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A Texas Thank You

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Welcome to another round of Texas Tuesday (Texas inspired cards on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month). The card I’m sharing today was inspired by the first card Mark shared last Texas Tuesday. I also used yesterday’s Mojo Monday Sketch #174. I’m really really happy with how this card turned out. Thanks for the inspiration Mark and Mojo Julee. I couldn’t decide which ribbon to use, so I made two cards, one with each ribbon choice. Which do you like better?

Thank You Card with Baja Breeze Ribbon

Thank You Card with Pacific Point Ribbon

Stamps: Deadbeat Designs Mini Texas; Stampin’ Up Elegant Greetings (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, and Basic Gray
Ink: Stampin’ Up Pacific Point, Baja Breeze
Embellishments: boot and hat buttons; Stampin’ Up striped grosgrain 5/8″ ribbon Pacific Point and Baja Breeze

Make sure you stop by and visit the rest of the Texas Tuesday posse. See the links to their blogs in my sidebar —->.

This card also meets the requirements of wee Memories Challenge #38, for the love of ribbon. I found out about this challenge site from our Texas Tuesday posse leader Libby. This card also meets the requirements of  Crazy 4 Challenges #70, to utilize a “thank you” sentiment.

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Another Thank You Card

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Today, I’m sharing two versions of a thank you card I finished up last night. I’m not completely happy with either one of them. I think I tried too hard to meet multiple challenges. The first challenge is Jen del Muro’s Sketch for You to Try. This year, she switched it to being a monthly challenge. I like this better since her sketches are always super fun, but I didn’t always have time to play along. Now I’ll have a whole month. The second challenge is All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #62. The challenge this week is to use snowmen. I think this might be where I tried too hard. I have very few snowmen stamps and none are sold in the ATS store, so I decided I would use DP with snowmen on it. Well, I only found one DP with snowmen, which looked great by itself but when I added it to the card, it looked a little odd, since only a few of the snowmen are visible. There’s actually two rows of snowmen on the DP, but you can only see the snowmen on the second row. Maybe I should have just used the punched out snowman from the DP and used a different DP for behind the C.C. Designs image. Oh well, too late now. The last challenges is A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #134 to make a thank you card.

I do like how I picked the orange and pink colors from the snowman’s scarf to color Party Emma’s outfit. That turned out pretty cute. I also really like how I did the ribbon Party Emma is holding. The glossy accents really makes it shine. The first take utilized green for the ribbon (I had pulled that color from another snowman’s scarf), but I like the blue version better.

Blue Version of Thanks Card

Green Version of Thanks Card

Stamps: C.C. Designs Sugarplums Party Emma; Stampin’ Up Small Sayings (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Really Rust, Pacific Blue, Garden Green; textured white cardstock
Designer Paper: DCWV The Christmas Ultimate Stack
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: Inkessentials Glossy Accents; pink glitter on green version of Thanks card
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers (green version only)


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A Winter’s Tale

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I’m trying to send out thank yous for all the fabulous gifts we received for Christmas. I love thank you cards, so this year I decided not to make the same one for everyone, but instead do a variety. Today, I’m sharing one design used to make two cards. I made this card with three challenges in mind. First up the Sir Stampalot January Challenge. The challenge was “A Winter’s Tale” to take inspiration from the 1995 hit by Queen. I didn’t think I had heard that song before the challenge so I looked up the lyrics. I decided to take inspiration from two specific lines: “Red skies are gleaming” (although I made my sky pink not red) and “Like a landscape painting in the sky.” The song also brought me to this cute image by Phindy’s Place. I decided to make my landscaping by distressing and so meet the requirements of Phindy’s Place Challenge #37. Since I used a digi image the card also meets the requirements of the Stamp Something Challenge for the week.

