Floral Cards for Card Drive

 Hello Everyone,

Today I wanted to share a collection of cards I made for a card drive.  The card drive is sponsored by Winter on her blog Winter Wonderland .  The cards are for cancer patients, and you can read the details on her blog.

Supplies: 

1. Decorative paper with large flower motifs
2. Dry Embossing folders
3. Various Die cuts
4. Hand-Penned Petals stamp and die sets from Stampin' Up
5. Markers to color flowers

The first two cards were made by hand cutting large flower motifs from decorative papers. The flowers were layered over dry embossed backgrounds and die cuts.

The following cards were made by stamping and die cutting flowers from the Hand-Penned Petals set.

I will be back with more cards made for the card drive in the next post.  I hope that the cards brought a small amount of cheer to the recipients and that they know the cards were made with love and good thoughts.  

See you soon for the next post.  Have a lovely day. 

Karen

Cherry Blossom Thinking of You

 Hello Everyone,

Today I wanted to share a collection of cards I made for a card drive.  The card drive is sponsored by Winter on her blog Winter Wonderland .  The cards are for cancer patients, and you can read the details on her blog.

The group of cards were made with a cherry blossom stamp set.  I made the design in several different colors and slightly different layouts with various die cut backgrounds.

Supplies: Forever Blossom stamp and dies from Stampin' Up.

A pretty collection of cards that I hope brought a smile to the face of someone going through a very rough time.  Now that the holidays are over, I am planning to make another large batch of cards to send to Winter for the card drive.

Next post will have more of the cards I made for the card drive.  See you then.

Karen

Valentines for 2023

 Hello everyone!

I made a few Valentine's Day cards this year. The cards went out to friends and family. Some were inspired by cards in the Stampin' Up catalogs and online blogs.  Some were my own designs.  

I stamped hearts and die cut hearts galore.  Added lots of layers and a few fibers.

Stamps Used:

Sweet Conversations and Forever & Always from Stampin' Up

      Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope your day is filled with love and joy.

Karen

Quilts to Snuggle With

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Changing things up a bit today.  No cards today. But I do have some pictures of three quilts I made recently.  I made them for granddaughters of BFs.  

Bunny Quilt:

I hand drew the bunny head.  Cut the bunnies from pink and lavender cottons.  They were hand appliqued onto a patchwork background made up of six-inch squares.

Bunny Quilt for a doll bed. This was made with leftovers from the larger quilt.  

Churn Dash Quilt: Made with a collection of peach cotton fabrics.

The detail picture below is a better representation of the color.

Sawtooth Star: Made with a collection of bright colors and blue borders.

I have already given the bunny quilts to the recipient.  I have not given the other two yet because I have one more quilt to complete before giving them. I am in the process of hand quilting the remaining quilt. It is a log cabin design.  I will share pictures when it is complete.  See you next time with my usual card programming. 

Karen

Ladybug Parade Part Two

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Back today with the second installment of Ladybug Parade. I made lots of fun cards with this stamp set.

Stamp and Punch set: Hello Ladybug from Stampin' Up

Various die cut

I used lots of different layouts for the cards and used different background treatments.

Layers of die cuts were used for the backgrounds on the first card.

Woodgrain paper was used here for the background.

A large, punched flower were used for the background here.

So glad you stopped by today.  Hope to see you again soon. I will probably have more spring themed cards. I can't seem to get my mind on anything other than spring thoughts. I do have some floral cards that I may post. See you then.

Karen

Lady Bug Parade Part One

 Hello Everyone,

I do seem to be stuck on a spring theme.  Today I have a group of cards I made with a ladybug stamp set.

Stamp and Punch set: Hello Ladybug from Stampin' Up

Various die cuts

On the first card, I stamped a small flower over a striped decorative paper for a pretty background. The wings were punched from glitter paper.

The background here is dry embossed and highlighted with a tan ink.

Glad you stopped by today.  Check back for more of the ladybug parade in the next post. Hope your day is filled with good things.

Karen

Think Spring Part Two

 Hello Everyone,

Back today with more of my Think Spring Cards.  The cards in this post have different layouts. I added die cuts to the cards.

Stamps: Nature's Wishes from Penny Black; Various sentiments and die cuts

All the cards can be used as birthday cards or any occasion. Nice for a general hello how are you card. 

I really had fun working with this stamp set.  I ended up with many very cute cards for friends and family.  

See you next time!!  Have a lovely day. 

Karen