Silver and Blue Snowflake Pop 'n Cut Card

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Today's share is a Christmas card, that I made last year but didn't it get mailed or posted. It is in my card stash to send this year though!  I used a lovely felt snowflake on the card front, as well as a die cut snowflake and glitter border strip. Both were cut from the Stampin' Up Glimmer Paper, which is just gorgeous stuff.

The outside scalloped card was cut with a Sizzix die, and I used one of Karen Burniston's older  Pop 'n Cuts dies for the inside:

I LOVED these sweet snowman stickers, so used one of them on the pop-out label. I brushed the sticker with baby powder where it sticks out above the label.

Supplies:
Card size - 4-1/2 x 6"
Patterned paper - K & Co
Scalloped card base - Sizzix
Pop 'n Cut Funky Label Insert - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Snowflake die - Sizzix
Silver glitter paper - Stampin' Up
Felt snowflake - Stampin' Up
Label - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Snowman sticker - Hobby Lobby
Words - Stampin' Up

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C4C252 Belated Birthday

A HUGE shout-out to my friends who helped me in my studio yesterday. We got so much done - another 30+ boxes packed!! I could not have done it without their help, so ... THANK YOU. THANK YOU!!!

Saturday means a new challenge for the Crazy 4 Challenges team, and a new month means we have a new Hostess and a new Guest Designer!  Danielle Lounds is our Hostess for September and you can check out her blog HERE.

Torico will be the Guest Designer this month and her blog can be found HERE.

Danielle challenged us to create a Belated Birthday card, so I pulled out the Snails2Mail stamp set.

It's so fun to paper piece that snail!

I used the Spiral Circle Pull Card (SCPC) by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs to create the card base - I love these Z-fold cards. I especially love that the die cuts the little notches that help keep the card closed until the recipient pulls the sides to reveal the inside.

I added some Peel-Off borders in black to dress up the sides a little.

Into my stash with this one, as it's always good to have a Belated Birthday card on hand.

Be sure to stop by and see what the Crazies have come up with for this challenge, and remember we'd love to see your projects too!

Supplies:
Card size: standard A2
Patterned paper - K & Co
916 Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Stamps - The Stamps of Life (Snails2Mail and Insides4Snails
1134 - Border Peel Off's - Elizabeth Craft Designs)

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100th Birthday Flip-It

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W O W.  My friend and I worked in the studio yesterday, purging and packing. Mostly purging. Six of the large orange leaf garbage bags and 3 green garbage bags are outta here. Hubby is doing a dump run this morning before work so this stuff is REALLY outta here. I was brutal with what I was willing to keep and what I didn't want to have to pack, move and unpack.  I'm leaving a wonderful room with built in cabinets and drawers and a large island for working, and going to a big room with big windows. No cupboards, shelves or even a table! So it just doesn't make sense to bring everything, as hard as it was to part with some of it.

As of last night, there are 25 (yes, that's twenty five) studio boxes packed and ready to move, with 4 more partially done.  I assembled 20 more last night, ready for today. The same friend is coming in the morning and another friend in the afternoon so we will actually make a lot of headway today.

It's Flip-It Friday here on my blog, and I have a 100th Birthday card to share today that I made for Seniors Secret Service.

Such fun colours in this paper stack - it's just a pleasure to use it.  The card was popped into a clear bag envelope to let the colours show through.

Supplies used:
Circle Flip-It - Sizzix
Patterned paper - Stampin' Up
Scalloped Border - MFT
Letter and Number dies - PTI
Stamped words on front - PTI
Flower punch - Stampin' Up
Bling - stash
Stamped words inside - MFT
Circle Die - Spiral Circle Pull Card, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

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Sparkling Hearts Cards

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It's my day to post on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog, and I wanted to give you a hint at what I'm sharing.  (Mom, if you are reading this please do NOT go check out that blog or it will ruin your surprise).  Smile.

I hope to see you there!

