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Monday, July 15, 2024

Happy 2nd Birthday!

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I'm sharing a birthday card for a two year old

boy that my friend commissioned. She requested a

construction themed card. I don't have any stamps to

fit that theme and my printer is on the fritz so I had to

get creative. I remembered that I have a VERY old set

of Sizzix dress up dolls. No construction themed sets

but I was able to improvise.

The little tools on the front of the card are from Art Impressions.

5330 – Tools Mini Dies

All of the dress up dolls and accessories are long since retired

but I'll share photos of everything I used below so you can

possibly search and find them on eBay

or Etsy or in a craft

group on FB.

I also used a retired Cuttlebug embossing folder, retired

Spellbinders Arrow Dies and a retired My Favorite Things

Tool set.

Truck, shirt and overalls.

Hair

Vest (I altered the gown)

Hard hat (I altered the beach hat)

Body

Shoes

Ruler embossing strip from Cuttlebug

Spellbinders arrows

Larger tools on the inside were from My Favorite Things.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Weekend Warrior from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a card that I made for my friend's husband. At school our custodians designed some wood storage units to store and charge the kids iPads. I happened to look at them and grabbed a ruler one day. They were the perfect size to store cardstock. I mentioned to one of the teachers how I wish the custodians would make me one, lol! Next thing I knew she had her very handy husband whip one up for me!! How lucky am I?? I made this card to thank him for being so thoughtful!

I used the 4378–Weekend Warrior Set from Art Impressions.

I made a second one to have on hand just in case.

I found this adorable tape measure paper that was just perfect for this.

Here's the inside of Luke's card.

Here's the storage unit he made me. Isn't it beautiful!!

These make the perfect thank you for a man who's done you a favor.

Here's the inside of my spare card.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Utility Die Birthday Card from Art Impressions!

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a birthday card I made using the Utility Die Set His (Sku#4750).

I love making masculine cards! I love the colors, the "themes" and with this card...the very cool dies and coordinating stamps!

I think this is the first time in YEARS that I've done a card with no coloring. It's all just dies and stamps (that don't need to be colored) I love all these new tools!

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Sunday, June 28, 2015

My Weekend Warrior from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a masculine card that I made. Anyone who knows me AT ALL knows that I love to make cards for guys! This handy man is called Weekend Warrior (Sku#4378).

I love to use metal on guy cards.

I used some alphabet brads to spell out dad.

Since the inside needed to be flat I used some tool dies that I had. It was the first time that I used them and I love how they turned out. Don't laugh...I used the inside safety seal to a jar of nuts to make the tools. It was a sturdy silver material so I saved it and cut them out of it. Recycle, Reuse, Reduce! Right?