Thinking of You Pocket Card & Dixie

Hello dear friends, and happy Friday!

We took a short break last week, and drove to Tennessee along with most of the family. What a refreshing and happy time. There's nothing like a vacation with grandchildren. Goodness, what a blessing they are!

Now that we're back, we're in the midst of a huge pen order, with the Penmaker working non-stop. I can hear his lathe spinning away as I write. I've gotten a few cards made, but haven't had the time to post anything until this morning.

This "Thinking of You" card is one I made for our shop. It's a combination of Kaisercraft Provincial papers, a Prima printed chipboard piece, a Prima flower, and Alterations Thinlits die-cuts for the foliage. For texture I added in some white thread to rest the foliage on, and a row of white lace trim. On the tag, I tied some gorgeous mint green wrinkled seam binding into a double bow.

I cut a couple of the layers with Thinlits Stitched Circles and Stitched Squares. For a touch of bling, I added half pearls.

Last night we had a surprise birthday party for granddaughter Dixie with a few of her BFF's. Just a small affair. Again, there is nothing to compare to grandchildren.

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Fall Wall Hanging

Hello, dear Friends!

We're half-way through the week already. What an exciting one it's been for us. Yesterday we met our daughter-in-law at the hospital and I got to be with her when she found out her coming baby is a boy. This will be our eleventh grandchild and fifth boy... pretty well balanced, I think.

And speaking of grandkids, when our granddaughter, Dixie, saw the wool pumpkin project I was making, she asked if I would do a picture for her with a row of pumpkins. I was happy to oblige, and created this one for her.

It's on a base of cardboard. The papers are some from my stash... last years... and some stickers.

I popped things up for more dimension and edged it all with with orange cotton twill tape.

I love making projects for the grandkids... kind of hope they'll get the bug themselves.

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Happy Birthday 2 You

Time was running out, and I had to have a birthday card for our grand daughter pronto. With all the sickness going around our family, Penny's birthday party was delayed. So when our daughter called and asked if she could invite everyone that was able to come to our house for the gathering, I had to do some quick creating. Her birthday gift was already wrapped, but with not being well, I just hadn't gotten to making her card.

Since all my valentine makings were on my table and a lot of it was pink (Penny's favorite), I decided to go with that. My Mind's Eye Record It Heirloom to the rescue again.

I just did some basic layering, adding on vintage lace, MME 3-D stickers and ephemera.

I topped it with a bow of Michaels ribbon, I Am Roses flowers, and a teeny stamped Happy Birthday tag (Sizzix Framelits w/Stamps by Stephanie Barnard).

A big, happy 13th birthday to our sweetheart!

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Third Time's The Charm

You know that old saying Third Time's the Charm... it's true. In this case anyway.

I created this card ages ago, but was never satisfied with it. A while ago I revamped it and added it to my Etsy collection as a back to school card. WhenI was thinking about what I could make for our granddaughter Dixie's birthday, I thought of it because she loves school.

I redid the florals (Alterations Thinlits Garden Greens), put in some red I Am Roses rosebuds, and added the Birthday Wishes tag (Alterations Tiny Tabs & Tags) along with a May Arts red burlap string bow.

I put on a Queen & Co ivory pearl half to match the pearl head pins.

Now I'm happy with it...

and Dixie loved it! Well worth all the effort!

Her mom and dad had her party a little early because we'll be away at our son's movie premier... going on today!

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Masculine Vintage Cadillac Birthday Pocket Card & Addy's Valentine Box

The Carta Bella Home Sweet Home collection has some good B side patterns that lend themselves nicely to masculine projects. That's what my base and tag are on this card combined with a little of BoBunny Juliet and 7 Gypsies Lille. I know... it sounds more like a card for a lady than a man.

To help it along to a manly look, I added a Tim Holtz mini gear to the teastained Petaloo flower and border, and a couple of Prima metals to the corners. I tied on the sentiment tag (Alterations Tiny Tabs & Tags) with natural burlap string.

The Tim Holtz ephemera is by Idea-ology. 

The chipboard pieces are from FarmHouse, who I believe are no longer in business as I can't find any info on them and their blog has been taken down... so sad. They had some great product including awesome chipboard albums. 

The tag is tied with a scrap of MME Lost & Found ribbon and pinned with an Idea-ology Wire Pin with a Muse Token.

This year I had the honor of helping my granddaughter create her first Valentine box for her school party. Her mom gave us a Toy Story boot box that she thought would work, and we ran with it.

I left Woody's face exposed along with a bit of the red edging, but covered everything else with papers and lace trim. I did the sentiment on the computer, and cut lots of hearts with Spellbinder's Classic Hearts. I added some roses and leaves.

