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Cutest Wedding Invitations Ever!

Renee and I got together yesterday and picked out the last of the paper to make her wedding invitations with.  We had made the centers with the cute little goats about a week ago.  The background and tree are torn paper.  The little goats were all individually cut out.  The house is the same pink [...]

September 8, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: paper  5 Comments

Sunflower card, version 4

I’m sure I’ll be making more sunflower cards in the future, but this is the last one for now.  I cut out 2 circles and snipped them into petals for this one.  It is kind of hard to tell from the picture, but one set of petals is on top of the next one.  When [...]

August 27, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: paper  One Comment

Sunflower Card, version 3

This is my 3rd go a the sunflower challenge.  I decided to tear the flowers instead of cutting anything.  The great part about the petal paper is that it is 2 colors, a light yellow on one side and a dark yellow on the other.  So when I tore out the outer petals, I got [...]

August 26, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: paper  2 Comments

Sunflower card, version 2

Ok, so cutting out all those little petals was a bit of a hassle.  And I’m sure that no one wants to pay for 2 hours of my time so they can send someone a sunflower card.  So I went looking for ways to shorten the time it takes to make one, without loosing that [...]

August 24, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: paper  4 Comments

Torn paper cards

I took a class on making torn paper cards at the Mercantile, one of my fave places to go.  It is a great way to use up those little pieces of leftover paper from making cards.  You know how you always have little bits left from projects, and they are too big to throw away, [...]

August 23, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: paper  2 Comments

Birthday Card Swap

I’m in a birthday card swap with our local card making group, and it took me forever to decide on what to do.  I knew I wanted to use my Cuttlebug and possibly googley eyes.  Let’s face it, googley eyes just make everything cuter!  This is what I finally decided on.  They are due Wednesday, [...]

April 14, 2009   Posted in: paper  5 Comments