Changing paper colors in Word.

 Lindsay's Stamp Stuff is having a great sale, 50% off  on May 25 and 26 so stop by and see what she has!  I made this card with the multi colored chevron paper from Lindsay's  Hugs and Kisses Valentine papers, that's right Valentines papers!  The paper in the set is shades of red, pink, yellow and green.  I pulled the image up in Word and went to my tools "change color" (I have added change color to my toolbar because I use it quite often) and I selected both the light blue and the darker blue right below it.  I love changing paper colors in Word, it makes your papers so much more versatile!  Of course I used my Perfect Layers rulers to get that clean 1/16" edge behind the lighter chevron layer.  That really gives it so much more dimension.  Follow my link and use Bove5% for 5% off Perfect Layers Rulers. The Tinkerbell stamps are from JoAnns I colored them with Letraset markers and Spica Atyou sparkle pens.  I used Stickles on the wings.  I printed the lighter chevron on copy paper and used it for the envelope liner.  I am sure Kayla will love this card, after all she loves Tinkerbell.  I used a Spellbinders die to cut the birthday sentiment and I trimmed it with StampinUp Stampin Spots Almost Navy.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Warm Wedding Wishes

 Good Morning.  This card uses Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Beautiful Gown Cards SVG set.   I cut the dress in Kraft and in white vellum.  I embossed the vellum and the card front, added some gold corner stickers, pearls and I used my Spellbinders to cut the computer printed message.  I added a little Tim Holtz distress ink to make the white on white stand out a bit.  I'm sure you can tell I used my  Perfect Squares tool  to get the precise edges and alignments on this card.  That's it, thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Sweet 5 x 5 note cards

 I made these sweet 5 x 5 note cards with Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Beautiful Gown Cards SVG set.  I love how easy these were to put together.  I used the pretty Cosmo Cricket papers I won from Laurel on her  Inspired by challenge blog  to line them with.  I was able to get 3 inside linings out of 1 6x6 sheet too.  I cut the sheet 3/4" x 6"  3 times and glued that to the inside so it shows through the scallop when the card is closed, then I cut 3,  2" wide pieces from the remaining sheet.  I always use a white paper liner inside my cards so you can't tell I skimped on the designer paper.  I embossed the cards before I glued the insides too.  Well thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Sharing the most beautiful gifts and my sweet friend..

This is from my sweet friend Valerie, her blog is called Bastelmania, you must visit her!  The sweet hand made card with the beautiful fence and flower, I wish you could see the gorgeous deep embossing on it too, my camera did not really pick it up.

This is a close up of the beautiful roses and daisies and  look at that ribbon!  I have never seen anything like this before!  The red satin  ribbon has sweet little chipboard butterflies and it is a double strand with the pearl balls on it too, just gorgeous!  The beautiful blue sheer ribbon has beautiful satin flowers along with the double strand and a pearl ball and a leaf, totally gorgeous!

 

And the suspense continues, see the pretty package all wrapped up in tissue and more pretty paper underneath I forgot to photograph.  Like how I made you wait like I did :)

Now look what was inside!  Isn't this the most gorgeous wall plaque you have ever seen!  There is so much detail in this, the tiny seed beads, the jewelry pieces, the dragonfly, flowers and strands.  There are so many layers to this, it is totally exquisite!

All of this my sweet friend Valerie sent me!  I could not believe my eyes when I opened this package of sheer beauty.  I actually gasped when I opened the little wrapped package with the plaque inside, I had seen it on her blog and really admired all the intricate details, along with being my favorite color combination too.  I must say this really did make me tear up, the sweetness of someone so far away, that I get to be friends with through our blogs.  I am so fortunate, and so very grateful, for the wonderful gifts and for the wonderful friend you are Valerie.  Oh and I did not photograph it but the box was all decorated with an angel and flowers and a star, my mail man said there must be something very special inside here, I knew there was.  There was also a quote which was very touching and oh so true.  "A friend is one who can touch your heart from across the world or across the room" Anonymous.  I am hanging this in my craft room so I can admire it all day long.  And to remind me how fortunate I am to be blogging and meeting new friends across the oceans.  Thank you Valerie, you totally made my (I was going to say day) month!  I am really touched by your kindness.  Please do stop by her blog, she is an amazing artist on so many levels using so many different mediums too!  And I keep telling her she should be writing a book, she is an excellent author too!

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Cute cards and a thank you.

 

I won Laurel's Inspired by challenge with my umbrella card and this is the sweet prize she sent me, thank you Laurel!  I love the card you sent along with the Cosmo Cricket papers and Maya Road chipboard, those flags look fun!  I hope you will stop by Laurel's blog and her Inspired by challenge blog both, she is a very talented lady, published many times over!

Today I am sharing a couple of cards I made for a friend.  One is for a Disney lover, the other is for a 14 year old boy.   I found a Tigger image that claimed to be copyright free, I'm not sure but this is 1 card for a friend, not being mass produced so I should be OK.  I made it into a pop up card.  This is the first time I made a pop up with the window on the front.  It was a challenge but I love how it came out.  I cut the window with my Spellbinders die.  My second card is Angry Birds and it was a free birthday kit from Sherry K Designs at My Graphico.  I can't take credit for anything other than printing it onto some photo paper and some fussy cutting so I could mount it to add a little dimension.  Sherry K really did all the design work on this layout.  Well that's it for today.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Pretty in Pink Saturday

 Thank you Beverly for hosting the Pink Saturdays, they are always such a pleasure to participate in.  I have met so many wonderful bloggers through your site and I have seen so many beautiful blogs because of your sharing spirit.   Beverly,  I know you suggested we pick a blog we have never visited but I am changing that to pick a favorite blogger I met through Pink Saturdays my Pink Sisters I will call them.  So my Pink Sister this week is, Sherry, of Country Wings .  You will love her blog, it's a bit eclectic, and filled with beauty.  I never know what to expect, beautiful flowers, crafts and things from her home.  Don't you just love looking in the windows as you stroll by? 

