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Happy Memorial Day! I hope you are all enjoying your day-
It's time again for our annual customer Memorial Day BBQ at work. This time I am ahead of the game, the scrap book page is done ( it was for a swap! how cleaver of me to multi purpose) The picture doesn't really do much for how cute it is. I hope you can click the photo to make it bigger.
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My friend has a 68 bug, ever so ofter I will make her some cards. I used a stamp from Sparkle's Creations. 
This past weekend was my last free weekend for a while. I spent most of the weekend getting cought up on all my classes, display boards and swaps through July. It feels really good to be all cought up. Untill I get pictures of everything I may be a little MIA from the blog. 
While at my local scrapbook store last week I saw a piece of paper that caught my eye. It was kraft cardstock with strawberries all over it. I made a mental note of how it looked, and then when I got home I went to work. CTMH kraft cardstock takes ink really well!!
It looks like blogger is finally working again!! It also appears that the last 2 posts have disappeared. I am going to give it a little time before I re post in case they come back!
Before you ask-#9043 has no meaning, it was just a number I picked. But if you were making this card for an anniversary or birthday you could incorporate the year. I should have taken a picture of my desk after I made this card, because I made a huge mess for one card!! I had lots of embellishments and supplies out.
It may be hard to tell in the photo, but I embossed the frame with silver pearl embossing powder. Below you can see that I just rubbed the stamp pad over the frame (cut with the cricut) and then heat set the powder on it.
I wanted to add a ticket to the card, so I decided to create my own. I cut the base shape with the cricut and then used the small hole punch to create the torn effect on the edges.
Because a lot of this was cut with my cricut I went ahead and cut some extras so that I could put a few kits together. I will have these kit for sale in my etsy store.
I added a tag to each kit with a cut out chair that you can use for another project
I used my cricut/gypsy to cut this postage stamp card. I also cut some extras, so leave me a comment telling me what the cheepest you remember stamps cost and I will draw a random winner. The winner will get 4 postage stamp cards and envelopes.!! (Leave your comment by Wednesday noon)
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When I made this card I had a plan to make one chair stand out. I also used some paper piecing on the bold chair to give the cushions a little pattern. If you check out Jeanette Lyntons blog she gives some tips on how to give these cushions a puffy look!
This chair reminds me of the time out chair in my friends house. Its a plain chair with no cushion, makes me think of punishment! I cut this little box/bag with my cricut using the tags, bags, boxes and more cartridge.
I think I will refer to this week as "chair week" almost all of the cards I will be showing you this week are from the May Stamp of the Month-Chairs to You. For this card I did some simple paper piecing and add some pearl to the details.
For this circle card I used the emboss resist technique. I stamped the flower outline in versa mark and the embossed it with clear powder. I then used the rubber brayer over the top with blush ink.
I added a glittery brad and a pearl to the center, cute huh?
I remember $0.22 stamps. I want to say that was the late 80's / early 90's, but when I was that age, I wasn't paying too much attention to stamps...my focus was more on boys...ha ha!
May 10, 2011 8:57 AM