Truddabellz Creations

     A quick post of a birthday card I needed to send out at last minute so it would not be considered late belated greeting.  I was paging through some of paper pad I have been hoarding and thought that some of the decorative pages would make a great birthday card.  So just wanted to post this simple bright and cheery birthday card.  I apologize for not taking a picture of inside of the card. Thank you for stopping in to visit and view my latest creation.

     Hello!  Today I am sharing the beginning of my obsessiveness for the box card.  Baby shower card without revealing of baby gender.... so, Boy or Girl is the question of the day.  The farm theme that I used for this card may have some people scratching their heads wondering why would I use the theme I did.  Well, the reasoning behind the theme of barnyard pals.....  I grew up in a farming community throughout my childhood years.  A good share of my family and relatives still live within the surrounding areas.  One of my cousins who's expecting her first baby, chose not to know gender of their baby when ultrasound was done.      It wasn't long and it's baby shower time.  After giving a baby shower card some serious thoughts, I started tearing through my craft stash.  I was still not feeling inspired.  So I then decided to take a walk through at the nearby craft stores.  I found myself browsing the s...

     Masculine cards are sometimes challenging for me.  But I must say that I am so happy I bought this layered dies set that gives more than one option to decorate a card.  This set has several boat views and several people and fishing rods as well as the layers to use in different combinations.  Gotta love it!  The fishing layered die set is from Scrapbooking Made Simple.   Thank you for stopping in to visit and view my latest creations.  

     I had to finally break down and purchase a Birch Press layered die set I cannot stop thinking about.  Well, I must confess how much I love and dream about so many of the Birch Press products.    I love it and it was well worth the wait and learning a very important lesson about using caution and to pay very close attention when possibly shopping on eBay verses from the original company website or well established merchandise stores.      I want to warn everyone of an experience I had with attempting to purchase my first Birch Press die set.  I was surfing eBay and happened to find a reduced price Birch Press die set, so I went ahead and purchased it.  When package came to house, I noticed the package was stamped with several stamps as if this was an overseas shipping and an overseas store logo, but yet I thought I was purchasing from someone in USA.  That was my first clue to this being a fraud case.  I opened up...

    The cards that I am posting today are from Anna Griffin card sets.  Earlier this year I was hospitalized and channel surfed upon HSN's Craft Day.  Lucky me, huh?  Well, it just so happened I had nothing else to do but lay in hospital bed and watch TV all day.  Being laid up could have been a dangerous shopping spree, but as sick as I was feeling, I only purchased several items.  I was hoping the purchase was going to make me feel better. That's my story and I am sticking to it.  Good excuse for shopping, right?       When boxes of Anna Griffin's card sets came to house, I was still recouping from my recent illness and I had the chance to occasionally play with my new purchases.  It was awesome to have a box filled with supplies and items already cut and ready to assemble.  Note to self..... make sure I have a box or two on hand in case I am sick again.  The pictures taken of the cards were taken shortly after I...

     In the previous post I mentioned the second order for the decorative wedding fans.  The original order was to be identical to previous design posted, however, the client came back and requested something more beach related.  After running several designs past the client, we quickly came up with a design.  It would be my first attempt to personalize with couple's names and date.  It may not be as perfect as I would have liked it to be but it is what it is.  Making the Bride, Groom and parents happy is all that matters.  Once I got final approval on all changes, I was off and running to complete the order.  I was told that the wedding fans were a hit at their wedding. Thank you for stopping in to visit and viewing my latest creation.

     While digging in photos for previous post, I ran across photo of a wedding project for a mid summer beach wedding.  Hot weather and decorative hand fan make a perfect match, right? It was perfect timing of finding the amazing die of the couple right before taking on this wedding fan project.  I kept it fairly simple and used the couple die for both sides and then had the Love sentiment on one side and the I Do heart for the other side..  The decorative fans were a true hit at the wedding.  Everyone was talking about them.  And the best man of the wedding party loved them so much that he put in an order for his daughter's beach wedding.  How awesome and exciting was that!?! Couple die is from Scrapbooking Made Simple. Love and the I Do heart dies are from David Tutera's Cupcake Wrapper and Toppers die set. Thank you for stopping in to visit and view my creative decorative fans.  I hope you enjoyed it. Have a great crafty d...

