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A Texan Hello

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Welcome to another Texas Tuesday. You might remember that last time I had mentioned having a tough time deciding on a background for my Texas Independence Day card. I had said that you would probably see my second choice on a later card. Well, here is that later card. I found this Alamo elevation background at the Historic American Buildings Survey. I popped up both my little flag-carrying cowboy and the layer with the Alamo elevation. I debated between “A Texas Hello” and “A Texan Hello” for my hand-written sentiment. I went with “A Texan Hello” and am now wishing I went with “A Texas Hello.” What do you think?

I’m entering this card in the following challenges:

A Texan Hello

Stamps: West elevation of the Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo); Deadbeat Designs Texas Rider
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Real Red, Brilliant Blue
Ink: Dell printer; Stampin’ Up Basic Gray
Embellishments: red star brads, blue ribbon
Tools: Stampin’ Up scallop border punch; white gel pen

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Texas Tuesday posse (links in my sidebar —->).

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Babies Make Your Heart Bigger

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Someone I know is due to have a baby girl any day now.  I made the parents-to-be this adorable card. Hopefully, the mommy-to-be doesn’t read my blog (I don’t think she does), because I’m not going to the post office until tomorrow.

I used Tuesday Morning Sketches #84, except I used an oval instead of a diamond. The image is an adorable Phindy’s Place image that works perfectly for the “Oh Baby!” theme of Phindy’s Friday Challenge #45. I’m also entering this card in The Pink Elephant Challenge #95 to make a spring time card. A baby definitely makes me think of spring.

Baby Card

Stamps: Phindy’s Place Contentment; Ginger’s House Babies (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Enchante
Ink: Dell printer
Embellishments: green ribbon
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers (skin); Nesties small/large ovals, small/large scallop ovals

I normally don’t decorate the insides of my cards, because I like to leave lots of room to write a message. However, I didn’t have room on the front for the Ginger’s House sentiment I printed, so I decorated the inside with more of the pretty DP and added it there.

Inside of Baby Card

I also made a set of personalized notecards for the parents-to-be. I tried something different from my norm.

Personalized Notecards

Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Pretty in Pink; blank white cards
Ink: Dell printer, Stampin’ Up Pretty in Pink (on embossed feet)
Tools: Nesties Labels Three; Cuttlebug It’s a Boy embossing folder

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Copics Class

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A few Saturdays ago, my friend Kristy and I attended a Copics class at Scrapology. It was a fun class and I learned a lot. Since it was class on coloring technique, we didn’t have to actually stamp anything, that was prepared in advance for us.

This first card uses a neat blotting technique on the colored teapot to give it a mottled look. At home, I added some glossy accents to give it some shine and I also used it to hold the string in place. I also added the A Muse ribbon.

Teabag Card

The instructor was going for a Nancy Drew look for the hair here. The technique to color the little girl’s dress was blending a second color on an acetate sheet with the first color marker. This is a good technique if you don’t have many markers.

Little Girl Card

This if my favorite card of the class. It was really tough figuring out how to blend it to look natural. I’m glad the instructor offered scrap flowers to practice on. I’m really really happy with how my attempt turned out. And I picked up 2 of the colors used on this flower as part of the class fee. How cool is that?

Flower Card

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You & Me: Today, Tomorrow, Forever

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James and I recently celebrated our seventh anniversary. And to think, if we had gotten married on February 29th like James had jokingly suggested, we wouldn’t have celebrated this year.  We didn’t really do anything on our anniversary, but we did recently go to San Francisco so I think that counts. He picked out a roller-coaster of love card for me. Cards are the one thing I require for special dates.

This is the card I made James. I used blue and gray, since James is a fan of blue and black. I used the Mojo Monday Sketch 180 that came out on our anniversary. I already had the image colored and the sentiment printed out, so I put it together during Jessica’s nap that day.

I’m entering this card in a few challenges:

Anniversary Card for James

Stamps: Meljen’s Designs Bunny Love; Ginger’s House You (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Pacific Point, Basic Gray
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Walk in the Park
Ink: Dell printer, Stampin’ Up Pacific Point (edges of sentiment)
Embellishments: blue brads, silver sheer ribbon
Tools: Stampin’ Up Scallop Trim Border punch, markers; Marvy heart punch

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Texas Independence Day on Texas Tuesday

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Howdy Ya’ll! Welcome to another round of Texas Tuesday. Today, we’re celebrating tomorrow. And tomorrow is… Yep, you guessed it. Texas Independence Day. 175 years ago, our forefathers (well, not mine, since they didn’t arrive in Texas until the 1850s) declared independence from Mexico. And the defeat of the Alamo occurred just four days later. Initially my plan for this card was to include a photo of the Alamo, but my photo archives only include a photo of me, my Mom and my parent’s foreign exchange student in front of the Alamo in 2002. I didn’t really want people in the photo, or at least not prominent people. So I browsed the web for the Alamo. I came across a number of great options, most from Clipart Etc. I narrowed it down to two choices and you’ll probably see the second choice in a later card. I had wanted to use my little cowboy with the Texas flag, but alas I loaned it to a friend and so don’t have it in my possession right now. Instead, I created a sentiment using a font called bleeding cowboys.

Happy Texas Independence Day!

Stamps: Clipart Etc Alamo-54983; Deadbeat Designs small Texas
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla, Real Red, Pacific Point
Ink: Dell printer; Stampin’ Up Real Red
Tools: Stampin’ Up ticket punch

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Texas Tuesday posse (links in my sidebar —->). You might see some more Texas Independence Day cards.

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