One for the Future

Here is a card I made for someone's wedding... but then the wedding did not happen. Oh well...

Cool idea...

Was so excited about this new fold that I learned from Jaimie (thanks once again, girl!!!) that I just had to give it a go! It's a clever idea!
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So, she had a card made at one of our Stampers' 10 get togethers with this type of fold. I got my new stamps from my last order and ta-daa! Another Stampin' Up! success story! ;-)

For the Men

Above is the card I made for my husband for Father's Day. I got the layout and text idea from a card I saw somewhere on the Splitcoast Stampers website. I do not remember where... I just popped "Fore!" into their little search button and found it. ("Fore!" is the name of the Stampin' Up! stamp set that I have... hubby loves golf!)
I derived these two cards from the first one. I used the one on the left for my pop. Hubby ended up buying one for his dad. He likes to find funny ones at the store usually for his family... and that is fine. I am more gushy in my cards, I guess... especially for my parents. I love 'em so much!

Birthday Fun

Made this one for my sister-in-law and three others like it using different color combinations for friends... I had fun adapting a scrapbooking layout I saw on the cover of a magazine for this card. Finally gave them all away so that I could now post this photo!

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Happy summer!

Before and After 4

Just a simple strip of paper and two purple staples to add just a little more to this card.

I didn't realize...

I recently added a feature to this blog in the column at the right that has a slideshow of cards that I have posted here. Well, when I looked a couple of them up, I realized that I had not included them on the blog in the past after all. So, here they are.
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The top one is a Christmas card made long ago. I cannot remember how many I made that year this way, but I am sure that the coloring of the images took some time. (Maybe that was back when I was only making about 60 cards or so for the holidays! :-) I do remember that I was tickled to get the corner punch that made the cute frame and so then I found the rest to fit with it for the card.
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The bottom card, I believe, was one I made for my in-laws for their anniversary. I am going to label it as a "blank" card on the blog... mainly because it could be used for many purposes. I just love that tree stamp when embossed in gold (as seen here) or silver on a dark background... very dramatic!

Before and After 3

Still just another post of taking a card one step further... I am sure that there may be something else that could be done. What do you think?