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Another card with my SU! Baroque Motifs set. I wanted to do a black and white card with a little pink. I cut up the swirl background and pieced it back together, ugh, now I remember why I don't do this often. It's like a jigsaw puzzle, no, worse than a jigsaw puzzle!!




Look real close at the flower on the hanging tag, there is an ant on it. The big dummy, doesn't he no a real flower from a paper flower?! I took the pictures outside on the crossarms (crossarms are off high line poles, look up they are the boards that go across at the top of the poles) I didn't know the ant was there until I picked up the card. I decided he made a cute embellishment!


Supplies: Stamps - Baroque Motifs and Fancy Flexible Phrases. Cardstock - Basic Black and Whisper White. Ink - Jet Black by Ranger and Regal Rose classic. Acces. - 1", 3/4", 1/16", horizontal slot, word window, giga scalloped square punches, Dimensionals, brads by Making Memories, scalloped scissors, May Arts ribbon from StarLitStudio and a dumb ant :)



I hope everyone had a Happy Father's Day!
My family was here, we had good food and lots of hugs and kisses with the little ones, a perfect day!

Father's Day

I made this for my hubby for Father's Day.
I used my new Baroque Motifs stamp set by SU!
I love the big swirly stamp in this set, so glad SU! has offered this one!

I tried to stay manly as best I could, it's always hard for me to do manly, but, I think this works using the browns and striped paper.

Supplies: CS - SU! Confetti Tan - retired, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Urban Window Boho Chic note cards by We R Memory Keepers (I cut the card and used the pieces for the BG papers).
Stamps - SU! Baroque Motifs, Linen, Rough Edges Alpha.
Ink - SU! Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel classic pads and markers, Walnut ink by Ranger
Acces. - May Arts ribbon, Vintage brads, hanging charm, 5/8" circle and 1/16" punches, brass brad, Dimensionals, sponge, sewing machine, tan thread, cutter kit.

Vintage cards, the real thing!

Easter cards

My mom gave me these cards last weekend. They were sent to my uncle Troy "Orin" Branscum in the 40's, so they are at least 60 years old and are in perfect condition! I think they are beautiful for cards that are not hand made (grin) He was in WWII, a tank commander in the 2nd Armored Division and KIA on 1-3-45. I only wish I could have known him. My grandparents kept these all through the years, my mom got them and now I have them. Since cards are our thing, I was so happy to get these. The colors and design of that era are so pretty and I notice a lot of the same now in new vintage designs.

These are Valentine cards. The one on the far right has a sheet of thin foil laying inside, it shows through the cutout heart.

Here are the Christmas cards. The one on the top left with the soldier is one my uncle sent home to my grandparents.

Look at this one, it's so unusual, there's a greeting for every month of the year. I love the sponged look on this. Did they have creamy caramel in the 40's? :)

I hope you enjoyed the trek to the 40's in card design, I'm off to put these away, very carefully!

ribbon keeper

I got this CUTE Maya Road Coffee Break tin from Joy & Daisy at Eclectic Paperie. It's really a cute size and fun to work with. You can remove the handle to put your paper on!! Way cool!!!


I made this ribbon keeper with a tag ring for a friend. I made the tags from lightweight chipboard and the cutest images from Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Cuts - Friendship & Flowers and Heartwarming Vintage Booklets - Wacky & Wonderful. I covered the tin with Crafty Secrets Radiant patterned paper that I adhered with Mod Podge and painted a coat on the outside. I got the Crafty Secrets paper and images from Anna Wight's Sassy & Sweet Crafts.

After I put the paper on the tin, I marked with a pencil and my paper piecing template where I wanted the holes to be in the front. I took my Crop-a-Dile and punched the holes in the tin. I die cut some flowers with my Cuttlebug, punched holes in those and glued them over the holes in the tin, then I set the pink flower eyelets (SU! retired) in the holes with my Crop-a-Dile. I put loose ribbon inside and ran it through the holes. I put the pink rick rack on the lid rim with E6000. The black buttons were shank buttons, I snipped off the shanks with my small pliers and glued those on with E6000.

For the tags, I cut the chipboard and patterned paper the same size, adhered the paper to the chipboard, front and back and punched the corners with my ticket corner punch from SU! I cut out the images with my tiny scalloped scissors and adhered those on the tags. I set the oval eyelets (SU! retired) in the tags with my Crop-a-Dile. I glued on the ribbon and buttons with E6000. I told y'all I use that stuff ALL the time, LOL! I put the tags on a binder ring along with a key and clipped it on the tin handle.

