Category Archives: Birthday

So Many Stars: Happy Birthday

Here’s another card that’s perfect for the winter season, inspired by Rachael Lewsly. I doubt you could make a bad card with this stunning pattern from the Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper pack. I have the remainder tucked away … Continue reading

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So Many Stars: Silver Star

Happy last day of 2019! This card says, “Let’s celebrate you!” or anything, for that matter! This simple Jingle Jump card had a sentiment from So Many Stars inside, but any message of hope or peace or joy would work. … Continue reading

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Beautiful Friendship: Happy birthday, JT!

One of my best stampin’ friends celebrated her birthday yesterday. Indeed, as the title says, we have a beautiful friendship — one that began nine or ten years ago at a Stampin’ Up! event. Each of us traveled hundreds of … Continue reading

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Nature’s Beauty: Peace & Happiness

This is an example of a card I saw, I loved, and I copied! I barely changed a thing from Mary Fish’s creation: As October stamp campers heard, this is more layering and popping-up than I typically do; the right … Continue reading

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Forever Lovely: Rooted in Nature

Have you experimented with saturating your Stampin’ Up! card stock with water before you use an embossing die on it? (You can read about this technique here.) I continue to be so pleased with the results and enjoy showing them … Continue reading

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Gather Together: Happy Birthday

I’m not finished with fall quite yet, although the weather is teasing (or torturing) us with a bit of winter. So before I go totally fa-la-la-la-la, I’ll share some October cards. Early in the month I held my second Love … Continue reading

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Happy Day birthday card

When I was designing camp cards for October, I wanted to create at least one Christmas card. On the way to that card, I took a slight detour and made birthday card for my friend Sue: For the stitched square, … Continue reading

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Good Morning Magnolia: For Kay

Our friend Kay, fourth member of our dominoes group, has been gone for seven months. It has been a hard time for her husband, and for us. Kay’s birthday was Saturday, so I made this card for her husband to … Continue reading

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Time for Tags: Happiest Birthday

What a fun weekend we had to close the summer! (Although it’s still — or again — warm and sticky here, so it’s a little early to bring out the flannel buffalo check.) There was lots of time in the … Continue reading

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Over the Moon: Dream Big

It’s amazing how the days fill up with activities. Just yesterday we had a training session of well over an hour on our new HVAC system here at home, including the fancy-schmancy thermostat. But at least now school is back … Continue reading

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