Saturday's Card

The solid cardstock is Coredinations; the patterned paper is from the Prima Ledger stack; the leaf was cut from Freshly Picked and embossed; the bird is a Stampin' Up stamp and punch combination.  I used Memento Rhubarb Stalk and Rich Cocoa inks for the stamping.

 A super easy card for Saturday!

Denim Pockets Card

This is my card from stamp club last night.  Shirley, aka Okieladybug, and I missed the last two months because of the heat and things going on in our lives so we decided to just knuckle down and go last night even though it was around 110°---again!

Yesterday while getting my supplies together to take to stamp club, I came up with this idea for a card.  So that I'd actually get something done while at stamp club, I precut the pockets and printed the sentiment and took the other supplies with me.  Most of the time I get too busy talking and accomplish nothing, so taking a card kit assures I'll get at least one completed!

The pockets were cut using Design Studio and the Freshly Picked cartridge.  They're a detail for the overalls so I cut them with the real size dial set at about 4" and then used the hide contour feature to omit cutting the pieces I didn't want.

A white gel pen was used to do the stitching on the pockets.  I got busy talking--imagine that!-- and forgot to ink the edges on the pockets.  I took a prototype for reference and noticed this morning that those had been inked.

The mail in the pockets is clip art images that I sized in Hallmark card making software, then cut out by hand.  The sentiment was done in the same program and punched with a Stampin' Up word window punch.

The bandana print paper is from Paper Studio's Yee Haw stack and the background is a single sheet of Paper Studio denim printed paper.

It's not evident in the photo, but the bandana print has a yellow color rather than white in the paisley shapes so the card front is a pale yellow that matches.  The photo makes the card front appear to be white.

Pocket Get Well Card

The original  card was done by Carolyn Wolff and seen on Pinterest.

The pocket is from Freshly Picked cartridge, faux stitched with a white Signo pen.  I used a scalloped border punch for the white trim and a Martha Stewart punch for the leaves.  I printed the sentiment, punched it out and added some white doodledots to the red oval.

After applying the pocket to the first one I made, I learned that you need to tuck the tissue behind the pocket before you attach it to the card front!  Most good things I know I've learned the hard way!

Latest Recipe Pages

Several weeks ago, I posted some squash pickle recipes on my blog and just now got around to doing the pages for my recipe album.

 Preserves was used to cut the word "canning"  and the jar came from Doodlecharms.  That's an older cartridge but it will surprise you at how many useful cuts are on it!

Both word "squash" and the squash images were cut using the Freshly Picked cartridge.













I also did a page for the wonderful English Muffin recipe that I posted this week but the recipe was so long there wasn't much room left for any type of embellishment.  That page just has the recipe and a photo of the finished muffins on it.