My closest friend still loves to write letters...REAL letters...so I made her this stationery set that features deer stamps because she also loves hunting. This is the front cover of the stationery set that closes with a ribbon.

This is a close up of the name plate that I put on the front. Nothing too exciting but it took me FOREVER to line up everything (thank heavens her name is short!) so I'm showing a close up of it!

This is what the set looks like when you open it.

And here is a sheet of the stationery and one of the envelopes. I just used regular mailing envelopes and stamped a design in the corner so they would coordinate with the stationery.

Finally, I adhered a loop of coordinating ribbon in between the envelopes and the stationery and used it to attach a pen. I found some clear pens that are hollow so I rolled up a piece of brown paper and inserted it in the pen so even the pen matches!

Tilda Valentine

When I saw this Tilda stamp holding a bunch of hearts in her apron, I just knew I had to have it! I used nothing by Basic Grey paper and coordinating buttons. I colored the image with Prisma pencils.
I also felt that the image was crying out to be more 3D so I stamped her two more times and added a couple layers her arms and apron.

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Sympathy Card

I just love this sentiment and often use it for sympathy cards. I found the designer paper at Designer Digitals and was so happy because it's perfect; it has stars on it but it's not particularly patriotic or too cutesy for a sympathy card. I added the buttons, and Dew Drops, then stamped a PTI butterfly on vellum and folded up the wings.

Window Shopping with MFT!

When I saw this stamp set I knew I wanted to do something with different depths, just like she was actually standing at a window, dreaming about shoes! This is my version of a shadow box card. It's hard to tell in the pictures but the shoe display is inside the shadow box. I cut the square for the window then covered the opening with acetate so it would look like a real window. Then the woman is on top of the shadow box looking in the window. Confused yet?! Here's another picture that might help:

I used the awning from the Meet Me at the Cafe set and attached it so that it also sticks out from the card like a real awning would. The brick paper I created on the computer and printed onto gray Bazzill paper. All the patterned paper is from Basic Grey.

Cutie in the Garden

I love buying digital images instead of stamps because they are less expensive and you can change the size of the images or even flip them around. I got this image from Squigglefly and think she's just too cute!

I used Scenic Route paper, some orange bling, Stickles for the water, 3D Lacquer for the watering can and tool, and Prismacolor pencils to color the image. I printed the image twice and cut out the flowers so I could pop them up on Pop Dots to give it a little bit of a 3D feel.

A Bird and A Bug

My friend has been a little down lately so I made her this card:

I just love this stamp set from Clear Dollar Stamps! There are different words you can put on the license plate and they now have a set of people and items to put in the car.

I used Crystal Effects to make the windshield nice and shiny like glass.

This picture sort of shows how I popped up some of the parts of the image to give it a 3-D look. I stamped the image on another piece of paper, colored it, and cut out the convertible roof, the license plate, and the bumper. I then used dimensionals to mount them on the original image that I had already colored.

This is the inside of the card. The bug squashed against the windshield is pretty small and I wanted it to be a little more prominent so I stamped the image and the bug image and then enlarged it a little on my copier. You can't really tell in the pictures but I used orange and red Stickles on the brake lights and shimmery paint on the bug's wings. Both images were colored with markers.



This same friend asked me to make a card she could send to her boyfriend's grandmother who is having a tough time. She had found a poem about a cardinal and wanted a card to go with it. Here's the simple card I came up with:

The ribbon looks a little screwed up but it actually sits a little better IRL.

On the inside of the card I just printed the poem onto vellum, folded it in half and taped it to the back inside of the card.

Christmas Projects

I decided it was finally time to post some pictures of some gifts I made for Christmas. Doesn't Christmas seem like a long time ago now?!

I made this box out of Bazzill black card stock (it measures 4"x4") and then cut some black and white designer paper and adhered it to all the sides. The lid is 4" with 1 1/2" sides. I printed the sentiment from my computer and I used a butterfly stamp from Papertrey Ink's Butterfly Kisses set. I stamped it in black on red card stock and covered it with clear embossing powder for a nice shine. The butterfly is cut out by hand, I made antennas out of black wire, and glued the whole thing to the box top.


Finally, I tied a sheer white ribbon around the lid of the box.

Inside the box are little slips of paper on which loved ones of the recipient wrote nice things for her to read. It was a big hit!

My mother loves a certain kind of candy from a local shop so I gave her some of those but decided to jazz them up a little bit. I used small frosted tin tie bags from Papertrey Ink and made little covers for the tops of the bags. This one has milk chocolate candies and I used some decorative Christmas poinsettia paper, a poinsettia stamp from Verve's Christmas Poinsettia set, and adhesive pearls for the center of the flower.

The dark chocolate version of the candies went into a separate bag and I used Verve's Ornamental Christmas set, silver embossing powder, blue Bazzill card stock, and silver ribbon from Papertrey Ink.
Ok, I think I'm ready to move on from Christmas now!

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