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Hola everyone! Today I have a wedding gift to share with you. The bride and groom are set to exchange vows this Saturday. Whew! I finished it just in time. "If music be the food of love, play on . . ." is a quote from Shakespeare. I am always looking for something new and a bit different for my frames and I thought this one suited a wedding quite well. I used Make The Cut to cut everything out. The font is Scriptina - shout out to Nicole for turning me onto it - and the flourish is from the Flourish I collection by My Vinyl Designer. I love that place. I hope the newlyweds enjoy their gift!
Last but not least, this is Lola. She is my almost eight month old Boxer who insisted on pawing the door repeatedly while I tried to take these pictures. Clearly she wanted some air time as well so here she is!
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There is a giveaway going on at the Circle blog where Circle members are asked to post pictures of themselves in their craft spaces. I had my mother-in-law shoot this quick photo today. As you can see my room is a total disaster but that's generally what it looks like when I'm in the middle of a project. I was actually working on my son's invitations when she took this shot. And yes, I know I have a lot of stuff.
My youngest son is in a Winnie The Pooh phase. Which is actually fine with us because it beats Blues Clues and Mickey Mouse. His birthday is coming up and he has requested a Tigger party. Of course I had to oblige - these are his birthday parting invitations.
This is a four inch tri-fold card - very easy to make. I cut Tigger from the Pooh and Friends cartridge. There are quite a few Spellbinders cuts on the card as well - the outside squares as well as the inside invitation and its matting. I think they turned out really cute and thankfully they didn't take a long time to make.
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Edited to Add: Okay, I must confess - I didn't make these All by myself. My BFF Brandy was in the house and she is solely responsible for assembling Tigger (which turned out to be a good thing because I was so NOT looking forward to that particular task). What was I thinking by not mentioning her? I love her dearly and one of the reasons this project went so quickly is because she came over (on Mother's Day of all days) to help me work on them. I love her dearly!! Kisses to the best assembly line woman on the world!!
I've been taking a little time to do some things that are off the beat and path. I normally work on a specific project, but lately I've been feeling the need to just experiment and create. With that in mind, I came up with these two cards.
The loop design is one I found on a new cartridge I picked up - Elegant Cakes. The heart was cut out using Spellbinders dies. The crimped paper is something I picked up several weeks ago and I am happy to finally have a use for it. The Bliss and Butterfly stamps are from Stampin' Up. The patterned paper is from SEI's Chocolot. I have been seeing these paper flowers for quite some time now and after seeing a tutorial on Capadia's blog I decided to try one. I am smitten with them and will be making a lot more in the future.
I was fooling around with my new spellbinders dies and one of my newer Stampin' Up stamp sets when I came up with this one. I think it's perfect for Valentine's Day, or just Lurve in general. Lol.
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Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ~ Maya Angelou
Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? - Oliver James
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. ~ Steve Jobs, Apple Computers
As some of you may know, I have a few other sections of this blog that I haven't really set up yet. I have a Words of Inspiration page which is looking pretty bare, and I haven't updated my Gallery recently. I have decided to take the next few days off from my craft room and work on some different things. In order to get my Inspiration Page working correctly I am going to have to post a bunch here on the main page and then label and then link those posts on the Inspiration page. At least that's what the experts at Blogger keep telling me. So please bear with me. You're going to see a lot of posts in a short period of time. I hate to bombard everyone with so much stuff at once, especially if you have signed up for my emails but there really is no other way to do this. So I have been told. (insert big apology face here). See you on the other side!!
My oldest son Jakob turned seven last fall. His birthday falls around Halloween and because I was having a creative block, I decided to go the easy route and just make Halloween themed invitations for him. I used a fold out card I initially saw on CardsTV as a jumping off point, and this is what I came up with.
Truth be told, these were fairly intricate. I had several months to work on them, and I was very happy with the way they turned out. I used pattern papers from DCVW Halloween stacks. I like the effect of changing up the papers, and colors of the embellishments so that no two invitations look alike.
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