Happy Fathers Day

I made this Fathers Day card for my hubby with the Simon Sais Stamp kit for the month of June. Since he has to bring all the supplies to me, and would know everything I was using to make his card, it worked out perfect. Other than my paper trimmer and a couple of totes full of supplies, he only had to bring me the box with the kit in it. Of course, I have to make it with him in the room, but, he didn't peek. The only thing that wasn't in the kit was the metal, lifetime piece. I hope all of the Fathers in your lives have a wonderful Fathers Day. My Dad is in Heaven..........Happy Fathers day Dad.

Thinking of You

My 2nd cased card. This design is from Lezlies Ink & Paper Creations. I don't have the border die, or the flower die that she used. I used an old flower die from Quickutz and an EK large border die. I added a bow to the flower stems and used my Candi for the flower centers. I ran the flowers through my Cuttlebug, with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. Now it's time to get back to making up my own cards, but I want to give credit to the original creators of these cards. I love their creations.

Ecactly the same, but different

My kids used to say this and it cracked me up. These two cards were made using a few items from the Simon Says May card kit. The peach colored heart trim and the vellum are from the kit. I used my own patterned paper, cardstock, pearls, and butterfly die. The vellum layer on the butterfly is a really nice, heavy weight vellum from the kit, and it worked really well. I cased the design of the card from Vickypgr on You Tube. In fact I cased two cards this week. The other one is the post above this one. I don't usually case cards, but, these two have been in the back of my mind for awhile and I decided to make them.  I added the pearls and used different colors. She used flowers and sealing wax, where I have the butterfly and the hanging hearts. Hope everyone has some fun summer plans. tfl.......d

Some fun new products

I had chemo on Tuesday and was feeling pretty good yesterday, so hubby took me to JoAnns, and Hobby Lobby. I found some fun new products that I can't wait to play with. There's nothing like new craft supplies to put me in a happy mood! I see a lot of people using the project life system. They were doing daily pics and weekly pages, and I thought that wasn't for me because my grandkids pics are mostly on my kids computers. I had a 'duh' moment when HSN had the kits on a craft day. I don't have to do it weekly, I can just use the pages and insert cards for any kind of page. I have been collecting project life products and am going to give it a whirl. I think (if my anal personality will let me) I will mix regular 12x12 pages with project life pages. I won't post my scrapbooking on my blog because I am not a scrapbooker and they will probably be pretty simple. I don't want to stop making cards, but, since I am stage 4 cancer, I need to think about what I am leaving behind for my kids. I always told myself (these past 9 years of cancer battling) if I go and don't have scrapbooking done, I will be really mad at myself, and here it is 9 years later and I only have a few pages done. It's time to kick it in gear and get these photos in albums so my grandkids will be able to look at them and know how much I love them. So, now it will be a mix of cards and scrapbooking. I have so many photos and am so behind! Have a great day and please comment on any ways you know, to get scrapbooking done quickly!

Hang in there video

Hang in there cards

These cards were made with a stamp from Tiddly Inks and an embossing folder from Darice. I chalked the cloud background and also inked around the edges of the cards. Added some ribbon with a colored staple and popped the images up with mounting tape. I colored the image with my Copics. I'm still learning with them, but, I love using them. tfl......d

Sizzix camera die card

This card was made with a Sizzix camera die. It's one of the new thin, wafer type. I think this camera die can be pretty versatile. It comes in a plastic envelope type package, and takes up a lot less space than the steel ruled dies do. I think I'm going to like this new concept. tfl......d

Sizzix camera die card video

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I made a video of the two Just Swingin cards but there is a problem loading it here on my blog. It's on You Tube under mickeydee1.

Just Swingin cards

These two cards were made with the Spellbinders die named Just Swingin. I made one as a Sympathy card and the other is an everyday card. I have always wanted to make a stash of extra cards and never seem to accomplish it. Hopefully, this is just a start to my extra card stash! tfl.....dianne