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Three Versions – Crazy About You

Well, when I started making the card for today’s post. I couldn’t decide what card I wanted to make. A birthday card?  A graduation card?  A Mother’s Day card? So, I made one of each. Crazy About You stamp has so many choices, It’s virtually the same card, each with a different sentiment.   Design Notes for Crazy About You Cards: Don’t the flowers just pop out at you? I used Blushing Bride, Melon…

Glimmer paper, floral stamps and dies, water coloring, beautiful ribbon, these are several of my favorite things.  Seeing them all together really does make me happy. I needed a special thank you card and this has more than accomplished that. I hadn’t had the detailed floral thinlits out for a bit, so that was reason enough.  The sweet sugarplum glimmer paper is where it all started though.  It…

Retirement Card With Lots of Happy!

After many years of teaching mathematics, my husband Jerry has retired. His last classes have been taught, his last exams given and graded. Retirement has begun! Certainly this is an occasion that calls for a card! Retirement Card Details: Jerry worked at Boston College for almost 30 years and then Salisbury University for 8 years. Both schools have maroon and gold for their colors. That made it…

Thank You For Being You

I am feeling a little extra grateful this morning.  There are those out there that step forward and go beyond their own limits just to be kind and take care of others.  Truly a beautiful thing. So, it had to be all about a special thank you.  Not to focus on too many distractions, just keep the emphasis on the thanking, specifically ‘you’.  With this totally awesome Larger Than Life Alphabet &…

This is one of the times where you don’t even have to think about coordination much at all.  I wanted some chevrons in a baby card.  Done.  Pull the matching colors and some awesome tools and there you have it!

A girlfriend had asked about baby shower invitations with some of these components and I made some demos.  They decided to do something different with photographs and never got to see…