A Cat At Christmas

 Hello Again,

My entry into Day 8 of the Christmas Kickstart Challenge honoring Janis Woolbright. She was a cat lover as I am, well dogs too, so I made this card with one of my favorite cat stamp.

For the Tic-Tac-Toe, I chose Patterened Paper, Scraps and Stamp reading down the right side.

My card:

The patterened paper is a snippet from an old Stampin' Up! Christmas paper pack that has been in my to use drawer. It has fuzzy dimension. I placed a rectangle of SU Real Red behind the DSP. I used a scraps of white card stock to stamp the kitty in black and colored her with colored pencils. I highlighted things with a black pen. This stamp is an old one from Inkadinkado. 

The sentiment I also found in my to use drawer all cut out and curvey. Time to use it, I thought. A kitty is a blessing in a home, don't you think?

My card base is SU Hunter Green, one of the few I still have of this retired cardstock.

To finish up I added three enamel dots from a new package just received from Altenew. 

Done today just after seeing the Challenge today with the tic-tac-toe. I was not a participant in the challenges by Janis, however I did know her from the Card Chain Challege and once sent her a card.

Another lovely day here in MN. The cool nights are perfect for sleeping.

 

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My World Card Making Day Creation

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Did you all make a card for WCMD? I did and posted it a couple of places. Looking at the card more carefully, I decided the sentiment needed tweeking. Since my SU Chocolate Chip ink pad was out waiting to be reinked, I sponged it around the rectangle. Looks better, IMHO.

My computer savy has disappeared (I have a bad cold) so  I couldn't watch the Stampin' Up! presentations. But knowing I had all the supplies for one of their ideas, I made this card.

I started with the woodsy/leafy DSP using part of my 6x6 paper stack. The other side is this wonderful blue, so used the tall vase die that matches the Earthern Textures stamp set to hold some leaves. The two tan leaves were cut from snippets of paper in my scraps drawer, so I am adding the card to The Snippets Playground #464. The blue fern came from the same piece as the vase. The vase was double cut  for some dimension.

The card base is SU Very Vanilla which I rarely use, and the sentiment is from the above stamp set. 

A pretty easy card to make. I will probably send it to my daughter who has done so much for me lately.

Nice cool weather here in Minnesota with partial sun and clouds and temps in the 60's. I am okay that Fall is here and Winter not far behind.

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September 2023 CCC

 Greetings~

Posting this as soon as the Card Chain Challenge closes for September. This card uses the suggested autumn colors and the friendship option. *

I have had the paper grid cut out for some time and wanted to use it. The wonderful leaf die cut is from my NBUS Honey Bee set called Lovely Layers: Fall Foliage. The leaf idea is from Linda W.

The grid and the card base are from Stampin' Up! The colors are Pumpkin Pie and Crumb Cake. I die cut the Maple leaf from a snippet of the Crumb Cake paper then did some shading with Distress Oxide Spiced Marmalade and Distress Vintage Photo. The leaf is layered on another die cut for some dimension. 

The sentiment is from an oldie but goodies stamp and die set from Papertrey Ink called Mighty Oak. I just fussy cut around it for fun. Really, I kept stamping it crooked on scraps, so gave up. 

It has been a too warm summer for my taste here in Minnesota, so I enjoy the cooler days lately. I hope it is nice where ever you live, Fall or Spring time. 

I will add this the the NBUS site in early October and also the Smippets Playground challenge when it opens.

* Posting late becuase I've been sick AND out of town cat-sitting at my daughters. Getting better now. 

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Some Dogs At Christmas

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Tonight I am showing three more cards that I recently made. These were done for my rescue group Shih Tzu Rescue of Minnesota to sell at their annual reunion of all the dogs they got adopted in 2022 and so far in 2023. I made 24 cards in all.These three are showing Shih Tzu themed Christmas cards. 

This first one was made with a piece of SU wood plank themed DSP. For the pup, I used a wooden stamp from Dog Stamps Plus. The sentiment done in Real Red ink is probably also from SU, but I've put it away and now cannot find it.

Next up done in Tempting Tourquoise blue cardstock, is a Peace card. I added "on earth" below the peace word, but forgot to take a picture that way. The large die cut is in white. This Peace die is new to me from Penny Black and called Peace Edge. I didn't use the edge part. The same dog stamp from before shows him with a festive bow.

The last card shown below used another wooden Shih Tzu dog stamp, this one from Rubber Hedgehog Stamps. His bow is red to match the card base. I've had these doggie stamps for years! I twice matted the focal image that was done in SU Gumball Green for a Christmas-y feel. The setiment is from an older My Favorite Things set called Happy Pawlidays. This set is still available!

Time to head to sleep. I hope you like these cards. I'm told they sold well and I was happy to do them for a good cause.

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Woof Snippets

 Hello!

I've been busy making cards for my rescue group to sell at their upcoming reunion of all the dogs rescued and rehomed this past year. I've made 12 cards including sympanthy, thanks and happy birthday cards with doggie motiffs.

Since I used a lot of snippets to make this one, am entering it into the Snippets Playground Challenge #40.   Hopefully I am in time before it closes.

I had a pretty big snippet of white cardstock that I used to cut out the connected 3 woofs and just gluing them down. The fun woof die is by Seven Paper Baxter dies. Stampin' Up! Basic Gray and PTI white cardstock were used to make this card.

The happy birthday tiny sentiment is stamped in black ink, also from small snippets of paper. The two stamps are from the oldie My Favorite Things Label Maker Sentiments set. I just stamped and cut them out and did not use the dies.

Bye for now. The weather here in MN has been somewhat rainy but mostly hot and humid. I'm off on vacation soon, thanks to the generousity of my grandson and two daughters. Lucky me!

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Card Chain Challenge for July 2023

 Hello There~

My card this month has been sent to Greece. Hopefully it will get there by the end of the month as per the rules. I have already received mine that came from England!

Here is the card and the inside too:

I am not sure why the inside picture looks like it is on cream cardstock, but in real life it matches the front white. The green dsp looks okay, though. That is by SU from the new Glorious Gincham pack and is called Lemon Lime Twist. 

Here is how I made this card:

White cardstock from PTI embosed with oldie from Darice called Quilt Blocks. The four corners of this mimics the sketch suggestion this month. I love all the shapes in the ef so used more with my use of the patterend paper. 

To cut out the circle and square I used two retired Su/Sizzix Stitched Shapes. I followed a video online on how to curve a clear stamp to show near a circle. The sentiment from Concord & 9th is called Kids Are Grand. This is still available. 

Finally, I took an ancient Stampendos stamp called Happy Messages for the finishing word inside. My cardbase is SU Basic Black and the ink VersaFine Onyx Black which are two of my go-to's.

So, my card uses three ideas from the challenge this time!

Theme Options: Fish/Circles/Friendship

I hope you all are having a nice summer and staying safe. I love all the green and flowers here in MN.

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