Then Addy and I went to work on gluing. What a joy! She a very eager worker, a born craftsmen...

and was pretty happy with the results! I am so blessed!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

A Birthday Card For My Granddaughter

My goodness these grandchildren are growing up even faster than our kids did! It seems that I make a card for one of them every other week... slight exaggeration I'm sure, but nevertheless... they are all growing up too fast for my liking! I have memories of the three oldest grandkids in our warehouse sitting on the steps up to my office (layout I did in 2013).

The one on the end is Penny... now twelve! Can hardly believe that!!!

She loves pink and purple, plays basketball and volleyball and is a real sweetheart.

This is a mixture of old stash embellishments and trim, Tim Holtz Wallflower and MME Heirloom. 

And for her, I was praying that it was the best day!

 Thank you for stopping by today... I really appreciate your visits!

Linda

My Heart & Kisses Card

We're all snuggled at home today after the activity and excitement of yesterday. The Penmaker is working on some special order pen projects and I'm creating Valentine cards. I really feel like I need to run around the block a few times, but nevertheless, I'll just have to get my exercise standing at my window desk. Of course I can stop every now and then and chase my granddaughter, Adelaide. She received a lightsaber for Christmas, and for a two year old, is fairly good at moving that thing around.

As you can see, she's serious about it.

My first Valentine is a combination of Graphic 45 papers, bought in Tennessee at my favorite scrapbook store. I started with a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" ivory cardstock base, then layers of the G 45. The lace is from Hobby Lobby and the other embellishments are mostly from my Prima Christmas Special Delivery kit.

The small ivory rose and leaves are from I Am Roses. The ivory medallion (cut in pieces) is Prima trim.

The sentiment stickers are Idea-ology Seasonal Chit Chat inked with Walnut Stain Distress.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. Relax and enjoy it with your loved ones, if you can.

Thanks for stopping by... I so appreciate your visit!

Linda

Blush Happy Birthday Pocket Card

This pocket card is the

one I made for my oldest granddaughter, Katie, whose birthday we celebrated on Saturday. As of late, I've been pulling out my old paper pads trying to use some of them up and reduce my stash. These papers are from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Two called Blush... lovely pinks and creams with some kraft and black... gorgeous collection! I chose out mostly pinks along with a cream text sheet that's edged with some light pink... looks like they distressed it with Spun Sugar DI.  I did some machine stitching on these mats and added an Alterations Distress Doily. 

The K & Co bird sticker

is ages old... I don't have the packaging, so I can't tell you the name... sorry! It's framed with a die-cut made from Spellbinder's Floral Doily Motif and a Large Standard Circle. My florals are a combination of a Prima Lyric bloom, an I Am Roses cherry blossom and two-toned roses, foliage cut from Alterations Spring Greenery and a bit of Darice natural hemp.

My tag is embellished

with pink crinkled seam binding, hemp and a charm I made with an Idea-ology Fragment.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

Delight Glassine Bag w/Tag

Yesterday we celebrated

two of our granddaughter's birthdays. For little Faith, I created this decorated glassine envelope with a tag insert. The papers are from the Prima Delight 6x6 pad. Those beautiful tags on the front are oldies from Melissa Frances' 5th Ave collection from several years back. I still have a couple left from my Pixie Dust Paperie September 2011 kit called "Tecolote". I certainly miss those kits! They were always the highlight of the month for me.

This gorgeous bloom is

another oldie... from Prima. I gave it an edging of Cotton Candy Stickles. The roses are from I Am Roses and those I colored with Spun Sugar Distress Ink. The foliage is... of course... made with Alterations Spring Greenery Decorative Strip die and the fern pieces with the Martha Stewart punch Medium Branch... they all set on a bed of cheesecloth. The heart was cut with Alterations Mini Hearts and is embellished with a My Mind's Eye Heirloom word sticker. The wood butterfly is by Prima. The eyelets are from We R Memory Keepers. The inside tag I cut from more of the Delight paper. It's tied up with a bow of raspberry crinkled seam binding.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

Stationer's Desk Birthday Pocket Card

Today was a wild birthday

celebration for our daughter-in-law complete with sirens, tornados and storms. Thankfully we all got through it with no harm to family or home.

Baby Adelaide enjoyed

her mommy's card and wanted it for her own. A future card maker for sure.

I used Prima's Stationer's Desk

collection for this birthday pocket card along with Alterations Baroque, Mini Baroque and Spring Greenery dies. The flowers are from I Am Roses.

I added a bit of stamping

using Unity's She Art Doodles (for a faux stitching effect) and an old Scrappy Cats birthday set.

I cut the card base to

5.5" by 12" long and scored at 4.5" and 10". This forms a generous pocket just the perfect size for inserting a Prima 4" x 6" ATC card. I backed this one with some additional SD paper then attached a brief note on copy paper. Quick and easy!

Sarah is interested in

fairy gardens, so we spent the afternoon braving the storms to travel to Berlin to buy supplies. Here are some of the items we purchased.

Don't you love the wire bike?

I can't wait to see what

she does with all these goodies. She's as excited as I am when I get a new Prima collection. We all love our crafts, don't we?

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda