Jeremiah 29:11

I LOVE this scripture!  How awesome is it our God wants only good for us!  This stamp is from Verve, a internet stamp company.  They have a lot of nice stamps.  The card is 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock.  The front panel is PTI Ocean Tides cardstock.  The 4x5 piece was embossed with Seeing Spots Cuttlebug folder.  The tag was cut with PTI Tag Sale #3.  The Verve Stamp ( http://shopverve.com/vs-09-002.html ) was inked with Ocean Tides ink.  The PTI Love Lives Here butterfly die was used to cut a piece of Ocean Tides paper and was adhered to the top of the tag with a pop dot.  The center heart from the die was glued to the bottom of the tag.  I found some embroidery floss almost the perfect color in my stash.  A mini clothespin on the floss finished the card.

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Susan

Travel Theme

I have been wanting to post these cards for awhile.  I decide to do them all in one post as they all came from the same sheet of paper.  I was LUCKY enough last summer to find a HUGE pack of Me and My Big Ideas ~ 12x12 Journey paper.  IT IS AWESOME!  I LOVE it!  I wish I had 2 of them (I hoard like that!)  It has some awesome collage travel prints and some really pretty print sheets as well.  The first and last cards are 5x7 and the middle ones are 4 1/4X5 1/2.  The 2 larger ones used pieces that were not large onough to fill the card front, so I pieced the paper.  I took a print from the pack and layered either the PTI Rickrack die or the Eyelet Lace.  I LOVE how that looks intentional.  It is a good tip for when you have a piece of paper that isn't big enough that is you have a border of some kind you can layer or piece over it and make it look like that was the plan! I used Bakers twine in red & brown and a lot of button twine on the cards,  Several have tags that I made with snips of paper from the pack and other trinkets, buttons and tickets.  If you have a specific question about a card, ask  I won't bore you with a list of instructions for each card.  If you find this paper pack, BUY IT ~ You will LOVE it!

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Susan

This card has a 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock base.  The purple panel was embossed with PTI Diamonds Impression Plate.  Mat Stack 4 was used to cut a plaid paper from DCWV Nana's Nursery.  A 3" white cardstock oval, cut with George and Basic Shapes on my Cricut, is stamped with PTI Signiture Greeting using Lavender Moon ink.  A strip of the purple paper was cut with PTI Victorian lace border die.  Lavender Ribbon from Michaels was tied in a knot at the seam.  I took a short, 6" nylon zipper, coiled it and tacked it down with thread.  A purple button was sewed into the center,  A crystal corsage pin from WalMart was added.

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Susan

This simple card is on a 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock base.  A piece of pink patterned cardstock from "who knows where" ~ OLD! ~ was cut at 3x4 and a piece of Archivers pink cardstock was cut to 2 1/2x4.  Michaels satin ribbon was adhered at the seam.  PTI #8 Fillable Frame was used to cut white cardstock and the matching stamp was used as well.  The focal part of this card is the flower.  Similar flowers made from cardstock are called Lollipop flowers. I am not sure if that is applicable to this one, but.... I buy the petals meant for weddings at Michaels, when they are on clearance.  I usually pay $2 for a box.  There are usually 2 or 3 shades of a color and also some tulle petals as well.  I cut them out in concentric circles, 5-7 of them.  I layer the satin and usually 2 tulle ones and sew them together with a crystal bead.  A stick pin was made using a corsage pin and pearls.  I have a package of glass pearls from WalMart but I also look for them at Hobby Lobby.  I like 8mm but I use all of the sizes.  The white ones can be colored with sharpies, too!

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Susan

Fabric Crafting

http://cosmocricket.typepad.com/cosmo_cricket/2011/03/gl%C3%BCbers-on-the-half-shell-and-2-other-random-things.html

I LOVE having bits of fabric on my cards.  The above link takes you to Cosmo Cricket and shows you all about Glubers, HUGE glue dots to make awesome fabric flowers and embelishments.  If you don't have Glubers, you can use red-line tape or other ultra sticky tape.  I will post a card I made at a class at Archivers showing a card we made with a tulle flower, cool!

This is a fun technique!

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Susan

This card uses PTI elements but also the Paper Rosette die from Tim Holtz.  It is awesome.  I have the Mini version on order, I cannot wait to get it!  So the base is 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock.  A 3x4" piece of violet patterned paper, from a DCWV stack and the same size of solid violet were adhered to the base.  Violet ribbon from Michaels was placed on the seam and tied in a knot.  The rosette has 2 pieces, the main scored strip and the center.  The strip was cut with the solid cardstock and the center was cut with the pattered paper.  A violet rhinestone was glued to the center.  The bottom piece is PTI Mat Stack 1 cut in white cardstock.  It was stamped with mat Stack Collection stamp.  Love Lives Here dies were used to cut the 2 elements in the center of the mat.  The scalloped circle in violet and the circle with the heart in white.

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Susan

I don't believe in re-inventing the wheel!  If I make a card I like, I make it again, sometimes exactly and sometimes a little differently!  I LOVE PTI Green tea Leaves paper.  LOVE it!  I took approx 3x 4" pieces of both the red and brown patterned paper and the Dark Chocolate and Pure Poppy cardstock and adhered them to 4 1/4x5 1/5 white cardstock base.  The top 3 cards used a Spiral Notebook PTI die.  The 2nd & 3rd I used the cover of the Basic Grey Basic White paper pack.  It had a collage of the paper styles on it.  Why let that go to waste!!  The 1st is stamped with the leaves from Blooming button bits.  I tied a piece of red bakery twine around the notebook cut.  Fillable Frames #3 die was used to cut the mats and matching stamp for 1,2 &3.  On card #2 I used Its Official to stamp the bingo card on cork paper with Dark Chocolate ink.  On #3 I used an old play ticket from my kids and sewed a felt flower from beautiful Blooms II #3.  Some button twine was wrapped aound the cut. Fillable Frames #4 was used to cut the mat for the sentiment.  Finally #4 has green satin ribbon at the seam and a button was placed to the top of the Fillable Frames mat. 

All the cards are basically the same, just changed them up a little.

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Susan