Just For You

 

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Purchase this card as part of a set here: Floral Set 1.

 

Colorful Hello

I made a video of today’s card but it’s too large for WordPress and too long for Flickr so here’s a picture. If I can figure out a way to add the video, I will.

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Purchase this card as part of a set here: Floral Set 1.

 

Floral Thank-you

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Accordion Card

This past weekend was the annual Creating Keepsakes Scrapbooking Convention in Mesa. I hadn’t been since 2007 and was happy to be able to go. I took a few different classes and learned a lot about cardmaking, journaling, and stamping. The cards this week will be from one of my classes. Since I’m following directions myself, I’ll just be posting pictures. We were given enough supplies to do two of each card so check out my flickr for the variations once they’re made (sometime next week).

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Purchase these two accordion cards as part of a set here: Floral Set 1 or Floral Set 2.

 

Green Life

Today’s card is another quote. It’s a bit of a long one so I decided to print it. Everything else was just trim and paste so enjoy the pictures.

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Changes

Hello, everybody!

I just wanted to let you guys in on some exciting changes happening here. First of all, I plan on having a new site design up and running before the end of the day. I’d like to thank Lucky You Creative for turning my paper site design digital and Andrew Ryno for making it a reality.

I’d also like to let you know that I am in the midst of setting up shop on Etsy to make my cards easily available for purchase. I plan on selling them individually and in sets so please head on over there and check it out. You can save on shipping if you are a friend of Gangplank. You just have to contact me.

Thanks for you support!

~Shay~

 

Balloon Birthday

Today’s card is brought to you by stickers! I’ve wanted to use these stickers for a while but had a hard time figuring out what to use them for. It dawned on me this morning that these would make awesome balloons so what other message than happy birthday? Here are the supplies I started out with.

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The sharpies are for the bottom of the balloon where the helium gets sealed inside. First, I cut down my sky blue cardstock into a standard size card. Next, I started sticking down my first word. The third step was to draw on the sealed part of the balloon. Last, I cut lengths of string and glued them down. I repeated this process for every line.

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The very last step after everything was stuck to the card was to tie a ribbon around the strings so they didn’t float away!

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Friend, a Definition

Today’s card is another quote pulled from the book but might be familiar to you. It’s by Aristotle.

I knew I wanted to use stamps and glitter glue for this quote so I pulled out some matching blues and green. I also started pulling out my stamps and decided on “friend” with leaves and a matching leaves border stamp.

The next thing I needed to decide on was the cardstock. I thought orange would work so I experimented.

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Once I had actually stamped on the card, I knew the color was not right. I decided to fall back onto one of my white notecards and try again.

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This was much better so I drew some guidelines for the quote and started stamping.

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The last touch was to add some glitter glue here and there to really make it pop!

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Purchase this card as part of the Friendship Set.

 

Quote for Teacher

I’ve been want for ideas lately and happened across a quote book at the community library. I’d like to do a series of these so be on the lookout. I’m in the middle of an online class to help me become a teacher so I thought this quote would fit that quite nicely.

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It also might make a good card for your teacher at the end of the year. Purchase it here: Teacher Greeting Card.

 

Blue Thank You

Since yesterday’s card was a get well for me, I figured today’s card should be for my hubby. Thanks for taking such good care of me, baby, while I’m hurt and always.

I started with his favorite color, blue.

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I have a coordinating scrap pad so I punched the letters I needed for my message.

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The next thing I had to do was take a file to the letters to get rid of the little tabs of paper left from the perforation.

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Lastly, I cut the card and glued everything down.

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Blue Thank-you available for purchase.