Stained Glass Greetings

I love the beautiful Divinity Designs papers, and saw Jennifer's live using the stained glass papers and a window frame.

I needed a quick but pretty birthday card, and this was just the ticket. I stacked the MFT Square Grid Cover-Up and also the sentiment. So pretty!

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Pivot Pop-Up Graduation

It's graduation season, and I find I reach for the Lawn Fawn Pivot Pop-Up almost every time. The Denami cap and diploma are always part of the card as well. Find the school colors, and all of the decisions are done!

I have used a confetti embossing folder on the card front for previous grad cards, but thought the Picket Fence Negative Sparks plate would be perfect since the kelly green is an accent school color.

Quick tip: do not glue anything too low on a pivot pop-up! There are faint glue marks from where I had to shift the diploma up a tiny bit.

Stamps: Denami Graduation Cap & Diploma Scroll (both wood mount), Rubber          Stampede Congratulations (wood mount) 

Dies: Lawn Fawn Pivot Pop-Up, Picket Fence Negative Sparks cover plate, Concord     & 9th Yay, Stampin Up Number of Years

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Fresh Picked Anemones

Jennifer McGuire mentioned making a "first pancake" during a live when making a card. I just love that! This card was meant to be a first pancake, but lo and behold it's in the mail today!

In love with all of these products!

Stamps: Taylored Expressions Mini Strips - Birthday

Dies: Spellbinders Fresh Picked Anemones & Little Chickadee. Altenew Dotted             Swirls Debossing Cover, Taylored Expressions Mini Strips die - flags

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My Vote Makes a Difference

A dear friend has been volunteering by attending meetings and writing post cards and letters to get out the vote. When I saw The Gray Muse pin "My Vote Makes A Difference" I knew I had to send it to her.

The Gray Muse backer card is washi taped to the inside.

I thought she could use a set of cards to send to some new friends in the group she's been meeting with.

The sentiments are from The Stamping Village "We Stand With You". I also stamped the MLK quote on envelope seals.

Really enjoyed this project! 

Stamps: The Stamping Village We Stand With You

Dies: WPlus9 Quilt Cuts 2, SU Layering Squares

Above It All Tri-fold

The Stampin' Up! Above It All dies made a fun gondola! I saw this card by Tami White and thought it would be great to case. 

Just mailed this card to a friend who had hip replacement surgery, and was able to enjoy the slopes this past skiing season.

Sandwiched acetate between two layers of the gondola for a fun touch. Be sure to draw those cable lines before embossing (ask me how I know, lol!). Did double and partial embossing with two different embossing folders (technique featured in the recent Extraordinary Embossing Online Card Class).

Dies: SU Above It All, SU Majestic Mountain (trees)

Efs: SU Softly Falling, SU Evergreen Forest

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Valentine Swivel Card

 Another card inspired by Jennifer McGuire! See her swivel card tutorial here.

The Neat & Tangled Floral Heart (one of my faves) just barely fit on the Momenta heart die. It required a bit of shaving on the bits that stuck out. Had a pretty piece of foiled patterned paper with a bit of blank space for the fabulous Picket Fence I Freaking Love You stamp.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Divinity Designs Tri-shutter

I was the lucky winner of a $25 gift from Divinity Designs from the Coffee Lovers Fall/Winter blog hop! I used it toward a Tri-shutter with Layers die. I've made tri-shutter cards without dies before, but wanted this die set because the dies for the sections were included. Not just one die for each sized panel, but dies for every single panel!

This is what I ordered. The card base die is 6" across, just barely fit in the Big Shot, but it did work. Kelly was kind and sent a gift with purchase freebie, which is the most adorable tea cup and tea bag set of dies. The papers I used are also from Divinity Designs, Latte Love (from my stash). The papers are vibrant, just love them. Looking forward to using the Rainbow Sherbet paper for unicorn cards!

Thank you to Kelley and Divinity Designs for being a super sponsor of the Coffee Lovers blog hops!

See you next time,