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I have a fondness for cute owl images... I just can't resist them! I love this adorable image by Art Impressions stamps. I saw this cute owl image while visiting my local scrapbook/stamping store in Walnut Grove, MN.  He was fun to color, as I LOVE coloring with my Prisma Color pencils and gamsol. Hope you're having a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by.
Materials used: Owl Stamp and Sentiment: Birthday Whoot set by Art Impressions stamps; ink: Memento Black; Tea dye distress ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger; white cardstock: Neenah; kraft cardstock: PaperTrey Ink; orange cardstock: Stampin Up! designer paper: Down the Boardwalk "Beachball", by We R Memory Keepers; cream twill ribbon: from my stash; circle and tag dies: Spellbinders; Prisma Color pencils, gamsol, paper stumps for blending.

So many smiles...

Happy Summer! Been busy gardening and making some new cards. Summer is a crazy time isn't it! I love it! My niece Stacy from Duluth, and her two daughters came for a visit. We set up my living room with craft tables and made cards, and watched movies! We all love making cards and it was so much fun! The cards I am posting are some of the cards I made during their visit.
Materials used: Sentiment: PaperTrey Ink (Natural Beauties Stamp set); Ink: Stampin Up!; Tea Dye distress ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger; Fifth flower die: Memory Box; white paper: Neenah; kraft paper: PTI; designer paper: Authentique 6"x6" paper pad.
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This next card is a card we CASed (copy and share everything) from Melissa Phillips. (You can find her original card here in the PTI gallery: http://forum.papertreyink.com/forum/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=172768).
I love this stamp set, it's so cute! I love the little smile of the sun and cute matching cloud dies.
Materials used: Stamp set and dies: PaperTrey Ink (Heart-2-Heart #4); Designer papers: blue design paper by Little Yellow Bicycle; grey chevron paper: Neapolitan Dear Lizzy 6x6 paper pad by American Crafts; gray sandstone paper by Authentique, The Fresh collection 6x6 paper pad; white cardstock: Neenah; Tea dye distress ink by Ranger/Tim Holtz; white and blue felt from PaperTrey Ink.

The last card I have to share today is a special card I made for my niece Stacy, that I sent her the week after her visit. A special kind of thank you card for her coming to visit me. I got the original idea to use the Half and Half stamp, dies, and key die from a wonderful idea posted by Danielle Flanders, who used them to make some cute tags. You can find her original idea here: http://danielleflanders.blogspot.com/2012/07/6pm-est-correspondence-badge-camp-card.html
Materials used: Stamp set and dies from PaperTrey Ink  (Half and Half stamp set with matching dies, and the separate key die is from PTI also); pink and red ink: Stampin Up! tea dye distress ink: Ranger/Tim Holtz; white paper: Neenah; gray polka dot DP: Dear Lizzy, Neapolitan 6x6 paper pad by American Crafts; pink DP: Authentique; grey buttons: October Afternoon; pearls: from my stash; lace: Joann's; cream twine: PTI.
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Summer Floral Cards

Love this new stamp and die set I bought from MFT. It has really nice sentiments for cardmaking. I've had (actually hoarded) this 6x6 designer paper pad for ever and finally got around to using it. Love the bright summer colors! Kinda fun to make a bold color card now and then.

Materials used: stamp sentiment and die set: MFT (My Favorite Things Stamps); flourish die: MFT; black ink: Memento; tea dye distress ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger; white cardstock: Neenah; black and olive cardstock: Stampin Up! deisgner paper: Basic Grey (June Bug) 6x6 paper pad; paper piercer mat stack: Stampin Up! paper flower: Prima; clear crystal and black crystals from my stash.

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A couple of floral summer cards that I made recently to send out to family and friends. These are bright and cheery for summer thank you cards. You can NEVER have enough of these on hand. I think that's what I will be doing this weekend... making several thank you and several thinking of you cards.

