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Organ Mountains Card

This is the card I made for my Dad on Father's Day. The mountains are the Organ Mountains in my hometown. The mountain stamp and the cacti stamp are from Stamp-A-Mania and the little hills I used to fill in between the two and the small yucca are from an old Stampin Up set whose name I do not know. I used a brown ink and then chalked the mountains with SU's Creamy Caramel and a tiny bit of Garden Green on the foothills. I chalked the sky using the SU cloud template and Brilliant Blue. I stamped the cacti in Garden Green and then used Liquid Applique from B&J's Stamps in orange, purple, white and red for the flowers. I hope my Dad liked it! :)

Birthday Gift Set for my SIL

My SIL loves animals and animal themed things...I usually make her animal note cards for her birthday. This year's cards use some slightly dimensional Zoo stickers I got at Hobby Lobby (love their clearance shelf!) and some paper I've had forever. I probably got the paper when Recollections was going out of business 3 years ago, but then again, maybe not... (LOL)

I cut the leaf paper using SU's Top Note Die and used the Top Note for 3 cards and the frame for 3 more cards. The green background papers are American Crafts cardstock.

The alligator uses another piece of paper resembling water for the river and the same leaves for the bank.

The same paper used for the water was used for the sky and sandpaper for the desert for the snake card.

I hope my SIL likes them. I have another sheet of the stickers in case I want to make some for me!!! :)

Birthday Gift Set for my SIL

My SIL loves animals and animal themed things...I usually make her animal note cards for her birthday. This year's cards use some slightly dimensional Zoo stickers I got at Hobby Lobby (love their clearance shelf!) and some paper I've had forever. I probably got the paper when Recollections was going out of business 3 years ago, but then again, maybe not... (LOL)

I cut the leaf paper using SU's Top Note Die and used the Top Note for 3 cards and the frame for 3 more cards. The green background papers are American Crafts cardstock.

The alligator uses another piece of paper resembling water for the river and the same leaves for the bank.

The same paper used for the water was used for the sky and sandpaper for the desert for the snake card.

I hope my SIL likes them. I have another sheet of the stickers in case I want to make some for me!!! :)

Birthday Gift Set for my SIL

My SIL loves animals and animal themed things...I usually make her animal note cards for her birthday. This year's cards use some slightly dimensional Zoo stickers I got at Hobby Lobby (love their clearance shelf!) and some paper I've had forever. I probably got the paper when Recollections was going out of business 3 years ago, but then again, maybe not... (LOL)

I cut the leaf paper using SU's Top Note Die and used the Top Note for 3 cards and the frame for 3 more cards. The green background papers are American Crafts cardstock.

The alligator uses another piece of paper resembling water for the river and the same leaves for the bank.

The same paper used for the water was used for the sky and sandpaper for the desert for the snake card.

I hope my SIL likes them. I have another sheet of the stickers in case I want to make some for me!!! :)

Hospital Visit

Well, I changed cards for this hospital visit...My step-father had hip replacement surgery and I thought I was going to make a card similar to this one for him, but changed my mind.

 This card uses the little bandaid from on of SU's small-many-stamp-all-occasion sets and creamy caramel. The "body" and the bow-tie on the gown are from the SU set Sketch It. The body is the heart stamped in either the Apricot Blush or Creamy Caramel and turned upside down. I cut the gown out freehand (took 2 tries, lol) and used which ever green it was that matched the scraps of paper used for the gown. I don't recall, as I made this card almost 2 years ago.

Here is what I gave him instead. It is one I posted previously on my blog, but here it is again:

I just love Dustin Pike's dragons!!! The photo of the card isn't the greatest. I used the Cuttlebug embossing folder "Tiny Mosaics" for the green background, I thought it looked like scales! I colored in the dragon with watercolor pencils and then used gamsol to blend.

More Christmas Tags

Here are 2 more Christmas tags I made for the Splitcoaststampers swap.

The tag on the left uses patterned paper, Coluzzel tag and the Sizzix tag die and was paired with a green ribbon with red edges. The second tag uses the SU! 5 petal flower punch. 2 red flowers and 2 green flowers are used to make the flower and since I didn't have any yellow brads, I embossed a silver one with yellow EP. I used a cream paper for the tag, once again the larger Coluzzel tag and the same green/red ribbon.