This Magnolia card is so pretty and easy to make as long as you don’t mind fussy cutting. This card is perfect for get well, encouragement, thank you, sympathy and more.
I’m participating in an International Blog Highlights and the top 10 vote winners get to participate in an International Blog Hop. Would you consider taking a moment and voting for my card? I’d really appreciate it! Thanks to everyone who voted last month, I was very excited to make the top 10 last month!
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Here’s a free PDF with all supplies needed and directions to make this card.
The two flowers on the sides were fussy cut from the top Designer Series Paper (DSP). The bigger center flower was fussy cut from the bottom DSP.
Three or four cards and envelopes fit in this sweet gift box shown above. You could cross off some of your Christmas list by making these cards and gift boxes and have fun crafting instead of the hassle of shopping this Christmas season. 🙂
Please leave me a comment at the top of this post and let me know if you voted and if you have ideas for other types of cards or techniques you’d like me to show on this blog.
It’s time for another Festive Friday Challenge! I love being a designer for Festive Friday and this week’s challenge #FF0027 is National Tell a Fairy Tale Day (Feb 26) and/or Stars. #festivefridaychallenge I hope you’ll make a card or 3-D item and join us. If you need help figuring out how to enter, please email me at Beth@StampingMom.com and I’d love to help you. We just made it easier! You no longer have to register with Festive Friday. Just post your picture on Pinterest or your blog and load it up at Festive Friday!
Project Supplies
STAMPS & BUNDLES
Star of Light (142110)
PAPER
Basic Black Cardstock (121045), Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheets-SAB (149712), Whisper White Cardstock (100730)
INK
Versamark (102283)
ADHESIVES
Snail Adhesive (104332), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Mini Glue Dots (103683)
Cut 4″ x 5-1/4″ Whisper White Cardstock for the inside of the card
Instructions
Score the Basic Black Cardstock at 5-1/2” to form the card base. Crease using a bone folder.
Rub Embossing Buddy on the Basic Black Cardstock so stray embossing powder won’t stick.
Stamp the swish from Star of Light stamp set with VersaMark on the Basic Black Cardstock.
Stamp the “With Sympathy” stamp set with VersaMark from the Lasting Lily-SAB on the Basic Black Cardstock.
Sprinkle both with Copper Emboss Powder and heat emboss with Heat Tool.
Run the 4-1/4” x 5-1/2″ Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet through the Big Shot with the largest and third largest Stitched Rectangle Framelit.and adhere to the Basic Black Cardstock.
Run the 3” x 4″ Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet through the Big Shot with the dragonfly thinlit and adhere with Mini Glue Dots
Email me with questions at Beth@StampingMom.com 🙂
Tip- If you don’t have an Embossing Buddy, please get one. Embossed cards look so much better without stray powder stuck all over
Steve’s Dad, Harold, passed away yesterday and is in heaven now. He started Hospice last week so it wasn’t a surprise, but was quicker than we anticipated. Harold was an awesome Dad and Grandpa and will be greatly missed by his wife, Ruby, four sons and daughter-in-laws, and thirteen grandchildren.
“Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.”- 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14
Everyone deals with grief and stress differently. Steve started typing up stories about his Dad, while I sat down and made the Dragonfly Card for Ruby. Ruby loves receiving cards.
Here’s one of Steve’s stories about his Dad.
“Something that not everyone knew about Harold is that he was a band groupie. He was a huge Elvis fan, so Beth and I invited him and Mom to a concert by Eddie Miles, an Elvis impersonator. We had no idea what we started. He and Mom ended up following Eddie Miles literally all over the country, including to Pigeon Forge TN, which turned out to be where they took their extended family for their 50th wedding anniversary.
Beth and I had the privilege of taking Mom and Dad on the Eddie Miles cruise to the western Caribbean. I had to explain to my friends what I was doing, and they laughed at me. To be honest, I wrote it off as doing something for the sake my parents. Little did I know that it was going to be a blast. I watched in disbelief as my parents crashed multiple private parties, after seeing that they had good food and free drinks. My Dad’s explanation was all he had to do was say that he was old and confused, and they would just let him stay anyway!”
Here’s Harold and Ruby with “Elvis” Eddie Miles.
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These four cards were designed by Jean. Some are totally Jean originals and some were made with an assist from Pinterest. Jean has been my very dear friend for the last 30 years. We are both Accountants and worked together at The Principal Financial Group. Jean is still there and is an officer at the company. She works very hard running the Commercial Real Estate Debt Accounting, Reporting and Operations teams. After working so hard, she likes to come to my house to use the other part of her brain and be creative. We usually spend a couple hours most weekends, both walking and stamping. If you regularly read my blog you know Allison. Well, Jean is Allison’s Mom. 🙂
Don’t you love these cards? Please leave a comment at the top of the post and tell Jean which one if your favorite.
After you see all these cards, you will probably want to join us at our next Stampapooloza on Saturday, February 23. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend.
Can you see the pearls on the tree? I love all her cards, but this one if my favorite. 🙂 Jean helps me design a lot of the cards you see on my blog.
Are you looking for a Stampin’ Up demo? Contact me and I’ll send you one of these cards and a new Holiday catalog!
You can always email me at Beth@StampingMom.com if you don’t want to place your order online. I’d love to help you! My current host code is J63GDW2R . If you order using my host code, you’ll get an additional free gift from me!
