Just Because Cards

Sweet Conversations-You Touched My Heart!

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The January-June mini catalog is finally here and I have to admit it has some pretty sweet “Suite” choices . There is a lot to love and my card today features the Sweet Conversation Bundle which is part of the Sweet Talk Suite! Now that is a lot of sweet.

Sweet Talk Suite

I began with a Highland Heather card base, added a layer of white that I stamped with one of the heart images and finished with a greeting mounted with the Stitched So Sweetly Dies.

Sweet Conversation Bundle

Supplies

  • Highland Heather CS- 5½ x 8½, (card base) 
  • Basic White CS- 1 x 2½, 4 x 5½
  • Gorgeous Grape CS-2 x 3     
  • Sweet Conversation Bundle
  • Gorgeous Grape Ink
  • Memento Black Ink
  • Stampin’ Cut n Emboss Machine
  • Stitched So Sweetly Dies
  • Stampin’ Seal Adhesive/Liquid Glue

Directions

  • Score card base in landscape position (aka longer side) at 4¼.  Fold and burnish to create card.
  • Stamp white card panel with heart images in Gorgeous Grape ink. Stamp off (on scrap paper) to create lighter image. Cut along hearts to create border.
  • Stamp greeting in Memento Black ink on small white panel and crop using the Stampin’ Cut n Emboss machine and the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. Crop additional rectangle with Gorgeous Grape CS and layer together.
  • Attach greeting to card front as shown.
  • Decorate the inside as desired.

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

Sweet Conversation Bundle
157624 $42.25
Plentiful Plants
155693 $21
Stitched So Sweetly Dies
151690 $32
Highland Heather CS
146986 $8.75
Gorgeous Grape Ink
147099 $7.50
Basic White CS
159276 $9.75
Stampin’ Cut n Emboss
149653 $120
Memento Black Ink
132708 $6
Stampin’ Adhesive
152813 $8
Gorgeous Grape
146987 $8.75
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Quality Family Time-Favorite Things Friday

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I hope you are all enjoying your holiday weekend. One of my new favorite Thanksgiving traditions is having Thanksgiving at my daughters and then as a family, we decorate her apartment for Christmas. The day is typically filled with decorating fun, a few drinks, dinner and of course games.

When the kids were younger, we would typically decorate the beginning of December and then watch the Christmas movie “Elf”. While they have grown up and moved on, I have not. I still love that movie, but it will indeed need to wait for later in the month.

Here is a picture of my daughter’s Christmas tree. What is your favorite Thanksgiving tradition?

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

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Festive Fall and Gorgeous Leaves

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Thanks again to my friend Cherie from Columbia, MO who created both of today’s cards. She came to visit at the beginning of October to attend the Cards and Cocktails event that I hosted for World Card Making Day. That was great fun and we are definitely doing that again, although I don’t think I am going to wait until next October! I was thinking of a January event to ring in the new year, stay tuned for details on when and where!

Both of today’s cards were created using the Gorgeous Leaves stamp set. It is quite appropriate as the weather here in St. Louis is quite brisk. The leaves are beginning to turn, but are not as vibrant as the ones in our card samples,! Oh well, perhaps next year.

Supplies for Card #1

  • Night of Navy CS- 5½ x 8½, (card base)
  • Basic White CS-4 x 5¼ (2), 1 x 2  
  • Basic White CS-3¼ x 4¼, 1 x 1
  • Gorgeous Leaves Bundle
  • Nature’s Harvest Bundle (greeting)
  • Garden Green CS- 3 x 4
  • Garden Green Ink
  • Cherry Cobbler CS-2 x 2
  • Cherry Cobbler Ink
  • Crushed Curry CS- 2x 2
  • Crushed Curry Ink
  • Night of Navy Ink
  • Smoky Slate Ink
  • Stampin’ Cut n Emboss Machine
  • Stampin’ Seal Adhesive/Liquid Glue
  • Stampin’ Dimensionals

Directions for Card #1

  • Score card base in landscape position (aka longer side) at 4¼. Fold and burnish to create card.
  • Stamp leaves and add dotted sprinkles to Basic White CS panel and layer to card front.
  • Use the Stampin’ Cut n Emboss machine to crop colored leaves from the Gorgeous Leaves Bundle and add to card front.
  • Stamp greeting from Nature’s Harvest in Night of Navy ink on 2 x 2 White CS panel and crop with label die in bundle.
  • Attach greeting label with Stampin’ Dimensionals
  • Add 4 x 5 ¼ white panel to the inside and decorate as desired.

Card # 2 is again using the Gorgeous Leaves Bundle and some rich fall colors. It is stepped up from the last card and I absolutely love how it turned out. This would make such a great male birthday card or even a sympathy card.

Supplies for Card #2

  • Soft Suede CS-5½ x 8½, (card base), 3 x 4
  • Very Vanilla CS- 4 x 5 ¼ and 1 ½ x 3 1/2
  • Cherry Cobbler CS -2 ½ x 2 ½
  • Garden Green CS – 1 ½ x 2
  • Gorgeous Leaves Bundle
  • Nature’s Harvest Bundle
  • Soft Suede Ink
  • Garden Green Ink
  • Crushed Curry Ink
  • Pumpkin Pie Ink
  • Cherry Cobbler Ink
  • Stitched Rectangles
  • Bakers Twine

Directions for Card #2

  • Score card base in landscape position (aka longer side) at 4¼. Fold and burnish to create card.
  • Stamp leaves and add dotted sprinkles to Very Vanilla CS, Stamp the wood image along the right side of the CS panel and layer to card front.
  • Use the Stampin’ Cut n Emboss machine to crop colored leaves and the Soft Suede twig from the Gorgeous Leaves Bundle and add to card front.
  • Stamp greeting from Nature’s Harvest in Soft Suede ink and crop with the Stitched Rectangle dies.
  •  Add bakers twine bow and layer to front of card using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  • Add 4 x 5 ¼ Very Vanilla panel to the inside and decorate as desired.

