summer wall hanging

This is what is on the back side of the Spring wall hanging.

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SPRING Wall Hanging

I have completed the first half of a wall hanging.  It is SPRING.  The other side will be SUMMER when I am done.

This wall hanging uses regular cardboard painted around the edges with white paint.  Each piece is 4.25 by 4.25.
Please let me know what you think or if you have any questions, I will be happy to answer.

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sweet 16

Happy Birthday.  ~grins~

What kind of card do you make for a 16 year old girl whose favorite things are: the color green,  Disney Princesses and the show "The Walking Dead"?
My boss's daughter just turned 16 and she asked me to make a card for her daughter.  I really really struggled with this until my daughter suggested I check Google for an image. 
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Santa Cutie, Hurry down the chimney tonight

Another layout of my daughter Ash.

This one uses the Jingle paper.
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Spring/Summer Idea Book front cover layout my way

Here is a layout of my oldest daughter.  She does some modeling for a couple of the studios in town and this is one of many of the photos she has uploaded for me.  I love the layout on the front of the Spring/Summer Idea Book and here is my attempt to copy it.

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cards I have made

I made this birthday card for my husband's boss.  She loved it.  My camera's batteries were low so I couldn't get a decent photo of it. I forgot to mention earlier when I posted this that I got the idea for the fairy tale roses from Connie MacFarlane's tutorial found here. http://paperpleatsandribbonroses.blogspot.com/2012/04/cricut-art-philosophy-fairytale-roses.html

This is an invitation to my boss to be my guest at a dinner theater in town.  The group I belong to sells pecans every year to raise funds to take our bosses out and give out two or three $2000 college scholarships.  I copied this design from Karen Pedersen probably 4 years ago.

All these monogrammed cards are for a friend and former supervisor when she retired.  I made six cards and put them in the box below.

this is the box that held all the monogrammed cards

This card went with the gift for my friend, Betty, when she retired.  I loved this technique, I think I saw it on Split Coast Stampers.

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this was another technique that I liked.  I want to say that I saw this design on Connie MacFarlane's blog, but can't be certain.

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Christmas Thank Yous

Finally, my mojo has returned.  It was out playing, I think, with Lisa Stenz' mojo, or so we believe.

I haven't been able to sit at my scrap desk for any length of time until now.  I have to go back to work tomorrow so I needed to finish these up to take in with me.  Actually, two of these had been sitting on my desk for a while.

Normally, I do not like single layer cards, but time was running out and now that I see them, I kind of like them.  The poinsettias are Spellbinders dies, the flower vases are from Stamp TV, Teresa Momber's set.  Really classy.  I can think of so many great cards to make using her stamp set, Vogue Vases 2.

I need to get a batch of sympathy and thinking of you cards made  up as well as some birthday cards.  I am the correspondence secretary for our D.A.E.O.P. - Duval Association of Educational Office Professionals group and it is my job to send out cards and flowers.  I can't bring myself to purchase cards when I love making them so much.

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gift for my daughter

My daughter had been leaving her fingernail polish on the kitchen table and the coffee table so I thought I would do with the nail polish what I have done with my re-inkers.  I used card-stock and made rows to hold the bottles.  In this case it is some, but not all, of her nail polish bottles.  I would need the other half of the Snapware container, that I just purchased for more re-inkers, to fit all of her nail polish bottles. There are about 75 in the container now and you can see from the bag on top of the container that there are plenty more to go.

The top snaps into place and multiple layers connect one layer could hold all the tools she uses, like files and cuticle clippers etc...
I have three layers for my re-inkers, my Stickles, my embossing powders etc...

Any way, I just thought I would share my little morning project.

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Merry Christmas one and all

My daughter chose a 4.5 foot tree and has 150 ornaments on it.  If it were up to me, I wouldn't have a tree.  I have 12 bins of ornaments up in the attic.  WAY TOO MUCH TROUBLE. 

Best wishes for 2013.

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