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Beginning of October

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These are cards we made together:

My special cardmaker friends:

End of September cards

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Time for Christmas!

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Using mini notecards:

Twelve of these:

Six of these:

Stamped background, a little busy:

So I made it a little simpler this time.

I made eleven of these:

Then singles:

More July Cards

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July Cards

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Mid June

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Early June

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Stuff I made there

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I went to Michaels scrapbook class...

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and made fun shapes, borders and corners:

March Miscellanea

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Summertime Fun - Early

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Stamped Images, Flowers and Hearts

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Fun with Catalogues

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Brenda Walton Flowers

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January 2011

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Dad's birthday card:

Cards to Vale School House for the soldiers

St. Marks Thank You Letter

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I received this wonderful thank you letter from

the church through which I send cards to soldiers.

I am very touched by all those who took time

to write a note and sign it.

Cards to Soldiers through St. Marks Church

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St. Marks

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Look at how the church packages my cards for the troops!

Isn't that thoughtful of them.

I'm so honoured they would treat them so specially.

My Christmas Cards are ready for filling out!

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Lastest Fall Cards

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Christmas Tree Opposites

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With embellishment inspiration from Lynn!

In the Lily Pond

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CAS with Satin Ribbon

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Christmas in September

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Patterned Paper Background

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Chinoiserie Wallpaper

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(The silver hooks are made from silver envelopes from Michaels dollar bin.)

Flower Power

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More Christmas Stocking Cards

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Christmas Stockings and Cardinals

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Christmas is Coming...

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A Few More Christmas Cards

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Holiday Mix

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Laminates

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These have clear packing tape over the center image to keep the glitter from coming off.

As Fall Approaches:

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These are my elf cards so far:

Here, on three of these have pieces from decorative party napkins that I affix and coat with varnish. The other cards is a wreath using a Stampin' Up! stamp.
The right hand images are with napkin pieces. The top one is on wallpaper and there is a leaf (line drawing one) from the wallpaper pattern. The deer is cut from a National Geographic magazine. The bottom right, the leaf is from a catalogue with wallpaper background, cut into wide stripes.
These nutcrackers are from napkins.

My first cards with my little elf

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Elf

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This is my version of a Christmas elf:

OWH 100s

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At first I stamped right onto the cardstock:

Then I tried cutting out the image and remounting:

The left image, the wreath (green part) is with a Fiskars Template. The bow is from wrapping paper.

Here is one of my experiments using varnish. The middle is a piece of wrapping tissue paper with a ribbon that has a gingerbread girl.

Another attempt with the varnish and tissue paper.

More Christmas Cards for OWH

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The ornaments are cut with the Fiskars Christmas Shape Template and Shape Cutter. I like that I could use non-Christmasy paper again for something a little different and it still retains the holiday feel.

Christmas Cards to top off OWH box

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The middle card is from an ornament challenge last year. I figure it looks better as a card 'dimensional sticker' than on my tree.

It seems Christmas themed paper is not always necessary for Christmas card backgrounds:

These are from a tissue box:

Updated Punch Pages

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These are what I use to go shopping to remember which shapes and sizes I already have:

Punch, Punch, Punch

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The drawer to the side was just right for the biggest punches which would not fit it the drawers with the rest of the punches!

Cards to Soldiers through St. Mark's Church

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Christmas in August

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Retro Christmas Sentiments

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Another Fun Time Making Cards

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Another Card Party - July 20

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My neighbors and I had another fun and productive card party!

Progression to CAS

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Card Party!

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We had a very productive afternoon.

We finished so many beautiful cards!

Windows and Wallpaper

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Hearts & Cornucopias

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Halloween and Thanksgiving in July

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Thanks Karen for the patterned papers!

I'm starting a new challenge - 300 cards!

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Wallpaper, Brenda Walton & Magazine Flowers

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Catalogue flowers and ribbons

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Wallpaper, Mini Prints and Embossing Pens

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Wallpaper World!

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Assorted Dimensionals, 2 July

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Storage

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Dimensionals and Embossed Cards

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Tuesday, 29 June

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Some of Sharla's Raks and a dimensional sticker for these two:

Miscellaneous cards from 'before'

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Sunday, 27 June

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Challenge Grand Finale!

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Challenge XI

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These are from dollar bin notecards that I cut the image and I used the red envelopes as backgrounds.

Teddy bear courtesy of Ellen

Challenge X

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Close up of one of the cards

The grey is really a shiny silver

These are from dollar bin notecards and I just added the sentiment:

Challenge IX

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Challenge VIII

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Challenge VII

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Challenge VI

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Wallpaper marvels:

Lynn gave me this crumpling idea.

Makes a marbled effect:

Challenge V

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Stickers from Sharla:

Stripes are from a prescription bag:

Challenge IV

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Challenge Cards III

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Challenge Cards II

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More Challenge Cards!

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Wrapping paper is from my friend Ellen.

Heart cut out from Sharla:

These are made with papers from my friend Ellen:
Wallpaper Cards:
RAKs from Sharla:

Vintage Barbara Walton

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Sharla's RAKs

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Thank you, Sharla for all the goodies!

Look what I made with some of them!

More Roosters!

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Kleenex Tissue Embellishments

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Brenda Walton I

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Turquoise and Red

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Vintage Looks with Dimensional Stickers

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Nuns Having Fun!

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These photos of the nuns are from a little gift book I bought at a library sale for a dollar. Then I added alphabet stickers.

Thinking of You...

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Wallpaper, Ribbon & Flowers

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A Little of Everything Early May

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Cat Sticker Fun

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Paper Punch Drawers

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Paper Punch Shopping Sheets

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When I go shopping for Paper Punches

it's hard to remember what I have.

So, I made these to help me remember.

Each shape is in the colour of it's punch tool.

Blue and Green Hearts

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3 bookmarks

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Mini Notecard Goodies

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These are made with mini notecards for the middles.

Don't they look yummy?

Nuns having Fun

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I made these just by taking pages from a little picture book

I thought they would make cute cards:

Flower Dimensinals and Dessert Mini Notecard Middles

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My first Scrapbook Store Visit!

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I have been to general craft stores like Michaels, JoAnn's Fabrics, A.C. Moore and Hobby Lobby but I have never been to a real live Scrapbooking store! So, today I finally visited one!

Here's the website link:

Angela's Happy Stamper

Ribbon Stripes

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My idea here is to use ribbons as background stripes.

After I put on the hearts, it still looked a bit plain so not surprisingly, dots were again a solution.

Assorted in March II

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Assorted in March

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Dimensional stickers and the dotted stripes are from their packaging.

Wallpaper for the blue and grey parts.
The hostas are from a mailer and the background is from a Kleenex tissue box.

This is a magazine ad that I added a dog sticker and drew in the dog house and bones on the painting.

Trying Different Ideas

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Easter

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