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Twist & Pop card and “Seve...

November 26, 2017 Written by SusieL
Twist & Pop card and “Seven Teas for your 70’s”
Another fun card to make and receive! I was inspired by Joy Tracy’s tutorial.  This card was for a milestone birthday (70th) so I included a gift of…  seven different teas… for her 70’s.  I made the box with my Cricut and have made two others.  One was “Nine Teas for your 90’s” and the other one was [...]
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Box Cards Part Two – BUTTERFLIE...

November 20, 2017 Written by SusieL
Box Cards Part Two – BUTTERFLIES!!!
Several months ago, I showed you the first batch of box cards I made.  Box cards are greeting cards that fold flat for mailing, but open up to be multi dimensional.  Since I had such good luck with the first batch, I tried making another, more complex box card & here’s how they turned out.  Although I recorded this video over a mon [...]
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Nifty Fifties Birthday Card

November 7, 2015 Written by SusieL
Nifty Fifties Birthday Card
  This is a birthday card for my sister.  The plaid card base is digital paper from Carina Gardner.  The font on the front & all the cuts are from the Cricut Nifty Fifties cartridge.  The font on the inside is Old 54 Regular.  My sister, who was a teenager in the ’50’s really, really liked it.    
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Laughing Lola birthday card & bl...

September 5, 2014 Written by SusieL
Laughing Lola birthday card & blog hop!!!
So I needed to make something for my very first blog hop!  The CTMH (Close To My Heart) Obsessed Scrappers blog hop included the challenge to select a sketch from one of two sites & use it as the inspiration.  I chose sketch #95. There are several cards I need to make, but I didn’t want it to be a card for someone who might see it o [...]
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Birthday card for my niece

August 30, 2013 Written by SusieL
Birthday card for my niece
This is from last year & from the Cricut Art Nouveau cartridge.  I just love that cart!  Both the sentiment on the front & the image on the inside top are from it.  I cut a label for underneath the front sentiment & distressed the edges with the Zutter Distrezz-It-All & then inked the edges. The paper is from Mirabelle by The [...]
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