Happy Birthday Joyce!

 

My precious friend of over 20 years is 96 years young today.  Happy Birthday Joyce. Have a wonderful day and a great celebration of everything awesome that YOU ARE!

May 2021 Papers n Pixels Possibilities

 This quick and easy gate fold card is created from a 5 1/2 x 12 piece of double sided designer paper and is inspired by Lisa Curcio's "Best Gate Fold Card"  (There is s a cutting error in her video-- the paper for this card is 5 1/2"x 12..not 11")   The flowers are designed by Laurie Furnell Designs in her digital kit "Birdhouses", available in her esty store.

Another fun fold that I am considering is Lisa Curcio's Double Diamond card which you can see HERE

 

 

 

 

 

And we may work in "Curvy" card.  SO Easy and Fun
Inspired by tutorial at Lisa's Stamp Studio "PartyPuffins" she Called "Curvy Pop Up Card"

I used some leftover DP from SU, and gnome graphics designed by Laurie Furnell in her "Garden Gnomes" set.  Also gold line stickers from Pop Ups Etc and some sparkle spritz on the Night of Navy band.These stand up for display and flatten for A2 card size mailing.  PERFECT!

Origami Gift flip out box

 

 

Origami Gift Box original tutorial by Vicki Hook 2016.  (Unavailable)   This box is created with black cardstock and Graphic 45 Paper from the Raining Cats and Dogs Collection (Cats Meow) 4500957. The butterfly is from the Sixxiz thinlets set #661182 Detailed Butterflies.  The Butterfly is cut from shimmer cardstock and black, with a vellum underlay.  It is edged with Graphic 45 matching inks and stickles.  This is a Scor-Pal project with a 1/8" scorboard helpful.  The box is close to a 3" cube.

 

Kittens and Kupcakes

 

Created with Taylored Expressions Mini-Tri Fold Hexagonal Die

 

Easter Comes Once More

 And a start on cards for friends and family this year:

A Special Thank You

 

This Mini Flip--Pop 'n Twist Thank you card is for my BFF. She sent me the greatest crafting "must have's" for my birthday and so here's the fun thank you card, I made for her..  The star background is by Granny  Enchanted  solid cardstock is from SU and the Owl (of course) rhinestone sticker is by Recollections (Michaels.)  Thi8s tiny flip out die doesn't come with instructions, but one very good tutorial for this size is by Shrshti Patil  She doesn't use this die, rather builds the same size card from scratch.

For my BFF 70th BD

 

This card is created with Taylored Expressions Mini Slim Tri Fold Dies.  The cardsize is 10 1/2 x 6 tri folded, and the dies and stencils used are the hexagonal design. 

Double Diamond Card

 

A fancy folds card using this design (created by Lisa Curcio) called Double Diamond Card is one of my choices for the May Papers N Pixels Club meeting this year. This starts with a 4" x 10" piece of paper that is folded to create this wonderful multidimensional  card that flattens for easy mailing. There's plenty of room on the back for a personal note.

Papers N Pixels-=--March 18th

 Just in time for Easter, we'll have wonderful fun with the Stable Door Card, under the direction of President Clareene Forbes. Creating a Stable Door card is easy: Fold 8 1/2" by 11" (Standard US Letter size cardstock)  in half at the 4 1/2" mark. Then fold that piece in half again, and cut half of the top off  to the foldline. Then embellish watching placement of your embellishments and labels.  You can create 2 cards from one sheet of  cardstock. See how Clareene so cleverly lined up and matched the Easter Eggs to the background on this card!  

 

Or, consider creating a DOUBLE stable door.  Like Heidi Smith did Below.  Heidi has fabulous "fancy fold" tutorials on her UK website.

Card 11-5/8 x 5-3/4 inches

Score long at 3 7/8 (from both ends)

Turn to portrait and cut top and bottom section  (2-7/8 inches)

Welcome to Mesquite Ross and Johnnie

 To welcome our pastor and his wife to Mesquite as they move here permanently.

WELCOME to our wonderful little town.  WE are SO LUCKY to have you here with us, and we wish YOU the best of luck, wonderful new beginnings, amazing memories and happy times.!