Five-Way Flower

I wanted to make a card using all of the five punch options of the Five-Way Flower stamp. I started with this:

 

 

Punched down to this:  

 

Here is my card with the full Five-Way Flower and the pieces I used to make it: 

 

Being the scrap paper saver/user that I am, I determined to use all of those leftover pieces. I was able to make an additional four cards from those pieces by adding to them. In some cases, I was able to use some previously stamped pieces that were sitting in my 'stash'.

 

Here are the additional cards with the Five-Way Flower pieces that were used to make them:

 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by. Until next time.....

 

Happy Stamping 4 Fun,

Janet

 

Non-stamping Project

This week I have taken a step away from card making to do a little sewing repair job. The rip in my husband's favorite blanket finally got to the point that I decided to cover it up. It 'hit' me a week ago that I could simply make a new top for the blanket using my stash of old jeans. (Yes, I savor fabric scraps and worn out jeans like I do my paper scraps! In fact, in the finished project you'll notice that I appliqued a couple of the patches from one of the grandson's jeans, that later became shorts.)

 

As soon as I get the sewing "mess" cleaned up, I'll be back to card making. (Later today, I hope.)

 

 

Until next time.....

 

 

Happy Stamping 4 Fun (or any other craft project you are working on),

Janet

Happy Valentine's Day

I wish you all a very special Valentine's Day filled with many heart-felt, warm wishes and happenings!

I only send Valentines to my grandchildren. For most holiday cards I make for them, I usually make them all the same card. However, I have several new stamps that I've been wanting to use so I made each of my four grandchildren (3 boys and 1 girl) a card special and unique for them. I'm sure the kids are more excited by the $1 enclosed in their card than they are the card itself!

And I wanted to share them all with you. I'm displaying them from oldest grandchild to youngest.

 

 

 

 

Again, Happy Valentine's Day and....

 

 

Happy Stamping 4 Fun,

Janet

I Miss You Card

Just a short post to show you the card I made using the Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge #211 ..........

 

Happy Stamping 4 Fun,
Janet

Heart Strings or Strings of Hearts

I'm sorry to have let you hanging for so long in regards to what I had done with all of the punched hearts.

 

 

The story starts when I got the November 2013 Paper Pumpkin kit from Stampin' Up! It included these cute little string of stars.

I thought, why not do the same thing with hearts? So I did! As you saw, I punched out LOTS of tiny hearts in various shades of red designer series papers. (Some were Christmas papers, some were retired papers and some were current papers.) I then sat down at my sewing machine and sewed them together.

To store them, I just rolled them up on empty toilet paper rolls.

And here's a card I made using them.

 

 

Until next time,

 

Happy Stamping 4 Fun,

Janet