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Super cute Suzie Q from Printworks…

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Hi everyone!  It seems like it’s been some time since I blogged a card!  eek!  It has been!  I’ve been making cards though and will have a Memory Box surprise to share with you soon!

This SUPER cute Suzie Q snow gal from Printworks has just been on the desk staring at me, waiting for me to ink and color her up since before Christmas!  She’s just in time for Valentines Day!

Have you heard about the NEW Chameleon Markers?  That’s what I colored with!  Very cool and my favorite thing today was how easy it was to color her cheeks!  I used the RED marker!  I know…crazy cool!

AND of course I used my Perfect Layers mini Rulers and cutting mat for layering up the papers!  Thee best things ever!  Truly are time saving in lining up and getting everything ‘perfect’!  Shop through my links and use my code to save 10%

Super cute new sentiments too… on the outside and on the inside!  One of the new snowflakes… AND Printworks is having a sale JUST TODAY!  I’ll add the details at the end of my post.  If you don’t make the sale today, shop anytime and use the code in my sidebar to save!

 

This is the inside of the card…

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lovin’ this MME Crush 6×6 paper pad too!  I haven’t purchased pattern paper since….fortunately my memory is bad! lol   and the snowflake paper clips?!  oh my, had to have them! 5 in a pack, so two packs please! lol

oops! Beware taking pictures of the inside with vellum sticking off the top of your card front. When you fold it back and crease it…well, you get a nice line that wasn’t there before!  Like I always say, “all of life is education”.  Applies to card making too! grrrr

Then I had to have something to hold the card up to photograph the inside cuz of course it STILL wouldn’t stand up even after creasing!  I’m proud of me.  I didn’t tear it apart and do it over! @@

Linking up to some challenges…

Curtain Call – Kissing Booth  kissing booth

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – All Things Bright and Beautiful

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – H is for… heart balloon in my case

Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Add a heart

Our Creative Corner – Tic Tac Toe ( twine, stamps, embossing powder)

Paper Sweeties – Inspiration photo

{PIN}spiration Challenge – Inspiration photo

Cute Card Thursday – Crazy in Love

Loves Rubberstamps Challenge – Anything Goes

Have a wonderful weekend and hope you have sunshine today too!  If you get a chance to shop, here’s the Printworks info…

 

This Saturday we will be offering 10% off your entire order plus a free grab bag of some Vintage Printworks Product only found at our warehouse sale.
(Minimum Order of $25)
 
The Free Grab Bag will include: 
1 Large Stamp, 2 Medium Stamps, 3 Small Stamps, and Diecuts.
 
Use code WAREHOUSE2015 in the COMMENT section of our website to receive the special. The 10% discount will be deducted from your total when we ship the order.
Offer Valid Saturday, February 7th only. Minimum $25 Purchase Required.

 

Thanks for stopping by!  TTUL!

Stamps and Supplies I used…

cards · CAS · Memory Box · Valentine

Memory Box Open Studio dies…

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Hi everyone! Sharing another LOVE card with you on this pleasant Sunday in January!

I started out by cutting three of the NEW Open Studio Shaker Rectangle Frame dies and gluing them together with a narrow line of Tombow Mono Multi glue for the white frame.

Using the NEW Open Studio dies, A Lovely Smile, All About the Love and Amazing You dies I created the sentiment.

A heart from the NEW Open Studio set Cherub Hearts was trimmed a bit and glued to the frame.

Then I made the banner from the NEW Open Studio Banner Parade die set.  I love this set!  So many ways to be creative with it! Cut three times, layered together with mono multi glue and stuck on to the card with Scrapbook Adhesives mounting squares.

The hearts were all cut in red from the Banner Parade set also.

I edged the top folding A2 size kraft cardbase with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and the ink blending tool.

That’s it!  A CAS valentine to get you in the mood for ‘love’! haha

 

Linking up to the NBUS Challenges @ CASology and Darnell’s

Week 129 - NBUS

 

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Thanks for stopping by!

cards · CAS · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Valentine · Video

Memory Box Blog Blitz starts TODAY! and a video….

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Are you wondering about the NEW Detail Plates from Memory Box?  I showed a Christmas card last year with the Elliana set… so pretty but this January 2015 release has several more!  More toys!  YAY!

I made a video over the weekend because so many have questions about how to use them.  I hope this helps… it’s basically just embossing.

Here’s the video… be sure to click the gear after you hit play and switch to HD… the picture  is so much sharper and click the frame to watch it big… easier to see the action and results!

