Girly Gnomes

 These are not your  traditional gnomes at all --more like elves with gnome type caps and braids. They make the most beautiful cards, and I am delighted to be creating them on embossed vellum, with custom designed backgrounds, on spritzed or embossed cardstock and using the Couture Designs sentiment strips from The Ton. Their gentle expressions and beautiful design elements make them "one of a kind" talent shared.

From the SVG Vector Store at Etsy called Girl Gnome Clip Art

Patriotic Gnomes

 

Just the first of  SEVERAL projects using Paper Clips

These are called Watercolor 4th of July Whimsical Gnome Clip Art

from the Whimsical Art Graphics Studio at Etsy

Two SlimLine Window Cards and clips

Graduation

 

I am SO pleased with this---my first attempt at image generation in Photoshop's (Beta) Artificial Intelligence photo generation processes. I started with blank white "paper." I had about 7 iterations of very detailed prompts (specificity matters) to create this owl, including (but not limited to,) great horned owl mortarboard with gold tassel on left, bow tie scarlet and gray, glasses, and others. I didn't specify any particular background and left as AI generated it. ..same with feathers and feather detail. I had built on my idea six or seven times working with favorite results until I could get the cap tucked into the head feathers.  Now just how cool is that.  This card is for a friend's son who earned his Master's in Business Administration recently at UNLV.

Chick Bow Chicks

 Chicken Chicks, Owl Chicks, Bow Chicks, Baby Bird Chicks, these cuties came from Chick Clip Art in Messy Bun's Etsy store.  I have made a couple dozen small  paper clip clips that will have either eyelash ribbon or jute, or color coordinated to match project where they are found. I already gave the first one away before I got it  photographed. I don't know where I got the ticket blanks I used to make the designer paper clips--been in the stash for at least 10 years! I love to make paper clips and I sometimes work from ticket templates. 

Some easy Workshop Cards

 In a workshop led by Diane Minor.   

Inside intentionally left blank because this is going to a 98 year old lady who I want to have it to resend as I thank HER for my birthday gift. 

3 Peak Arrow Fold Card

    This three peak card is a little tricky---CAREFUL scoring and dry-fitting are the secrets of it.  I used it for the April, 2024 Papers N Pixels workshop, and as I taught this, I found I'd been pretty vague on instructions that were important.
    The Three Peak Arrow was inspired by Sam Calcott who made it look SO easy!  Without viewing her tutorial,  the crafter is totally LOST on this one.  Suggest making a template with all the measurements on it before you begin to cut that first 10" x 7"piece. then watch--you work this card upside down! When the card is folded, it fits into an A6 envelope.  You can mat the arrows, make pockets in them or work with embossed designs and ephemera. I used star dies and punches, and half dozen different Poppy Stamps Faerie die cuts  Pay attention to directionality of your designer paper, and you'll create a winner.

Graduation Money Lei

Virgin Valley High School, Mesquite, NV

Graduated the Class of 2024 on May 11,2024

This money lei was a "special" order for a special graduate

~Julio~

The sentiment reads:  As you graduate, pack up all your memories, 

and everything you've learned, and stack them high as they can go!

Then climb up to the top and look how far you've come

Be proud, be ambitious, 

Set your goals and

GO FOR IT

Everyone is proud of you, Julio

Congratulations!

 

Fun Thank you MRW Bake Sale

 For all the wonderful women who helped me make the Mesquite Republican Women's Spring Festival's BAKE SALE BOOTH --so popular and so populated with the most  DELICIOUS specialties of each house.  There were literally HUNDREDS of cookies, breads, muffins, cakes, and popcorn and pretzels too for this great day. Little Elephant Baby is from Creative Fabrica, and so is the jar of cookies she holds.

