For my challenge--Card #3...A Child's Year!

This one reminds me of my sweet angel, Little Laura Lynn, who will be 20 in September!  LOL!

Such a sweet memory of playing dress-up and prancing around!

Inside of card.

Thanks for stopping by.


{{Hugs}} -- Storylady -- Linda

Elecricity is a good thing.....

Please, please pray for the people of ALABAMA! Half the town where my daughter is to go to college next year is GONE! And now I'm feeling guilty because my only cross to bare was not having electricity, so we went 100 miles away to Birmingham and stayed in a motel for 4 nights and when we got home, we had electricity. Thanks for those of you who are praying and if you can send financial help to these people that have lost EVERYTHING, they will appreciate it!

I made Mother's Day cards (and Grandma cards) with my new Chomas Creations mini gel pens.

The Pink card & the Blue card are for my mom (pink) & Terry's mom (blue--sorry for the blur in the pix) and are cut from the A Childs Year. The sentiment is from the Mother's day Cartridge 2010.










I made both Grandma cards alike. I used the Lacy Labels Lite Cartridge. I combined two to put the Love You in the center. And, the Grandma was drawn with the gel pens and using the Mother's day 2010 cartridge.








This was quick--but still haven't gotten back to normal!

{Hugs to all} Don't forget to tell all your loved ones that you know them--we never know when it's going to be the last time we see them.

Bless you all--Storylady--Linda

A sympathy card and Valentines card

A genealogy friend and cousin lost his wife last week. They had a rare, close and loving relationship and he is going to need lots of prayers to deal with his loss. I made this card for him.

My inspiration was a card by Tammy E. with a few tweeks of my own. She is such a wonderful Christian example of how cards can be used to pass on the love of Jesus Christ. Thanks again Tammy for your beautiful work and your loving soul!





I used paper from a pack that my friend Shelly had given me a while back
the card base was cut from A Childs Year (card function 3rd row-7th button over-3.7)--cut at 5 1/4 in.
I printed the words off the computer and used the center cut on the expression (sorry--I forgot what I cut it at) with the scalloped oval from Forever Young

I got a new butterfly punch from Martha Stewart (at Michaels) and used a 40% off coupon so it was under $6! It has one small butterfly and two smaller ones--I love it.

I used my Irock and was having trouble--then realized the batteries where going dead-dah!
I used the Mother's Day Bouquet to make the little flowers.



I couldn't sleep last night so I designed this card on my Gypsy (love that little tool and just got the 6 foot cord that connects to the Cricut--nice!


Here is the card I designed about 3am! Love the pop-up



Here is the card I designed about 3am! Love the pop-up

The front I used the two backgrounds from Storybook and the Hugs & Kisses from Wild Card. I used the lips and the "Smack" from Indie Art.

Thanks for stopping by and leave a comment if you have the time.

{Hugs}--Storylady--Linda

Have you seen the new post on Cardz TV......

with the post-it note holders? Oh, I sent hubby out yesterday and he came back with 4----ONLY four!!!

Here is the link!







I said earlier that I would post pix when I got these done...so here they are--I don't have the Monogram program--but found some on 'A Child's Year' cartridge that I think might work--what do you think?

I haven't used my Bid-It-All much--this is a great project to use it!

I used some heavy card stock instead of chipboard.

Laura, my 17 yr old dau, is in Panama City, Fla with her boyfriend and his mom, dad and sister. Sister and boyfriend are college student and both parent work at desks. I use the initial of there last name and made these post-it note holders as a small thank you for the trip.

I hope they like them--

Hugs,
Linda

I have a challenge.....(Cardz Challenge #17)

for all you that make cards for challenges! What do you do with them?

On the side of this blog is a link to OWH--Operation Write Home! Sending the cards to soldiers, serving us. Let's face it--there ain't no Hallmark Stores around the corner from their quarters!

The reward....that warm feeling inside that you have done something good!

My daddy was in WWII. I wish someone would have done this for him.

My feeling is: If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them!

Cricut Cardz Challenge #15....

When the shoe fits.....



buy one in every color!!!



Oh how true!

I've really had fun doing this one because it is funny and TRUE!

Putting the black outline around the shoes wasn't fun, but not as hard as I thought it would be. I was going to us my little Xyron, but then remembered dear hubby had gotten me a Embellishement Glue Stick by Pioneer--says Extra strong!

It worked pretty well!

Here's how it was done!!

My Gatefold Card details:

Paper for card 5 ½ x 8 ½
Scor 2 1/8” from each end.

Outside of card mat:
Solid mats: 1 7/8 x 5/1/4
Pattern mats: 1 5/8 x 5

Inside of card mats:
Solid mat: 4 x 5 ¼
Pattern mat: 3 ¾ x 5

I used cart:
A Child’s Year-p75
I used card/shift/center 1 ¾” cut for the 2 front phrases.
I used card/shift/center 3” cut for the inside phrase.

Graphically Speaking-p 63
I used Icon/1 ½” cut black for bottom front shoe.
I used Icon Blackout/1 ½” blue for bottom front shoe.

I used Flip/Icon/1 ¼” cut black for top front shoe and
Used flip/icon/1 ¼” cut blue for top front shoe.

The different color shoes are done the same at 1 ¼” (2 reg—2 flip)

I ran the words off of my computer—font BixAntiqueScriptHm 18 pt except the word every in=22 pt..

I used card/shift/center 1 ¾” cut for the 2 front phrases.
I used card/shift/center 3” cut for the inside phrase.


Any questions--drop me a note!

Thanks to Mary again--

I made the one like yours for my wonderful hubby of 38 years.







Laura and Buttercup made the other one for their daddy.





The paper was some really cheap stuff in the Target bargin area for $1 for 8 pieces! Loved the red (kinda hot pink) with sparklie dots). And I had the dot
mat for my Cuttlebug. My ribbon came from Big Lots, but says 'families are forever'.

I think my colors and pictures are getting better. It wasn't my very nice camera that I got for Christmas--it was the person behind it--LOL!!