My new stamp

I just got a few new Unity stamps and this one cracks me up. It's just stamped in black ink and a Santa hat added. The sentiment is stamped and added to front of the pattern paper.

After my friend turned vegan it was like I'd never seen herbivore.

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Catching Up

Here's another family card for one of the grands. Pattern paper and a Lawn Fawn stamp. All my cards are simple as can be so I could get them done in time. 

I hope you are all finished with your holiday shopping, cooking and wrapping and you are looking forward to celebrating the Birth with your family and friends.

Alcohol. More like karaoke fuel.

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Snow on paper

That's how I like my snow - on paper. This is one of the few cards I made that I remembered to take a picture of. I was so far behind and so intent on making them and getting them in the mail that I forgot to take pictures! I can't seem to get it altogether.

This is designer paper and the snowflake was die cut from sparkle white cardstock but the picture doesn't show it sparkle. It was added to a black die cut circle and the sentiment stamped and embossed.

I heard icy was hard to spell. Looking at it now icy.

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Late, but here

This is not the post I wanted to share but need to update you on where I've been - again. I went to my sons for Thanksgiving and all but two of us are sick. I got sick on Saturday after the holiday and so did my son, grandson, his two children, my granddaughter and her boyfriend too. Of course, it is in my lungs and I can't believe another attack so soon. This one really brought me down just when I was feeling so much better and getting things done. The coughing is really brutal.

I have several Christmas cards made but I'm feeling not so excited about how many more to do and afraid it may not happen. It takes so much energy to just wash, dress and fix a meal. 

That's why today I want to share the card I was going to share on Thanksgiving to thank you all for being the wonderful friends I've made online. I'm so grateful for all of you that comment, visit and lift me up so much lately.

I'm terrified of elevators and I'm taking steps to avoid them.

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Textured backgrounds using die cuts

Here it is the 28th of November. Didn't we just have the 28th of October several days ago? I can't keep up with time. I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and give thanks for all of you.

This is a fun technique done with die cuts for our group this month. I die cut a snowflake from Gina Marie about ten times and arranged them on a white panel. I then glued them down and cut some pieces from the extra ones to fill in the panel. I mounted the panel on a piece of silver sparkle paper and added a silver embossed sentiment on white cardstock and used dimensionals to add it over a strip of the same sparkle cardstock. It's hard to get a good picture of sparkle so this is my best one.

Water is heavier than butane because butane is a lighter fluid.

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Blessings

I got another card made. I think this is six since the end of August. I am in such a funk and I've used everything I've seen posted about getting out of a slump and it hasn't worked. I've looked through Pinterest, challenges and instagram and just can't get moving. This is the 22nd and I've made two Thanksgiving cards and one Christmas card. I can't identify my mood and I feel guilty because I have so much stuff and I'm not using it. Yesterday I got out my Christmas products and looked through them. Some things I haven't used at all so they need love.

I used pattern paper for the background and a white rectangle to stamp the image and greeting on. Sponged color around the edges of the mat to define it.

Before Mount Rushmore was carved, it's beauty was unpresidented.

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Glitter painting on acetate

Many years ago I swore off of using glitter. Because this is Group of Seven Cardmakers I wanted to participate and make a card with this technique.

 It went wrong from the start. I cut two images with white cardstock. Glued one on the acetate and got glue everywhere. Then I glued the second image to the first so I would have groves to add the glue. The frame was so thin that was another chance to get more glue everywhere I missed the first time. Now to the glitter. That wasn't hard but there was a new issue. People with COPD cough sometimes out of nowhere with no warning. When you have glue in one hand and glitter in the other, you don't want to cough. Do you see where this is going?  Yep, I coughed and glitter went everywhere. There is still some left on the acetate that I couldn't get off. That's where this card ends. I added it the GO7 so you could see things don't always go smoothly when making cards. Now I remember why I don't use glitter.

If a plant is sad do other plants photosympathise with it?

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