PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS:Halloween Cards

Happy Halloween and what better way to make someone's day than to receive a handmade card like this one from my wonderful and talented pen pal, LA:

She said this die cut is from Cherry Lynn Designs called Witch's Laundry HERE. I LOVE the paper she used to cut out the socks!..and here are some other terrific cards that made me do my happy dance from my talented paper crafting buddies:

Love the use of SU's Lovely as a Tree stamp!

 Perfect sentiment for a fall card to a friend!

This is a die cut on a fantastic background paper. Janet said she found the paper at JoAnn's and it had elephants on the bottom of it before she re-purposed it for this card!

Other Halloween ideas that made me smile BIG TIME on Pinterest this week are below:

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Happy Father's Day and Happy Birthdays

I saw this wonderful masculine card on Pinterest and knew this would be the perfect Father's Day card for my dad who flew small planes when I was growing up and it was also the perfect card for my dear FIL who used to work for United Airlines! 

Click HERE for the Original Pin

Here's my version:

 (The inside saying was done on my computer.)

The clouds for my card were created with Stampin' Up's Scallop Circle Punch and their Create a Cupcake stamp set coordinating punch...and HOORAY...I found a use (to justify the purchase!) for my new Darice Scolls Frame embossing folder that made for a nice background on this card. While I had everything out (and my craft room looked like a bomb had exploded in there), I made a another version for masculine birthdays:

(I used a 1 3/8" punch for the black circle and a 1 1/4" circle punch for the next gray circle on top of the black. The windows were made using a 1" punch cut in half and then cut in half again. The nose of the airplane and the gray lights on the wings were made using a 1/2" circle punch, and the black lights on each wing were made from a standard hole punch.)

..and I needed a birthday card this week for one of my talented card making friends, Janet, and created this card for her:

Envelope

The Memory Box flower die is called Caserta Bloom and the butterfly is made with the small butterfly punch from Stampin' Up. Here are some other butterfly card picks from Pinterest this week:

Click HERE for the Original Pin

Click HERE for the Original Pin

This card and the one below is made with washi tape!

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LUCK OF THE IRISH WISHES!

Two of my talented card making friends sent me St. Paddy's Day cards!

...so these two cards are going out to them tomorrow:

My cards were cased from the extremely talented Mary Fish posted on her blog HERE and below:

The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's TEENY TINY WISHES set. Thank you, Mary, and Happy St. Patty's Day!

PIN IT FRIDAY FAV

Embossing Folder Joy!

Great for making tags on cards or packages...

I saw on Pinterest this week a fantastic way

to use all of your embossing folders in your Cuttlebug

using your Nesties and a rubber or silicon mat.

(See this link HERE to see how to use

your Sizzix for this technique.)

The 2 most important things to remember

with this technique:

1) Open up your embossing folder and

use just the flat or impressed side

of the embossing folder

2) Make sure the ridges of the

Nesties are facing up (not down on

your embossing folder).

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Here's the step-by-step process:

1) Cut a shape using your Nesties

2) Leave the paper in the Nestie, and with ridges up,

place on the flat or impressed side of an

embossing folder

 3) Lay a rubber or silicon mat over the Nestie

4) Place a B plate over the Nestie and mat

5) Run the sandwich through your Cuttlebug

...and here are some fabulous 4th of July cards

from some talented paper crafter friends:

and...a favorite of mine submitted for the

PPA163 challenge:

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!