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Floral Pop Up Card

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Our eldest daughter and her family dropped by this past weekend, to check out all the changes in the house. Olivia and Ethan were SO excited that Grampa was here too - it was so sweet. Little Zachary is only 5 months old, but he is motoring. I couldn't believe it - he does this little 'army crawl' but he can really cover distance and he is pretty darned determined.

He and Cooper were having a staring contest, so I decided to step in and move Zachary into the family room and away from Cooper's kennel in the kitchen. That was after I had to move Zachary away from the dogs water dish, as he was pretty darned excited about that. Too funny.

Today's share is an older card. I spent the weekend packing and purging so don't have too much new to share. I did manage to get some of my Crazy4Challenges cards finished but that was it.

This card uses the Pop 'n Cuts A2 base with the label insert.

Supplies:
Card size: standard A2
A2 Pop 'n cut base with the label insert - Karen Burniston (Sizzix) 
Patterned paper and chipboard butterflies - K & Co
Brad - stash
Flower - made with Sizzix dies
Border punch - Martha Stewart

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Sparkly Bee Pivot Card

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I can't believe it's September - that means we move THIS MONTH! The time is just flying by, but we have a good supply of boxes now and that will make the packing easier. I can stop thinking about finding boxes all the time!  We are doing great with the purging too - hubby has done TWO runs to the dump and there will be one or two more before we are done. I have given bags and bags and bags away to the charity, and have at least a dozen boxes ready to go for this next round.

The new backsplash is on in the kitchen, but we are holding off on the grout until the new cabinets are installed next week. So now I can move things back into my kitchen AGAIN, although I'm getting good at tossing or packing items every time I have to move all these things.

I have friends coming over this week to help me start in the studio - probably the room in this house with the most stuff.  I have 9 boxes now and have barely made a dent. Yikes!

Today's share is a Katie Label Pivot card that was just plain fun to make. This was also for my Paper Pastimes demo in June and Carole had requested I do cards with no stamps. (The reason is that sometimes my cards use stamps that she doesn't have in stock, and customers usually want the exact stamps they see on demo cards.)  Easy peasy to make a card like these using Peel-Off's!

I used white card stock for the base, and sponged clouds on the front and inside with a hand made stencil, a sponge and dye ink. Then I added 1/2" strips of teal card stock to the inside edges for a pop of colour.

The bee's were done by attaching the Peel-Off's to double sided adhesive. When I open my package of double sided adhesive, I usually pick a couple of sheets and attach light weight white card stock to the back of them. That way it's ready for trimming and adding Peel-Offs to for glittering!  I poured on the Silk Microfine Glitter then burnished it in with my fingers after I poured off the excess. The burnishing really brings up the sparkle in this glitter, and is an easy step that should not be missed.  I added some colour with Tombow markers and let the pieces dry overnight.

When the bee's were dry, I fussy cut them out and attached them to the labels with foam tape. The flight trails were added with a fine point marker, as was the hand lettering.

Finally, here is the card from above and from the back:

Supplies:
Size - 5 x 4-1/4  (I like to play around with my A2 cards, trimming off 1/4 to 1/2" off one of the edges. It changes up the look of the card, but they still fit perfectly in a standard A2 envelope!)

768 Katie Label Pivot, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
2341 Lady Bugs Peel-Offs (Bees) - Elizabeth Craft Designs
Double Sided Adhesive - Elizabeth Craft Designs
641 Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter - Elizabeth Craft Designs
White Card stock
Tombow markers
Teal card stock scrap
Black Pigma Micro Pen

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Buster Birthday Card

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It's Masculine Card Monday here on my blog and today's share is a birthday card. I have a huge pile of 'odds and sods', so have decided to use them for cards to donate to Seniors Secret Service. This coloured dog piece was in the pile ... if you've been stamping a long time you will recognize 'Buster', a Mostly Animals stamp.

Sorry the pictures are so dark ...

I adhered wide brown ribbon and a narrow black ribbon below the image, to keep it feeling masculine.

Ahhh Buster ... I"m going to have to play with you more.

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