Birthdays...eat more cake!

Instead of a New Years Eve card I'm posting a birthday card today. I've got a family member that was born today. I made this card using the "In the Middle" technique by Technique Junkies. I used a sentiment stamp by Cloud and accent stamps by See Dee's from their starter set.

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Diane

A way to help just a little bit

The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was just a week ago. Some folks may be wondering if there is a way to help just a little bit.

The University of Connecticut has set up a special scholarship for the dependents of the adults that died, for the siblings of the children and for other students in the school. Eventually, with enough donations future students from Newtown wishing to attend UConn my benefit.

If you'd like to help, just a little bit you can find out more info here. You can pledge online or via text messaging. Remember donations given prior to 31 December are tax deductible for this year.

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Diane

Thank You Card

Here's a card I made for my mother-in-law. She sent me a pair of PJ's for my birthday and I love them! For the past 20 years or so I get a set for my birthday and she never fails to pick out something nice. I made this card using the Technique Junkies Designer Tiles technique from Aug/Sep 2008. I used Echo Park Paper and stamps by Studio G.

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Diane

Just A Note Card

Here's a card I made in a class using products by Technique Tuesday. Many of their stamps are small but buy combining them and using layering with different colored inks you can make great cards.

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Diane

Atomic powered child card

Here's a card I made for a grand nephew using paper and embellishments from the Rocket Age collection by October Afternoon. The spaceship brad was from the Eyelet Outlet.

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Diane

Love card

Here's another card I made using the "In the Middle" technique by Technique Junkies. This one uses a sentiment by Hero Arts and flower stamps by Inkadinkado.

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Diane

Wish card

Here's a card I made using a Technique Junkies technique called In the Middle. The "wish" statement is by Cloud 9 and the flowers are by Inkadinkado.

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Diane

Happy...birthday of course!

Here's a card I made using a combination of Tim Holtz stamps by Stampers Anonymous, Tim Holtz masks by Idea-ology and a stamp (happy) by Bisous Zoo. The film strip embellishment is another Tim Holtz design.

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Diane

A little birdie card...

Here's a card I made for a niece using papers by October Afternoon. The buttons and "Birthday Wishes" embellishment were some things I had hanging around that added to the card. I'm a big fan of all the October Afternoon patterns and have many of their collections as they can be used for many different occasions.

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Diane

Thinking of you card

You can't see the sentiment from this angle but in one of the folds it's there. I made this card for friends that were celebrating their anniversary. It's made using papers and embellishments from SEI.

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Diane

Clear window card #2

On August 29th I posted the first clear window card. This is the second. This one couldn't really be reversed as the paper came with the window already cut so if you reversed it the card would open on the left side. The color of the papers are different to give it another look.

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Diane

Untitled card

Here's a card I made using the opposite sides of double-sided paper by SEI. The other card was posted on August 8th.

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Diane

Happy Halloween

Here's the cards I made for my family for Halloween. All but two were from a kit by Basic Grey. The two on the bottom right were NOT part of a kit. Their papers and embellishments (except for the ribbon) are from WeR Memory Keepers.

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Diane

The wisdom of Pooh

For those of you out there that read my blog via blogger or have seen my profile picture, you know Tigger is my favorite character. A few weeks ago he was featured in the Sunday comic version of Rhymes with Orange.

I also recently found some great web sites for quotes from the Winnie the Pooh series I thought I'd share with my readers. The first is the Winnie the Pooh guide to social media and the next is from Good Reads.

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Diane

Pattern girl card

Here's a card I made for my nieces birthday using papers by Echo Park and a Tim Holtz designed stamp by Stampers Anonymous. I added a bit of lace and some jeweled bling as an accent.

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Diane

Hello card

Here's a card I made using papers and Dazzles from Hot off the Press. I'm going to use this one as a birthday card.

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Diane

Just to say hello card

Here's a card I made for my Altered Designs Yahoo Group birthday club. It uses Echo Park paper and a Tim Holtz designed stamp by Stampers Anonymous.

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Diane

Thank you card

Here's a way to combine crafting a genealogy...sort of. Last fall I finished a rather rigorous 15 week online program with Boston University received a Certificate in Genealogical Research. I recently made a request to a researcher in Canada to see about getting some records. Since the records weren't online it's much cheaper to pay someone a few bucks to pull the records than for me to make the trip there. It turns out the gal I hired was in the class with me. I remember her name as she made very insightful comments on our chat boards we had so I hired her.

Anyway, I sent my payment to her in this card that I made using the double bugging (Cuttlebug) technique.

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Diane

The view from the top

On the way up to visit a family member in DC hubby and stopped off to tour the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria. The only way to get this view is to take the tour. It is worth the price. It was an overcast day so our vista view wasn't wonderful but we were able to pick out the Washington Monument the Capitol, the National Cathedral and the Basilica at Catholic University. The other obvious sights were the new Wilson bridge and Washington National airport. However this picture shows only the view straight down from the observation deck with the Potomac River in the background. The designers of the memorial envisioned this view as one you'd get in a reflecting pond with the water rippling. The symbol of the Masons is in the middle of the shot.

