Monday June 6th

 Featuring the 'Diamond' Kaleidoscope from Spellbinders. These are really elegant. You can dress them up with embellishments or sentiments for any occasion.

                                           Thanks for looking today!

                                                 Mary

Saturday June 4th.

Good summer afternoon!! Here come more of the Circle Kaleidoscope cards. These are the Christmas variation. 

 

This last one is a favorite color combination & the embellishment 'row of stars' are really jewels. The 'ornament' card is really nice in a  horizontal format. Nice, when you leave the card on someones tray at a nursing home. Vertical slimlines fall over too easy! 

Thanks for looking!

More tomorrow, Mary

Friday June 3rd

Get ready for the annual weather reports from Nevada! Yes, the heat is creeping up and up again! Great time to craft! Today I will start with cards from the Spellbinder Kalidescope series. The first few cards are with the Argyle kalidescope. I have featured them before, but it is good to re-use an older die that is so versatile.

                                             

                  Darker brown almost looks masculine, while the white with the flowers is feminine. Both words are hot foiled.

          The next are called Circle Kalidescope. I deliberately left these next cards blank out side and inside. Having a 'generic' card ready is a win win!!

                     

Okay these are the 'blank ones' !!

 

                         I did have fun with these! Just a bit of paper, tape, and imagination.

                                      Thanks for looking!

                                                    Mary

May 23rd!

 Happy Monday! Today I have cards to share using Tim Holtz Bold Text dies. When I ordered the dies which have 6 word blocks included, I got busy and made a bunch of sponged backgrounds. Most are with the oxide inks, but you could use other inks, or just designer papers. Here are just a few of the cards...

                       There are a bunch of these with plain backgrounds. I got so excited over the 'tiny cactus' die that I just kept making them. And I am sorry I have no idea where it came from.

                             

            Another obsession, the Modern Artistry/Sizzix flower dies. Wow. You will see them again!!

                           Now the more 'colorful' choices!

                                   

                    These are the new Spellbinder square tiles.

                               I think there is one more.

                                    

                              Needs a happy balloon! Maybe a hat?

                                           Thanks for looking!
                                                    Mary

Sunday

Good morning! Lovely warm Sunday at about 6:30 AM. Have a couple cards to show. These are the Tulip dies from Craftymeraki. https://craftymeraki.com/products/athena-meraki-flora-para-dies?_pos=2&_sid=a69d70025&_ss=r&variant=39781912903770

This shows the dies which are totally unassuming. I got them and thought, oh sure. Yes, I was wrong, they are so nice. Love the background slimline dies too. Lets get started...

                                  Remember this one with the 'chickies' from April....

                                                    

                        Used the gilded polish on the pot. It started as black paper and evolved! The Just a note is from Pinkfresh studio. It is part of the perfect sentiments set. That means you can either use the stamp, or the hot foil plate, then cut out all the sentiments with one die. I love that set! Oh, the sentiment was cut from the gilded polished paper.
                                

                                                         Thank you for looking!

                                                   Mary

Monday

 Good Morning!! Just wanted to share one, yes, one card today! This is a 3 tiered collapsible pillar card. I found the instructions here. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vxsKh41j4  The base is really easy. This is more than I would normally do, but it is for someone special!

                     The little boy & the monkey are stickers. The giraffe, Audrey, the zebra, Agnes, the Lion, Harrison are all colorize dies from sizzix / Tim Holtz. I see the zebra 'ears' are obscuring the lion in the photo.

                       
                                 Thanks for looking!

                                            Mary