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Halloween Cards to Mail
It is easy (easier?) to make cards that look fabulous with lots of bling, bows, and embellishments to add pizzazz. I find it a lot more challenging to make interesting cards that will fit easily in a regular envelope. Because I’m interested in making more cards for Operation Write Home, I’m trying to focus on…
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Card Challenge Using One Sketch
The color choice was inspired by dd2’s watercolor in the background There are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of different card sketches to choose from when designing a card. I almost never use ANY of them. It occurred to me the other night, as I was trying to fall asleep, that maybe it would be a…
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Roxie Card
The new Background and Texture (B & T) Papers from Close To My Heart are now a heavier weight. From CTMH’s website they list the weights as follows: My Reflections® B&T Duos® papers: 100 lb. (accent opaque text weight) Cardstock: 65 lb. (cover weight) I wanted to see how well they’d work as a card base. Here…
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Card Box with Wonderland B & T for Die Cuts Storage And New Product Blog Hop
You know how you think you want to use a particular image that you’ve already cut, stamped or colored in some way and then you Don’t end up using it in your project? Well, I have a bunch of little gems like that in piles all over my work area. You can see some letters…
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Wonderland B & T with Key Moments Stamp Set
The new Wonderland paper from CTMH is a set of wintery blues with a bit of Chocolate, Grey Flannel, and Spring Iris mixed in. I wanted to make a non-wintery card with these papers to show their versatility. And I live in the desert, so winter themed things aren’t usually very popular here. 🙂
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Picture Frame Turned Bulletin Board
My dh needs reminders about simple things, so I made this to hang in the laundry room for him to see when he comes in from the garage. The man is brilliant, but can’t figure out which bowl in the refrigerator is a meal and which is cooked ground beef saved for adding to the…
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Magic Mirror with CTMH Mischief B & T Paper
Mirrors can’t really build self-esteem, that comes from within. But sometimes we all need a boost when we look in the mirror and aren’t feeling like it is a Good Hair Day. I made this for my older dd. She is beautiful, no matter what her hair looks like! It would be nice if she…
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Grey Flannel is Such a Pretty Color
CTMH Live Inspired Stamp Set, Die-Cut Card base This card is made with the new CTMH Mischief B & T papers and also the oftentimes forgotten (by me) Grey Flannel card stock. The stamp set is one of my favorites and I was so glad to see that it made it into the new catalog.…
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Mischief is the name of my DD1's black cat
And also the name of CTMH’s new Halloween themed B & T paper. I love the heavier weight because it is perfect for projects like these! All items are CTMH except inside is a sticky backed paper pad I found some cute Post-It note knockoff pads at Michael’s and decided to up the oomph factor.…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann
Quilts, Cards, Mixed Media, and Other Stuff
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 