Clover Card

Hello --- and welcome to another edition of Silhouette Sunday.  I will be brief today (stop that!  I heard those cheers!  LOL)  as I have a project to accomplish......putting my paper crafting stuff back in the Sun Room Studio.  No, it isn't repaired, but I can no longer stand to have it in my living room!!!  Besides, it is going to be awhile before I dare seal things up; I want to be sure the inside of the walls are dry, dry, dry before I do that.
Today's card is one I made for my BFF's anniversary.  They got married on St Patrick's Day and I have only in the past couple of years actually did their card with that theme.  She wrote and told me she loved it and was actually going to use it as part of her St. Pat's decorations next year.  How sweet is that!  So, without further adieu  here it is.

The cut file is called "Clover Card" and it's designed by Daniela Angelova..  Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week.  It's going to take some time to get back into the swing of crafting, so I ask your patience.  Hugs, Shawna

THE DRYING CONTINUES

in the Sun Room Studio, but it's slow.  I can look out there in the mornings and I do not see any moisture on the windows. YIPPEEE!!!!!  There has to be more inside the walls around the windows but it IS drying. Progress!!!  Until I am fairly certain the walls are dry there will not be any attempts to patch it all up...so, for now, I still have the bare basics of my paper crafting stuff in my living room.  Not ideal, but it is what it is.
Card Care Connections has a call out for masculine cards (I think I mentioned that last post) so that's what I have been working on.  Using a Silhouette cut file by Samantha Walker , I came up with this card to mass produce for them.  The strips of cardstock behind the cut are all different colors, so there is a fleet of Classic Cars, all different. I thought them rather plain so I used my scoring board to add some interest and texture around the outside edges of the cards with no additonal adornment as there are with the ones with strips of DP along the top and bottom edges.
I hope you have a wonderful week.  Thanks for stopping by Paper Kisses and Inky Wishes.
Hugs, Shawna

Look what I got in the mail...

Well, I shouldn't say that.  It actually came by FedEx.  Mail, UPS, FedEx....it's all the same to me, A PACKAGE CAME TO MY DOOR :-)  from DCWV.  It wasn't a surprise, I have been looking for it to arrive, but I didn't buy something, I WON something!  Three of the new stacks from Die Cuts With A View.  I am absolutely thrilled!  So without further adieu please take a gander at these.

Each one is fabulous, but the Foiled Elegance is so beautiful and different; foil printed on kraft stock.  I cannot wait to make something with it.  The Denim Stack will come in handy for making masculine cards for Card Care Connection (see the button in the side bar). They have a special request out for masculine cards....why is that?  I think a lot of us tend to gravitate toward cards that appeal to the feminine people in our lives because, personally, I think you can only take masculine stuff so far.  Not that men are one dimensional or anything, but we ladies just have so much going on and so many interests and facets to our personalities that, well, it is just easier to do feminine.  Anywho, this fabulous organization needs masculine cards and I am going to try my best to accommodate.

SOOOO, if you want to have a chance to win some fabulous paper stacks sign up for DCWVs blog emails and leave a comment.  If you leave a comment on each post, you have more chances to win.  I think Erin gives stacks away every time they come out with new ones.  They also have a template challenge for scrapbookers, card challenges, and some really nifty inspiration from their design team.

The Sun Room Studio has been closed up due to the damp conditions and repairs needing to be done if it ever dries out in there and spring/summer arrives to get the job done. The fans and heaters I have going are not doing the job.  I actually have mold growing on one of the walls (fortunately it's on the south end of the room and not in the studio, but still  ..................yuck.  Because of the mess I have moved my Silhouette into my living room along with a few basic tools and will go from there. Not sure how that will work out as far as card production but will just have to see how it goes. Most of my paper is in plastic 12 x 12 boxes but let me tell ya, the stuff that isn't is very damp.  Some of the cards in my stash are damp, too, and the next thing is to get them in the main part of the house and under some books to keep them flat and then allow them to dry out.  I will be posting two-months-post-big-snow-storm pics  of the yard over on www.twodogsandasinglelife.blogspot.com in a few days if you are interested in seeing them.  But wait there's more.... I have a photo of Burger, all depressed because it snowed another six inches today.  I am sure it won't last long, but I kind of feel the way he does.  SNOWING AGAIN.  OH NO!!!!!  MAKE IT GO AWAY.

