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Valentine’s Day Card for James

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We received a beautiful tri-shutter card from Diane when Jessica was born. I thought it was a really neat card and I wanted to make one sometime. I thought a Valentine’s Day card for James would be a good opportunity. I search Split Coast Stampers and found this tutorial for a tri-shutter card. I decided to watercolor the bear, which caused the cardstock to curl up, so to get it to lay flat, I ran it through my 5″ Xyron machine, cut it out and stuck to another piece of cardstock and cut it out again. I had a hard time deciding on the embellishments since this is a card for a guy, but I think even with the flowers and bow, it is still okay for a guy. I hope *fingers crossed*.

This card was initially made for the ATS Weekly Wednesday Challenge 16, but I misread the challenge and it didn’t meet the requirements. I’m not sure how I missed the part that it needed to be a Valentine package, not a card. However, Challenge 17 was to make a tri-fold card. Since I finished my card a day before the challenge came out, I’m not sure I technically qualify, but the card was made with an ATS challenge in mind, so I’m going to submit anyway.

Front of Tri-Fold Card

Stamps: Chubby Pencil Valentino; Stampin’ Up Wonderful Favorites, Tags So Much; Stamp Affair I Love You
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Taken with Teal, Pretty in Pink; DCWV textured brown scrapbook paper
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Loves MeInk: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown, Taken with Teal, Close to Cocoa
Ink Used to Watercolor: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Inkssentials Glossy Accents (bear nose and eyes and heart bubble); Hobby Lobby pink Valentine’s ribbon; Stampin’ Up Pretty in Pink brad; Maya Road velvet blossoms; glittered teal brad; Stampin’ Up Pretty in Pink 3/8″ Tafetta ribbon
Tools: aquabrush; Xyron 5″
Punches: Stampin’ Up Tag, Small Tag, Ticket Corner; Marvy Uchida Mega Heart, Giga Scallop Heart

Side View

Whole View


Happy Birthday Dad!

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Today is my father’s birthday. I am very much a daddy’s girl. I was looking through my pictures to find some showing the two of us. It is sad, but I didn’t find many. It’s probably because for most of my pictures, I’m the photographer. This one was taken by my sister when we had a family trip to South Padre Island last May.

Jennifer and John at the Port Isabel Lighthouse

My dad is also quite the shutterbug. My parents scanned a number of pictures of me when I was a baby (since I’m going to post a comparison of Jessica to her mommy and daddy soon), and there weren’t many of my Dad and I, since most of them were taken by my Dad. Doesn’t my Dad look young? He was 25 when I was born. Looking at him in this picture, I actually see a lot of my brother who is currently 26.

John and baby Jennifer

Here is the card I made for him. I used the Mojo Monday 124 sketch. I think it turned out pretty cute.

Hoppy Birthday

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Unfrogettable
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise
Ink: Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point
Accessories: Stampin’ Up 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon Temptin Turquoise, 1/2″ striped grosgrain ribbon Wild Wasabi; Inkssentials Glossy Accents (snail shell)
Tools: colored pencils; Stampin’ Up 1 3/8″ circle and scallop circle punches; Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder

A Pillow for Jessica’s Nursery

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I picked up the kit for this pillow before we had decided on the bedding for Jessica’s nursery, which doesn’t have elephants. However, we’ll just pretend this is a little pygmy elephant like those found in the rainforests of Borneo. I finished the felt applique front before she was born, but I recently finished putting the zipper in the back panel, sewing the panels together and adding the blanket stitch along the edges. I think Jessica likes her pillow. What do you think?

Jessica and her New Pillow

Felt Applique Pillow

Close-up of Applique

A Snowglobe Birthday Card

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Sarah, stop reading. Unless you want a sneak peak of the birthday card that will hopefully arrive on your birthday or the day after.

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I almost didn’t finish this card before the next All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge comes out. I didn’t have acetate, which makes it very difficult to make a snowglobe card. I finally got a transparency sheet yesterday and I finished it up today. I like how the paper pieced Annabelle turned out. I had originally planned to do just the dress, but I decided cutting out the purse would look weird, so I paper pieced the purse and then I decided if I was doing the purse, the collar and shoes would need to be paper pieced as well. When finished, I decided the card needed something else and so I daubed ink around Annabelle and I’m afraid I was a little heavy handed in places. Oh well. I hope my sister likes it.

Annabelle Snowglobe Birthday Card

Stamps: Cookie Crumbs Annabelle
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Petals & Paisleys, Afternoon Tea (paper-pieced dress)
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Bashful Blue
Accessories: Stickles Baby Blue and Gold; Maya Road Velvet Blossom; glittered brad of unknown origin
Tools: colored pencils; Standard Circles Large Nestabilities; Stampin’ Up Eyelet Border Punch

Inside of Card


A Valentine’s Day Card

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I love to read blogs and have way too many that I follow in my Goggle Reader. When it comes to crafty blogs I browse, they provide inspiration for my own creations. But is it okay to be inspired by yourself? I was checking through my blog to insure my tag changes were appropriate and I came across this card. It is still one my favorites. When last week’s All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge was a color challenge to use brown, pink and red, I decided to CASE my own card to make a Valentine’s Card. It will have to be sent to someone who doesn’t read my blog, probably one of James’ grandmothers.

Heart to Heart

Stamps: C.C. Designs Kiki La Rue; Stampin’ Up Sweet Little Sentiments
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Close to Cocoa, Pretty in Pink, Real Red
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Loves Me
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Brown
Markers: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Creamy Caramel, Blush Blossom, So Saffron; atyou Spica Red
Accessories: Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon; Creatology foam glitter hearts
Tools: Cuttlebug D’vine Swirl embossing folder