Materials used: Stamp: Verve Stamps; oval label dies: PaperTrey Ink; flourish die: MFT; black ink: Memento; distress tea dye ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger; white cardstock: Neenah; black and olive cardstock: Stampin Up! designer paper: Basic Grey (June Bug) 6x6 paper pad; paper piercer mat stack: Stampin Up! black half pearls: local scrapbook store; paper flowers: Prima; crystals from stash.

It's a red, white and blue birthday card...

Made this cute card especially for my lovely niece Jenny. It was her sweet 16th birthday this month. I used many different stamps to complete the look. I got the idea for this card from Betsy Veldman's blog. (I LOVE her blog! She is so talented!) You can see her original here: http://scrapbookgirl.typepad.com/paper_scissors_and_superh/2012/03/introducing-back-pocket-basics.html
I made my own red gingham background, and yellow chevron background.
I LOVE the "back pocket basics" stamp set! It's so fun and has just cute images!
Materials used:
Back pocket basics stamp set: PaperTrey Ink; Gingham background stamp: Graphic 45; Chevron stamp: Fawn Lawn; Yellow, Blue and Red dye ink: Stampin Up: Tea Dye ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger; Versamark ink; white and navy embossing ink by American Crafts; Navy cardstock: Stampin Up! White cardstock: Neenah; heart die border: PaperTrey Ink; sewing machine: Kenmore; white tread.

Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Fourth of July/Independence Day! Thanks for stopping by.

Four-wheeling fun!

Finished this layout using papers from a Studio Calico kit called "Handmade" (November 2011 kit). I really needed to start using my kits so I picked out papers that best matched my photo's. I did the journaling on my computer and printed it out on regular printer paper. I used a scrapbook sketch that used three photos to start my page, and moved it around a bit to fit my two photos better. (Sorry I can't remember where I got the sketch from to give credit to). This page came together rather quickly and I loved that.
Materials used:
All designer paper is from the Nov. 2011 Studio Calico kit, and add on Nov. 2011 paper kit (both are sold out).  White cardstock: Neenah; Brown cardstock: my stash; Pure Poppy ink: Stampin Up! Tea Dye Distress ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger; File tab die: My Favorite Things; 1" and 1-1/2" Circle punches: EK Sucess; scallop border punch: Stampin Up!; Laugh out loud stamp came from a retired Studio Calico stamp set; sewing machine: Kenmore; white thread; green and red button from October Afternoon; small stapler and staples: by Tim Holtz/Ranger.
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Spring and Summer...

Just finished up this page of our granddaughter. Its an Easter page complete with "curly curls", and a "Sunday best" dress. She is so adorable! Our granddaughter just loves butterflies, so I use them a lot in the scrapbook I am making for her. Here is a close-up of the page:

 

I love sewing on my scrapbook pages! It adds so much. Since I took the "Scrapbook Stamping" class at Two Peas in a bucket.com, I have been trying to include stamping on every page I make now. The butterfly stamps have matching dies. I LOVE those. I love layering on pages too. I get so much inspiration from taking on-line classes. You never have to leave home either! All this internet technology is amazing and is really wonderful for people like me who live out in the middle of farming country and have no access to stores/classes near by. So it works well for me to take on-line classes. I love it that most of them are self-paced too. Since I am a slow scrapper, that works best for me.  :)

Materials used:

Stamps: Butterfly, butterfly dies and oval label dies: PaperTrey Ink; EASTER word stamps:  Stepping Stone Alpha stamps: Hero art co-branded with Studio Calico (now available for sale at heroarts.com); Ink: Marine Blue, pink and green (wild wasabi) by Stampin Up!; Yellow (Harvest Gold) by PaperTrey Ink; Tea Dye distress ink by Tim Holtz/Ranger; Pink sewn ribbon: Stampin Up!; Yellow (lemon yellow) cardstock: PaperTrey Ink; Green (wild wasabi) cardstock: Stampin Up!; Designer paper: Little Yellow Bicycle; Pink buttons: my stash; cream twine: Papertrey Ink; die cut machine: Cuttlebug by Provocraft; sewing machine: Kenmore. 

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