Sunday Morning!

 Happy cards for Sunday! Art Impressions Cubbies. The doggies and dog houses are so fun! They would make such cute birthday cards. They have cats & squirrels in their little homes too.

                                                                   Thanks for looking
                                                     Mary

Happy Hot Wednesday!

Wednesday July 3rd! One more set of  cards to show before our 4th of July holiday. These are Waffle Flower Stamps 'Go Girls'. I started by coping ( almost) one of the designs, the the more I played, the more I was hooked!! They can be so empowering or compassionate, or just plain fun! Take a look and enjoy!

 

 

Well suprise! I finished this, so decided to post it now instead of tomorrow!

Thanks for looking,

Mary

Tuesday July 2nd!

Happy Hot afternoon!! Good day to stay home and make cards! Have a few to show today that I actually did in June. They are part of the Heartfelt creations Petite Pocket Dies. This one isn't really used as a pocket, but it is in the same release. It is called Regal Frame & Accents. The cards are lovely, but I was disappointed in how they look here. I almost didn't show them.  You can be the judge! Didn't want bows on all them, maybe I should add pearls??

 

These two are from Ali Express. Cut nice. Really lacy. I thought I would show these as long as I am showing the blues!

                                                                 Thanks for looking!
                                                 Mary

Saturday Morning

I don't think it is daylight yet. This is the best time for me to get things done, really early. So without anymore chat, lets share some ideas!

                          Penny Black stamp 'Bloomin' Boots' stamp

              The first image was 'fussy cut', these are stamped and colored with copic markers. I did use copics on the one above too.

 

Love the reds! 

Thanks for looking today!

Mary

Tuesday

Another hot day in Las Vegas! Although its been 105 degrees, it is not 118 yet! Probably July. Ugh. Thought I would share a few 'random' cards that I did this last couple weeks. The yellow/gold one with the 'sunflower vase' is a stamp from A Stamp in The Hand. Simple. The next one is a diagonal die from My favorite Things, and the flower is from Technique Tuesday.

                    The 'Thanks' cards are made with a Stampendous clear  stamp set. Fitting for summer. It is a fun and versatile set.

  These two cards feature the Beautiful day by Altenew, except I got the set from Ali Express. I think the scale is quite a bit smaller. Okay set, not okay for China to steal. Maybe we should consider our American manufactures before we buy too.  The lattice from below is a pretty new die from Penny Black stamps

                                                       Another from Ali Express. 
                                    
                                     Thanks for looking,
                                            Mary

Monday June 17th

Tonight, yes, I am late today! Usually I blog early, early (sometimes 4:00AM), and this is 6:30PM. Wow! Finally photographed the little chocolate boxes that I made last week. I wanted to do at least one more, but didn't quite get it done. Here are my newest ones. These are from a Heartfelt Creations tutorial.
 https://www.heartfeltcreations.us/blog/827/ez-step-by-step-tutorial-chocolate-box-card

This is paper from Craft Consortium. Love the tiny scale.

Could have decorated this page.

                                                                              

                                                      
                                         Linked to the others that I made https://theartisticavenues.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2018-10-25T08:15:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=44&by-date=false Have no idea if this works, if not it is in the Oct 2018 archive. And the tutorial is linked for that one too. 
                                   Thanks for looking!
                                            Mary  
 Okay it worked! I copied and pasted one of the previous chocolate box images from my own site here! I found out you have to copy and paste the links in your browser. For some reason I can't get them highlighted so you can just click! Sorry..

 One more time with a better link

http://www.ignatova-marina.ru/2016/08/2.html

Thanks again!

Pinkfresh Wednesday!

Good morning! It is so pretty here, early in the morning.  With a pretty, sweet thought I will share some ideas using the new Pinkfresh designer die.

                                    I looked all over the internet for the 'diamond' die. It impresses, only cuts the outer edges. It is from Waffle flower stamps.

                       So here is the picture that I got this idea from. I couldn't find the artist who made this card, but this is the link so you can see her (?) version. I made my own flowers.
 https://www.pinkfreshstudio.com/collections/dies/products/essentials-pretty-frames-die-set

 

 Thanks for looking!

Mary