 Whew, I hope you don't mind seeing another card I made with Lindsays great  Printable and SVG set called Beautiful Gown and Favor   I love how it looks in pink!  I cut this twice, once in white card stock and again in vellum.  I used some Tim Holtz distress in Spun Sugar on the edges of the dress then embossed the vellum layer.  I glued the strand of pearls, added the tiny rose to the waistband.  The background is a piece of lace I cut to fit the card and I used a Stampin up punch along the edge of the deep pink paper.  I used my  Perfect Layers rulers to get the precise edges and alignments on this card.  There is a  5% discount if you use coupon code Bove5%.  For the gorgeous liner on this card I used Kissing Booth product line from Basic Grey part of my RAK from Flying Unicorn.    The tiny mirror is a piece of jewlery from Blue Moon.  Sorry this got so long, Have a good weekend and enjoy your Pink Saturday.  

Thanks for looking ~Diane

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Gorgeous win from Flying Unicorn!

 I am sorry (and embarrassed) it took so long to post my win from The Flying Unicorn.  I won this gorgeous blog hop RAK on Helenes blog, Lotsa Scrap from 2 AM Scrapper.  This is the fabulous Kissing Booth product line from Basic Grey, isn't it gorgeous!  You know what a paper hoarder I am and this paper was just too beautiful to just cut into!  I wanted to wait and post my appreciation with something that I made with it.   Flying Unicorn is truly a One of a Kind store, they carry beautiful papers, gorgeous vintage stamps, all sorts of masks, and chipboard.   They have these gorgeous Kits of the Month full of wonderful goodies!  The April kit had a wooden birdhouse and it was awesome!  They are totally off the page when it comes to their kits, not just papers and flowers.   Many thanks to Helene and the Flying Unicorn for this beautiful prize!

The great golfing image is from Free Vintage Digital Stamps, a new blog I recently found on someones blog.  Lots of great images!  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Here comes the Bride

And yes. this was fun, just like playing with Barbie dolls!  Best part is that you can snag this and any of Lindsays other fabulous sets for 40% off on Thursday 4/26/2012.  Lindsay made this awesome Printable and SVG set called Beautiful Gown and Favor,  I love it!  Thank you Lindsay, I hope you will sell a lot since you were so sweet to make the set.  She let me make the pieces for the cover. =)  I used the SVG to cut the dress, and I used the printable to cut the vellum overlay, my cricut is on it's last leg!  I am saving my pennies to buy the E Craft by Craftwell, it looks like an awesome machine, and no mats too!  (would love to know if anyone owns one) I embossed the vellum then added the lace to the skirt.  I used the same lace with the veil and added lots of rhinestones, just because!  I used my Perfect Layers rulers to get the nice clean borders, love that tool!  I used some foam mounting tape under the dress to give it some lift.  I don't think you can see it, but there is a piece of  sheer tulle under the lace veil.  The white dress on the white embossed background did not pop that much, so I added a little Tim Holtz distress ink in Antique Linen.  This photo makes the envie liner and the antique linen look much deeper than they really are.  

 I am linking up to Make it Monday , and a really big thanks to all the ladies on the DT who make this possible and take the time to visit us.   Mary J, Rene, Lisa M, Shirley Anne, Chrissy, Michelle, Karen and Kerrie.

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Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

Another Pink Saturday rolls around.

Thank you Beverly for hosting the Pink Saturdays, they are always such a pleasure to participate in.  I have met so many wonderful bloggers through your site and I have seen so many beautiful blogs because of your sharing spirit.   And in the true spirit of Pink Saturdays I will share another one of my favorite stops  Pats Pink Apron.  Pat is witty and fun, her blog has great recipes and gorgeous tablescapes.  Tablescapes, last year I would not have even known what that meant.  There is another whole world of bloggers who showcase the most beautiful table settings with the prettiest china, the kind that make you drool.  Pat shares another of my passions, collecting cookbooks.  I hope you will take some time and visit Pat at Pats Pink Apron.  

For today's card I used a beautiful free print from Emily at Sweetly Scrapped, she shares such beautiful vintage graphics on her blog too.  I printed it on the Epson matte presentation paper that I grabbed at Staples for $2.99 for 50 sheets.  I always watch Staples for great bargains on photo paper it makes a huge difference when printing vintage artwork and digital papers.  I also used my Perfect Layers rulers to get the precise edges and alignments on this card.  That beautiful square doily was cut from Lindsays Stamp Stuff Decorative Doilies SVG.  I used some Tim Holtz distress ink on the lace and the edges of the card.  I embossed the white card stock too.

OK, so by now I guess a few of you have noticed I have a problem with Word Verification.  I learned something new yesterday, after requesting something more legible to enter, for the 15th time, at a sweet bloggers site, I noticed there was also a "?" button along with the (garbled) audio and pick another scribbled unreadable mess button.  I pressed that little button and it let me "Contact Us" that allowed me to tell Google  I  have a problem reading the new version of Word Verification.  I hope a few of you will take a minute and let them know what you think about it too.  Maybe if enough of us complain they might figure out something better.  Thanks for looking and thanks for listening.  ~Diane
I am entering this in the challenge at:
The Stamp Man - shabby chic / distressed

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