August 25th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday, hope all are well.

We had a quick but wonderful visit with the kids and upon our return discovered it raining a bit! And I hear the windchimes after weeks of silence from them.

A very welcome cooling off of a few degrees.

Thought I'd share this masculine birthday card I made earlier in the year. I fnally used my Sizzix/TH Funky Cactus dies! I used scraps of  white card to cut the pieces and colored them with Promarkers. I paired them with designer papers from WRMK High Five collection. I created the black sentiment in PSE and printed out on Springhill Digital card, then cut it with a Clear Dollar label die. I embellished the sentiment with a punched out saying from the papers and a blue-colored punched card scrap. The 2 curved paper pieces on the background were cut with an MFT Blueprint #25 die. The card base is yellow SU.

Here's the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used for my layout design.

And I'll also share this Christmas card, another one of those using Gecko Galz collage sheet image squares. (I previously made 9 of them and I think I have one more left to share after this.)

I used Cardstock Warehouse Electric Red for the base and mats and Basic Grey Dasher designer papers. The sentiment was cut twice out of white scrap from a Casual Friday die and layered. The present was cut using a Stamplorations die out of green scraps and I used a Crafters Companion Gemini torn hexagon die to make the red mat behind it, as well as the next smaller die to make the image mats. Several turquoise glitter dots were arranged to finish the card front.

And here is the Splitcoaststampers sketch I used for my layout design.

That's it for me, have a great week!