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Diane

Walking down a country road

A couple of weeks ago hubby and I were up in DC visiting a family member. On the way back I suggested we check out Gunston Hall the home of George Mason. It was a nice day, not too hot or muggy and we enjoyed our grounds. I got this shot enroute to view the family gravesite. As a genealogist I was interested in looking at the graves as a photographer I enjoyed the view and as a tourist I enjoyed the tour.

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Diane

Thinking of You card

Here's another card I made using papers and Dazzles from Hot off The Press. This one uses the "innies" or insides of a star outline. This card is for a niece celebrating a wedding anniversary.

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Diane

Clear window card

Here's a card I made in a class using papers and embellishments from SEI. The silver part on the left is crepe paper with a shiny finish. A little goes a long way since it expands when you pull on it. I'm going to use this as a birthday card for a daughter of friends of mine.

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Diane

Too much, too fast + high tide = flooding

Saturday I woke to thunder and lightening. It rained most of the day, very heavy at times. High tide was late in the afternoon so that meant localized flooding. I left the house about 10am and it wasn't too bad but when I came back a little after three this is what I saw on my street. Lucky for me we have another entrance that doesn't usually flood so I was able to get home.

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Diane

In my yard

The other day I came back home from riding my bike and noticed a few dragonflies in the yard. I'm not a big fan of insects except for dragonflies and butterflies. I thought to myself I wonder if this guy will hang around a few moments while I run inside and grab my camera. Lucky me, they waited and seemed to be posing. It was pretty hot and humid so the first few shots were actually foggy from the dew point difference between inside and outside. Good thing these guys had an empty social calender as they hung around long enough for me to get some good shots.

I also got an interesting shot of a spider web. Unlike the dragonflies and butterflies spiders are not on my favorite insect list but their webs can make for good photos.

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Diane

Fancy pull card

 

This is really a very easy technique. When you pull on the tab the invisible card is revealed. There is a hidden mechanism held together with ordinary plastic grocery style bags. You don't want to use thick plastic as it won't work. The papers are from SEI. I'm going to use this card for an anniversary.

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Diane

Hello card

Here's a card I made using papers and embellishments from WeR Memory Keepers. I have some cousins that just moved so the house pattern on the card fits the situation.

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Diane

Just for you card

Here's a card I made in a class using SEI papers and embellishments. Everything is double sided so you get two different looks. I'm going to use this as a birthday card for a relative.

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Diane

Butterfly Dazzles card

Here's a card I made for a friend that is having a birthday. I sure hope she likes pink! It's another card using papers, chipboard and Dazzles from Hot of The Press.

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Diane

Hang in there card!

Here's a card I made for a fellow crafter that is undergoing knee surgery yet again. Let's hope this time they get it right. This is a double window card with a color transparency as the focal point.The background stamp is by Impression Obsession. I made this card in a class using their big stamps and rocking acrylic block which really works.

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Diane

With sympathy card

Here's a card I made for a fellow crafter that just lost her Mom. It has a photo window with a double border and uses an all over stamp by Impression Obsession on the green cardstock.

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Diane

Time Gone By card

Here's another "Time gone by" card. This is a mirror version of one I posted back in March. Like the other is uses papers from the K&Co Life's Journey collection. I used the print and cut feature of my Silhouette to make the pocket watch and sentiment. Those were raised with pop dots.

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Diane

Wherever you go card

Here's a card I modified from a WeR Memory Keepers card kit. The sentiment that was supposed to go with this card was "You are amazing". Now that's not a bad greeting but it didn't seem to go with the car theme in my mind. I didn't apply the sentiment and decided to make my own using my Silhouette. A nephew that is having a birthday (and just got his license) is getting this card. The inside says "there you are". It's a phrase my hubby says and I'm not sure where he got it from but I thought my nephew would like it on a card.

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Diane

Thinking of you card

Here's a card I made that will actually be used as a birthday card. After all, you do think of the folks you are sending birthday cards right? This was made using materials from Technique Tuesday. Many of their stamp sets have small pieces so you can create a scene. For this one the, the roses were separate from the stems so you can make the stems longer or shorter. I stamped the vase on the white paper,  added the flowers and stamped the vase again on the green paper and cut it out to hide the part of the stem that would be "in the water".

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Diane

Best Wishes card

Here's a card I made using items from SEI that I got in a class. There were two of each card but the papers were double sided so you could get two different looks. Even the sentiments were a bit different. This one is for a young couple celebrating their 2nd anniversary.

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Diane

Wherever you go card

Here's yet another card I made using papers and embellishments from the K& Co Life's Journey collection. The stamp is from Cloud 9 Designs.

