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One of the ladies from the Dies R us design team asked if we could make cards for her brother in law who is battling brain cancer. She mentioned he was an artist and also enjoyed funny cards, so I decided to go with a funny card and this stamped image said that for me.  I hope it brings a smile to his face.  You can read about her post HERE

After coloring the stamp, I hand cut it out and then did my cloud background that I have described on a few of my other cards and added a stitched landscape die, the sentiment comes with this stamp set :)

Art Impressions -- stamp, colored w/markers,Sorry no name and I couldn't find it when I searched for it
Poppystamps -- Stitched landscapes die

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and letting me know you did :)

Connie

Deer in the Forest

I have a card for the Dies R us blog today that went to my little brother for his birthday a couple days ago.

I love the depth that you can get with these Memory Box Grand Forest Archway and the Memory Box Small forest archway dies, you can also purchase the medium archway too to get even more great depth but I didn't use that today.  You wouldn't have to add the leaves to it if you didn't want to, but I chose to use a couple different shades of green cardstock using the Memory Box Grove Leaves die.  Of course you need some deer in the forest too and I used Memory Box Valley deer trio.

I started out by sponging the grass, I used stick it notes along the edge that I tore to give me the grass which I sponged on using Mowed lawn distress ink with a little Forest Moss Distress ink throughout also, then turned over the notes to cover the grass and sponged on the Tumbled Glass Distress ink with a little Broken china around the edges.

To give some lift I used Scotch foam tape on the thicker area's of my trees but on the thinner branches I rolled my score tape to give it some lift, you can see in the picture the ones that I rolled already on the tree and one that I am in the process of rolling on my craft mat.  Sorry about the glare from my light on the craft mat.

Here is a picture of the side view to see more of the dimension you get.

Here are pictures of the dies I used, the links are all above.

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Sunset over lake

I was going to share some more pictures from our trip but that would take too much time to sort through so I thought I would post pictures of the little park we walk around close by our house. One evening we decided to go out and take pictures here because the sky looked so neat and hubby thought it would make for a pretty sunset.

I am still learning how to set up this camera, I think I take better day time shots but these were pretty neat.

As you know the sky can turn constantly at sunset.

Lastly, you just have to get one with the ducks going off into the sunset :)

Be sure to stop by tomorrow I have another post for the DiesRus blog.
Have a wonderful Sunday!!

Thanks for dropping in today!

Connie

Two step stamping

Now that I have the MISTI it sure makes lining up these two step stamping stamps so much easier. First I stamped the inside yellow color and then stamped the black outline, next time I would like to try a color a little lighter than black, I think a brown would have looked nicer, but didn't realize that until a couple of days after making this one.
There are a couple of each flower in this set along with stems and leaves. I added the little stem between the two flowers with a marker since I wanted more than one flower but there was not room for two stems.

I did faux stitching around the banner with a fine tip sharpie pen.

Penny Black -- Petal power stamp set
April Rose Illustrations -- Paper
Spellbinders -- Labels 8 die
Stamps of life -- Stand up 4 sentiments stamp
Stampendous -- Peel stickers (little gems)

I can't believe it is already the weekend again, wow how time just flies by,
Hope you all enjoy a great weekend,

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

DieCut Background

One of the girls in my cardmaking group was using a background die in a lot of neat ways and I just loved her ideas, well she sent me 3 of the cut outs so I could try using them in different ways, well mine isn't nearly creative like hers but she hadn't colored hers they were all one color so since she sent me white ones I was able to color one using my Spectrum Aqua markers and of course had to add some liquid pearls and mini dots that I colored with the markers.

Sizzix -- Brenda Walton Design Background die colored w/spectrum Aqua markers
Dienamics -- Cross -stitch rectangles die
Paper Smooches -- Happy Birthday stamp sentiment
Liquid Pearls -- Mint Green and Lemon Yellow
Candi Minis -- colored w/marker

Hope your having a great week so far, we are getting more rain today but then after that it looks like we may have a dry spell for awhile, looks like I will have to hand water my garden and flower planters for awhile.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by!!

Connie