One Sheet Wonder Set of Five Cards

Well, it's back to work day for me. I have had a wonderful summer. I got much more done than I usually do and we moved my craft room to the lower level, into a much more open space. It is brighter and more organized than my spare bedroom space and I am finding it much easier to keep 'less messy'. Heehee :)  My hope is that I will be able to keep up with all the projects that I have found that I want to do for the coming months. No promises to you or to myself, but a solemn - I'll try !!
I found this idea on Pinterest, of coarse! -  HERE. I really liked the colors that she put together, but of coarse when I was ready to try it out, I had nothing even close. So I went through my umm rather large selection of pattern paper and found this. But then I couldn't make up my mind on the card base... as you will see... for me to only use 2 different colors is a pretty good thing !

The one sheet of patterned paper I used was a 6" x 6" sheet. I backed all the pieces in black. The stamps are SU and the butterflies are a SU dielet.

As with most of my projects, the hardest and most time consuming part is picking out the papers!

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Butterfly Birthday Card with Cricut Expression

Today's project is a set of birthday cards that I am going to add to the card box at work. I found my inspiration on Pinterest HERE.

All the cuts are from the Close To My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge. I used a Stampin Up stamp for the background on the card base and the colored butterflies. For the butterflies I used Versa Mark ink and Iridescent Embossing powder. I used a twine that has a silver thread (from Paper Wishes) for the body and antennae. The birthday sentiment is from Paper Trey Ink.

I absolutely love how great this card is in all the different colors.

Don't forget the August special from Close To My Heart...

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We have a great special for the month of August!

 With every $50.00 order, you will get the 

August Stamp of the Month for

FREE!!!!

Learn more HERE!

And with a $75.00 order I will send you an ink pad of your choice, FREE!!

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Halloween Paper Clips

To start this cute, fun project I cute black cardstock - 3 3/8" x 8 1/4 " - then scored at 3/4", 4 5/8" & 4 7/8".

The inside orange piece is 3" x 3 1/4". I'm sorry I don't have the info for cutting the slits, I just kind of did it by laying the paper clips on the paper and marking where I wanted the cuts to be.

After I attached the orange piece on the inside, I folded the 3/4" scoreline up and stapled close to the fold line. The staple is covered by the ribbon that I have had for ever.

The ghost is from the Stampin Up Owl punch. I cut the feet off and turned it upside down to make the ghost shape. The eyes are from the same punch. For the mouth I used my Gypsy and the elephant from Create a Critter, I hide all the cuts EXCEPT the eyes and cut out at 5.82 " I was making 10 sets of these so I had to cut out 20 sets, both  sides of the ghosts have eyes and mouths. After I had the ghosts with the faces, I used my glue gun to attach both sides together with the paperclip in the middle. This form of gluing the ghosts together makes them very sturdy.

The owl on the cover is from Stampin Up, stamped with Elegant Eggplant. The treat bag and beak are colored with Pumpkin Pie Marker, then punched out with the same owl punch I used for the ghosts.

The owl is layered on designer paper punched with the extra large scallop Circle punch from Stampin Up.

The background paper is from my stash layered onto Pumpkin Pie cardstock

The boo is from Stampin up and punched with the Tiny Tag Punch.

The flowers are from my collection, put together with a rhinestone brad.

Out Of My Comfort Zone

This card started with the ribbon. I rarely ever use black in any of my projects, but I have wanted to use this ribbon ever since I bought it for a 50th birthday gift. So then I had to pick a color to go with it...

This blue just seemed to jump out at me, so it's what I went with :)

All the supplies except the ribbon are Stampin Up. The ribbon came from Walmart, I think.

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Happy Mother's Day !

I am wishing all of the mom's...of all types... a very Happy Mother's Day !

I lost my mom 5 years ago and I still can't put my heart into making cards for this day.... this is the 1st year I have made any... and then, I only made 4...

I am posting them today so I can put them away... hoping next year I can add more.

All stamps, paper and punches are from Stampin Up.All the ribbon, except the pink with flowers, are from Stampin Up. The pink ribbon is from my stash.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)

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