Sympathy Card

This is a Sympathy card I made for a young lady who's Grandfather had passed away recently. I really do have to make a few more Sympathy cards to have in my stash, as this is one card you can't plan for.

It is another in the set of cards I made using those stickers I purchased when M-J and I went on that trip out to Didsbury last month.
I mounted the borderless sticker on some green C/S then onto a larger piece of fuchsia. The card itself is made from a co-ordinating colour of Bazzill C/S.
It doesn't show very well in the scan but I did add just a little bit of "bling" with some drops of Stickles on the tree.
The sentiment has been popped up on some dimensionals.


Thanks for dropping by,
Sandy

Spring Flowers Easel Card

Now that is has been received I can share with you the other easel card that that I made the same time as I did  the golf themed ones. This one was sent as mingle card in my CCB Yahoo group.

For this one I used a sticker that is in a set that I purchased last fall, when M-J and I went to our favourite 'little' card supplies store in Didsbury called Rose's Stuff . I've mounted the sticker on just some plain white C/S and then on to a piece of fuchsia that has been embossed with the Floral Fantasy CB folder. I used a little bit of star dust stickles on the edges of the flowers to give the idea of a some early morning dew.

I really do like these easel cards, they fold flat for mailing but open and sit-up into a different look for display.


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Sandy

Easel Cards

Easel cards are nothing new. In fact everyone has been making them for a long time now. However, for some reason I thought that they had to be made as a square card (not my favourite) and so never tried one. Last week while blog surfing on Splitcoaststampers I found the instructions for making rectangular ones. So I said to M-J that I really wanted to try them. I printed out the instructions from Beate  and headed up to M-J's place with all my supplies last Saturday.  What fun we had!

These are two of the ones I got made. I used some golf die cuts that I have had for quite awhile and were actually meant to be used as gift tags.  The green Bazzill CS was embossed with the Seeing Spots CB folder. The "Fore" was stamped and then cut out and embossed with a Quickutz small oval.

The first card is done landscape and the second portrait but they are both A2 size. I actually made two of the golf bag style and sent one to my Uncle for his birthday this week. These others are going to stay in my 'stash' which is very low these days.


I did make a third easel card last Saturday but it is going to be used for a Mingle so I will wait until I've mailed it before I post it.


Thanks for dropping by,
Sandy

Cards as a gift

Last week was 65th birthday for a gal who is in a therapy exercise class I take. I did a package of assorted cards for her as a little gift.

I just realized that I forgot to scan the other two cards I included. Dah!!! Oh well I guess the important part is that she really did appreciate the gift!








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Sandy

I'm so Lucky!

 Over the past 10 days I have been so lucky to received some very wonderful cards from my cardmaking friends.

 

 Thank you so much to Mary-Jane, Sharyn, Nancy, Doreen, Mary, Kris and Irene.

Aren't I lucky to have such talented friends?

Now its time for me to get busy making some cards too.




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Sandy

Two Cards Today

I started trying to make a card for the CCB plaid challenge yesterday. I had the idea of using some plaid DP I'd for quite awhile in my stash to make some flowers. Today I went up to M-J's to play and managed to get that card finished. The frames around the 2 flowers on the left side of the card were made by embossing only using square nesties. The idea for these frames came from Lynette's blog http://mystampingaddiction.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-card-parts-birthday.html
The flowers are a CB die set with the 4 different sizes of flowers (sorry I have no idea its name as I bought it second hand). The pink strip on the right was embossed with the ever popular Swiss Dots embossing folder. Inside the card I've used the largest of the flowers, mounted on the pink and green.

This second card  uses a new set of die cut/embossing frames by Nellie's Multi frames. The flower stamp is one of M-J's that went so very well with this die cut. The DP is from a Making Memories pad called "just chillin". The edge has be punched using a MS punch.
This card is another one of those that takes my out of my favorite pink's and green's. Something I must do more often!

Thanks for dropping by,
Sandy

Tim Holtz Make and Take

Well, I can't believe that I went all the way through February without posting at all. To be sort of fair to myself, I was away visiting family in B.C. for a little over 2 weeks. But where the rest of the month went I have no idea.

The card that I'm sharing with you today is one I did a "make & take" at a local store here in Calgary called Scrapbookers Paradise. Every Thursday the have what the call "Toonie Thursday". It is a drop in demo between 11 and 4 and you make a card in less than 1/2 hr for $2. It is something that I've been meaning to do for awhile and so made a special effort to get there today. This card was made Tim Holtz embossing folder and die cuts. The one thing I did learn about his embossing folders is that they emboss very deeply on CS. This card was made with Bazzill which is a good weight. However, the 'postcard' embossing folder was actually cutting through the CS when going through their CB until I suggested that we only use one B plate and a couple of shims. We still got a deep embossing, but no holes to be repaired. I know that Tim Holtz does a lot of embossing a other media that is much thicker so I that is why his embossing folders are designed that way.
I did enjoy trying out these supplies and created a card that I will use for someone I know who needs a card to let them know that they are being thought of.

I have stamped some images since I got back and have some of the coloured. Now I must spend sometime getting a few cards put together. Hopefully, that will happen this week-end!

Thanks for dropping by,
Sandy