I hope these cards get you in the mood for fall. If you place a $25 order or more this month and use the host code: VU3EXANE-I will email you a PDF of the October Stamp Camp Class projects. Orders must be placed before midnight on the 31st!

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

Gorgeous Leave Bundle
158609 $44
Nature’s Harvest Bundle
156813 $53
Soft Suede
115318 $8.75
Soft Suede
147115 $7.50
Night of Navy
100867 $8.75
Night of Navy
147110 $7.50
Cherry Cobbler
147081 $7.50
Cherry Cobbler
119685 $7.50
Very Vanilla
101650 $9.75
Basic White
159276 $9.75
Stampin’ Cut N Emboss
149653 $120
Stitched Rectangle Dies
151820 $35
Garden Green
147089 $7.50
Crushed Curry
147087 $7.50
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Happy Anniversary to Me! Favorite Things Friday

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One of my absolute Favorite Things is being married to the most wonderful man in the world, or in the entire Solar System, as my daughter used to say….when she was three year old. LOL

Really, I am very blessed to be celebrating 33 years with my beloved husband today! Wow! I am not sure where those years went, but I know I am extremely blessed and the honeymoon continues! We have two beautiful children who are now young adults.

Time certainly has marched on and I am loving each new chapter of my life with my beloved. I created this card especially for him and thought I would share it with you too. I just love this adorable little owl from the Frightfully Tag Dies.

I began with a Misty Moonlight cards base and added a layer of Basic White cardstock. The branches and the leaves are from the Birds and More stamp set. I used Soft Suede for the branches and Old Olive for the leaves.

I also took a blending brush and some Balmy Blue Ink over the Basic White CS to add a soft sky look. I am not sure if you can see that in the picture, but it is quite lovely in person.

Unfortunately in all my Stampin’ Up! toys I do not have a large Happy Anniversary stamp, so this one is retired, so sorry! But the Misty Moonlight Ink is still available. The greeting is stamped on Basic White CS and cropped with the Stitched Rectangle Dies.

I hope you have a blessed day. Create something beautiful to share with others!

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

Frightful Tag Dies
156492 $27
Misty Moonlight
153118 $7.50
Misty Moonlight
153081 $8.75
Basic White
159276 $9.75
Basic Black
121045 $8.75
Balmy Blue
147105 $7.50
Blending Brushes
153611 $12
Soft Suede
147115 $7.50
Old Olive
147090 $7.50
Stitched Rectangle Dies
151820 $35
Stampin’ Adhesive
152813 $8
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Good-bye Summer but not Shaded Summer!

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The days are getting shorter and soon we will say farewell to those summer days, but the good news is we don’t have to say good-bye to the Shaded Summer stamp set, at least not yet! So here is a super sweet card my friend Cherie made for me so I thought I would share it with you.

Cutting Measurements

All Measurement=inches  CS=Cardstock DSP=Designer Series Paper  Landscape Position=Long side   Portrait Position=short side

Supplies

  • Garden Green CS- 5½ x 8½, (card base), 2 x 2 , 3 ¾ x 5 (2)
  • Melon Mambo CS-4 x 5¼ Smoky Slate CS- 4 x 5¼   
  • Basic White CS-3¼ x 4¼, 1 x 1
  • Shaded Summer Stamp Set
  • Garden Green and Melon Mambo Makers-floral image
  • Garden Green Ink-greeting
  • Stitched So Sweetly Dies
  • Tasteful Label Dies
  • Stampin’ Cut n Emboss Machine
  • Stampin’ Seal Adhesive/Liquid Glue
  • Stampin’ Dimensionals

Directions

  • Score card base in landscape position (aka longer side) at 4¼. Fold and burnish to create card.
  • Layer Mambo Melon CS to card front.
  • Next use the Stampin’ Cut n Emboss machine to crop the White CS panel using the Stitched So Sweekly Dies.
  • Color the floral image with Mambo Melon and Garden Green markers and stamp in the center of White CS.
  • Attach White panel to card front.
  • Stamp greeting in Garden Green on Basic White CS and crop using the Tasteful Label Dies. Crop Garden Green circle using same die set and layer together. 
  • Use Stampin’ Dimensionals to attach circle greeting to card front as shown.
  • Layer 4 x 5¼ piece of White CS to inside and decorate as desired.

Thanks to my friend Cherie for making this card for today’s post. I hope you enjoyed! Have a blessed weekend. Create something beautiful and be awesome!

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

Shaded Summer
155783 $23
Stitched So Sweetly
151690 $32
Tasteful Label Dies
152886 $31
Stampin’ CutnEmboss
149653 $120
Melon Mambo CS
115320 $8.75
Garden Green
102584 $8.75
Basic White CS
159276 $9.75
Markers-Brights
147157 $30

Garden Green Ink
147089 $7.50
Stampin’ Adhesive
152813 $8
Stampin’ Dimensionals
104430 $4
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