The ribbon, rick rack and 7gypsies key came from Cindy at StarLit Studio

The lace and vintage buttons came from my mom Ü

WOOHOO! I'm an Eclectic Paperie Friend!

Thank you Joy & Daisy, for choosing me!
I'm SO tickled!
You know how much I love ya!



I found this little shadow box frame at a thrift store for .50. It was pink with a little boat scene in it.

I painted it white and distressed it with walnut ink. I traced the frame on a piece of cardstock from the Basic Grey Pheobe 6 x 6 paper pad, cut it out and glued it on the front with Mod Podge. I sponged the edges with more walnut ink and put on 2 more coats of Mod Podge. I took the mat from the inside of the frame and traced it on a coordinating piece of paper, cut it out and adhered it to the mat. I took one of my fav pictures taken at the hospital. I printed it in black and white and adhered it to the back of the mat.

Now for the fun stuff :) I got out the trustee Cuttlebug and a few dies. The Floral Borders, Vintage and Paisley. I cuttled the Floral Borders in brown, adhered around the pic, added Prima flowers and Fruit Punch Stickles. I cuttled one of the Vintage dies with light weight chipboard and paper, put that in the top right corner of the picture and added a big green crystal brad. I cuttled the Paisley die with more chipboard and paper added Prima's, crystals, ribbon and a flower brad. I stuck that on the outside of the frame with E6000.

The two little darlin's are my granddaughter's. This pic was taken the day after Jasmine was born, she wasn't even 24 hrs. old yet, awwww, Jayde is a very proud big sister! Man I miss them, it's been a whole WEEK since I've seen them Ü

The crocheted piece in the background is a round table topper I made several years ago when I was big into crocheting, long before paper crafting!

I got the Basic Grey Pheobe 6 x 6 paper pad, Cuttlebug dies and lightweight chipboard from Joy and Daisy at Eclectic Paperie, be sure and check out their store. They have awesome stuff and are always updating with the latest and greatest! Check out the 'Brand Spankin New', I just left there...Love Elsie, Palette ink, papers OMW!!!

little bluebug

I played with my Little Lady set by Paper Trey Ink, isn't she cute? In my fantasy life ladybugs would be all colors, not just red and black Ü

I wanted some big flowers to go with her, so I used the flower from my Looks Like Spring set by SU! I stamped 2 in So Saffron and Brocade Blue classic ink and cut them out. I punched the flower centers out of the patterned paper with a 5/8" circle punch by EK Success. I stamped the Brocade card base with Brocade ink using the Linen set by SU! and the bigger flower from Little Lady. I thought the Oh Baby Boy paper by Basic Grey matched the SU! flowers really well. I punched the corner piece with my punch by EK Success out of Certainly Celery CS and stamped it with the smaller flower in the Little Lady set, and put a celery brad in the center. I adhered the flowers, ladybug (she's popped with Dimensionals) and corner piece on a Very Vanilla CS base. And, put that on Certainly Celery that I cut using my tiny scalloped scissors by Prova Craft. I tied the celery and blue gingham on the card and added the main image with Dimensionals.

The antennas on this little bluebug are green swarovski crystals from Starlit Studio, those crystals are so yummy, they really add the sparkle!

I hope y'all are having a fun safe Memorial weekend. It's crazy around here! The masses come to this lake area from EVERYWHERE!!

Greers Ferry population 900ish.

Greers Ferry population on holidays 10,000ish

Leaving Greers Ferry on holidays, priceless!

sparkly iris

I decided in my rush to stamp with retiring stamps I would use the gorgeous iris stamp. This SU! set, Still Life Stems retired before I even used it, geeeez. This set is not going anywhere!


The 3 stamps in the set are big, so I made a long tall card. The patterned paper is from the 6x6 paper pad Hannah, by K & Co. I decided to use some of my new Martha Stewart glitter, Brownstone, on the paper. I used my Quickie Glue Pen and just outlined the patterns on the bottom piece of the patterned paper. Then I sprinkled on the brown glitter, mmmmm, LOVE this brown glitter!


I stamped the iris with Stazon Timber Brown on Confetti White CS and colored with SU! Certainly Celery and Rose Red classic ink and a blender pen. I shaded around the iris with a Sahara Sand marker. I wrote "iris" along the stem with my Chocolate Chip marker. I then sponged the edges of the CS and paper with walnut ink by Ranger. I used some cuttled pieces of Chocolate Chip CS that I had using the Tiny Bubbles embossing folder from Eclectic Paperie and layered behind the image. I added a spiral clip and brad from my HodgePodge Hardware, Aged Copper kit and attached some burgundy velvet ribbon. I put the label holder on the bottom and stamped "cherish" from SU!'s Warm Words set.


