Window Birthday

This is sort of a left-over piece from my SCT class. For one company, I was supposed to cut out a window similar to this one. I thought I would do it on my Cameo Silhouette, since I had no die to cut out this shape. However, my Silhouette would not work with my computer! So, I left it for quite a while. A week or two ago, a friend came over and fixed my problem. So, I now had four pieces like this. I glued them together for sturdiness. Then I thought a silhouette stamp would be good behind the window, so I ink blended and added the stamp from Gina K. I think the sentiment is from Gina K, too, but I'm not certain because it came from my card parts. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

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July Calendar Page

And now it's time for the July calendar page. Here it is! I used my Cameo Silhouette for this month. I drew a black line around the edge of the heart to highlight the edges. Happy July!

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July Calendar Page

This has to be the simplest calendar page I've ever done!! I printed and cut this out on my Cameo Silhouette and added it the page. Happy July!!

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Happy Fourth of July???

Crazy, I know - but here is a Fourth of July card in September. You'll be seeing this image again next July 1 on my calendar page, but hopefully you'll have forgotten it by then. I know that I will! At any rate, I printed these cones and cut them out with my Cameo Silhouette. I added Star Dust Stickles to the white areas of the ice cream. The patterned paper is from Recollections. I printed the sentiment with my computer and used bright blue foil on it. Hard to see that in the photo.

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July Calendar Page

Wow - it's almost July 4th! Totally amazing how the summer is flying by! Here is my calendar page for the month. I used my Cameo Silhouette for the heart and the patterned paper is from an old matstack from Recollections. Happy July!

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February Calendar Page

Wow, it was just Christmas and the New Year, except that now it's February already! Here is my calendar page for the month. If you are interested in the Excel file that I use to print my blank calendars, you can find it under my blog title. The heart and the matting for it were cut on my Cameo Silhouette. Happy February!

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July Calendar Page

Here is my calendar page for July. It was done using my Cameo Silhouette, as I usually do for July.

I have actually made a very few cards recently. I hope to be able to have time to upload them before too long. Nothing going on really - just very busy with life! Fun stuff - nothing bad at all!!

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July Calendar Page

And here is my July calendar page. I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut all the pieces for this page. It was a lot of gluing to make fifteen calendars, but at least I didn't have to die-cut all the pieces!

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Another Rose Anniversary

I just love these realistic-looking roses, stamped with layered stamps and die-cut with dies from Sunny Studio. I have several more of them stamped and ready to use. The leaves are stamped and cut with the same sets. The rose on the right is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I had used my Cameo Silhouette to cut out a heart for an earlier card. I used the negative part of the die cut as a stencil, and sponged ink onto the front panel for a background.

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Happy Anniversary, Vicki and Gary!

My friend, Vicki, and her husband got married on the Fourth of July - a few years ago:) So, this year I decided to send them a patriotic anniversary. card. I cut the parts with my Cameo Silhouette. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. Happy Anniversary, Vicki!

I am entering this card into the Repeat Impressions challenge found on The House That Stamps Built blog. The challenge is to use red, white and blue.

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July Calendar Page

Amazingly, it's July already!! Here is my calendar page for the month. I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut out the pieces.

My calendar files are available for download from the link underneath my blog title. I'd love to hear from you if you use them, or if you have problems and would like a little more help.

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OOPS! - July Calendar Page

Oops - I guess you get two posts today, since I forgot to schedule my calendar page:) But, better late than never, so here it is. I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut all the pieces for this page. I had to glue eight pieces on each page. May not sound like a whole lot, but I do make 15 calendars. At least very early on in the process, I realized I could use the scrap piece as a guide for placing the red stripes!

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November Calendar Page

Here is my November calendar page. The sentiment was done on my Camel Silhouette. The patterned paper is from a Recollections matstack.

I can't believe it's November already! I am doing terribly on my 2018 calendars:( I'm going to really have to buckle down and get them done.

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July Calendar Page

My calendar page for July. I did the cutting with my Cameo Silhouette out of red, white and blue cardstock. Just a lot of pieces to glue on to my fifteen calendars:)

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Happy Hanukkah!

Here is my Hanukkah card for the year. I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut out the "Happy Hanukkah" from "holographic" paper. (The paper/cardstock was from Crayola. I bought it MANY years ago from a dollar store. I THINK that this is the same stuff, from Amazon.) I added the cut-out to an almost navy cardstock, then matted with shimmery silver paper and mounted on foam squares. The background - with shiny silver snowflakes - is from a large matstack from several years ago from Recollections. I matted it with the almost-navy cardstock.


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Silhouette-Cut Flowers

I've been making progress on my next year's calendars - just one image to finish coloring and I'll be caught up. (Will have finished next year's calendar pages through August. I like to get them done a year in advance so that when December rolls around they are ready to be gifted.) These flowers were leftovers from one of the month's for next year's calendar. They will look quite different on the calendar:) 

I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut them. I first did "practice" ones in white. The ones on the calendar were cut with colored cardstock. I didn't want to throw the white ones away, of course, so I kept them and used Copic markers to color them. I intentionally left the colors a little "mottled." I matted with a matching green cardstock. The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set.

I'll probably be taking a bit of a break. Our daughter and her family will be coming up for a little over a week, so I doubt I will have any stamping time. I'll be back, though! :)

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July Calendar Page

I cut these pieces on my Cameo Silhouette. The text is a stamp from a dollar Studio G set from ages ago. I used markers to color.

If you would like to make your own calendars using my files, you can find the files on a separate page of my blog. The links are under the blog header.

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Christmas Holly

I took a little time today and spent it in my stamping room. I had more "card parts" out and found several of these holly leaves I had cut out with my Cameo Silhouette a couple years ago. Time to use them up! So I made this card and liked it well enough that I made ten more. Sixty Christmas cards done - about twenty to go.

As I said, the holly was cut on my Silhouette out of glitter cardstock. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I added red gems (yes, they really ARE red and not black) for the holly berries and also to add a little balance at the end of the sentiment. I matted with green cardstock.

Since this is a Christmas card, I am linking it up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. The theme this week is "Anything Goes."

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Happy Birthday, Jim!

It was my husband's birthday last Friday. This is the card I made for him - very quickly!

I cut the grass and golf balls on tees with my Cameo Silhouette - once from green and once from white. I ripped off the balls and tees from the green one and glued the grass onto the white one. I drew the lines with a fine marker and embossed the balls with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I mounted that piece on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Happy Birthday to You!

Another "card parts" card. The flowers were stamped and die-cut a couple years ago at our Group Gathering. I added some color to them with Copic markers. I mounted them on foam squares. The background was cut a while ago on my Cameo Silhouette. It's a coppery color. The sentiment is from Stampendous. It's matted and also mounted on foam squares.

I have not been babysitting Wyatt for about four weeks now, and will have another month and a half off. I have a long "to-do" list and am making great progress. One of the items on my list was to go to Omaha and visit a couple of my stamping friends. I just got back yesterday afternoon. What an awesome time! We had over two full days of stamping and visiting time - what could be better! Thank you SO much, Sheri and Georgia!!!

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