Welcome to Christmas in July! 

                                        Penny Black stamps

                            Just happened on these cuties. 

                                       

                                       Thanks for looking!

                                               Mary

Tuesday July 22nd

 This is just an extension of the last 'share'. The camera image is a die from Aall&Create. I am obsessed with the big-eyed characters and the dies are fabulous. 

The girls are both from Vera lane studios. The 'flower' girl is called The good life and the angel is 'angelic'

The red part of the background is a rolodex frame called 'sunrise'

 

                     The one below is my favorite! The photo frames were from Micheals. Good set. Made the camera from some industrial looking paper.. Asuka and the little people inside the lens and on the filmstrip are really family! The little blonde guy on the left (inside the lens) is my dad. And the littlest girl on the top filmstrip is mom.      

 Love mixed media. Perfect venue for the camera and photostrip dies!

                                  Thanks for looking again!

                                             Mary

Tuesday July 22

 Hi to all! Just one more before we share the Christmas in July cards!! This is 'from the vault' Tim Holtz hats. It is a colorize die. Super easy and fun to put together!

One more hat, but this time a little different....

This does bring me to the next post!

Stay tuned

Mary

                                  

                                     

Monday July 14th

Hi & Good morning! Its early and we are busy packing. We have nowhere to go, but we are packing! Please excuse if the 'blogging' is off and on. For today I do have a couple cards to show. This is from Pocketful of Happiness. It is a cover die 'retro' I think. 

        The die looks like alot of inlaid work, but they are strips, maybe 6 strips across. The yellow that shows through is the background paper.

         These are really versatile, good for those guy cards too. Sorry about the turquoise throughout, but I cut the entire die each time, so I wanted to use the strips. However, I read that you can cut just parts of the die. You could use up some scraps too! Yes, I had to be told!

 

Hope you enjoyed & thanks for looking!

Mary

Just one more.........

These are from Pocketful of Happiness. Simply three flower dies with different paper as the background. I didn't add words to the top card, as I am not sure where it is going. But again, these are pretty versatile.

                                                    Thanks!

                                                      Mary

Saturday July 5th

 Happy July!! And, of course Happy Independence Day to America! 

We have huge news and we have been super busy. We sold our house in ONE day. Yes, and we have to find a place, and close in 30 days. The stress is crazy! We lost one offer, so starting over......... Actually, it could be a blessing as the bathrooms in the one we made the offer on were not much bigger than the size of a closet. There wasn't a garage and yes, we need one desperately. We will see what happens this week.

                   Lets get started with my new addiction! It is the Seth 
Apter dies. They are contemporary shapes and sizes, could look ethnic or pretty. Yes, they are versatile. Perfect for those masculine cards.

I just cut like a madwoman any and every scrap and more scraps. I spread them all over the kitchen counter and started arranging them in whatever pleasing pattern. Most of the bases are 6x6 black. The next layer is whatever big ugly paper (5 3/4 square) that got sprayed, stenciled and stamped. I did round the corners on a couple.

I love the oxide and the mica sprays! 

 This one has a purple shadow behind. Going for a softer look.

Thanks for looking

Mary

                          

Monday June 30th

Happy Morning!! Had these ready to go last week and just didn't get to the computer to blog. These are Taylored Expressions "Snailed it". The are word stamps & dies, layered stencil & a background Snail stamp & die! Another set that I could have kept making. 

Oops, below, the hello didn't get glued on. I fixed it!

I used the Honeybee stamps rainbow dies. It makes the perfectly shaped card. I last used it in 2022. Time flies!

Maybe just a 'thinking of you' on this one

These are like the Rainbows from 2022. I already had these cut so just added them! Feels nice to use older dies & stamps!

Thanks for looking!

Stay Cool

Mary