Happy Birthday Nine Year Old

 Great Granddaughter is going to be NINE this year.  Here's her birthday card for her special day

Mark and Ryan's Birthday Cards--

 

Mark's Birthday card created with Seascape Papers and elements by an Etsy Desiger. The card is a double opening fun fold card, inspired by a tutorial by Terri Walker, a SU demonstrator.  Mark's birthday is April 2nd. the inside flip out cardbase has a place with perforations to hold a card die. This card holder die is part of a set called Interactive Cake Dies by Pretty Pink Posh

Ryan is a baseball enthusiast AND a High School Baseball Coach

His birthday papers are from an Etsy designer: JoyfulJourneysCA 

other elements are from my stash. The baseball alphabet is by a Creative

Fabrica designer.  Ryan's Birthday is April  9th.

Spring Butterflies

 This is embossing on Vellum, and alcohol ink coloring,. The embossing folder is a 3D folder. Glitter edgings are starfoam line stickers from Pop Ups Etc. This became a lovely Easter Card for a friend.

Lattice Double Card

 The lattice lifts up to reveal a graphic, or a sentiment and the designer paper layer lifts up for the card's message body inside. The papers I used are from Perennial Lavender by SU and white cardstock.  The font on the Sentiment is Virginia Antique.  This was a FUN card to build and find elements for. I saw several lattice techniques with this particular diagonal strip placement, and this one came from Melinda's Rubber Room.  This card is VERY effective with a larger medallion centered on the lattice top, but today I needed an Easter Card!

Impossible Card

 This little Easter card is created with SU Perennial Lavender DP and White Cardstock with sentiment in purple ink with the font Virginia Antique. The Rabbit is from a Creative Fabrica designer.  The Tutorial that inspired this design was from Split Coast Stampers , Diana Kowal, Designer

Easter Treat Boxes

 

This little treat box is representative of about fifteen that I made--each slightly different, of course.  I made a dozen for St Patrick's Day too.  

Most of the elements I used on the St Patrick's Day  treat boxes were by

Laurie Furnell at etsy.

I made seventeen of these and not one looked like another

Please see these  In Reene's Room--along with her excellent tutorial for making them.

Pop Up Triple Easel Card

 This card was inspired by Lisa Curcio (Lisa's Stamp Studio)  in her March 11 Premier Tutorial for fun-fold Pop Up Easel Cards.  Tip:  Watch the cutting dimensions on the card base carefully.
I used papers from the Simon Says Stamp March Cardmaking Kit, and graphics from Watercolor Easter Day Bunnies clipart by Creative Fabrica AI artists

Second card, created with the same paper options, and Laurie Furnell spring gnomes

Plant your garden of life with friendships

Welcome to the World Calan

 

Fun with Stampin Up

 A fun three project workshop led by Dian Minor Stampin Up Demonstrator in Mesquite today produced a darling Hershey Kiss Wrapper, a pretty "It's a Good day-To Have a Good Day" general greeting card, and a pretty birthday card with a pocket.

The little peeking around the corner rabbit is from my stash but the rest of the papers and greetings and ephemera are  SU products.

Happy Birthday Cake

 

This wonderful interactive card is created with the Pretty Pink Posh Interactive Cake Die Set.  It is inspired by the video created by Jennifer Mc Guire  "Interactive Birthday Cards" 02-02-24  The top tier of the cake pulls up to reveal a gift card.

A special Valentine

 Inspired by Lisa Curcio's "Faux Shutter Card", and a card we made in Diane Minor's Stampin Up  February workshop. I used the penny Black "Line of Hearts Die" and an old "I heart you" SU Dies.  This uses the "Most Adored" DP

This is the second project  Valentine we created at Diane Minor's Stampin Up workshop.  It's a double card flip out.  I will use this design often.... SO versatile. These papers and hearts are all Stampin Up products in their Bee Mine designer paper collection and in the "Adoring Hearts " Embossing folder and sampset combo.  The Adoring Hearts cutting and double embossing folder is a great product with  a great technique, and SO many possibilities. 

 

Prism Treat Boxes.

 These Treat Boxes were inspired by Clareene's techniques on InReene'sRoom  This little gift box was first seen on  Paper Pixie, and has been found in several variations on other crafter's sites. This will be our March Papers N Pixels meeting workshop project, with SEVERAL themes available for the crafters.  There's a fabulous video on Clar's website for how to do these, and quite a few Prism Gift Boxes there to inspire you.