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Good Mojo Monday morning! 

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Today's card is for a friend of mine, to celebrate her birthday and her graduation. 

On Champagne cardstock, I stamped the chicken wire CTMH Distressed Background in Desert Sand Ink. 

I layered that on top of craft card stock, then layered and added a sentiment from the My Stickease Buzz and Bumble package.

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One of the fruits that's been lying on my work desk added a beautiful touch to the sentiment. It's the peach branch from the  Sweet Life set, which I colored with watercolor pencils.

The wooden button and the twine are from the wooden mini-medley set, and I placed them on tip of an extra fussy-cut leaf, which is on one of the pieces of zip-strip from the Buzz and Bumble papers, layered on Creme Brulee cardstock.

Thank you for looking today!
 

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Today's Mojo Monday sketch is so clean and simple, I was able to make 2 cards this morning!

I haven't had a chance to use the February 13 Stamp of the Month I bought in April...and I thought it might be a good Get Well Card theme for someone recuperating at home. You know, staying at home is so much more comfortable than anywhere else.

I stamped the design in Cocoa ink on Champagne cardstock.


My "go to" theme is lacy and old fashioned, and the CTMH Buzz & Bumble paper assortment has 2 sheets of double-sided paper with old-time newsprint on one side that worked well for this. The packet includes Cocoa cardstock, and I made the card base using Kraft paper.

My other card is highlighted on my Cards and Crafts blog (see link on the right). 

I didn't think to take a picture of the My Stickease assortment that included the flower and leaf until AFTER I used them, so there are couple of missing parts on the sheets.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Buzz & Hoot/WOYWW#214

I made this cool card for a friend who likes owls. 
I saw the basic card in the Cardmaker Quick and Easy Cards Spring 2013 magazine. 

For my card, I selected the Buzz & Bumble papers and traced the owl shape for the card base by hand.

First, I folded a piece of a paper in half and cut it out so that the sides of the owl were equal. Then I put it on piece of folded card stock, cut it out, and layered the Buzz and Bumble paper on top. I made matching wings and punched circles for the eyes and trimmed the nose out in a coordinating paper. I inked these parts with Buttercup inks. A button with double twine bows finished the front and I stamped a thank you on the inside. The twine and button were from the package of accessories included in the CTMH Buzz & Bumble Hostess Packages.

I am using this as my WOYWW belated submittal.

I had it on my workdesk and took a picture of it. Not staged, this is the table where I was putting it together. I just put my scissors down and picked up my phone.

At the time, I did not know that my mother-in-law -- 2 months shy of 90 -- was going to fall and break her arm badly on Tuesday. She has Alzheimers and is in a nursing home in an Alzheimers unit and just fell while she was going to bed. We spent Tuesday night at the emergency room with her till 2 a.m., so I didn't get any new cardmaking done in time for the WOYWW post. Hence my belated post!