Recycled Anniversary!

This is an anniversary card I made for my hubby. The glossy center is a repurposed piece from a stash my mother had in a small box we found in her closet. I do not know where it came from, but she had obviously cut it off of some sort of a calendar because there is a partial yearly calendar printed on the backside. 

Can you see in the shiny part how it looks like brushstrokes? Well, it looks like a little "painting" to me! She had cut out and saved several of these little "paintings" in all sorts of designs! I wish I knew why she had saved them, (sigh) oh well... 

As you can see, I matted it and then attached the whole panel to a card base. Wrapped baker's twine around it a few times and tied on the metal sentiment tag. With all those hearts, it really shows how much I still love my sweetie-poo-pie after all these years and he liked it... red is his fave color, so it worked out well, LOL!! :)

I'll have a few more recycled cards to show you in the coming days, so I hope you'll come back by here soon.

Have a great day!

My First Attempt at Bokeh

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For my first attempt at the bokeh technique, I made an anniversary card for my BFF and her hubby in their favorite colors. (Don't ask me why his fave is black, because I don't know, LOL!)

I started with 2 Lindy's Stamp Gang's Starburst Sprays in a pink and an orange color. The photos do not show all the shimmery goodness of these two-toned shimmer sprays that I love so much!..... anyway... I let that totally dry before stenciling the circles in a white pigment ink, trying to make a variety in both size and opaque-ness.. (a new word, LOL!) of the circles.... I will definitely need more practice with that!!

After letting it dry overnight, I stamped the swallowtail butterfly in Versamark and heat-embossed it with a super-fine black EP.

I matted the bokeh panel on black cardstock, added some fancy black upholstery braid across the top and accented it with a silver metal swirl. 

Then added the entire thing to the card front with super strong Scor Tape.

Sentiment is stamped on the inside along with a second-generation image of the swallowtail... (I should have done 3rd generation, aka stamped-off twice, before stamping the card...hindsight is 20/20!)

I'll need more practice with this bokeh technique, but I do think it's so pretty. Thanks for coming to take a look :)

Supply List:
Stampin' Up Swallowtail Butterfly stamp
Lindy's Stamp Gang's Starburst Sprays - 2 colors
CTMH White Daisy pigment ink
CTMH ink - Cotton Candy
Versamark
super-fine black embossing powder
Scor Tape
braid trim and silver metal swirl from stash
sentiment stamp ??? 

Using Up My Stash!

Just a quick card I made for a friend having surgery. I was able to use up a little more of the vast array that has become "my stash"!!

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List of supplies used:
stamped sentiment - Stampin' Up Thoughts & Prayers
card stock - CTMH Colonial White & Amethyst
patterned paper - CTMH Bella (retired)
trim - CTMH crochet ribbon
Bazzill bosher

Thanks for stopping by today! :)

Chalkboard Sign

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I decorated this store-bought chalkboard for my BFF and her hubby's 40th anniversary. Only the white squiggly lines and dots around the edges were on it. I used a chalk paint pen to do the rest.

Here's a close-up of the flower arrangement. The flowers and ghost leaves are from I Am Roses... and I hand-painted the teal one with Lindy's Stamp Gang's Magicals.... added the twine and a few copper sequins and called it done!

Hope you stop by again. Have a great day!

Heart Flourish Cards

Just some anniversary cards I made using the heart flourish from Impression Obsession:

Also used Got paper flowers and Martha Stewart lace border punch. Thanks for stopping by :)