Thinking of...

I am thinking of spring. I am anxious to get a pair of shorts on for the rest of the season and summer. As for the card... well, we still think of the people in need of a kind word at our church and make cards for them. This is one that I made the other day. (I am still loving the "Priceless" stamp set by Stampin' Up!)

Another Recycled Creation

The image of the birds and flowers was taken from an old card... some new embellishments were added and there you have it!

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More again soon!

More to come...

Don't give up on me yet! I have more cards coming... to be posted next week!

Enjoy your weekend!

Hey, Baby!

New punch used here again... with new stamps... and a new idea for me to use my color wheel to arrive at this color scheme. What do you think about the color combination? I am not sure... but I went with it anyway to make several cards like this for our church stamping group.

New Punch

I have really learned to like punches recently. It seems when I started scrapbooking... oh, probably 10+ years ago, I really enjoyed adding punched accents to my pages. Then I got away from it because adhering the smaller pieces (smaller punches were more popular then) was a pain.

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Along came the Xyron create a sticker (TM) stuff and that was no longer a problem. Then along came easier to use, larger, and more fun shapes in the world of punches.

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This card is really not "all that," but it does show that I am trying to incorporate more in my card making... and I am trying to do more things that I have not done before. That way I keep myself fresh and interested.

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What has been sitting on the shelf waiting for you to use it? Try it sometime and just enjoy.

Eh...

I am not totally in love with this one, but I was glad that I tried to do something different with the recycled cards other than just the square, cropped format (as seen in the previous posts here recently). I just really like the Priceless stamp set from Stampin' Up! and pushed myself to use it in conjunction with punchouts of the scene from the recycled card. Ribbon and vellum paper rounded out the idea a bit.

No-tie, Bowtie

Just a layer of the recycled card and an elegant no-tie bow at the bottom. (The no-tie bow is so clever and I had not heard of it until this past Monday night... you fashion the bow by passing ribbon through two holes punched into the cardstock... back and forth until you get a sweet little bow. Who whudda thunk it?)

Another one for Hope...

Simple, stamped, layered, recycled... turned out alright, I think! I have a few more cards like this to post... I hope it inspires you to take cards and turn them around!

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Now I have to get started on a few birthday cards and Mother's Day cards... so that should be good for a few more posts!

Recycled

A woman who is part of our Hope Stampers** group has been bringing old, unused cards that she collected from her mother-in-law's place (she passed away) and we have been having fun using the cards. We transform them by cropping them or using punches to crop part of the original card... and wah-lah! New cards emerge to use for our ministry!

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This one is a basic layering of cardstock and then the scene from the other card. Then I just added a "no-tie" bow and it turned out pretty and cute! (Jaimie, Michaelle said that she couldn't believe that you had not taught us the "no-tie" bow yet at Stampers 10!!! Ha ha!!!)

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Anyway... I think it is a great idea to recycle these cards for new life and shaing Jesus' love.

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**Hope Stampers is a group of stampers who make cards to use in our caring ministry at church. We make the cards and then another group uses them to send out to those in need of contact this way. I am hoping that if there is not already a group like this at my new church in South Carolina that, perhaps, I could start one there.

Wedding Bells Are...

Well, the wedding bells already rang. I was 3 - 4 weeks late getting my husband's cousin the present we had for her and her fiance's wedding. I think they will still appreciate the thought (and hopefully not be too mad that we were late!) and we, of course, wish them the best!

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I made this card for them, then... easy to make look glamorous with the fancy, glistening background paper and the shimmery ribbon accent. I stamped the cake image and then highlighted the frosting part with a metallic pen.

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The wedding photos were lovely to look at as I finished up making the address label for the box I was sending their gift in. (At least I did not forget altogether! Wish me luck to keep up with everything else over the summer! ;-)