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Rainbow Sweet Wishes Cupcake
I love making cards and I make a lot of them, but I have more than I can use. I called one of our local assisted living centers and...
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Mar 18, 20212 min read
Foiled Balloons Birthday Wishes
I had purchased the My Favorite Things Party Balloons recently but hadn't yet used them. I decided to try them with foiling and was...
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Mar 13, 20211 min read
Foiled Candles Happiest of Birthdays
This is another card where I used a regular die for hot foiling. I used Elizabeth Crafts Birthday Candles. At the same time I foiled My...
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Mar 13, 20211 min read
Rainbow Plaid Happy Birthday Wishes
For this card I die cut the letters to "HAPPY" with scraps of rainbow colored cardstock using the Altenew Caps Bold letters. The same...
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Mar 11, 20211 min read
Musical Notes Rainbow Happy Birthday to You
This is another card inspired by Lisa Addesa of I'm in Haven where she created four rainbow die cut cards. A link to the inspiration...
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Mar 11, 20211 min read
Woodgrain Rainbow Happy Birthday
I saw a card on Pinterest by Lisa Addesa where she had a rainbow die cut word on a strip of dark cardstock. The link is listed below. I...
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Mar 11, 20212 min read
Rainbow Happy Birthday with Black & White Stripes
I was searching for masculine cards and ran across some rainbow card that inspired me to create some clean and simple birthday cards. The...
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Mar 11, 20211 min read
Happy Birthday Number It Balloons
I really love the way this card turned out. My Favorite Things Number It Background was stamped onto a quarter sheet of Strathmore...
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Mar 10, 20212 min read
Negative Blue Strip Big Birthday Wishes
From my previous card I had the negative space leftover after having cut the sentiment. It's fun using both negative and positive die...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
Blue Strip Big Birthday Wishes
I had contemplated using My Favorite Things Big Birthday Wishes on the previous card I made and had it sitting on my desk. I decided to...
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Mar 5, 20212 min read
It's Your Day Balloon Bouquet
I was cleaning my desktop and lifted my glass mat to clean underneath it an found this rectangle of plaid paper. I had to put it to use....
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Mar 5, 20212 min read
Have the Best Day Ever Watercolor Background
Recently Pinterest sent me an image of a card that Laura Bassen created for Simon Says Stamp (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1538261435113...
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Feb 22, 20212 min read
Calm Waters Enjoy Your Day
I made this card with my son in mind. He loves to go canoeing and fishing with his son. His favorite colors are red and blue and so...
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Feb 22, 20211 min read
Enjoy Your Day Angler
For this card I took Kraft cardstock and ink blended it with brown distress inks. I cut it down with a stitched rectangle and adhered it...
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Feb 21, 20211 min read
Vintage Motorcycle Life is a Journey
For this card I wanted to have the look of woven metal. I used silver mirror cardstock and embossed it using the Sizzix 3D Woven Texture...
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Feb 21, 20211 min read
Vintage Car Enjoy the Ride
This is the second card I made with embossing a dark gray cardstock that had been ink blended with darker gray ink and then distressing...
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Feb 19, 20212 min read
Vintage Ship Enjoy Your Day
I saw Jennifer McGuire take some embossing folders and distress them with a sanding block to make them pop on the page. She used white...
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Feb 19, 20212 min read
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