the windy city

Went to Chicago over the weekend and had a great time at the game. The Reds beat the Cubs 10-8!

Emily was a fantastic tour guide for our venture downtown, to Navy Pier, and to Girodano's.

Almost a family photo...missing Alison.



fluttering by....

Carolyn brought enough supplies for each of us to make 2 cards! I love the sunny side of  life stamp set from amuse studio. You can do so much with it as you can see from the picture. The colorful paper was bought at Hobby Lobby and it give each card a different look. Simple to stamp and then two punched out butterflies that are popped give this card dimension. Awesome job!

happy birthday

Gena made this simple yet beautiful tri-fold card.

 I love the scallop trim along the outside folds of the card. 

Gena will be hosting card club next week...can't wait!

Great job Gena!

popcorn birthday

How fun is this card?!

Bettie had us busy at card club last month. Luckily she had all those popcorn pieces already die cut for us. We did have to draw the lines on our popcorn box but the card went together pretty easily. The sentiment is that's the ticket from amuse along with the ticket die. You could easily put a name or a small sentiment on the red oval on the box to personalize this card even more. Thanks Bettie for a great card! Can't wait to see what you come up with next month!!

you are special

I love Jeanne's card from Card Club!

One of my favorite stamps from amuse is floral duet.

A simple trick to add color to the center of the flower is to use an inked dauber... one daub and you have the perfect amount of color.

Thank you Jeanne for this amazing card!

happy birthday

This was Colleen's card at our Card Club gathering. She had a variety of colors we could choose from to make our card. I chose the lime green and pink combo. We ran our birthday embossing folder through the cuttlebug and then sanded off just a bit of color so the white would show through. We stamped the cake from the "a very merry un-birthday" stamp set from amuse, colored it and then cut it out. We popped it to give even more dimension to the card. Easy as pie....or should I say cake!

Great card Colleen!



August Spotlight

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