More with Memories and More

If you’ve been a frequent visitor to my blog you know that I’m a card maker and sometimes a 3D maker but not a scrapbooker.  If you are like me, you enjoy making cards to send to your friends and family. But, even if you aren’t a scrapbooker, that doesn’t…

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Peekaboo Peach Polka Dots

You don’t always have to use Designer Series paper.  Sometimes it is just a matter of creating your own background and today’s card is an easy one but with a bit of wow too.   THE PARTICULARS I really like the Peekaboo Peach with Gold, this time it’s gold embossing.…

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More Ways to Emboss

There are so many ways to take advantage of embossing powder.  Straight up embossing, embossing on Vellum, Resist Embossing and this way, embossing a cropped sentiment.   THE PARTICULARS I saw this card in a magazine published by Stampin UP for demonstrators, except it used a different stamp set for…

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Hello Friend With Wood Words

I have been having a lot of fun lately with the wood grain papers now available.  There are dark shades, stacks of wood and light shades like you see here today.  I’ll have another completely different style of card using the wood grain papers later this week, don’t forget to…

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Birthday Friends

I’m sure some of you are old enough to remember this nostalgic look.  I remember wearing dresses like this in grade school.  Do you?  This new suite of products is just adorable.  It reminds me of my grandmother’s kitchen.   I was inspired by a card by Debi Meissner’s card.…

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Best of Anniversaries

This week my brother and sister- in- law celebrate their wedding anniversary.  Today’s card is for them.  I pulled out Best Birds as I’ve been seeing so many great projects with that set and I was thrilled there was a Happy Anniversary sentiment included.  It’s great when a whole card…

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Fun with Wood

No this is not a post about wooden things, like furniture or picture frames.  This is a post about paper that looks like wood.  Stampin Up has created a new paper stack called Wood Textures.  Each piece is 6×6 and has rich images of wood panels or logs.  The colors…

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