Clear Stamps Greetings

Not much to this card, I know. I was trying to make it resemble a present. Inside it is stamped with Thank You. I am sending this as a little insert of thanks for the Hostess of the July 4th Anysoldier.com card swap. The roses are my mother's rose bushes after she passed away of colon cancer I transplanted 3 bushes into my yard. So far only two bushes have survived.

Discovery Stamping

I have been researching like crazy! Looking over card  after card over the internet. I scored the mother load of stamps on Ebay. I thought I was really getting a great deal until I received them that's when i realized I could have spent the money on stamps I picked out for myself instead of a LOT of 22 packages of stamps of various types that I may not ever use. Oh well lesson learned I hope. I was in a shopping trance. Some ladies are like that with shoes. I am like that with Peanuts collectibles and now stamps. It is a fun project. I finally found a craft project my daughter will actually get involved in. She loves coloring the stamped images. I tend to make sets of 20 cards at a time for the Anysoldier.com card swaps. It is hard to keep her interested in coloring 10 of the same image. But some how she was finished with her set before I was finished with mine. She checked out a few more stamps and colored them. Fine with me, I will use the images in future cards! 


Did I finally find a hobby for my soon to be 16 year old?

Cricut Stand and Salute Cartridge

I would like to thank  Cricut Critters for the inspiration on how to put this cartridge to work. I loved this popup card idea! I am currently trying to duplicate this card 19 more times to share with my Anysoldier.com card swap group!

20 "Toadily Happy" Frog Cricut Cards Finished!

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SVG Cuts 

I finished 20 cards for the Anysoldier.com Summer Card Swap. I just love how they turned out!

"Toadily Happy" Frog Cricut Card

I made 20 cards  for the anysoldier.com Summer card swap. This card was so fun to create! I used inkscape to trace bitmap images of cattails, the lily and the lily pad and then opened them into SCAL or Sure Cuts A Lot program then for the frog I used someone elses's frog svg file I downloaded for free from the internet somewhere. I used Wedding Cricut cartridge for the tag and Penny Black Toadily stamps collection for the flies and the words toadily happy. I decided I didn't like the cattails in the end and I also glued jiggly eyes on the finished card.