Another Tri-Fold Card and a few others

Happy Monday. How was your week last week? Ours was abit hectic. You know some times life likes to throw you a curve ball. Well I think last week was one for us. But we managed to make it through (alive even)..lol...But anywhoo, here are some cards I made last week and just wanted to share with everyone...Enjoy!!!! And I would love to say a HUGE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DEBBIE (from Nebraska--as our little one calls her...lol...she's one of my lurkers...lol..) Happy Birthday girl. I hope you have a wonderful day filled with alot of memories to cherish!!!! Love ya girl!!!!! This one is a wedding card. I have absolutely no where for this to go, but I just felt the urge to make it. You ever get like that? I have always loved these 2 Magnolia stamps and thought they would make for a great wedding card. And I so love using feathers. I think they go hand in hand with the bling that I am very addicted to right now. What do you think? Not to mention, it's another tri-fold card. These are so fun to play with. Thanks Pam for enabling me girl. You were right, I would be addicted to making more of these cards. If you missed my last one just scroll down and you will see a link for the instructions on how to make these adorable cards. I'd love to see yours if you take the plunge as I have. I kept it simple again. The paper is from Making Memories Wedding line, the greeting stamps and butterfly are from See D's, buttons from Tim Holtz line, the hanging acrylic hearts from Heidi Grace, bling from Recollections, bench and silver ribbon from unknown source.

don't know why the color on her face is different from his. It really doesn't look like this in real life...lol...

just thought I'd do a close-up of the hanging hearts. On the frosted ones I added 2 hearts back to back with the fishing line in between..

this was just a simple card I made using the Christmas Magnolia stamp where she's holding the candle in one hand. I think this one is so diversified that you can really use her in so many different cards. I just like to cut the candle off and have her holding different things.

here's the inside. I have been wanting to use this stamp forever. It's all one stamp but I broke it up and used part on the front and the rest on the inside of the card. It's from Inkadinkado. It's the one with the quotes from kids. I added the little girls name and age onto the back of the card to give her the proper credit. Just a simple one, but I really do like the outcome.

here's one I made for the spring challenge but realized it needed to be spring. I used the right colors, it just wasn't a spring card. The quote is from Tim Holtz.

And here is a Sugar Nellie card. And I have to say that I just love this card. I don't know what about it that really makes me love it, but I do. The coloring isn't the best (as most of my cards aren't yet) but I just like the whole card itself. The striped pattern paper reminds me of my Grandmother's duvet cover she had on her bed in the summer. And this stamp is just so cute. Although the little froggie got lost in the coloring abit. I have to say I really love how her face turned out. Aged and rustic, kind of like her dress. It's another simple card and I hope that the recipient will enjoy it to...

Well that's all I have for today. I hope everyone has a lovely week ahead. We are suppose to get a mixture of rain and snow today. More rain that anything I think. And to those of you that just received the snow, you know, the MAJOR inches, I feel for you. Try to stay warm......Hugs from a thawing out Charm City...

All that Scraps Challenge--

Just another quick post. We got another 17" yesterday and we are snowed in once again. They are syaing we have more snow coming next Monday but don't know the predictions yet. Is this ever going to stop? Oh how I wish it would. On a better note, here's my first tri-fold shutter card I amde for the challenge over at All that Scraps. The challenge was to make a shutter card. I had seen the one Pam (Expressions with heart) had made and I just adored it. She invited me to play along, and since I have been snowed in, I decided to make one this morning. So what do you think? Sorry for the photo.I couldn't get a very good photo of it this morning.....Enjoy!!!!

.......Hugs from a very snowed in Charm City.......

