Love you...inside and out!

tee hee...I'm so witty with my blog title today. :)

I normally do not decorate the inside of my cards but I have to say that when I see those cards online that are finished on the inside, I think they look wonderful. So I finally tried it too and I hope you will be significantly impressed!

This first card is a simple 4 1/4 inch square card so you can mail it in a regular envelope. The really cool part on this card is that I used the free, downloadable papers from The Angel Company. {You can find the link to them in my sidebar.} I also used the Scarlet paper pack from them that is the most beautiful red you've ever laid your eyes on!

I love the More Abundance set. Most folks think of it as a "scrapbooking" set but I use it over and over on my cards...For the inside I just repeated the hearts and a snitch of the leftover paper.

Now for a cute little valentine that I plan to give my husband. Kelly R, one of my wonderful downlines, has been coming up with the cutest little scenes on her cards and that really inspired me to get a bit more creative. So I grabbed two different owl sets and the heart background (from the free hostess set) and came up with this card. It's a gatefold card to make it a bit more interesting and I just love it!

I ended up snipping off one of the hearts to make it easier to ink up and place...the little saying "you and me" is from My Journey...I've been grabbing that set a lot these days!

I repeated the black scalloped cardstock and ribbon from the front to finish it off on the inside! So easy - why don't I do this more often?!?!?!

Kids are home for another snow day...it's beautiful outside. I hope you have a wonderful day too!

Viruses are bad, very bad!

I know human viruses are bad and now I know how bad computer viruses can be!! I spent almost 8 hours working on my computer yesterday and finally a lovely lady from Microsoft was able to come into my computer long distance and finally purge it of some sort of Trojan virus that kept multiplying and was shutting down my computer. Exhausting but success was sweet! I also learned to clean out my Temporary Files daily -- never had done it in a year and I had over 41,000 temp files clogging up this poor machine and it provided a festering ground for those viruses!! So, enough about my pain and on to the drum roll and a winner....

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Timestamp: 2009-08-17 13:30:29 UTC

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I also wanted to post a fun little card I made combining the new owls from Be Square and I used the branch from Artsy Owls. I had a little paperpiecing fun and then embossed the whole card after that with a cuttlebug folder to make it all a bit more interesting!



Card Materials: all supplies from The Angel Company
Stamps: Be Square, Artsy Owl (I found them under animals on the online catalog!)
Accessories: Kraft paper pack, Rustic Chic, Red DCWV, ribbon, button, twine, MS border punch, CB embossing plate

I just finished a card this morning that I can't wait to share with you. See you soon!

Cherry Blossom Time!

ah...the sun came out after several days of rain. It's a perfect start to the Cherry Blossom Festival here in Washington DC. I made this card last week with the SCS Wednesday Card sketch in anticpation of the blossoms. It's a beautiful time here!!

I used watercolor paper and heat embossed the image. This branch is from Artsy Owls - and it's my favorite stampin the collection! I dressed things up a bit (trying to be artsy myself!!) with a stick pin, bead and some ribbons. I hope you like it!



Card Materials:
Stamp: Artsy Owls, saying retired hostess set
Paper: Lilly Anna Soar with it Collection and Lilly Anna Cardstock
Accesories: Martha Stewart punch, Tombow markers and aquabrush, stickpin/ribbon

More fabric - more buttons!

The Pink Elephant has a sketch challenge to use buttons. My branch was a bit bare looking, so I thought that the flowers with the buttons as centers were perfect. They helped draw in more of the color scheme and gave the card some pop I think....plus, maybe you won’t notice that my owl is stamped a bit crooked?!?

This was another card I featured at my hostess club get together this month – and the main thing was stamping on fabric, muslin, to be exact! My following post has more details about stamping/coloring on fabric for a card...


Card Materials:
Stamps: Artsy Owls, The Angel Company
Paper: Misc, Bazzill Yellow and Green DCWV
Accessories: flowers from Ava embellishment, assorted buttons, Martha Stewart punch

This following card is from one of my club members...Donna. (She’s the kind of woman you love to be around, positive, silly and always uplifting. If she were to make a “mistake” she looks at it as an opportunity and worst case, says, “just lower the lights, everything looks better in the dark” or something to that effect. She has me laughing every time we get together) Most of the gals used the owl stamp or cow from my last post, but as usual, Donna did her own thing and I loved it. She used my beloved branch as a tree...and then stuck some flowers at the base. These are retired flowers (also from The Angel Company) but they were meant to pop out of a vase and I love the curved effect they have at the bottom of Donna’s “tree”.



My inlaws arrived yesterday so I was busy cleaning and making beds but I did sneak in time to finish a card for SCS's Wednesday sketch! I hope you’ll pop back in on Sunday because I have a really neat surprise!