Retirement Gift

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Happy Wednesday.....Work week is half-way done. :) Tonight is a quick post, which are some cards I created recently as a gift for someone at work who retired recently. I used Everyday Button Bits & Up Up and Away from Papertrey Ink. I created a set of 12 cards, 4 Birthday, 4 Thinking Of You, and 4 Thank You. I kept the design and papers the same, since I was making multiples :) 

Below is a photo of most of them ......

And here is the tag I made for the gift bag, using some other PTI Sets, Simple Sunflower and Button Boutique. The sentiment is from another PTI Set, On the Farm. I love combining my PTI Sets :)

Thanks for stopping by today! Hugs ~ LJ

MFTWSC80 - Celebrate

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Here is my card for MFTWSC #80 on SCS. Love having a square sketch to play with this week, I don't make many square cards, even though any sketch can be incorporated into a square card. For my card I used the adorable (yea I say that about all the PI Images) Birthday Princess PI set from MFT. The dress and crown are paper pieced. I used patterned paper from Basic Grey (Hopscotch Collection), ribbon from SU! (Ribbon Originals - retired), and two MFT Die-Namics (Monarch Border and Mini Wavy Pennants) Below is the inside of my card: 

And here is the sketch I started with: 

Thanks for stopping by today! Hugs ~ LJ

Cooking Out

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I hope you are enjoying your July so far ~ Mine has been a busy one so far! I'm looking forward to enjoying the rest of the month and August before the leaves start to fall (unfortunately some are falling early this year due to the lack of rain). 


Anyway, it's the 15th of the month so it's time for the Monthly Duel. Our hostesses Tami and Darlene. From Tami I received a really fun kit with a Grilling theme, which is perfect for July with all the BBQ's and family cookouts that happen this time of the year. I absolutely LOVE the image she sent us, which is Grill Sergeant from Whipper Snapper Designs. She also sent some great DP and embellishments, some of which are on my card. I really wanted to use the plaid red from MME and the blue/white polka dot from We R Memory Keepers together. :) I think they go very well together, and also bring somewhat of a USA theme to the card. 


Thanks for stopping by today! Please be sure to go check out the other Divas and Darlings and see what is on their grill for you today ;) 

Judy, Barb,  Laura Jean (me) Judy, Jamie,  Kelly and Carol

Please start here, at Jeanette's blog for our friendly duel

Thanks for stopping by ~ 

Hugs ~ LJ

Dog days of summer

Doggy wants to go to bed...I reluctantly give in. :)

Mojo Monday 248

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I have two posts for today actually :) The second is my card for this week's Mojo Monday Sketch. I've had quite a bit of time in between loads of laundry to do some crafting this weekend :)

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things "Big Greetings". I used patterned paper from SU! (retired - it was a full 12X12 pad from a few mini-catalogs ago). Ribbon is also from SU! (Purely Pomegranate  Double Stitched) I also used a mini EK-Sucess Cupcake Punch, Spellbinders Ovals Dies, and SU! Scalloped Edge Punch.

Here is the sketch below:

Thanks again for stopping by today! Hugs ~ LJ

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MFTWSC79

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Today's card is for MFT Sketch #79.

For my card I used the adorable PI Image - Make Mine a Double from My Favorite Things (MFT).  I paper priced the dress and colored the rest of the image in with Copic Markers. Pattern Paper is from Basic Grey (6X6 Hopscotch Pad). 

The sketch is below for those that would like to try it out and upload it to the MFT SCS Gallery

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

PTI Swap

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Sorry I haven't been posting lately. I've been on a baseball vacation for 10 days......3800 miles, from Chicago to Miami and back. Great trip. :) Always love going to baseball games no matter who is playing (I did get to see my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs twice!) 

So today I have two things to share, a card and a tag, both were for a PTI Swap I was in recently. 

First here is the tag. I used Everyday Button Bits & Up, Up and Away. The patterned paper is from american crafts, the tag was pre-bought from a craft store, ribbon from SU!, and button from SU! 

Here is the card (which was for a general card category)

for this card I used stamps from PTI (On the Farm), patterned paper from Reminiscence, Brads from Basic Grey, and Ribbon from SU!

It's REALLY hot here (like it is around a lot of the country) so I will be crafting some more this weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs ~ LJ