Celeste gives you some advice by Sharon Caudle

Hello AI fans!

Hope you're having an amazing start to your weekend, and hopefully it's a long one for you if you're in the states and celebrating Labor Day. Today I've got a birthday card for you that features the wonderful Celeste sku# U4331 offering you up some advice about women and their age with My Advice sku# G1682 .  :)  

 

I loved coloring her animal print top and then I paper pieced the sofa with some coordinating paper.

Placing the sentiment rolling off the wooden spool added a really fun element to the card, I think! I love how it looks!

 

And a close up look at the flower with the leaves

 

Copic markers used:

E000, 00, 11, 04, 21, 23, 51, 53, 55, 57, 97, 99, and 17

R20, 17, 37, and 89

Y23, 26, and 28

YT 21 and 23

BG90 and 93

 

 

 

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Hope I didn't bore you with too many pictures today! Thanks so much for stopping by, enjoy your weekend, and hope you have some time to get crafty! Hugs!

 

Waste not, wine not by Reneé Matarese

Hello Ai fans!! 

I know you've been seeing a lot of these Pop-Ups sets lately and if you're like me then you LOVE them too!  Don't worry, they'll be available soon!

I love all of the Ai Girlfriends but I especially love the wine drinking crew.

I love this verse...Wine flies when you're having fun!

Here's what the inside of my card looks like.

Now for the waste not portion of my post.  You get enough in your Deco card kits to make several cards but if you're an environmental person like me you try to make the most of everything you have.  I hate to throw away anything that can be re-used or re-purposed.  Did you notice how cute the packaging (spec sheet) that comes with your Pop-Ups set is?  Cause...I did.  Why on earth would you throw away or even recycle this??  It's like getting a free bonus with your purchase.  I decided to cut it up and use it to make yet another card from the set.  Here's the step by step instructions and I'll show you how I even save on paper when I'm mounting layers.

Whenever possible I cut out the center portion of the paper and save it for future projects.

Look...you only need a small portion of the blue color to matte the printed paper...why waste and entire sheet?

Then, I have the blue portion I cut out to use on my card front.  Also...did you notice...the image is from the packaging.  It's like a little bonus when you order your Pop-Up set.  It's just as cute as the die cut images in the set.

I cut up more of the packaging (and used more of the salvaged blue paper) on the inside of my card.

I hope you've been inspired by my not wanting to waste anything that can be used.  It's better for our Earth and...for your wallet!

Happy Birthday from Jean, Eunice and Renee Matarese

Hello Ai Fans!
Today I'm sharing a couple of birthday cards with you. 

My first card uses Bingo Jean set of 3.

Here's the inside.

 Here's my second card featuring Eunice and Happy Birthday (cursive).

On the inside I used a phrase from the Lingerie Shoppe set.

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