I hope y'all have a wonderful day!

Smile!

When I saw the Petal Pushers set from SU! was retiring I wanted to use it. Why do I think I need to hurry up and use retiring sets? After all, I always keep the ones I love. This set has been one of my fav's, the flowers are perfect for cutting out and putting on cards. I sent these two cards out to a couple of ladies that could use a smile Ü.

I used the Palette paper pad from SU!, chocolate chip and so saffron cardstock on the saffron card, brown rick rack for the stems and brown eyelets that are in the top corner and at the end of the "e" in smile. The rose red card is rose red and basic black cardstock with black eyelets and black rick rack. I stamped the flower and stamped it again without reinking to get the lighter shade and cut them out. I punched two flowers with SU!'s Daisy punch for the center and punched the circles with the 1/2" circle punch for each flower on the card. I adhered the flowers and the stems with E6000, I wanted to make sure they didn't fall off!

I got the rick rack from Cindy at Starlit Studio the store.

My daughter and SIL are moving into their new house today in Conway, it will be a busy day. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of cuddling with Jasmine and Jayde Ü

I hope y'all have a smiley, cuddly kind of day!!

Special Delivery!

My daughter wanted me to make her some baby announcements. I saw the Cuttlebug bow frame embossing folder in Joy & Daisy's store, Eclectic Paperie, and I new I wanted to use it. I thought I would emboss it on Whisper White cardstock and layer it on Pretty in Pink cardstock. After playing some, I decided I would do a simple all white card with a touch of pink, very clean and simple. Simple is always the way to go when you are mass producing! To emboss the card I took the whole card and put the front on the inside of the folder and closed the card on the back of the folder, KWIM?, then I put it through the Cuttlebug. I used my Quickie glue pen and added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter on the frame and put a pink crystal in the center of the bow. I stamped the swirly flower from SU!'s Doodle That set with Pretty in Pink classic in the bottom right corner and the sentiment (with Close to Cocoa) and dots with PaperTrey Ink's Faux Ribbon set. The inside is stamped with the heart and flower from the Doodle That set and the baby details stamp from Wordsworth. I got the pink satin edged organdy ribbon at my LSS at their going out of business sale :( I ran out (the horror) and finished up the cards with the light pink polka dot organdy. I couldn't decide which ribbon I liked best after I had them done, so I thought I would share both Ü

I took the picture while they were still in the hospital and it's one of my fav's. I thought I would print them in black and white, but decided I would print them in color to add some more color to the white card. I wanted to show off her pretty dark hair too Ü. I punched them out with my SU! 1 3/8" square punch and adhered them inside the frame.

I'm soooo in love with this little bundle of sweetness, she's a doll!

Happy Mothers Day!!

vintage clip earring board

Remember the vintage jewelry box I got at a flea market? http://pamhooten.blogspot.com/2007/04/looky-here.html well, I finally got my project done and I'm really pleased with it. I'll be on the lookout for more of these old earrings!!

I got the wooden hanger at a flea market too. I believe it's an old pants hanger, you pull the hook down and the hanger opens, you push it back up to clamp it down on your pants. I covered the front of the hanger with Basic Grey paper from the 6x6 paper pad Stella Ruby, sanded the edges and put on a coat of Mod Podge. The chipboard flower is from the On Board Accents by SU!, I covered it with paper from Stella Ruby, sanded the edges and painted it with Stickles, I stuck it on the hanger with E6000, I LOVE that stuff, I use it on everything!

I cut some chipboard and paper flowers with my Cuttlebug, stuck the paper on the flowers and adhered those to the hanger. I took the clip earrings and broke the clips off with my little jewelry pliers and adhered those onto the cuttlebugged flowers. I stuck some of the earrings on tacks to use on the board. I bought a package of 12x12 cork tiles at Wal-Mart. I glued the big green rickrack all around the tile then I stamped the bottom left corner with SU! Chocolate Chip craft ink using the Autumn Leaves swirls 2 by Rhonna Farrer. I stamped the edges with SU! Rose Red craft with the flower from the SU! Small Sayings set. After everything was dry, I tied some ribbon pieces on the wire on the sides and I clamped the tile in the hanger and now it's ready to use for notes and cards.

I got the Basic Grey paper pads from Joy and Daisy at eclecticpaperie they have the Cuttlebug and flower die too. I got the Stickles and ribbons from Cindy at StarlitStudio the store.

Have a great day!!