Tea Bag Folded Kite

This card design was used for a class in February at Scrappin' Good Time. I took it a step further here and colored the posts and grass of the cool fence stamp available at Texana Designs. The kite was in two colors and I used stickles to give it a little sparkle. It was a get well card for Joyce, who created the stamp. It's a pleasure to be surrounded by such wonderful talent!

Halloween Stampin' and Foldin'

Now isn't this card cute. I used the mini halloween cactus from Texana Designs and stamped the images about 3" apart on some really cool Karen Foster variegated paper. Then I used my square punch and placed the image in the upper left corner of all eight. From these tiles I used the kite fold and created the background medallion. The top medallion is stamped with Tea Bag Cube #12 from Impression Obsession. The fold was the triangle fold, variation two. I stamped a sentiment and then decorated the card with orange stickles. I never knew all the ways stamps could be used with tea bag folding.

Have a Great Day Guys!

This week I spent making special Father's Day Cards. I had lots of fun creating. I hope they guys enjoy them!

Stamped Calendar

I finally finished one of the desk calenders tonight. I stamped, embossed and painted unique Texas images, sometimes added bling or brads, matted the image, added a printed monthly calender and used the bind-it-all to create a flip desk calendar. I purchased an acrylic clear easel for display purposes.

My plan was to give it to my mother for a Christmas gift, but I loved it it so much I didn't want to wait. So, I added three more pages for 2008 and gave it to her early. I know she will enjoy it every day.

Idea, inspiration and instruction from
Jimmye Sue Mitchell of Texana Designs

Stamps from Texana Designs
texana.designs@yahoo.com
www.texanadesigns.com

Painted with Twinkling H20s
www.luminarteinc.com

Like Father, Like Son

I wanted to use that great school papers from My Town Papers. I found a picture of my dad's football team from 1960 when he was a senior and one of my brother's sophomore year. I thought they would go great on the layout. I used my SCAL to cut an eagle and used the Cricut Colors to outline the eagle. I stamped a fighting eagle from my collection of stamps from Texana Designs. I love the simple clean lines of the layout.

I will be showing off some of my layouts and creations in Eldorado in a couple of weeks at a craft fair there. If you are in the neighborhood stop by the 3rd Annual Schleicher County Nurshing Home 2008 Bean Cook-off, Saturday, Oct 25th, 8 am - 5 pm at the Schleicher County Nursing Home Court Yard.