Simple Valentine!

I figured I would get a little ahead of the game, and I made this simple Valentine today! I love the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder - and the new Core'dinations card stock really sets off the pattern! The fancy laser cut heart is from the More Amore Designer Papers - but it's the backside of one of the Primrose Petals ones!

Do you have all your Valentines all ready yet?!


Julie B

Happy Birthday to my Sis!

I made this card to send to my sister for her birthday!  I was inspired by a card I saw over on Pinterest, and I changed up just a few details.  I didn't add a whole lot of Dimensionals to it, which I usually like to!  But that's because it's going in the mail - and I was trying to keep it flatter.

I used the Summer Silhouettes set - one of my must-haves when the catalog came out, and then it kind of got set aside!  - And here it is now, almost Fall!!  To me though it's a great all-year round kind of set anyway!

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Julie B

Merry Christmas to One and All!

Here's the Christmas card I made to send out this year. It looked pretty simple after making the first one, but after 60 of them I realized that it had a lot more parts than I realized!!

And I kind of went for a non-traditional color scheme. It was all based on the colors of our shirts in the photo I wanted to put inside the card.

And here's the inside. And notice Jessie's top, it IS Rich Razzleberry! Well, at least it WAS Rich Razzleberry, on my camera, and on my iPhoto!! So after I planned everything around Rich Razzleberry, and then got the pictures printed, I was a little bummed that some of the colors on the pictures came out so dark! But, oh well, I still like the Rich Razzleberry!


I hope you have a Very Merry Christmas!!


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Julie

A Creative CASE and a Reminder!

I loved the sample in the catalog (on page 12) with the Simply Soft set, but I haven't gotten the set yet. So I decided I'd make the card and just use a set that I have! And it's a set that I LOVE - Creative Elements!

So I pretty much CASE'd the card, just editing with pieces from Creative Elements!

Instead of the punched and distressed flower, I stamped and cut out the butterfly. When I added the pearls I gave them a little tan coloring from a permanent marker - I thought it helped to tone them down a bit!

And then because I wanted to use it for a birthday card, I used the Petite Pairs Happy Birthday saying. I put it where the original had a hand-cut and colored branch (took out a little bit of extra work too!).

I love that our catalog (and idea book) is so full of awesome samples that make it easy to make a great card!!


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Julie

Postage Can be Pretty!

I've been working on a swap with the set Pretty Postage (available on May 1st in the Summer Mini Catalog), and this is the last of the cards! I've only posted one other card that I made, but this is the fourth one I did. The colors I used are Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry and Always Artichoke. And I used the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder for the base of the card.

For the larger part of the layers, I used the Always Artichoke Patterned Papers, Basic Black and a Razzleberry Scalloped Border Edge.

Here's a closer-up of the Pretty Postage. I hand cut the "sweet" part, and then layered it onto a Postage Stamp Punch in Black. And those were dimensionaled onto a Scallop Square punch! I added the "friends" stamp from the Tiny Tags set, punched out with the Jewelry Tag punch. And I added a black brad with Linen thread - I love the linen thread! It works great in little and big spaces!


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Julie