Liebster Blog Award

I am so honored to say that I was given the LIEBSTER award by Beth Beard. They say that Liebster is German meaning dearest, and can be used for favorite or beloved as well. Thank you so much Beth for this award, go on over to Beth's blog and check it out, she as some really cute ideas on it!

The rules for this award are as follows:

1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.
3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog.
4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs....of 200 or less followers...who you feel deserve to be noticed.
5. Let them know they have been chosen.

Here are the five blogs that I'm passing this onto:

1. De Williamson- The Plains Stamper
2. Christie Daugherty- Stamp Shack Lady
3. Dee -Create with Dee
4. Laura Lipe- Smiles Laura
5. Tammy Q. Howell- Tarheel Stamper

If you like these blogger, consider becoming one of their followers, I'm sure they would appreciate it!

Hope you have a great week-end, hope I get to play in the craft room, have alot of I need to make and soon! Mary

Bordering on Romance

Well, three post in one week, I'm on a roll here! It was so much fun playing in my craft room last Sunday and having fun stamping and relaxing too! Today's card is being sent to a lady who is awaiting hip surgery and has been laid up since before Christmas. I feel so sorry for her and her husband and what they have gone thru.

For this card I decided to pull out my blues, haven't played with those in a long time and I love how the combo turned out! As you can see, if is a very simple, clean card. I used the Designer Frames Textured embossing folder, love this oval one! Stamped my image with Black Staz-On and color it with markers and blender pen, punched that out with the oval punch and pop it up with some dimensionals, than just cut different sizes of rectangles. I used the stamp set, elementary Elegance sentiment for the front along with some Marina Mist ribbon and Marina Mist ink. I used Whisper White, Marina Mist and Bashful Blue card stock, love it!

Well that is my final share for this week, hope to be back next week with some more, been busy working on wedding invitations, don't want to put them off and then be in a hurry to get them ready for my daughter! Mary

Tea Bag/ Coffee Bag Dispenser

Hi everyone, hope your day is going well! Today I want to share this cute ideas that I saw on a fellow blogger blog, RunningwScissorsStamper, you can see the original and all of the directions HERE. I just happen to have the same paper that she used, so I was happy that mine came out looking just as great as hers! Now I did do my lid just a bit different but I like the way it turned out. I plan on giving this to my friend the next time I see her, I think she will be surprised at getting it!

I made the little tags with two different says, so if she wants to use it for tea too she can, and with this dispenser you can easily lift off the lid to re-fill it whenever you need too.

Stampin' Up! products used:

Card Stock: Old Olive and Very Vanilla

Designer Series paper: Everyday Enchantment (SAB,'12)

Ribbon: Old Olive

Buttons: Brights Designer

Seam Binding: Pool Party

Linen Thread

Punches: Jewelry, Word Window, Oval and Decorative Label

Ink: Black Staz-on and Soft Suede

Stampin Write markers

sturdy piece cardboard

Well, off to enjoy the rest of my day, hope you do to! Mary

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Top of the morning to ya! As you all know I don't like to buy stamps that I can't use more than once and that includes alot of Valentine and St. Paddy's day stamps. Well I found this card over at France Martin's blog, you can see her card HERE . When I saw her card and video I knew I had to Copy and Share Everything. Now I did do mine just a tad different, I embossed the background, added a small four leaf clover and used rhinestones instead, oh and sponged the edges on the embossed background. This picture doesn't do justice to this card, it so way cuter in person, which you could see it. Sentiment was stamped inside.

SU products used:

Card stock: Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive
Designer Series paper: Subtles
Punches: Full Heart and heart from Itty Bitty punch pack
Embossing Folder: Hounds tooth
Rhinestones
Dimensional

Well, this is it for today, hope you have a great week! Mary

Lovely As a Tree

Good morning everyone, long time no see! Been busy with the hubby again, he had minor back surgery on Wednesday and got him home yesterday, now he is on the mend and all is going well. Hopefully he won't need anymore surgery for quite awhile now!

Today I would like to share a card, yes a masculine card! This one was sent to a man in Canada, his daughters' requested cards for him as he is in the finally stages of battling brain cancer and she wanted him to feel loved, which he is. I pulled out my stamp set, Lovely As a Tree and used the Oak tree from that set. To me an Oak tree represents strength and that is what her father has shown for the last two years fighting his cancer! I also used the oak leaves to stamp the background with, hope he likes his card and sees the meaning behind it.

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Stamp set: Lovely As a Tree
Card stock: Soft Suede, Old Olive and Very Vanilla
Inks: Soft Suede, Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz
dimensional

Thanks for stopping by to see me today, loved having you here!! Mary

Happy Birthday for A Uncle

Oh boy, I'm on a roll with my card making and it is so nice to in the craft room playing too!

Hi everyone, I hope your day is going well for all of you! Did you all have your forbidden treats yesterday on Fat Tuesday?

