Nicecrane Designs 50% Off SALE!

My friend, Ignacio, is offering 50% off all of his digital designs!  This special sale is now through November 25, Friday!  Take advantage of this awesome savings to get some unique and beautiful, or just fun and playful digital images for your cards, scrapbooks, or whatever you fancy!  He has some gorgeous pictures of children at Christmas, the little darlings below, and much, much more!  Just click on the picture below to go to his website!  You won't be sorry!

Here's a photo of one of my cards using a digital image from Nicecrane Designs.

I call this card, "Walking the Babies".  It's so precious!

	Little Mother Save Pack A new DIGITAL STAMP,,,,,by the famous play by my favorite childrens illustrations All my Digi-Stamps are in a very High Resolution,,,,so you you can...
	Little Mother Save Pack II A new DIGITAL STAMP,,,,,by the famous play by my favorite childrens illustrations All my Digi-Stamps are in a very High Resolution,,,,so you you can...

 

I call this image "Little Mother" - she's so cute, feeding her doll with a huge spoon!

This is a bookmark made with an image from Nicecrane Designs' Mother Goose bookmarks.  http://nicecranedesigns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9&products_id=500

Here's Nicecrane Designs Vintage Typewriter Machine - just click on the link below to see a description and photos of all the "typing's" that you can add to it!

http://nicecranedesigns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=644

 

Tell Ignacio that Clare sent you!

Happy Fall, Y'all!

Hello, blog friends!  I am so happy that Autumn is here!  This cooler, more colorful time of year is my favorite!  Summer is too hot and humid for me, and I don't take the heat well.  I don't tan, just burn in no time at all!  God's beautiful palette of colorful leaves is just gorgeous, and I can't tell you how many colors there are!  To celebrate this beautiful time, I made some cards having to do with pumpkins, my most favoritous "squash" of this time, especially as pie!  Or bread, or soup, or muffins, etc.!  Can't you just smell that wonderful cinnamony pumpkin scent all over the house?  I can - could be because my daughter just used one of the pumpkins we bought for Halloween, and made little chocolate chip pumpkins loaves for a bake sale at church!  hehe  They are soooooooooooo good!  You wouldn't think chocolate chips and pumpkin would go well together, but it's almost, I said ALMOST as good as chocolate and peanut butter together!

Well, with no further ado, here are photos of my cards.  I hope you enjoy!  Thanks so much for visiting, and please know that I really appreciate you taking the time to check in!  Happy Fall, and Happy Thanksgiving!

This card was so fun to make!  I love this stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs.  The focal image is from a Vintage Winter Holiday Postcards cd from Twisted Papers.  The little pumpkin on the envelope is from the same.

This is the inside of the card.

The pumpkin label was printed in muted colors, so I brightened

the pumpkin by coloring with Copic markers.

I got some new "toys" in the mail - some actual silver and copper stripping, and applied
some of the copper here.  It molded right onto the embossing on the orange background.  This
image is from the cd mentioned above, and the seed packet and wording are from
Our Daily Bread Designs.

I love this vintage pumpkin image from the cd above!  It's so different, and the coloring is unique.
It reminds me of all the different pumpkins we saw at the pumpkin patch, but some not this pretty!

Closeup of sparkle added to pumpkin - PUMKUM as my little grandson called it!

This is the card inside, and it could be used for any occasion during the fall.

I didn't care for the background paper here too much when just looking at it by itself,
but when I put the image on top, with it's similar colors, it didn't look bad!  The paper
looked like a bunch of eyeballs!  lol  The swirls and leaves are from Heartfelt Creations.
The Thanksgiving Greetings panel is from the Vintage Winter Holiday Postcard cd.

Here's a good look at the "eyeball" paper!  hehe  "May many blessings come your way
on this Thanksgiving Day" sentiment by Heartfelt Creations. 
The maple leaf is a sticker from my stash.

I love the ribbon used on this card with its leaves, pumpkins, corn and such.  It really went
well with the ODBD Stamps.  The pumpkin image is from the cd mentioned previously. 

The little leaves stamped on the burgundy background are from a stubby stamper
from Stamps by Judith.

Inside the card.

This image from the Vintage cd is just wonderful!  I put gold sparkly ink on the sun rays. 
The sticker leaves just added to the elegance as they are embossed with gold too! 

Here you can see the gold embossing on the leaves and a little on the sun rays, and the bow.

This sentiment from my stash, spells it out!


I would love it if you would leave a comment!  I appreciate all comments left!

Back in business!

I have worked on my blog for 1 1/2 days, and I think I got the "bugs" worked out.  I hope you enjoy, and thank you for your visit!  I appreciate you!

Shoes and Purses Galore!

