Greeting card update

I'm far better at keeping up with Instagram and so I make several cards and post them there but never write about them here. Sometime I'll go back and divide these up into posts, but for now here's several for your enjoyment.

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This cards technique featured inking an embossing folder

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This is the 30th wedding anniversary party invatation made for my in-laws. This is their wedding color!

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A bridal shower card made for Jon's cousin. This one was really fun!

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I love the way this baby blocks card turned out. A little labor intensive as I made four of these and had to adhere each of those small pieces with Stampin' Dimensionals.

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This was a quick card to make and so much fun choosing the colors.

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Jon's cousin and his wife have a son who is three days younger than Shane. He had a Curious George themed birthday party and this was the card I made to match his birthday theme. I LOVE making cards to match! And the pin-wheel even spinns!

I have a whole slew of cards and project on my computer to upload, so stay tuned!

Gift Bags

Our church is small. Very small. As in 6 family's small. Thankfully, I've been able to join the young ladies fellowship at my in-laws church. They are a wonderful group of ladies and I've enjoyed my time with them and made some good friends. This past months fellowship came with a request ~ bring 6 of any one item to include in a gift bag for the pastors wives. Even though I don't know these ladies, I still wanted to include something handmade. Here's what I came up with....

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Each gift bag includes a mini composition notebook that I covered in cardstock that I had stamped and two 3x3 note cards with envelopes. I had hoped to have several 3x3 note cards in each gift bag but ran out of time. I was tying up the packages at the last minute! All gift bags are the same, I just did one card in front in half and the other card in the second half.

Here are a few close ups of each item in the gift bag.

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For the most part I like how the notebooks turned out. Given more time I could have done better. Maybe a different color paper?

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I really like Stampin' Up's! new "In Color" for 2013 called Pistachio Pudding. Papillon Potpourri and the co-ordinating punch's, Elegant Butterfly and Bitty Butterfly, have become favorites also.

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This one, however, ended up with the most visual impact. I rather like it myself ;) I used Night of Navy cardstock and ink, white embossing powder with VersaMark and the Decorative Label punch (modified) for the tag. Sadly, the stamp sets (Winter Post and Snow Swirled) are retired.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions on these projects. I've included links to the products I used but make sure to order through me so you get the "Preferred Price" ~ save where you can!

Hexagon Love

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I think I'm in love with my new hexagon punch! These cards were so fast and fun to make - I just punched out several hexagons from random scraps of patterned paper, arranged them how I best thought the colors went together and adhesived the hexi's down. Stamp the greeting and take the card front (in Whisper white) to the sewing machine and stitch around the hexi's and then stitch again just inside the edge of the card. Pull the thread ends to the back, tie and cut off. Adhesive the card fronts to the card base and you're done!

Can't wait to start playing with the Six Sided Sampler stamp set that goes with this punch.

Contact me if you'd like to order the supplies to make this card for your prefered pricing. You can also get a discount for ordering the stamp set and punch together - a deal always helps ;)