Showing posts with label Something to Say. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Something to Say. Show all posts

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Goodness Makes Me Grateful

Please tell me I'm not the only one who's done this... please...?  ha ha ha!  I guess I shouldn't make cards when I've had the day (or days) I've had.  The good news is, I was able to save this card, which I thought turned out beautifully until I noticed this:



Without going into all the details, we ended up having to have one of the beautiful outdoor cats that count on us for food and shelter, put down today due to several issues from kidney failure and other intestinal issues that weren't going to be improving. 

The vet and everyone at our Animal Care Hospital is so kind and they did everything they could.  So I wanted to make a nice card for them - even though I know they will all be signing and sending a card to us.  I plan to make cookies later today and drop them off on my way to work Monday.

So, here's the card - re-arranged after the original oops!  LOL

Normally I wouldn't use Whisper White or Very Vanilla as a base because it isn't as sturdy as our colored card stock, but since the top layer has extra layers, it really ended up working very well.  Thankfully I had extra to trim off to place onto the Whisper White!
 
 

Notice how the first (now 2nd) layer is popped up with Dimensionals and the sentiment is adhered directly at the top, but uses a dimensional below so that it balances out.
 

Thank you for looking in  today.  Before I go, here's our beautiful boy we lost today.  Isn't he gorgeous?  He was a Maine Coon and a giant sweetheart!  Here he is trying to convince me to stay home and play instead of going to work.  LOL

Rest in Peace Sweet Boy!

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Yippee Skippee - Happy Time!

Yippee Skippee, the weekend is here!  I do love the weekend, especially if it is going to involve Stamping!  Our Team Meeting is Monday night, so this weekend I'm working on my swaps for the meeting. 

Until then, here is a cute card I CASE'd from Susan Itell - thanks Susan for the great idea!  I did change the size from a square card to a standard size 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" but the colors and the "design" are from Susan.

I love this card - it's so bright and pretty and just jumps right out at you, don't you think?




 
 
I even decorated the envelope with Yippee-Skippee!  Always fun to have a special stamp on the outside.
 
Click on any item below to go to my store and shop, shop, shop!!  :)
 
Happy Saturday!
 
~Donna

Monday, July 21, 2014

A Little Something Cute

Here are two of the cards the girls made at our workshop on Saturday.  Well, these are my samples, as usual the girls dressed theirs up differently and they all came out so cute! 
 
 


 

Have you ever had to try to figure out the middle of a piece of card stock you're using?  If you are like me, you hate math and struggle with it.  BUT Stampin' Up! has a way to make that so simple!  SU has awesome grid paper that I have on my workspace at all times and of course use it at every workshop or class.  So, if you have some take a closer look:  along the bottom, the ruler goes from 0" to 16" left to right across the bottom. Now, turn the grid around so the top is at the bottom and look in the center.  The center is ZERO and grows bigger in 1/4" increments out!  Yayyyy!

This grid makes a way to line up the card stock so you can punch the tabs at the same spot on each side so they line up perfectly using the Scallop Tag Punch.

Here you can see what I do.  I learned this from Dawn Olchefske on her blog, THANK YOU Dawn!

Place your punch so it is centered on the "0", trace the top of it onto your grid and then line up your card stock so the 5 1/2" side is also centered.


Place your card stock inside the punch.  You'll need to slide it in carefully as the punch is made for a 2" wide piece  of card stock, but you can get around that and put in any size you want.


Open the pictures by clicking on them if you need to read the instructions better:









Thank you for looking in today.  I hope you like what you see and click on the pictures below to shop my store to make some of your own!

Happy Monday!
~ Donna



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