Turkish Coffee

 

Rule the world, start with coffee!  Funny how in America i don't have much coffee, but here in Turkiye, I do love to sit down with a cup of it.  I wonder how many years of traveling here it will take me before I am really just hooked on coffee and want to go get it no matter what.  Hmmmm.  Speaking of, they do have Starbucks in Istanbul.  I wonderful if the coffee tastes different there or the same as in America.  I would say, Enquiring minds want to know, but I don't want to know bad enough to stand in line and pay for it, lol!

Happy Monday

 Happy Monday everyone!  Just three weeks of school left.  I am getting excited now (lol, just kidding, I have been excited all this time).  Thought today was a good day to start off the week with a coffee theme card. This cutie is made by My Favorite Things

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Perk Up

 Happy Saturday everyone!  I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. Can you believe we are almost halfway through November?  WOW.  Just a month and a half left of 2021.  Another crazy year it has been.  Sharing this cute card today, the stamps come from My Favorite Things.

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HEY--I'm so excited to announce that I added a store to etsy to sell Turkish Lace it's HERE:

LacePlaceByHolley

Check it out, I'd love your feedback.  Right now I am doing small amounts with pieces big enough for cards and smaller (like tag sized), but if you LMK what you want, I can make a pack just for you!!

Who loves you?

Here's a fun image from My Favorite Things, I just love this little girl dressed up like an Owl, she's precious as can be!  I added a sweet sentiment "Hoo Hoo Hoo, Who loves You?"  Too cute!  I hope you are having a great week post Thanksgiving holidays.

I am about to start back at the school and we now have three and a half weeks until Christmas break.  Is it bad that I am counting lol?

Easter Cheers

Here's another adorable image from Digistampcharacters.  I thought I would have a chance to share at least one Easter theme card before the end of the month.  She is just too cute.  She has a great store on Etsy where she sells her cute stamps.  I am sure many of you have some clear stamps from asst companies of her images.

What kind of projects do you like the best?

Cardmaking?  scrapbooking?  mixed media?  Jewelry? other?

let me know what projects you do.

I am about 95% card making. I will do some scrapbooking or mixed media projects on occasion.

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Poppy Girl

Here's another wonderful image from DigiStampCharacters!  I just love this artists images. I have many of them in clear stamps.  I even have a couple of prizes of this artist's work in clear stamp form. She sells them in Digi format on Etsy, CLICK HERE

Do you like to use word stamps?  word stickers?  or do you write text? use alphabets? or just make cards without words on them?

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Hi-ya

Here's a quick and cute, fun boy theme card that I made for a friend who likes martial arts. It's from a set of My Favorite Things stamps.  Too cute. I love this adorable teddy.  I hope you are all having a great weekend. 

Can you believe we are halfway through April? I can't, I just had a family member contact me and ask me to make her some graduation announcements.  Oh, I can remember when this kiddo was born, hard to believe she is graduating high school. Wow. 

Have a beautiful Sunday. Many Blessings

Cheers, Holley

Guest Artists: Kelly S and Nikki C

Here's a gorgeous card from Kelly S.  It's really stunning, the flowers are embossed in an orange colors (you know that's my fav color!!)  and match the background paper, the brad and the ink just perfectly.  I think the scanner kind of makes it a little bit brighter than it looks in person.  You can run your finger over it and feel the beautiful flowers.

 what lovely work Kelly! Thanks so much for your beautiful embossed thank you card.

Here's another wonderful card that I rec'd from artist Nikki C from Canada

The top image is the front of the card and the 2nd image is the inside of the card.  WOW!!  just amazing work.  She put a cute little note in there that she made me this card because she knows that yellow/orange are my favorite colors.  Yep. She's right about that.  So right.  I just love her beautiful work.  What a treat.  It sure made a cold and mostly rainy week into a wonderful sunshiney week.

Cheers, Holley

Butterfly Kisses

Here's the cutest little girl from My Favorite Things. She's sending some butterfly kisses....those are for John. Miss you John. They are floating through the air, so I don't know how long they will take to reach you, but sometime when you are sleeping, you will feel them on your cheek.Project Materials: Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah, DCWV); Stamps (My Favorite Things); Ink (Memento); Ribbon (Jo Anns); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Ribbon Glue); Color (Copic Markers); Die Cut (Spellbinders Nestabilties)

You make my world happy!

Here's a wonderful girl from My Favorite Things. This adorable stamp is one that my DH gave me for christmas. She comes with cute sayings to go with her. The saying I used here though actually comes with another MFT set. You make my world happy! That's him. He makes me happy. I hope that I make you happy with this card today :)The beautiful papers on this card are from Paper Temptress. The shimmery cardstock on the bottom is Sapphire Mica. The textured specialty paper in black is called black ruche (crepe). The white paper I used is heavenly white. If you see the link on the right hand side to the Paper Temptress website, there's also a discount code you can use next time you purchase there!
Catherine A, your package went into the mail today!

Project Materials: Cardstock (Paper Temptress); Rubber Stamps (My Favorite Things); Ink (Memento); Border Punch (Martha Stewart); Buttons (Jesse James, Grandma's Button Bag); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots); DieCuts (Spellbinders-Nestabilities); Color (Copic Markers);

Being cute is what I do!

This little girl is from My Favorite Things. She's from an adorable stamp set that my husband gave me at christmas time. I just love the way she turned out on this card. She even comes with cute sayings including the one I used here. "Being cute is what I do!"Project Materials: Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk); Stamps (My Favorite Things); Flowers (Prima); Brads (Unknown); Bling (Queen & Co.); Die Cuts (Spellbinders-Nestabilities); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue dots, Glue All); Color (Copic Markers);

I simply adore you!

Here's one of the wonderful stamps that I got for christmas. This stamp is from The Greeting Farm. I simply adore this cute girl, so I used an "adorable" saying from one of the My Favorite Things sets that was also a christmas gift from the DH. Don't you ladies love it when your husband buys you stamps?
These wonderful specialty papers all come from the Paper Temptress. The black paper is a wonderful crepe style paper that has a beautiful texture (see here); The green paper is a shimmmery mica paper called Emerald(see here); the white paper is called heavenly white (see here); There's a coupon code in the left hand column for the next time you go shopping at the Paper Temptress, use the code to get a discount!!

Project Materials: Cardstock (Paper Temptress); Rubber Stamps (Anya-The Greeting Farm; Saying-My Favorite Things); Die Cuts (Spellbinders-Nestabilities); Ink (Memento); Buttons (Jesse James); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots); Color (Copic Marker);

Paper Temptress Happy Fall Y'all

Here's a cute scarecrow card to start off some fun fall cards. Now that Halloween is over, I have some fall theme cards I wanna share. This cute scarecrow comes from My Favorite Things. All the papers used here are from The Paper Temptress.There's a coupon for you in the right hand column for the Paper Temptress store. She has wonderful ribbons and lovely papers of all kinds.

Project Materials: Cardstock (The Paper Temptress); Rubber Stamps (Scarecrow, Owls: My Favorite Things Stamps; Saying:Stampendous); Ink (Memento; Colorbox Chalk); Buttons (American Traditional); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue dots, Glue All); Color (Copic Markers);