A Winter's Tale Thank You Card

Stamps: Phindy’s Place A Helping Hand; Stampin’ Up Holiday Tag Team (snowflake), All-Year Cheer II (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink; textured white cardstock from scrap bin
Ink: Dell printer; Versamark Dazzle Frost; Stampin’ Up Craft Whisper White, Regal Rose
Embellishments: Stickles Frosted Lace (on distressed edges of snow), Cotton Candy (on toddler’s hats); dimensionals
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers


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Magnolia Texas Tuesday

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It seems so weird that it is already 2011. As a kid, time always seem to drag (unless I was lost in a novel). It seems like the older I get, the faster time flies. I wonder if when I reach 80 the year will seem like a millisecond. Anyway, you didn’t visit my blog today to listen to my ramblings on time. You came for Texas Tuesday, the first Texas Tuesday of the new year. I decided to start off 2011 Texas Tuesdays by actually putting the rest of the posse’s blogs as links on my sidebar (look to the right —->). I’ve decided that I’m wasting time putting direct links to everyone’s specific Texas Tuesday post. Maybe this will help me to not be the slacker I sometimes turn out to be. Make sure you check out their creations today. I especially enjoyed Mark’s Texas tree and Karen’s Texas Our Texas card.

I think the Cowgirl Tilda is a perfect stamp for a Texas themed card. When my parents hosted an exchange student while I was in college, he was surprised that my family didn’t have horses. I think a lot of the world thinks that way. He also didn’t realize that you really wouldn’t want to drive across the entire state in one day. Texas is bigger than a lot of European countries, Germany included, which is where he was from.

My card meets the requirements of Just Us Girls Challenge #65, which happens to be a sketch this week. I kinda wish I had stuck with the rectangle the sketch called for, but I was trying to hide the fact that I had accidentally bent the cardstock and a rectangle wouldn’t have hidden it, but an oval did.

Magnolia Texas Tuesday Birthday Card

Stamps: Magnolia Cowgirl Tilda; Stampin’ Up On Your Birthday, Canvas (background on Creamy Caramel panel)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Creamy Caramel
Pattern Paper: Stampin’ Up Paper Patterns Bashful Blue
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel (edges of oval); VersaMark Dazzle Frost (for canvas stamp)
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 5/8″ satin ribbon Bashful Blue; Papertrey Ink Holiday Mix vintage button; The Twinery Cappuccino twine; A Muse sheer ribbon French Roast
Tools: Prismacolor colored pencils; Copic markers

As a side note, since today was rainy I took the photo of the card at my craft desk under the natural lighting of my new OttLite that I received for Christmas. I’m pretty impressed. Now I won’t have to wait for daylight to photograph my creations when I finish them up late a night.

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Treat Bags

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I like to give homemade Christmas goodies to a number of our neighbors. This year, I decided to make two styles of Christmas treat bags.

This first one is the one I liked best. It uses two stamp sets I received as birthday presents.

Snow Treat Bag

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Friendship Jar; Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers; Stampin’ Up Snow (wheel)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Marina Mist
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Marina Mist
Embellishments: liquid applique, Stickles silver
Tools: Papertrey Ink Friendship Jar die; Stampin’ Up Creamy Caramel marker

The second style of treat bag has a color flaw that is bugging me. Even though the green ink I used on the treat bag matches the green cardstock, they don’t look like the same color. It is probably because the treat bag is glossy, which is great for keeping the treats contained.

Yummy Treat Bag

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Yummy, All About Christmas (wheel)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Garden Gree
Ink: Stampin’ Up Garden Green, Real Red
Embellishments: the Twinery Maraschino
Tools: Nestabilities Labels Four

Both of the above treat bags are made using Window White Tin Tie bags from Paper Mart. I bought a package of 100 a while back and I need to find reasons to give gifts more often. Both of these treat bags are also made with a challenge in mind, Meljen’s Challenge #38 sweet as candy (or cookies). I have to say that goody bags filled with cookies quality as sweet.

This last treat container is actually one I made quite a while back at an A Muse workshop at Stamp Salado. My friend Geeta is a certified A Muse instructor and she came up with the design, but I wanted to share it, because it is super cute. I filled it with candy cane kisses and rollos to give to our baby-sitter. We’ve only used Maddie twice now, but I am super pysched about the implications of having a non-friend baby-sitter.

Penguin Treat Bag

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