It's Coming Again

Happy Tuesday morning...Just a quick post to share a couple cards that I made some time ago and just haven't added them yet. This past weekend we ended up with 24" of snow, well we are in the path of another storm that is expected to dump another 12-18" on us. Can you believe that. My heart sank when I heard that on the news. We just thought it would be alittle dusting but hell no, it's another nor-easter storm. And it's coming right at us today into tomorrow again. We still haven't finished digging out from the last one, not to mention, they haven't even plowed our developement. And the next question is, where are they going to put all of the new snow? There's no where left!!! Hum, maybe that's why they haven't plowed in here..ya think? Anywho, here's the cards that I have to share...Enjoy!!!! this one I used Spellbinders for the flowers, frame and the embossed background and just used ink to go over top of it. Something different for me. Haven't decided if I like the color... and here's another Kraftin Kimmie stamp...I colored her in with Prisma pencils. Just a simple and quick card... I had someone ask me about the recipe to make the box that I posted below with my Magnolia set. I don't normally take measurements when I'm just winging it. But I do remember that I started with a sheet of 12X12 cardstock and cut it to 10X10 and scored 1" on all sides and folded into the bottom part of the box. Then I just took another 12X12 sheet and folded it over the sides to make the top part of the box. But this wasn't big enough to go all the way around to bottom part of the box, so I had to cut another piece to cover the gap. I'm so sorry that I'm horrible at measurements as I make something from scratch. I will try and do better in the future. Thanks so much for all of your wonderful comments and stopping by my blog. You all really make my day. Hugs from a very snowy (and getting more snow) Charm City..

A Maggie Set and other's

Happy snowy Sunday peeps. And let me tell you, it's a snowy one here in Charm City. I understand that we ended up with 24" of snow from Friday and Saturdays' snow fall. Ouch!!! That was huge. And I think it's the biggest in history if I'm not mistaken. You should see it. It took all day yesterday to shovel the drive and walks in front of the house (and we still didn't get the main walk finished). And at the end of the drive it's like a brick wall of snow. Haven't even made it that far yet. We were hoping the plow trucks would come through before we would have to get out there and shovel it. Ok Debbie and Betty, thank you so much for your wonderful pretty stuff, but you REALLY could have kept it this time....lol...as much as I love snow (and I really do) this was just abit to much. Even for someone like myself. I don't have photos yet, but I plan on taking some later today. So onto something more fun..... I opted out of making anything for challenges this week and decided that I just wanted to play some to see what I could come up with. The cards/set posted below is what I made. Enjoy!!!!

here's a birthday set....made the box from scratch.....it really didn't turn out like I had envisioned either. here's the birthday card using the Tilda with the candle stamp...I cut the candle off and added the balloons...I also used distress refillable inks to color her in and did a light layer of vintage photo over the top with a sponge tool to give her the aged look...

this is the top of the box...so much going on.... more than I wanted...

box with the drawer open....

other side...I used a set of stamps from Autumn Leaves...and dyed the flower using distress ink Broken China...the flower is from the craft store that actually was pink in color...

here's is what I made to pull the drawer open. It's a handmade flowerette...I used the 6 petal flower from Paper reflections added my paper front and back side to match and cut and glued into a flower. The instructions for this is on Tim Holtz's blog under his 12 tags of Christmas from this year. I opted out of adding the center part and added some ribbon instead. The center is abit tricky but is manageable. ...lol...I made one on the card below with the Sugar Nellie card. It took alittl while to figure it out but this old gal did it...lol....

here's one I made using, yep, you guessed it, one of the few Maggie stamps I have...lol...different day, different color and setting....lol....I really am in love with scene cards, so I thought I'd dig out my StampScapes stamps and play some with her. I used all distress ink refills again except on the bench. I used Prisma pencils for that...

Deets for these stamps:

tree trunk, pebbles and tall grass---Stampscapes

trailer--Inkadinkado

pine trees--A stamp in the hand

bench--unknown

quote--Tim Holtz

and of course my Maggie stamp....

everything was stamped onto watercolor paper....

last but not least--here's a card with a Sugar Nellie stamp. I used the Tim Holtz flower tutorial (as posted above) and used the Marvy flower punch to make the rose, See d's for greeting, Sizzix for the leaves and parchement dies...and Nesabilities for the frame.... She really didn't turn out and I'm not sure that I really care for this card. I think the color red on the stamp is what is throwing me off. I just couldn't get a color to match the paper like I had wanted to...she's a little to red...lol...and I think the leaves are abit to big for that stamp too....oh well,--- she'll go in the box and sit....

Well that's it for today...I think we are going to try and clean up our broken canopy on the patio outback. With the weight of the snow it totally collasped it. BROKEN...I couldn't believe my eyes when I seen that...my heart sank...what does one do in a case like this but clean up and move on. That just gives us a justified reason to buy a new one this year... :O) ....well have a great day, hope you're all safe and warm....hugs from Charm City....