Have you ever wanted to wear a pair of beautiful shoes, and carry the gorgeous purse that matched?  I have, and my daughter says I should become a shoe designer!  I don't think I have time for that, but I do have time to share with you the 12 sets of shoes and purses I made for a recent church function, Festival of Tables.  I decorated my two tables for High Tea, and my ladies had so much fun, as well as all of the other ladies who didn't sit at my tables.  All of the tables were decorated beautifully, and there were some "just-plain-ol'-fun" ones, too!  I hope you'll leave a comment below on what you think of my shoes and purses.  Thank you for visiting!  If you'd like the directions on how to make these, please contact me.  I cannot chose between them one favorite - they're all my faves!

Something's wrong with my blog!

Hello!  I'm sorry to tell you this, but there's something amiss at Blogger!  I went into my blog to list a new set of creations, and I found that my header and sidebar are gone, gone, gone!  I have emailed Blogger but haven't received any answer from them.  I haven't made any changes, so I'm at a loss as to what has happened!  I really don't want to have to create another, but I will if I have to.  That is why I changed my blog before, from queenteacuppapertreasures to clare'spaperworks!  On the "queen" blog, all my photos disappeared, and were replaced with black squares with a big "minus" sign in the middle!  So I made the "paperworks" blog.  I wish it could be reliable.  It's very frustrating, and I would greatly appreciate it if anyone out there has a suggestion or an answer to these problems, to contact me on my email please!  It is muttpuddles@comcast.net.  Thanks, and I hope you're all having a great day!  Isn't Autumn awesome?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!

October 2 is my mother-in-law's birthday, and we took her out for dinner to Famous Dave's for barbequed ribs.  She is 73 years young!  Here is the card I made for her -

Stamps from Stampin' Up, cardstock from Stampin' Up, and Memory Box.
Markers from SU, and flower punches used.  Zva pearls, Spellbinders die, border punches,
 corner punch and leaf punches used, and additional stamp from Gina K.

WE HOPE YOUR BIRTHDAY WAS A HAPPY ONE, MOM!  ;)

1 Thessalonians 5:12-13

Hello, friends!  I hope everyone is well and happy today!  It's been beautiful outside!  Fall is my favorite time of year because of all the colors, and the crisp coolness of the air after a long, hot summer.

I wanted to share a scrapbook page-turned-shadow-box-framed-thank-you that someone ordered.  This layout was adapted from a Heartfelt Creations class project, and made for one of my husband's co-workers.  She is framing it, and presenting it to her pastor as an appreciation gift.  I love the way it turned out!

The background paper is from the Happily Ever After stack and the plain cardstock is from Stampin' Up.  The bible passage I copied into a word document, then printed on plain white cardstock.  I used Tim Holtz Vintage Photo inkpad to "age" the edges.  The Heartfelt Creations products used were:  Falling Leaves Die HCD 707, Decorative Dutch Iris Die HCD 711, HCPC 3323 Large Elegant Word Background PreCut Set, HCPC 3334 Open Falling Leaves PreCut Set, HCPC 3375 Flora Grande 1 PreCut Set, HCD 703 Daisy Patch Dies and HCPC 3374 Flora Grande 2 PreCut Set.  The pearls are from Stampin' Up's Pretties kit, and the butterflies are Martha Stewart.  The border is from Spellbinders Parisian Accents Die Set.  I used Versamark ink to heat set the black embossing powder on the flowers. 

These flowers turned out beautifully, and the three-dimension is crazy!

I don't normally use Martha Stewart products, but when I saw these butterflies, they were a must-use! 
They matched the gold glitter that was on the background paper perfectly,
and provided just a little bit of sparkle that enriches this page.

Thank you for visiting my blog - I hope you had the time to leave a comment on what you think of this page.  I appreciate your thoughts!  I hope you'll come back again, and again, and again!  lol  hehehe

To Encourage You

I have a new friend who has just learned she has breast cancer!  It's hard to believe that I have five friends now with this dreaded disease.  I made this card of encouragement for her.  She hasn't received it yet, so she will probably see it on here before she physically receives it in the mail.  Be encouraged, Friend!

The rose was made using satin ribbon, and scor-tape applied to one side of a cardstock circle. 

 I twisted the ribbon around and around, then back again while pressing it onto the scor-tape, starting in the center.  The end of the ribbon was folded underneath, taped, and covered with another cardstock circle. 

 A pearl was applied to the center with craft glue. 

The leaves are from a Heartfelt Creations stamp set called HCPC 3378 Perfect Petal Class.  It's a class that was offered at the CHA and CKC show.  The "To Encourage You" is from HCPC 3363 Inspire Me Sentiments PreCut Set.  The inner sentiment is from HCPC 3321 Believe PreCut Set.  The diecut used for the burgundy border is from Spellbinders Fleur de Lis set, and the window die is from their Labels Twenty-one die set.  The inner image under the phrase is from Justrite Stampers Shabby Chic Labels Four.  I used a small butterfly punch to cut two butterflies, and glued one just in the body area, then bent the wings up for a 3-D effect.  The embossing is from the Sizzix embossing folder Birds and Flourishes, and the pearls are from Zva.  Also used was Spellbinder Fleur de Lis die set.  Cardstock is from Stampin' Up, and DCWV.  Coloring was done with Stampin' Up and Copic markers.