A Butterfly Thank You

This card was made using another die that I got at the Craft Fair/Convention in Arlington.  The place was packed full of all sorts of goodies but this one called to me the most.  Never thought I would say it but I think I'm in love with butterflies.  For the most part the butterflies have to call to me, so I don't just any old butterfly it has to have some characteristics that fit into my world of butterflies.  This card was made in Thanks to the Headquarters of work and their understanding about me being sick and needing time off to recuperate.  I never thought that I would be able to do something so cool, but I must say it is pretty dang cool.  I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this die.  I have looked for more dies by this maker but I can't seem to find the cellophane bag that it came in to look at their site and see what else they had/have in the realm of butterflies.

This card was all about layers.  I think there were at least three layers on the front of the card and I think the same amount on the inside they just didn't "pop" off the page like the other ones did.  For the outside, I used multiple paper stacks to give it the contrast that I wanted.  After three layers (lime green, teal with black diamonds and plain white card stock) I then die cut the butterfly and also cut out of my Silhouette the "Thanks" quote on the front.  The inside was much a repeat of the outside but I instead used black (my fav color for contrast) plain teal and white card stock with a quote from my quote book saying thanks.

Once complete it went to work headquarters and I was a happy camper of the over all look the card gave.  I think it was one of my more sophisticated cards that I have made in a long time, or maybe it is the butterfly that I am in love with.  I have used this butterfly in other cards but this particular one seems to call to me just a bit more.

Thanks Dress Silhouette Card

So as you can notice I am on a roll with this "genre" of card making for the time being.  There is just something about the image that makes you want to make a bunch of cards with it.  This of course used the Silly and I got these quick sayings on circles on clearance so I used one of those on this card.  I challenged myself to use a Graphic 45 paper with this card and I think I did pretty well considering a dress doesn't go with much unless it's something dealing with fashion.

You're the Bee's Knees Thank You Note

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So here's my latest Thank You notecard, this one is for the nurse at my Podiatrist office. She seemed quite unhappy when Lupe, the receptionist, got a thank you note but she didn't. I told her that she would be getting on soon enough, and well here it is! I took one look at the bee and KNEW that this would be the perfect card for her. Kind of dorky, but then again I have my dorky moments more often then not.



It started with the bee cut file that I had for my Silhouette SD, I had a cute cut file with the saying "You're the Bee's Knees" but there seemed to be something wrong with the cute file and was freezing up the computer, so instead I used my own fonts from my font collection and made my own saying, to which I must say looks sooooo much better than what they had. I then dry embossed the background paper, which is purple with white cord center (photo kind of hard to tell the color) with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, hence the white hints on it. Hopefully purple is a color you like Maria because it was a hard to pick a color to coordinate with the yellow of the bee. Then I took a white pen to mark out the edges with and that seemed to complete it. I'm still debating on the ribbon at the top, so there may be another photo with a ribbon on it. You know what? I'm thinking I'm going to do the ribbon.
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Hello/Goodbye Cards

I made these cards after completing another card with an airplane on it with "Congrats" on the inside. For some reason the airplane and bird made me think of start of something new and with the changes that have been happening in my life, I thought the saying on the inside (which was one of my own design) was pretty cool for a card with an airplane or bird. I of course used my faithful Silly on the cuts, even the letters on the outside but from that point on it was all me.

I'm trying hard to get a stack of cards together so that maybe one day I can sell what I have at a craft fair or maybe on etsy.com if I could get some photo skills so that the cards look good.

On another note, I had my foot surgery and I'm off for the next 2 weeks or so, so hopefully things will be okay while I am gone. This also gives me time to get caught up with reading since I'm so behind it isn't funny. Sad that I am that behind on read when I could so be taking lunch breaks and reading.

Been to try and orgazine all of the paper that I have and so far things are going slow but they are moving in the right direction. Julie brought out a plastic container that I must say fits perfectly in my paper sort from before, now I just have to alter it by taking out somce of the shelves, lucky thing is that they aren't glued or anything together, just little clips. I think once I get up enough energy I'm going to try and move it out so that I can have it close by and move the cart holder in that place instead. I got these story boxes at Target for like 7 bucks and they were wel worth it. They hold the stacks just perfectly, now to decide if I want one more or not. I'm thinking yes just so I can have some space in the other two since they are packed pretty tight.

Best Thing Eva!

So I just got back from the best Joann's run I have ever made. I got their mailer this weekend and it seems that they were having a scratch and save weekend. I thought to myself, "great, now I can get something that I want with a good deal". I mean at the least it was 40% off, but there was every real possibility that they could get an 80% off.

Well being that I am always in the category that either gets the good or they get the bad. Case in point, my car needs to have it's right side air bag curtain replaced since it was defective from the manufacture. Anyhoosy...so I scratch hoping that it will at least be 50% and what was staring at me in when I finished scratching? Not an 80% off, so I read the coupon multiple times wanting to make sure that I could get what I wanted, and it didn't say one thing about getting a Cuttlebug....Cricut ELECTRONIC machines but nothing about the Cuttlebug. So I waited until today to go and see if I could get the coupon to work, well the first store didn't have it but the second store did and we had to get the Manager of Duty (MOD) to try and figure out if they would honor the coupon. Now I had done research about it and people said it was pretty hit and miss on the coupons working on the Cuttlebug when it is a normal coupon, but I persisted and told them that it wasn't electric and it wasn't a cartridge. In the end I WON! So I got the machine at 19 dollars but I had a gift card with like 11 dollars on it so in the end I got the Cuttlebug for only 7 bucks. Nice huh?

As a P.S. to the story, Joann's posted their sale online on Friday and it showed that all die cutting machines where 40% off, but when they rung up the machine it was full price....so I didn't tell them of the sale. They work there, not me.

I'm so freaking excited I can hardly hold in the robot dance I want to do. *robot dance* Sorry couldn't help myself.

A Cuttlebug for 7 bucks!!!!!

I'll get to posting my cards later on, I haven't forgotten you all out there.