please try it

Lol, forgot to add this to my last post...please try the folio out and e-mail me some pics of your creations :)...can't wait to see them.

Have a super week :D!

Card Folio's over at Just a Little Something's blog that I cased

Check these cute and fun looking things out, looks like they might be a good xmas gift idea or something I will have to try out soon :D! Here's what I found on their site.

The directions for the folio itself are easy peasy! Holding your paper vertically, score at 2". Then holding your paper horizontally, score at 5 1/2.Fold on all score lines with a bone folder. Decorate the cover however you wish, and using a hole punch, place a hole in each pocket side to thread ribbon through to hold the folio shut.You all know that I just love my "Think Happy Thoughts" set. Its totally affordable and I use it all the time. Looks just sweet with the scalloped circle punch! This was a great excuse to pull it out again!

Notecard mat is made with cardstock measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 and the actual note made of neutral cardstock 1/4 inch smaller all around.
I like to decorate them either with a simple stamp, or a strip of designer paper with a matching accent.
In this case, I thought the Three For You punch makes a sweet little adornment (and um, was super quick!) I also added a vintage brad to the center of each flower.

The folio will hold four cards on one side, and four envies on the other.
Voila! You're done! Have a great day everyone!

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Here's the link in case you want to see more of Joanne B's work, she does amazing stuff :D!

Cased card

I needed a card for my dh's nanny, her Birthday is coming up and wanted to do something new so when I was browsing through the Paper Craft November issue I came across this card and thought it would be perfect. Debbie Olson from Norway, MI made the card that I had cased from the magazine :)!

I used white cardstock as m base for my card, then I cut a piece of baby blue cardstock that I had gotten from Kim Prince the other night when I was at Julie's SU night. I then got a white piece of water color paper, and cut a piece of chocolate chip cardstock to fit with the white square piece of white water color paper. I then attached the white cardstock and the chocolate chip cardstock together, then attached them to the blue piece of cardstock that was on the white base. Next, I stamped the "Doodle This" flower stamp onto the white water color cardstock and then I stamped the corner flourish from the same set on the blue cardstock and then onto the white water color cardstock. I took some of my Tombow markers and colored in the flower and whatever corner flourish was showing on the white cardstock, then I took the white pen from SU and colored certain parts of the corner flourish with the white pen. I had a corner piece that I was going to use for another project, but in the end I didn't use it for that and decided this would look perfect for this card. I then used my Word program and printed out the Happy Birthday sentiment onto a white piece of computer paper...attached it to my card and voila almost the same card.

I must say that it was hard to get the corner flourish stamped onto the cardstock like Debbie did on her card...did the best I could. I feel that my card is now lacking something, lol, perhaps one of you have some suggestions?? Let me know what you think please :D!

I gave in finally

yip, that I did...gave in finally!! I have a few of those Michael's 1.5o stamps, also a few acrylic stamp sets and haven't really had a place to put them...been sort of storing them in several empty diaper wipe containers. So, yesterday was the day that I sat down and put all of my clear stamps in cd cases...now they are in a more organized state...and I got my cd cases from my local Superstore because my local dollar store didn't have. Plus, they had no idea if they would get them in again and or where they were kept...they were basically as helpful as the staff at Michael's :p! I love this idea of storing them there in these cases, I even glued the printed images that came with the stamps on some plain recipe cards so that I could tuck them into the same case as the stamps. I also decided that now was the time to do this, because I figured I would only be getting more of these kinds of stamps and not less :p!

look at this cute project

The other night, when I was at Julie's SU party I also got to browse through and borrow Kim Princes "CTMH" catty. Oh, boy talk about trouble now :p! There are lots of things I have my eye on in this catty...must haves!! Anyways, when I was browsing through this catty I came across this cute idea that I just might have to case and see what I can come up with but I had to share it with you all :D. It is too cute :), or so I thought anyways!

CCE Card for month September

This is a card I recieved in the mail for Septembers CCE group #6 card exchange, and it was made by Marcia Smelser. Love the technique she used for the front of her card, it looks like she crumped up her paper and colored it with colored pencils or something...I will have to find out :D! Thank you so much for the card :)!

CCE Cuttlebug Card swap cards

Here are some of the cards that I recieved in a "Cuttlebug" cardswap that I participated in, that Julie was the host of. I am only showing you a few for now because I am playing around with some of the other pictures to see if I can get a better pic of them with my camera...some of them are looking either too bright or too dark...hard to explain. Oh yeah, with each card we made (5 each)...we were to include 5 Cuttlebuged pieces of cardstock for the other players.

The first card is from Liz Whitty, Love the stamped image and that cuttle bug folder that she used :)! I also love the barely banana cardstock she used as her card base...wonderful work she does :)!!

The second card that I recieved was made by Tracy Houghton, and she used what looks like to be silver cardstock to use the "Snowflake" Cuttlebug folder on. You got to love this lovely santa stamp she used for the main image of this card...and she added little touches on the card using a silver pen to color in some of the snowflakes, Santa's glasses. Love this card Tracy, and love all the work she does...here's the link to her blog : http://www.tracyshappyplace.blogspot.com/ Check it out :)!

The third card was made by Julie, wow is all I have to say...it is stunning and very elegant looking. I also love her work she does...check out her altered tins :)! I love that stamped flower she used for her stamped image on her card. You can check out her blog at http://www.mutchtostamp.blogspot.com/ , you won't be disappointed that is for sure.

The other two cards will be posted as soon as I get them looking like I feel they should...to post them now won't even do them justice that they deserve...sorry for your wait on these other two pics.