A few cards

I made a few cards today for the first time in a long time!!  I miss stamping-once all my sewing is done, I really need to get back at it.  These cards took me far to long to come up with-and I had help from Pinterest!!!  Anyhow, all stamps are by Stampin Up!  I especially love the coffee cups.

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A few more cards to add to my stash.  I made more than one of each, my newest stamp set is the Postage Due set from Stampin Up!  I inked the stamp in crumb cake first, then used different markers to add color to certain areas of the stamp.  I'm loving the die-cut butterflies (thanks Suzanne for helping cut them out).  The bottom photo is another paper covered journal.  I think those could become highly addictive....But really, I'm thinking of gifts for my daughters friends for birthdays etc.  Super cute, and would be easy to personalize.

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Coffee..yumm

A little card for my bestest friend who is celebrating her birthday today!!  All stamps and paper is by Stampin Up!  Love that chevron embossing folder.

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Cards today

This is a new stamp that I just ordered from Stampin Up!  It's a background stamp called Pleasant Poppies, and is quite a pretty stamp once colored.  This card will soon be on it's way to my Aunt who lives in Montreal.  She shares the same birthday as my oldest daughter! 

Then, I made one more set of notecards today.  The stamps are all Stampin Up! as well as the ink, although mainly retired colors-Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade and Tangerine Tango (which is still current).  I'm enjoying making cards again, think I will concentrate a bit more on the paper side of things for my next craft show!

 

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My youngest daughter will be turning 8 on Sunday, so I made her card this afternoon.  Last night, we made up the loot bags for her party.  All the die-cuts are from Stampin Up!  I love die-cuts, so easy to use and really make for a great little project to do with kids.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  We'll be busy partying!!

 

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Cupcake Card

Here is a stamp I've had for a long time by Sunshine Designs.  I used 2 new colors by Stampin Up, midnight muse and summer starfruit.  I love the starfruit color, it's very different than any of the other collections.  The lighter blue is Baja Breeze.  I used a pearl pen for the little dots on the cupcake and colored with SU! markers.  Hopefully, I will be getting back to sewing soon- I made a few more scarves this week, but mainly am shortening kilts for upcoming dance competitions for my girls.  I've discovered that kilts have a surprising amount of fabric in them and take a long time to do a blind hem on!!

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Butterfly card

Made a little card for my friend today who is celebrating her birthday!  All stamps are Stamping Up!, and the chevron paper was bought inWindsor at My Stamping Studio.  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Stampin Up cards

I had a small group of ladies over last night to make some cards.  The above card is using the new set The Open Sea, and I finally used my spiral notebook punch which I've owned for ages and never used!

This is a variation of my Mom's bday card, using summer starfruit as the background color.  I love these flowers, such a pretty set.  I think it's called serene silhouettes.

This one is using the set of butterflies called Papillon Potpourri.  It has a matching punch which is awesome, love the size of this punch.

This card features the quint-essential flower which is just one stamp but can be punched out and layered in 5 layers.  We used a lot of punches on this card!

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Birthday card

I made this card for my Mom, who is coming for a visit on Thursday (yipee!).  It's a new stamp set by Stampin Up! and it is very lovely to work with.  I am all about more stamping and less coloring lately-although I'm sure that will change again!  I used Rich Razzleberry and Peach Parfait cardstock and the little butterflies are from a retired set, but the size is perfect for this card.

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So hot......

It is so hot here this summer, not sure what possessed me to keep going on the Christmas card theme but here is one I colored last night.  I used tombows on watercolor paper and a pearl pen.  This is a Penny Black stamp, I've had it for ages!

The oval and the joy stamp are from a new set in the Stampin Up! holiday catalogue named Joyous Celebrations.  The patterned paper is from a Quebec company named Harmonie, the other supplies are SU!
The girls and I went to Musquodobit today for a bike ride on the trail, but we only lasted around 45 minutes.  Next time, we'll go early morning or evening, midday is just too hot!  Good thing there was an ice cream hut where I parked the van, we were all much happier after our little delicious cone of ice cream!

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A card for Kate!

I made this card before the girls were out of bed this morning.  Now that summer vacation has started, I'm thinking I won't be getting much crafting done!  That's okay though, summer is meant for relaxing!  The East Coast Momma Collective Fair went awesome, lots of customers/sales and met some really nice ladies with lots of amazing product.  Now I'm really looking forward to the December 2nd fair!! (not that I want summer to rush by though).

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Thank you!

At the suggestion of a friend, (who also happens to be a teacher!) I'm adding a few thank you cards to my table to add to last minute teacher gifts.  I could be posting more later in the day, these turned out so cute, I may have to make a few french ones to give out to my daughters' teachers!  Hope to see all you locals tomorrow at St. Mary's Boat Club!

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Friday Cards!

A few more to add to my sale table....now to start pricing and packing up everything!

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I love new stamping supplies!

 Awesome new color by SU! this year called Summer Starfruit-love it!

 Stamp set called The Open Sea, great for all those masculine cards that seem so hard to make!

No, not a new set, in fact a very old retired set called Fishy Friends, but I love them so much, have never even considered selling them!

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New cards today

I've been in stamping mode lately, loving the new SU! color Summer starfruit, (the embossed background on the tree card).  The bottom flower card was inspired by a sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #38, so I will be linking over there today.  Lots of card ideas on that blog, I love following sketches, so much easier than staring at a blank page!  Well, the sun was out and it was a beautiful morning, and now it's pouring rain!!  Go figure. 

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Friday cards

Man, I'm on a roll with the cards this week.  I've been visiting paper craft blogs and getting very inspired!  I'd love to be able to just keep stamping and make an actual dent in my paper accumulation!  Anyhow, top card is all SU!, bottom card stamp is Sunshine Designs.  Both girls have to go to  birthday parties tomorrow, so I made 2 of the bottom card for them.

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Birthday card

I will be visiting my sister-in-law tomorrow and needed to make her a birthday card. I wanted something fresh, modern and simple. So, hopefully she likes this card, not my usual style but I quite like it too. All stamps are SU!

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Some new cards today.....

My friend Michelle was over today, so we made a few cards this morning. I love the colors of the Eiffel tower card, that will be for her friend (and they will be going to Paris in the fall!). The last card is with a new SU! set I just bought called Field Flowers. It is quite lovely and easy to work with, colors are eggplant and perfect plum with river rock as the neutral.

Have a great weekend! No cooking for me tonight, it's off to get Italian food for the girlies and I.

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Charlotte's 7th birthday card!

I made a card for Charlotte today,(her bday is tomorrow) keeping with the toadstool theme like her drawstring bag. This is a retired SU! set, I used prismacolor pencils to color the toadstools glaze pens for the dragonfly.

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A few more cards..

Working on some cards this week, the sailboat image is watercolored with crayons. I really like the color combo for the baby card- peach parfait, cajun craze and poppy parade.

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