 

 

Let me know if you have any questions…

 I have a card for the Memory Box Blog Blitz that started today.  Click over to the Memory Box blog HERE and while you’re at it, check out the poppystamps blog HERE too!  They both have a blitz going on with a chance to win a die in each post… so comment on all the posts through Sunday!

 

I LOVE all the heart dies in this release!  I used the Loving Hearts Arch and the Heart Waterfall for the heart between the two Love words. The LOVE words are from the NEW Open Studio Line, the die set called All About Love.

 

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I kept the leftover stenciled piece from die cutting the rectange on the card in this post, HERE, and trimmed off a sliver to glue on to the left side of my top fold A2 card base.

 

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I die cut the Loving Hearts Arch twice, once in white and once in red.  I glued the white arch to the kraft card base and then glued in the red hearts with Tombow Mono Multi glue.

A sliver of red cardstock over where the arch and dot strip meet.  Easy to trim a strip on your paper trimmer and glue it on with a thin line of the same glue.

Then some red/white twine tied in a knot across the top fold! All my favorite colors and things!

 

Linking up to Darnell’s NBUS Challenge – Anything Goes (all the dies I used on my card are new and the dies in the video are new)

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and CASology – NBUS

Week 129 - NBUS

 

 

Have a great week and enjoy all the inspiration with the New Memory Box release!  Thanks for stopping by!  and Good Luck!

cards · Die Piecing · Memory Box · Valentine · Video

New Memory Box dies and New Open Studio line…

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Here’s the NEW release!

 

 

Be sure to click the gear and go up to HD – really makes the video sharper…or click the frame to see it big and the gear to watch in HD.

 

Lots to love!  See anything you need? haha

 

A couple cards with some of the new 2015 Memory Box release!

 

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Fabulous new designs and I especially enjoyed creating some ‘love’ themed cards.

 

On this first one, I used…

Cross Stitch My Heart

All About Love

Heart Waterfall

 

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My second card is a shaker card.

 

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I used…

Tag You’re It Rectangles

Studio Rectangle Layers

Stitched Rectangle Layers

All About Love

Amazing You

Cross Stitch My Heart

Library Alphabet Tags

Mini Dots Stencil (on white card-stock I inked up the dots through the stencil with Versamark ink and embossed with Imagine Crafts Black Embossing Powder)

 

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All 3 cards are A2 size.

 

Here’s a CAS Happy New Year card that I didn’t get posted yet…I love the Word Pop dies and wanted to share this quick idea!  Happy Cloud die and Classic Upper Alphabet die set

 

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Linking to some challenges…

DiesRUs – Anything Goes with a twist/NEW

Cute Card Thursday – What’s New

ABC Challenge – Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations – Dies

Scrapyland Challenges – Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Make New Friends but keep the Old

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Something New

Word Art Wednesday – Anything Goes

Color Throwdown Challenge #324 – Red, White and Black

Can you believe it’s the 9th already! eek! Thanks for stopping by today!   Holler if you have any questions! Shopping links below…thanks for clicking through my links!

Dies and Supplies I used on these cards…

Starlitstudio.net had them HERE

BlueMoon Scrapbooking has them HERE and HERE

Simon Says Stamp has them HERE

 

cards · CAS · Christmas · Impression Obsession · Poppystamps

Impression Obsession Nativity card…

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I love Christmas… tomorrow our family will gather and we’ll start our Christmas Eve celebration by putting out the nativity set.  Each child will pick a character and place it in the scene when we come to that part of the scripture.  Every once in awhile through the rest of the day and even through the year they will talk about it… makes my heart happy!

 

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This is the card I sent to our daughters/families.  Inspired by Dina from the IO design team.

I sprayed and spattered white linen on the blue background.  The grass die is from poppystamps…the fence and nativity from Impression Obsession.

I edged the kraft with Gathered Twigs Distress ink.

On the inside, I used the sentiment, ‘joy to the world’ from a Tim Holtz Sizzlet long die.

Linking my card to…

Addicted to CAS challenge – family

Time Out Challenges – Christmas is Love with all the Trimmings

CAS on Sunday – Christmas

I hope to get pictures of the tags I’ve been making…eek… it’s been so dark here the last few days…come on snow!  We’re had rain and dreary…weird for Iowa!  Oh well, when you’re busy, you hardly notice the weather!

Did you receive the email update from Memory Box?  WOW!  Gorgeous new dies coming!  woohoo!  to ‘die’ for! haha

Merry Christmas Eve, Eve Day!

Dies and Supplies I used to make this card…