husband that he was the Graham Crackers of my s'more!

I hope you enjoyed this card!  I had so much fun making it!

Unity Friends with Flair 6.6.14

Happy FWF day - and TGIF!

I spent three hours in the chair at the blood bank. They had posted on Facebook that the hospitals were dangerously low on platelets, so I heeded the call. I had no idea that it took 3 hours!!!! I survived thanks to a Kindle book!!!!

Here is another sympathy card using Unity's "With Sympathy" set. I hope there is no more need for these cards the rest of the summer!!!

Have a great weekend!

Unity's Friends with Flair May 2, 2014

This is a new Oval Accordian die from Elizabeth Crafts by Karen Burniston. The dotted accents are also a die from EC. I used the a peel off sticker (#2350) for the bird and branch. The sentiment is Unity's Itty Bitty "Happy Birthday". The flowers are Prima and dots on the stamp are Viva Pearl Pen in cream.