Blue Jar

I LOVE blue jars, most people do.  This Unity stamp is from the Domestic Bliss set.  I stamped it in black & colored in the jar.  A little twine tied in a bow adds charm.  The sentiment is ironically from the Unity Itty Bitty Enjoy This Day.

Linking up to Unity Stamp Company's Friends With Flair blog post! 

3 Bunnies

I recently acquired a person's entire scrapbook room of products.  It took me a full day to go through and decide what to keep & bag items up to sell at the local scrapbooking store garage sale. 

One old stamp that I found in a bin is from Penny Black.  So today I'm sharing with you a card with three little bunnies. (more bunny card blog posts are in the future!)

I added flocking to their tails.  Copic markers made the scene come to life.  Isn't it amazing that even without fancy patterned paper, you can use markers to make a cute card?!

Pepper Tin

     I can't bring myself to throw anything away that might be useful. 
              I love little tins, they have a multitude of possibilities! 
          If you pry the plastic top off pepper tins using a butter knife. 

The adorable spring paper is

 Imaginisce's Hippity Hop Dance In The Rain.

The ribbon is Close To My Heart's Sweet Leaf.

That pretty flower was pre-made. 

(My mom gave me a pack from her vacation to Florida.)

The leaves were made with a Martha Stewart hand punch.

               Cute, right?  I thought so too!  So I made another one!

This paper was made using

Unity's You + Me = Bliss & Get Scrappy With It.

I just love those little flowers in purple, on purple!



Handcut stamped layers!



Thanks for stopping by today at CREATE & SHOW.

I hope you start saving those tins & get creative!

Linking up to Unity's Friends With Flair!

Bobunny Wedding Banner Card

I've been challenged (not personally) by Bobunny to make a card that has a banner!  I like this vague, broad opportunity.  Here is my mildly colored wedding card.  It uses the Enchanted paper line, which is loaded with black glitter!

I used my decorative scissors (again) to make the banner unique!  I stamped TRUE and punched it out.  The smaller circles fit nicely in the glitter circles cut from Bobunny paper.  The sweet birds are 3D embellishments.  I added a gem there to add to my lavender color scheme.

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                                                      It's my hubby's birthday. 
                            I made him a quick card to match the wrapping paper.
                         It's always fun to personalize cards with age or even names.
                                     The frame is a pre-made 3D embellishment. 
  

Love my 3 year olds signature?  Marshal

Here are my boys & my pathetic attempt at a camo camoflauge!
With warm weather, this was the first time EVER to celebrate his mid-March
birthday outside with a BBQ!

I hope YOU had a good weekend too.



A WEE BIT. . .

Happy St. Patricks day! 

I have some festive themed

 layouts to share with you. 

This one uses the Cricut cartridge~ A Child's Year.  I made a plaid border using a edge punch.  The dots are on Smash tape.  The tall narrow letters are green glitter Thickers.

Do you notice the little guy eating something?   If you can't get a toddler to sit still for a picture, bribe him with chocolate?  Works every time.

This layout is so simple.  I added gems and letter stickers to my four leaf clover photograph.  It was the best way to emphasize the leaf & make the title show up. 

We have a patch of clover in our yard that almost always has four leaf clovers!  If you've never taken time to look for one, it's worth it. 

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I love the card sketch Chick Challenge provided this week! 

 I got busy last night & whipped out two.

I have to keep up, since my craft booth card sales jump from 7 to 17 in a month!

February rocked!!!

Woo-hoo!  I love making cards. 

It makes me happy to know people like them enough to buy & use them!

The Ippity stamps used are from Sweet Thoughts of Spring.

The brown scallops on yellow paper is actually a stamp!

I hand cut it out.  That card is my favorite of the two!