Thank you

Supplies used are :

Daisies printed cardstock

Yellow plaid cardstock

Clouds and Grass cardstock

Green Cardstock for the grass

Clouds dies

Grass die cut

Flowers die cuts

Ribbon messages for the ribbon and sentiment

Woodframe dies

Mowed Lawn Distress Ink

Fossilized Amber Distress Ink

Mustard Seed Distressed Ink

I haven't made any cards in quite a long time, so I thought I would try making one again. It's been really hard for me to be able to stand up long enough to make cards. I have a degenerative disc and Facet Arthropathy in my lumbar spine which causes me great pain. Facet Arthropathy is arthritis of the Facet joints which causes disc degeneration in the spine. 

And then last year in April, my mom became very ill and her health started declining. She just recently passed away on February 17th this year. It's been a very difficult time for my sister's and I dealing with the death of our mother.

Anyway, on to my card. Pretty much all of it is self-explanatory. What I do want to say about it is that for the flowers, after using the die cuts with white cardstock, I sponged on the distress inks to give them some color. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you like my card, which is a 4.25"x 5.5" card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Thank you

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I was looking on YouTube last week for techniques with making cards and I came across a video about a dryer sheet technique. After watching the video and a couple other videos on this technique, I decided I just had to try it!! It doesn't quite look as good as I'd hoped, but here it is anyway...

First, I used an aqua blue ink from StudioG inks to stamp the flower from the Fabulous Florets stamp set onto the white card panel. Then I used an adhesive spray and I sprayed it on the card panel. Then I took a used dryer sheet and put it onto the adhesive sprayed card panel. I folded the dryer sheet over the backside and adhered it to the back. Then I sprinkled on some very fine silver glitter and shook off the excess.

I used the other flowers from the Fabulous Florets stamp set along with the leaf stem for the card theme. I used Close to Cocoa ink for the leaf stem.

For the flowers, I used copic markers to color them.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts ribbon messages stamp and cut set. I highlighted it with a light blue versa magic chalk ink.

I realize that the stampin up dotted scallop border punch is retired, but I used it anyway, with hopes that maybe stampin up will eventually un-retire it! I think this border punch looks good on certain cards!

Thanks for stopping by to visit! 

Patriotic Thank you

Patriotic Thank you

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Thanks a latte

Thanks a latte

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Supplies used :

Cardstock : Fall and Halloween combo matstack, Chocolate Brown, White, Simple Stories 6x6 paper pack.

Stamp Set : Thanks a latte clear stamp set

The design layout for this card is from this weeks Mojo Monday card sketch challenge. This weeks challenge was to make a tall and skinny card that is 3.5 x 5.5. There are a few ways you can make your card this size. However, the way I did it is simply this......I took a regular size (5.5 x 4.25) blank pre-folded card, measured the 4.25 side to 3.5 and cut off the excess...making it a 3.5 x 5.5 card that opens from the left side instead of the bottom side.

You can find this card challenge at http://www/mojomonday.blogspot.com. 

Now, I wasn't exactly trying to use a "Fall" type background, but I thought this kind of printed cardstock was too pretty to not use as my main background and first layer. 

For my second layer, I used a brown and white striped paper from my Simple Stories paper pack.

For my third layer, I used a checkered cardstock paper from my Fall and Halloween combo matstack. The next layer is just a white square.

The latte cup and the sentiment are both from the Thanks a latte clear stamp set. Now, since I don't actually have this stamp set, I googled it on google images, saved it to a file on my computer, and then brought the saved image into my Windows Paint program where I colored it in, re-saved it, printed it, and cut it out by hand. Then I used double-sided adhesive mounting circles to put them on my card, making my card complete.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back soon to see more of my hand-made greeting cards.

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