I Was Featured! And Cards for Seniors

Hello!

Something very exciting happened for me. It turns out that the slimline card I shared here and submitted for the Create A Scene challenge on Lawn Fawnatics was featured along with 8 other cards! I was completely shocked. And tickled that it garnered attention. Thanks for letting me share. 

Lawn Fawnatics Blog Post

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Next up, I have a bunch of cards to share. I have shared before that I follow Kristie Marcotte and she makes lots of cards from a 6x6 paper pad. You can check her out here. 

Since Amy started working at the senior center, I've been making cards for her to take for the residents in the area where she works.  Today I'm sharing the cards I am having her take to work this week. Half of them I made this week using different sketches from different tutorials Kristie has posted. It's very slow going for me to do this and I only got about 1/2 the number needed completed. I went through my card stash and pulled the rest from there. The papers are Doodlebug. The sentiments are from various sets. The stamped images are from Sunny Studios(Beach Babies) or Hero Arts (the green popsicles and the smiling sun on the envelopes. I couldn't find the set, called Beach, on the Hero Arts website, so it could be retired). At the end I took a picture of the inside of the card and the envelope. I have a set from Mint Owl Studio that you can find here. It's so reasonably priced! And I love picking different images to stamp onto envelopes. 

Enjoy!

If you have any questions about products, let me know and I will do my best to answer. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope you have a great day.

Hugs,

Celebrate-The Greetery Cake Pops and Pinwheel Stencils

 Hello!

I hope your week is off to a good start. 

I've got a fun project to share today. My friend, Kay, at My Joyful Moments, posted projects for The Greetery's May and 1st Anniversary Release recently.  I became completely smitten and had to have them so I could join in the fun. 

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I pretty much CASEd Kay's projects, tweaking a bit here and there based on supplies I had. By the time I ordered, some of the products were already out of stock. No matter, I was still able to have fun creating. 

Feel free to click on the images to enlarge the photos. 

Kay added a cord to the base of her cake. I didn't have any cord, but I thought this 1/8th inch ribbon looked nice. I also just had to add the tiny pink bling on the cake plate. I also added some "frosting" to the flower centers. 

View from the top!

I ordered the pinwheel stencils and could not believe how easy these were to use to make an amazing card! I found a video ont the Greetery's You Tube page that shows how to use them, but basically you just follow the markings on each stencil. So fun!

I used Distress Oxide Inks to create the pinwheels: Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade. There is a fun stamp set that has the sentiment Let's Party, but it was sold out. So I used an MFT Celebrate die. Too bad you can't see the glitter from my Nuvo Shimmer Pen. The banner is from a Greetery mini add on die and stamp set. The Let's Party stamp set has super fun star images that Kay used on her card. Well I had to get creative and searched my stamp collection to find Lawn Fawn's Party Animal set with confetti type images. The star stamp is from Hello Sunshine. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Hugs, 

Lawn Fawn Slimline Village Heros Card

Hello!

I hope this finds you hanging in there after a really rough couple of weeks. 

No words can take away the pain of anyone during these troubled times. My heart goes out to all involved. We just have to commit to opening our hearts to seeing, learning and doing better. 

Heartfelt Hugs!

I decided to keep working on cards as I process everything. 

I made my first ever slimline card!

These are cards that measure 3 1/2 by 8 1/2 and fit into a business size envelope. I've been seeing them more and more as I navigate around the web. 

Trinity Stamps is a new to me company who sells slimline dies and I picked up a couple of sets from them. I was pleasently surprised when I received my goodies to also receive a tea bag and a small baggie of embellishments. What a lovely touch! They sell stamps and dies and fantastic sequins as well. 

Lawn Fawn just came out with slimline dies in their Mini Relase in May. I haven't purchased any yet.

They are definitely getting more popular. 

So, Lawn Fawnatics just posted a new challenge on their blog to create a scene. I've been wanting to use my new slimline dies and use the Village Heros Set. I watched a video by Nichol Spohr after seeing her post here on using this and other coordinating sets. Her cards inspired mine. 

Now after all that, please enjoy my first ever slimline card using my new Trinity Slimline Dies and Lawn Fawn Village Heros stamp set and dies. 

In addition to Village Heros, I used images from Village Shops and Happy Village. I also pulled out the my mountain border die set. I colored with Copic Markers, following inspiration from the colors Nichol used on her cards. 

I want to post this challenge on the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog and on 

Darnell's NBUS Challenge Blog-Challenge 15. Nbus stands for Never Before Used Stuff.

If I am not allowed to post this card to both, I do hope someone will be kind enough to let me know. 

Thanks for stopping by.

I hope you have a lovely day.

For You-Inspired By Challenge

 Hello Friends!

I'm sharing a card I made for another challenge. This is for the Inspired By Challenge-All the Details. I have been encouraged by my extremely talented and creative friend, Michele, from I Card Everyone to go ahead and try. I'm such a novice at this type of thing that it took me 4 attempts to create something I felt was worthy of entering. I kind of freeze up when trying something like this. But I do want to challenge myself to do things to hopefully expand my ability to be more creative.

From the photo shared for this challenge I was inspired by the colors, the dots and a bit of stitching in the use of the wonky stitched die. I also thought the scalloped layers kind of looked a bit like flowers.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I hope you are having a good day.