Happy Birthday - Fifth Avenue Floral

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Kim

Donna

Embossed Sympathy

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Engagement Congratulations

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Shelley and Jim

Anniversary Hearts

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Deb and Lloyd

50th Birthday

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Kim

Shelley

50th Kaleidoscope Birthday

This card was inspired by two cards - Jane's and Karen's.  I have never made a stair step or accordion card before.  I followed the tutorial found splitcoaststampers.com, but I ended up making my card narrower.  It was lots of fun and I think it makes a special card for a special birthday.

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Kim

SU Card Stock - Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, Pink Passion, Whisper White
SU Designer Paper - Kaleidoscope
SU Ink - Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, Pink Passion, Only Orange, Green Galore
SU Stamps - Party Hearty
Accessories - Cricut, SCAL

Lilly

Fifth Avenue Celebrate

My inspiration for this card, came from Pauline's card.  I feel badly because I wasn't able to leave her a comment on her blog because Blogger wouldn't let me.  I don't always leave comments on blogs for all the lovely cards I view, but I do try to make sure that I comment on the ones that I have used as inspiration for my own cards. 


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Kim

SU Card Stock - Only Orange, Pacific Point, Whisper White
SU Ink - Only Orange, Pacific Point
Stamps - SU - Fifth Avenue Floral, "Celebrate" is from a Studio G stamp set from the $1 bin at Michael's
Accessories - Cricut and SCAL software to create the tag

Branch Out Birthay Wishes

Here's another one of those cards that I made quite awhile ago, took a picture of it and mailed it off without blogging about it.  This one wasn't so hard to figure out what I had used, but for the life of me I can't remember who I created it for. Thank goodness I've organized all the photos of all my "inspiration cards" using Diigo so I was able to easily find Silke's card that inspired the layout for this card and give her credit.

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Kim

Card Stock - PTI - Stamper's Select White, SU - Old Olive, Regal Rose
SU Designer Paper - Georgia Peach
SU Ink - Regal Rose, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink
SU Stamps - Branch Out, So Happy For You
Accessories - scoring blade on paper trimmer, corner rounder punch, foam tape

Delight in Life Anniversary

As I was creating this card, I was thinking that I should change the name of my blog or create a challenge that has something to do with using retired sets as that seems to be what I use on many of my cards.  I love all the new stuff out there, but since, as my husband once put it, I'm practical and sensible, I have a hard time buying a lot of new stuff when I have barely used the stuff that I have.

The idea for my card came from this card.  Surprisingly, I didn't use my Cricut at all for this card.  I'm in the middle of resticking my Cricut mats and I should get this card in the mail right away so I worked without my Cricut.  I created the scallop using 1 1/4" circles cut in half and then glued on the strip of Certainly Celery. 

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Kim

Card Stock - PTI - Stamper's Select White for base; SU - Sahara Sand, So Saffron, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Whisper White

SU Designer Paper - Delecate Dots

SU Ink - Bashful Blue

Stamps - SU - Delight in Life, PTI - Mega Mixed Messages

Accessories - 1 1/4" circle punch, Nestabilities, Sakura Gelly Roll White gel pen, Mat Pack, needle. SU Basic Pearl

Tom and Lilly

Birthday Cat

The other day on Splitcoast Stampers, there was a discussion about tips for using the Cricut and what cartridges to buy.  I almost chimed in that there is no need to buy cartridges because of software like Sure Cuts A Lot or Making the Cut.  Then I remembered that Provocraft, the malefactor of the Cricut has one a lawsuit that makes it illegal for the software developers to make software that will work with the Cricut.  It's too bad because when my Cricut dies (Hopefully not soon!), I'll be looking to replace it a cutter that will allow me to use software with it so I can cut almost anything I wish with it.

Today's card was cut using a doodle bat font called DB Animal Valentine that I purchased from ScrapNfonts a few years ago.  I just separated the parts in Sure Cuts A Lot and then cut away with my Cricut.  I've created the card for my niece who loves cats. 
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Kim

Card Stock - PTI - Stamper's Select White for base, SU - Basic Black, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Stamp - Studio G from Michael's $1 bin
Accessories - foam tape

Becca