So that, dear readers, is it from Paper Kisses and Inky Wishes.  Thank you so much for stopping by.
Hugs, Shawna

A week past the one month anniversary of "The Big Storm" and the white stuff is still here, however, the last two days it has hovered just above freezing both day and night and it is melting. Slowly, but we'll take it.  If you would like to see what it looks like after 30 days please go to Two Dogs and The Single Life blog HERE.http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3720370496126944301#editor/target=post;postID=1663522442580923005  I know, it's just another snow storm, but it was and is a big headache for this little town.
Today I am posting a card I duplicated for sending to Card Care Connection (click their icon on the right side of my blog to go see what they are all about) that I worked on over a long period of time and just finished up.  It's a simple card but it took me a long time to complete because of sickness, time constraints, and yes, THE BIG STORM.  :-)  I just worked on a little bit at a time.  And to testify how wonderful God is:  although my sun room developed many leaks due to the snow melting a bit and freezing under that layer of snow enough times as to get under the shingles, it is only leaking on the portion where I do not have my paper crafting stuff!!!!  Thank you Lord!!

OK, here's the card.  Simple to create but I think it has a lot of impact.  I used four different doily cut files from Silhouette, DCWV glittered paper, a circle punch from Creative Memories, and a "Hello" stamp for the greeting. Not sure if I want to keep the ribbon trim...........  Thanks for stopping by Paper Kisses and Inky Wishes.  Hugs, Shawna

Happy New Year!  I hope it's  a good one for you and yours.  Burger and I are staying put today (barring being called out --- I am on call.  Ugh) and will try to catch up on things around here, bring more firewood to the house (that's quite a project what with the snow/ice and all), and perhaps organize my desk and wrap up a few year-end duties.  

Today I have a card that should have been posted on Sunday, but there have been other things that have occupied my attention like panicking over the snow turning to ice under the snow-- like this:

temperatures that have dipped into the single digits at night and trying to entertain a sweet wire hair fox terrier who needs much more exercise than he is getting at present.  Here's a shot of him opening a Christmas gift.  That toy kept him busy for all of ten minutes or so.  Probably less.  Much less.  

But on the positive side, we did not get a warm storm following on the heels of all this white and that is a very good thing.  Flooding surely would have followed, and we have been spared that.  And, while it's always a cold winter with some snow, a big storm like this only happens about every 20 years or so, so I am thinking after this winter it will be pretty smooth sailing for awhile.  Oh, but I hear someone saying GLOBAL WARMING, it could change.  I am not going there.  I want to preserve the illusion that all will be well until well past the time I am gone.  That's my view and I am sticking to it. And I am ever so grateful that my home wasn't one who's roof collapsed.  The problem with the sun room roof is minor, minor, minor compared to what some have had to endure.  

Now to that card I promised before I went on that tangent.  Thanks for sticking with me all you blog friends who are here to see paper crafting.  You are SO sweet!

This is a Silhouette Sunday project ;-)  I used the Silhouette Print and Cut file called Vintage Roses for the strip of beautiful wall paper-like roses and edged it with a Martha Stewart border punch strip on either side and adhered it to the DCWV card base from the Coral Couture stack.  The woman's silhouette is a Silhouette cut file called Vintage Figure 2 and it is attached with some 3d foam squares.  I added small drops from a Viva Pearl Pen for a faux pearl look --- and they are not showing up in the photo darn it. This was a fun, quick card that I am going to reproduce for Card Care Connection; one for my stash, one or two for their box.  

Thanks for stopping by Paper Kisses and Inky Wishes.  Hugs, Shawna

As some of you may know, I do pet sitting along with my other two (three) part time jobs and I have a couple of cute canines that I watch on a regular basis, Cody and Fonzi. I wanted to thank them for being a part of Burger's and my life and what do you give canines?  Treats of course!  I used the same technique for this box that I did for the money holders I posted about yesterday  in that it is two sheets of paper ---card stock and a patterned paper--- and I cut the patterned paper just a tad larger than the card stock to make the two pieces end up being the same size when assembling.  The outer layer has a teeny tiny bit further to bend and adjusting the file before cutting the patterned paper makes them come out just right.  This is a TINY adjustment, you don't need it but a TEENY TINY bit larger.  After cutting and assembling the box I cut a bone shape with the dog's name cut out, cut another bone shape in black and taped the two pieces together.  I added a bit of jute twine to tie the name tag to the box and it was ready to give.  Happy snacking my sweet doggie buddies, see you soon!

MERRY CHRISTMAS MY BLOG FRIENDS.  Thank YOU for being a part of our lives, too.  Hugs, Shawna