Celebrate Today Week ~ # 6 Christmas Cards

September 10, 2015September 8, 2015Leave a comment

Welcome to Card # 6 using the Celebrate Today Stamp Set, which takes a Christmas theme.

I know, I know – we are not even half-way thru September and here I am showing Christmas cards!!! but Christmas ‘stuff’ has been in the craft stores for several months now and I am sure the next 3 months will fly by so I don’t think it is too soon to be thinking about getting a head start on the Christmas cards.

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Celebrate Today Week ~ # 5, Shaker Card

September 9, 2015September 8, 2015Leave a comment

Today’s card using the ‘Celebrate Today’ Stamp Set is a shaker card, I have not done one of these before but I thought the balloon theme lent itself to a shaker card. I trawled the internet for some inspiration to find out how to do this and came across a video which I have linked further down this post.

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Celebrate Today Week ~ # 4 Wedding card with Video

September 8, 2015September 7, 2015Leave a comment

Welcome to card #4 of my week with the ‘Celebrate Today’ stamp set When looking at all the pieces in this set it came a surprise to me to see ‘wedding’ as one of the greetings – had not really associated balloons and weddings before – so I took it as a personal challenge!

There is also a video for this one……………….!!!!!!!!!!

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Celebrate Today Week ~ # 3

September 7, 2015September 7, 2015Leave a comment

Today’s card using the ‘Celebrate Today’ Stamp Set has bright primary colors which I think would work very well for a younger member of the family.

It features window sheet and is based on a card by Connie Stewart of Simply Simple Stamping.

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Celebrate Today ~ #2

September 6, 2015September 5, 2015Leave a comment

Today’s card using the ‘Celebrate Today’ Stamp Set has lovely, fresh blue and white ~ perfect for a fella, albeit perhaps a younger fella!

The card features a balloon but also has lots of stars, which was inspired by one of the stamps in the set.

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Celebrate Today ~ #1

September 5, 2015September 5, 2015Leave a comment

The Celebrate Today Stamp Set was introduced in the 2015 Occasion catalog back in January – and it was included in the 2015 – 2016 Annual Catalog that came out in June. I was looking for inspiration for a birthday card and picked up the set….. just to see what ‘vibes’ it would give me………. although the set has a balloon theme it also has a bunch of greetings that would celebrate most life experience occasion…… birthday, baby, wedding and graduation.

While I made the birthday card – which I will share, I also thought it would be a great opportunity to create a week of cards using this set……. so here is #1……..

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Baby themed Frame Art

September 4, 2015September 2, 2015Leave a comment

I just love to do home decor pieces from paper, ink and embellishments and framed art is probably my most favorite thing.

Last year some ladies and I got together to make one of these for another friend on the birth of her first child, a few weeks ago my friend, Jennifer and I made another for one of the other ladies in that little band of happy stampers. This fits a 9 x 9 frame from IKEA, I took the photo before putting it in the frame because of the reflection of the glass…… it looked so good when it was finally assembled.

If you have a special occasion you would like to commemorate – let me know, I will be happy to work with you to design/make a piece of frame art to treasure forever!

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Happy Birthday ~ Cascade Card

August 29, 2015August 28, 2015Leave a comment

Earlier this week a dear friend celebrated a milestone birthday – since she is a card crafter as well it had to be a special card for her. I did a lot of research and found this design on Dawn Griffith’s website – she made wonderful video to explain how it works and I will put in a link a little further down the page.

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Something for Baby Card from Stampin’ Up!

August 25, 2015Leave a comment

Two new babies arrived this past week, one the son of some friends and the other the daughter of the folks who live a few houses away in our neighbourhood. This seems to have been a year for babies…… I cannot remember making so many cards in so short a time!

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Everything Eleanor Birthday ~ video tutorial

August 16, 2015August 15, 2015Leave a comment

It was my dear Mum’s birthday at the beginning of August, her favorite colors have always been Navy Blue and Cream, so this was the starting point for the card I made for her. As she lives in the UK I needed to ensure that the card would be light enough to mail, without to much bulk from pearls or rhinestones. Those of you who know me also know I love bling on my my cards, this is where glimmer paper comes in very handy!!!

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