Autumn Floral Birthday

I feel like I’m finally getting my card creating mojo back.  Today I have a pretty birthday card that I created for my sister’s birthday.  Her favorite color is orange so I dug around my stash and came up with some papers that coordinated.  And the paper really did all the work here with the exception of the sentiment die, which is SU retired Celebrate You thinlits.  The floral paper is a 12 x 12…

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A FaBOOlous Throwback Halloween Card for CC2C

Welcome to the October installment of CASEing Coast to Coast.  This month we’re beginning our cross country stamping adventure in California with Karen Hallam and our theme is an appropriately seasonal one: Halloween.  You can see all the details of Karen’s adorable and fun card HERE. Now for my card, I pulled out some “vintage” Stampin’ Up! DSP, Toil and Trouble. I especially love those colorful witch’s hats.  And since I also find fussy cutting…

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Cheers to 43 Years!

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary….and it’s been a wonderful 43 years!  Here’s the card I made for my husband, Steve… I must admit, that like most card makers, I have an overabundance of patterned paper from so many different companies.  Who can resist a great paper collection?  The images here were cut from a wonderful 6 x 6 pad from a Polish company, P13.  The collection is called Sea La Vie.  The background paper is also…

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Harvest Blessings Thanksgiving Card – #TTTC257

Welcome to Tic Tac Toe Thursday.  I had the pleasure of creating this week’s challenge board. And here’s what I came up with. I chose to go left diagonally: Harvest, Embossing, Metallic Once again, I delved into my stash to come up with this card.  The patterned paper is from a DCWV pad.  I just love those pheasants!  The sentiment is from SU’s Country Home retired stamp set and is heat embossed. The inside sentiment…

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