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Diane

Tie one on card

Here's a card I made using a technique that I saw online by Gina K. online. I used plain old left over blue paper and did the same technique also with London Fog color ink. Mine isn't as dark as hers but I'm happy with it nonetheless. I used Crafty Secrets stamps, cut out the designs and embossed them and added a border from Graphic 45 Proper Gentlemen paper.

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Diane

Thanks card

Here's a card I made for some cousins I stayed with a few weeks ago. I used some left over papers and embellishments. I used some decorative scissors on the background piece and did a bit of outlining to highlight the edges of the papers.

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Diane

Hi! card

Yet another in my cards made with materials by Hot off the press. To me these colors work well for a "guy" card, and the generic sentiment also works for a birthday card so that's how I used it. A fellow genealogist cousin had a birthday recently so I sent it to him. It's his fault I fell into the black hole of genealogy!

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Diane

Chase your dreams card

Here's I card I made for a daughter of friends that is graduating from college. I used Echo Park paper and stamps by Studio G (butterfly) and The Paper Company (sentiment).

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Diane

You can make history too

If you actually read my blog from the home page you may have noticed a few badges I have displayed about indexing. My "other" hobby that has practically overtaken my crafting is genealogy. I've been assisting with the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project. Thousands of volunteers have been transcribing what they see in various columns and rows of the 1940 census to assist fellow genealogists in their quest to learn more about their family members.

Even if you don't "do" genealogy you can help. It's really easy and a "batch" of census records can be indexed in about 1/2 hour for a beginner. Indexing the volunteers do will allow others to search for their friends and families by name, age, residence and other pieces of information.

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Diane

Flower pot card

Here's a card I made in a class that has a flower pot look to it. The materials were from The-Whole-Kit-N-Kabodle. The "flower pot" stays intact and the "flowers" pull out revealing an area where you can write your greeting.

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Diane

Life changes card

Here's a card I made using some extra paper from a collection by Echo Park and some left over stickers. I used a stamp by Hero Arts for the focal point. I made this card for a fellow member of the Altered Designs Yahoo Group birthday club.

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Diane

Explore Discover card

 
Here's a card I made using the Life's Journey collection of paper by K&Co. I added two print and cut embellishments that I made using my Silhouette.

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Diane

Happy Birthday card

Here's a card I made as a make-and-take at the Boxer Scrapbooks booth at a scrapbook show. The paper in the middle is by Hot off the Press and is called Color Me. It has the look of white embossed background paper and you can custom color it using ink pads, sprays or water colors. This way you always have the exact match to any paper. I inked the edge of the lavender dotted paper and that was it. A real simple card.

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Diane

Smile card

Here's a card I made in a class using materials from The-Whole-Kit-N-Kaboodle. I did a bit of inking on the die-cut pieces and then accented the top wings with pop dots for a bit of emphasis.

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Diane

Love...an anniversary card

Here's a card I made for an anniversary using more of the Hot off the Press papers and Dazzle stickers. This one features two chipboard accents that had coordinating Dazzles. Even the ribbon came with the kit.

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Diane

Happy Birthday candle card

Here's another card I made using papers and peel off Dazzles by Hot off the Press. I used a bunch of the extra papers and stickers to make this card. I used a Fiskars border punch on the blue paper and added a ribbon accent. My final touch was to outline the edge of the card with coordinating blue chalk ink.

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Diane

A Baby Girl Blessing card

Here's a card I made for a niece that is having a baby girl. This card uses Impression Impression stamps and an image that was printed on acetate. I've got four really cute tiny buttons in the corner. The Paper Cut makes an acetate that you can put through either an ink jet or laser printer depending on which side you print on. You can use your own photos or search for royalty free and copyright photos so you don't have to pay anyone a license fee to use their images. I made this card in a class and wasn't sure I'd ever use it.

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Diane

You & Me, Me & You card

Here's a card I made using my Silhouette and stamps by Hero Arts. The stamps create a monotone background on the front of the card. The two intertwined cats were cut using my Silhouette. Inside is another Silhouette image with the words "You & Me, Me & You".

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Diane

Celebrate Card

Here's a card I made in a class using materials from SEI. It was a great value for the price we got materials to make about 16 cards. All the papers, envelopes and embellishments were included. Some of the embellishments were double sided so if you needed more cards that said one thing vs. another you had the flexibility to do that. Also the papers were double sided and colored a bit different so you got two different cards for each design.

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Diane

Life's a Stitch card

Here's a card I made for one of my Altered Designs birthday club members. I used stamps by Crafty Secrets and a corner embellishment I made with my Silhouette. I used a border punch on the solid card stock and then added some dark bling for an accent.

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Diane

Unnamed Birthday Card

Here's a card I made for my brother-in-law's birthday. I used some more of the K&Co collection called Life's Journey. The stamp of the three men is a Tim Holtz designed stamp by Stampers Anonymous.

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Diane