~*Hi!*~ Butterfly ... er, that's butterflies card!

Aren't these butterflies so neat.. they are punched out using a new Martha Stewart monarch butterfly punch.. I used a 50% ACMoore coupon at Michael's to get it over the weekend. I punched a bunch of butterflies out all in pink, since it was the piece of cardstock closest to my hand! ha ha...

I tossed this together on a whim.. I used some certainly celery cardstock for the base, then a white layer, and a patterned paper that is from basic grey.

I cut out a scallop circle using the sizzix bigz die, then layered a nestabilities circle on top of it, kept the die on it and sponged some certainly celery onto it and then stamped the background stamp all over it in so saffron, I wish I hadn't paper pierced the circle in the corner, but I did, so it's there for now.

I used the stickers that came in the basic grey pack and then some SU brads... that's it!

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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

WSC102 ~*Embossed Butterflies*~ long card

I used the layout of Beate's WSC102 sketch challenge for this card ~ it's a long card and I turned it sideways.

I stamped the Hero Arts Heart Butterfly three times in versamark, then inked it again in versamark then in Ruby Red and stamped it on a seperate piece.. I then embossed them all with clear embossing powder.

Where the three butterflies were stamped/embossed, I sponged on ink in three colors that were the card stock colors: So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Ruby Red.

The heart butterfly was cut out, then inked all over with versamark and I took some SU Irridescent Ice Embossing Powder all over it and heat set it.

I cut out the circle piece using a nestabilities circle die and then a nestabilities scallop circle in CC. I used a piece of polk dotted paper from some retired SU Cutie Pie paper.

The sentiment is from SU Flight of the Butterfies (or butterfly, can't remember!) stamp set.

I embossed the stripe in the center using a Cuttlebug folder, at first I made it too wide for my liking so I trimmed some off.. I used a portion of that on the SS piece, then used some wide grossgrain CC ribbon and some SS grossgrain ribbon.

The scallop border was made using a SU scallop border punch.

Two things I used on this card that I hadn't in a good long while.. some eyelets and my cropadile... but as always this card has Dimensionals on it.. love em'!

have a great weekend!

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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

~*AIRBORNE JUMP SCHOOL CONGRATULATIONS CARD*~

I made this card for my hubby to give to one of his fellow soldiers that had just completed Basic Airborne School. I embossed everything on the front of the card. The saying inside we printed off the computer.


A Leg is someone who has never been to jump school... and a cherry is a new graduate that has less than 10 jumps. Hooah!





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~*BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH*~ Pink Cards

I made these two cards earlier today.. I was thinking last night about whether I had bought the ribbon diecut from provo craft a while back.. and this morning I checked, and I had.


I grabbed some Regal Rose and Pink Piourette (sp?) never could figure out how to spell that word.. anyways, it was one of the In Colors. I used a piece of Bella Rose DSP on each card as well.


On one of the cards the ribbon behind the saying is stamped off once and on the other it's stamped off twice before stamping.


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~*WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS... *~ Patriotic Card

I don't want to go into politics or anything resembling such.. so I will only say that I am very saddened by the direction our country is going..

On that note. I thought I would make a patriotic card tonight.I used up some Blue Bayou card stock that I had left.. along with some kraft, real red and white. I used Versamark ink, Sahara Sand ink and Soft Sky (don't have Blue Bayou anymore). Wide Grossgrain Real Red Ribbon and some Real Red brads... oh, and the Stylized Silver HPH piece.

"Where liberty dwells.. there is my country."

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~*AMERICAN SOLDIER*~ for my hubby's Army anniversary

Saturday, October 10th, will be my husband's 21st year anniversay of serving in the U.S. Army. I made this card to give to him.

It's 1:30 am, so sorry for the short post, but I have to get up early to pack/make school lunches and get kiddos off to school.

I used Basic Black, More Mustard and Whisper White (Stampin' UP!), the stamp set is an older CTMH Army set. The star punchout is Stampin' UP! small star punch. Versafine black ink and Versamark was used.. along with black brads.

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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

WSC100 ~*HOLIDAY WISHES*~ Christmas Cardinal card

I so wanted to get up yesterday and make some cards for World Card Making DAy.. my arm/shoulder wasn't having any part of that.. so most of the day I relaxed and tried to keep the pain at bay.

Late last night.. since it's 1 am I guess I have to call it last night.. haha.. I felt better and decided to come up and make something using Beate's WSC100 layout

I pulled out one of my all time favorite Stampin' UP! stamp sets. It's retired now.

I stamped the main image in Memento brown ink, colored with Copic markers. Stamped off the poinsettia in Always Artichoke twice, then stamped onto some white card stock and then stamped the saying on top of it in the same brown ink I stamped the cardinal image in. I punched it out using a 1 3/8" circle punch, then a 1 1/2" circle punch, then the scallop circle that was then put back in the punch to punch again to make the scallops pointed (I used a thin strip of cardstock glued to the back of the scallop circle to be able to control where it was in the punch so I could line it up and then punch) ~ I used some Red Riding Hood Taffeta ribbon (ret).


The card stock used is Always Artichoke, Soft Sky (ret) and Wintergreen DSP (ret)

The card is a 4 1/2" square card.

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~*I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG*~

After I finished my last card.. I looked to my left where on a book shelf is some three drawer containers.. there are single stamps in these drawers. I opened up one and seen the Stampin' UP! children with flag image and in the back fo the drawer the Pledge of Allegiance. I pulled them both out and made this card in less than 5 minutes.. it was so easy.. I think it needs some red on it though!


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~*You Only Live Once*~ Orange toned card

This afternoon on a whim, I decided to stamp some of the flower images from Fifth Ave. Floral Stampin' UP! stamp set. I inked the flower in Versamark and then Versafine ink, clear embossing powder and heat set. I stamped four of them and colored in three.

I used Only Orange for the card base, chocolate chip layer, some DSP from the ret. Wanted paper pack. For the layer behind the saying layer (which is very vanilla, saying stamped in brown ink and circle was cut/embossed using nestabilities die) I took a chocolate chip piece and cut out the top not bigz die, turned it, cut again, turned it, cut again.. etc... till I had a somewhat circle shape. I cut out all the flowers, cut out the leaves using the Sizzlit Little Leaves die and put it all together.. oh, I forgot the sponging and the brads in the corner. That's it!

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~*TRICK OR TREAT*~ Halloween Pumpkin Card

This card uses the same layout as the last one I did.. I woke up this morning wanting to make another card.. this layout is so much fun.

I used an Inkadinkado stamp set, All Stampin' UP! papers (except for the watercolor paper), Versamark/Versafine Inks, embossing powder, markers (see my boo boo on the one pumpkin!)... I used a plastic canvas circle to use as a template for the paper piercing.


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God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them