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Yep, the Sunday after Father's Day and just getting this post up! I found the tutorial from Lori Heiller here. It matched one of the cards I did for my Father's Day card classes. (BTW, the gorgeous African Violet in the background is one of my mom's prize flowers. She has such a green thumb and the flowers, inside and out, are a treat to behold!)The stamps are from the Totally Tool stamp set that just retired. Since my dad, my brother, and my brother-in-law are all woodworkers, it was the...

Good Friday morning all!It's been so long since I've posted that I don't think I'll lack for post material for at least a couple of months! So ... I'll start backwards!I'm part of a group called the Sensational SU Swappers (SSUS for short!) -- I participated in a weekly sketch challenge and thought I'd share my creation with you very quickly.Here's the sketch -- part of Taylored Expressions Weekly sketch challenges which look to be no more. In the meantime, I have about 150 weeks of sketches...

I had a bit of trouble coming up with the name for this week's card class (tonight is actually a repeat of last week's class) but pretty is exactly what I think these cards are!I made up a combination of Mothers' Day/Wedding/Baby cards for this class -- 5 cards in all. For the lady that is without a mother, the sentiment for the Mother's Day Card could be substituted with any other sentiment.Check out my cards closer-up:The first card here is one of my wedding cards. You'll see that I used the...

Well, I appear to be improving on my timing a little bit. I once again participated in Mary Jo's Lunchtime Sketch Challenge -- again with a card for my brother-in-law's birthday ... since I decided that last week's card was more fitting for my dad's retirement coming up in June!Here's this week's sketch:Here's my take on the sketch. I'm not a big purple fan, but I loved how the purple seemed to go with the image -- masculine, but not overdone -- a clean and simple card.I used the Forever Young...

It's May 2nd and I placed my first pre-order for items from the new catalog yesterday afternoon -- it'll get here by Thursday p.m.! Yay! I can't wait to play with the new in-colors and try out the new ink pads! I only pre-ordered a couple of stamp sets and designer papers, just to give you all a sneak peek.In the meantime, catalogs will start shipping out to my customers on May 14th -- are you on my list? Email me today for your own copy!I thought everyone would benefit from having all of the...