Two cards I made yesterday...

This one is for a very very dear niece, who was born one year and two days after my wedding, and is having a birthday this month. I live in Alabama and she lives in Va Beach.....so I haven't seen her or her twins in a very long time! I have a cupcake punch that makes a small--very small cupcake that I will probably add to the inside corner--0h yeah--and a gift card from Target--I love Taget!!! I used the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge--I just love that cartridge--and have a Happy Birthday stamp for the inside! I just love pink and brown together--going to have to go back to Hobby Lobby and get some more of that pokadot paper--I just love pokadots too!




This picture just doesn't do this card right! It is beautiful--even if I do say so myself!!

This one is for the best husband on this earth! And he's been my hubby for almost (4 Dec) 39 wonderful years. I used the Cindy Loo cartridge for the flower and the Lacy Labels Lite cartridge for the two scallops. The 'perals' are from my I-rock (love that tool!) I used red stickles on the flower part. I got this idea from a card that I saw on Tammy E.'s blog, Paper Pastimes of a Scrapbooking Mimi. If you've never gone to her site, you have a wonderful experience waiting for you! Thanks again Tammy, as I 'borrow' one of your ideas again. Just click on her website name to go to her blog--you won't be sorry. I hope Terry likes his card, and it is true, without him I would be very boring!!!!

I needed a thank you card....

for Laura to send to her grandma for a B-day present. She LOVES cats and I thought the 'Purrfect' would be good for thank you for the cute blouses she got. The cat is from the Cindy Loo cartridge and the Purrfect is from the Create a critter cartridge.




And the sewing machine is for me to write a note to my mom. She is a retired alterations woman for a wonderful boutique for over 30 years! The sewing machine came from the Heritage cartridge and the buttons are from a punch I got at the Archivers in St. Louis.

Thank you again Tammy....

I've always loved the rose on Indie Art cartridge and I love the colors that this card used.

I didn't emboss anything, but besides that, I through the kitchen sink at this one.




I used glossy accents on the rose and frame--I really missed using my DS/or Gypsy!

I used a frame on Cindy Loo--didn't even know they where there!

Thanks for stopping by and I love comments!

Hugs,
Linda H (Storylady)

New favorite cartridge.......

is Cindy Loo! Look at this cute Squirrel! Next time I'll use more exciting colors, but my daddy use to hunt and our squirrels were grey!!! I printed out 'I'm NUTS about you' on my computer and used a circle punch to cut it out! I tried to do it on the Gypsy--but I'm too slow, much too impatient and not sure I could have fit it in the small spot!

I posted this in an earlier blog, but I found I had not done the layer for the body of the BEE, so I cut it out, added it to the body and slopped on some of 'Arleene's Paper Glaze'! Much better!!





Thanks for stopping by! Oh, I love getting comments--leave me a note and let me know what you think--I love new ideas and hints and tips (and now that I have a Gypsy--I need alot!)

Hugs,
Linda

Been playing with my new gypsy...

I used Arleen's -whiny stuff (like Glossy Accents) to see if it was the same. Not quite as raised but $2.00 cheaper at Michael's per 2 oz!




I think I made my Bee and Honey thingy to big so made to cards and put the saying for the Bee on the inside!



The out side of my pop-up flower card--Love you bunches--on the inside I put--told you so!