This is a card that I made for my uncle's birthday that is coming up next month. Man I do have a hard time coming up with cards for men and I hope he doesn't think this is too "kiddie" for him. As you can see it is a very clean and simple card, which sometimes are just a beautiful as others with many embellishments on. I'm sure I saw a card similar to this on the web, but darn it, I can't remember where, so I can't claim it as my idea, but was inspired by someone else.



I used the new edgelit die and embossing folder from Stampin Up. Boy, these new toys really add and extra touch for very little effort to your cards, Love them!! After I had cut and embossed, I adhered a strip of dsp underneath and than reattached the cut off piece, than trimmed any excess off, just wanted to add some more color to the front.



All products are from Stampin' Up!

Stamp set: Outlined Occasions (SAB)
Ink: Black Staz-On, used markers to color in the word
Card stock: Whisper White
Designer: Everyday Enchantment

Well this does it for this post, hope you have a wonderful day! Mary

Quilted Birthday Cards

Happy Presidents Day, hope you all have the day off and are having a relaxing day.

I would like to share with you two cards that I made this weekend. It was so relaxing to have some time to play with my stamps and paper too. I have two aunts that have birthdays coming up, within a week of each other, and decided to have them made and done ahead of time for a change.

I used a one inch square punch to punch out my "quilt pieces" with, later I found out most use the 1 1/4" square punch but I didn't want to waste the punches so I went for it. Mine is what you would call a old time patch quilt, lol! This way too I didn't have to worry about getting the "sashing" even between the squares. After I had all of the pieces adhered to the card piece, I ran it thru the Big Kick using the Finial Press embossing folder. Than I used the designer frame embossing folder to hold my sentiment, I cut that out with my oval die cut. Added some ribbon and ink and I was very happy with my "quilt"!

Stampin" Up! supplies:

Designer series paper:Everyday Enchantment (SAB)
Card stock:Whisper White, Pool Party and Calypso Coral
Ink:Soft Suede
Ribbon:1/8" Organdy Ribbon (SAB)
Stamp Set:Petite Pairs

Faux Tile Techinque

Good day everyone, hope you are having a great one!

Today I would like to share my latest card that I made. My friend, Chanda, recently sent me some card kits to play with and this was one of the cards she sent. Well, not THIS one. She did hers in a different color, but I didn't have the same color of ink or card stock, so I used what I had on hand. You can see her beautiful card HERE Isn't it pretty?! I needed a thank you card so I pulled one of my retired set because I really like the way this sentiment looks, very elegant. The card stock and ink I used were, Regal Rose and Pink Pirouette along with some Whisper White. I used Pretty In Pink ribbon and added a pearl too. I punched out the sentiment with the wide oval punch and the scalloped oval punch, I like how those two punches work together so well. Oh the stamp set I used is called Element of Style.

To get the faux tile look, you take your card stock and score it at 1 inch intervals, turn and do the same going the other way. My white card stock measured 4" x 5".

Well thanks for stopping by and hope to see you soon! Mary

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's day everyone!

Today I want to share with you the card that I sent to my cousin and my aunt, it is one that I found over on Dawn O. blog, which she has a video and how to make, HERE. I didn't have some of the same products that she used, so I used what I had on hand and I think it came out just fine. It looks so much prettier in real life, this picture doesn't do it justice.

All Stampin' Up! products:

Card stock: Crumb Cake, Pretty In Pink, Very Vanilla, Red Glimmer and Soft Suede
Ink: Soft Suede
Ribbon: Very Vanilla
Fashionable Hearts Embosslits Die
Textured Impression Embossing Folder
Decorative Label Punch
Dimensionals

Hope your day is a wonderful one, and hope you have a crafty one too! Mary

On the Grow Scooter

Hi everyone! Are you all ready for the big game on Sunday? Hope you all have had a great week and a better week-end too!

Today I want to share with you a card that I made for my friend Linda, Hi Linda, hope you had a great birthday! Linda and I had breakfast together a couple of weeks ago and she was telling me how she would like to have a scooter some day, which really surprised me! Well early in the week she sent me an e-mail and said that she got a yellow scooter for her birthday!! She is so happy and excited to finally have one, me being a mom that I am, I told her to be careful when she is on it. I was trying to think of a really special card that I could make for her and this stamp set popped into my mind! I'm so glad that I had gotten this set now, I didn't think that I would ever need a card with a scooter on it! Looking at the picture I wish now that I would have added a wider ribbon to it, but oh well, that's the way it goes, next time. Happy Birthday sentiment is stamped on the inside.

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Stamp set: On the Grow, retired
Card stock: Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Subtle Designer Series and Purple
SU markers
Ink: Black Staz-On
aqua painter

Thanks for dropping in to see me, I'm now making wedding invitations for my youngest daughter for her to choose which one she would like for me to make for her September wedding, so you will be seeing those in the near future too! Have a crafty day................Mary