March Simon Says Card Kit

I've been going through some of my old photos of cards I have made.   I don't think that I have posted this one from the March Simon Says Card Kit.

 I love this stamp set from Avery Elle called Bon Jour.  The macarons are stamped with Hero Arts Pale Tomato, Soft Cantaloupe, Butter Bar, Tide Pool and Soft Lilac Inks and then die cut out. 

Project life

When my son was born, I received a camera and took a roll of pictures, and then would I would get them developed and add them to a photo album.  Over the years, the photo albums started falling apart.  So, I ended up taking all of the pictures out of the albums and rubber banding them all together by year. Then I put them into a box with the intention of scrapbooking them, or something I thought would be more suitable.  Well, long story short I lost the box.  Then a few months ago I was moving my brother, and the house was almost empty.  I took one last look around and found my box of photos in a spare closet!

Now with 20 years of photos (that's A LOT of photos) I needed to think of something and scrapbooking them all would probably take me another 20 years!  Then I thought of project life.  I have never made a project life album, but I bought some supplies and went to work.

Then the thought occurred to me, that cards are very similar to project life cards.  So, I decided that I would make "mini" cards for my project life from my Simon Says Card Kits!!!!

So.... Here are a few of the cards.  These are so fun to make, watch out because it can be addictive!

All of these project life cards were made from the June 2014 Simon Says Stamp card kit.

Some quilts

I wanted to post some pictures of a few of the quilts I have made.  I really did not have good photos of my quilts so my dad came over and took some more professional photos for me.  I am so happy and thankful for his work. So here they are...

 This quilt is a small quilt made from a technique by Melinda Bula. The technique uses small pieces of fabric to mimic a painting style. Then quilting is added on top for dimension and later I took a class from Judy Dains and decided to add some crystals.

 This quilt uses hand dyed batiks in mouth watering colors.  Then it is quilted in many different colored and some sparkly threads.  To finish the quilt I made beaded swirls for the centers.  It is so fun to use other hobbies such as beading and painting on the quilts. The skies the limit as they say.

This sunshine was made by first making a basket weave fabric from the hand died strips, the strips were embellished with thread and decorative sticking. Then the sunshine was reverse appliquéd to reveal the beautiful fabric underneath. The border uses the strips to finish off the quilt in a piano key fashion.

Thanks for taking a look!

June SSS card kit

Here are a couple of cards I made using the June SSS card kit. I love the flowers in this kit!!!

 For this card I just used the stamps and make a little arrangement. Super easy, but pretty!

On this card I used a background stamp that has a definition of love that my daughter in law bought for me as an anniversary gift. The stamp is a wood mounted stamp from the Tim Holtz and it was stamped in Bubble gum ink by Hero Arts.  The die is Die-Versions "Cut the Cake"

May Simon Says Card kit

Here are a couple of cards I made with the SSS card kit, for May 2014

 For this card I used a Daisy reverse pattern background stamp and inked it up with Hero Arts Pale Tomato, Soft Cantaloupe and Butter Bar inks. Then I embossed the sentiment on a banner and mounted it with foam dots. Easy!

For this next card I used the stencil from the kit for the stars and background papers. And a wood tag I believe from Basic Grey.