     Well, Well, Well,  I am back yet again.  Not going to explain and will sum it up by saying my absence is that Life got in the way of normal activities.  I occasionally found time to work on some craft projects but did not post any of my finished work.        While sorting through photos, I found a photo of a card project for multiple Wedding Save the Date cards I worked on back in 2017 that I never posted.  Unfortunately I cannot recall the description list of the supplies used.        Thank you for stopping in to visit my blog.  I hope you enjoyed viewing my most recent creation.  

     Wow I cannot believe how long it has been since I last posted something.  I have done some crafting and cards throughout my blog absence.  I can only say that life has gotten in way and hence absence from blog postings.  I tried to find some pictures of some card creations done since last posting and I ran across my cards I sent out to family and friends this year. I apologize for the imperfect picture.  I am sure some can relate to Holiday madness with long lists of things yet to do.... including not having my good cameras charged up yet.  Phone is the next best thing, right?  I took quick phone photos of this year's Christmas Card before frantically sending the cards out almost at last moments before the Holidays.  Quality photo was not top priority and it shows..... yikes!  Well hopefully I learn from this and do better next time.  I should have made quality photo shooting as my New Year's Resolution, huh?  ...

     Hello Everyone.  I hope your weekend is going well.  Hot and in the 80s here today.  I am feeling guilty for not being outdoors enjoying this sunny weather, but other things have priority.  Instead I find myself indoors cooking up a storm of meals and heatin up the house.  Go figure, right?  Lol.      Recently my sister had an upcoming birthday where she was turning 50.  I wanted to make her something special, unforgettable, crazy and funny...... did alot of thinking of the "special" birthday card.  After much thought, I finally decided to step outside my normal cardmaking box and take on a project of taking the Head Over Heels Mini Album as my Sister's birthday card.      I spent hours staring at the mini album wondering and pondering as to what I was going to do with it.  Yikes!  What was I getting myself into.  I had thoughts of there was no way I was going to pul...

     Hello.  Today I am posting my latest creation that I made for a very dear childhood friend of mine. I have been meaning to send her out a card to tell her I am thinking about her.  Of course, I got creative block while trying to come up with a perfect card to send her.  But I happen to run across several things that just fell into place and I ran with it.   I had recently watched a YouTube of Maymay Made It and found a "must have" for my stamp inventory.  It is two stamp sets named Pray For The Cure Set and the Pray For The Cure Companion Set.  Extremely fast shipping.  Extremely awesome quality stamps. I am very happy with my purchase and wanted to share it with you.   And while I was on a small spending spree, I happened to stop in at a local Tuesday Morning Store and found the perfect paper pad to go with the Pray For The Cure sets; and then I also had bought a "must have" die and stamp se...

     Happy Easter to everyone.   I just wanted to post a Holiday Greeting to all. It is a gloomy and rainy day here and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to give a holiday greeting and post my most recent creation.    I did multiple cards in same design for sending out to family and friends.   I tried to keep them all with a clean and simple look.  This first photo does not really show the shiny white with gold sparkly paper used for the cross.  This second photo shows the shiny paper that  I used for the embossed cross.  Supplies used on cards: Darice's Cross with Script Embossing folder, Recollections White with Gold Sparkles, Uncertain on the name of the Designed papers used, Bazzill Purple Sparkle Card Stock, Memento Elderberry Ink, Embellishments on some cards are: Recollections small purple pearls, and on other cards Nuvo Crystal ...

     I know I am posting this card out of sequence.  I overlooked this one in my saved files until now.   I thought I would post it and share with everyone what an awesome shaker some background dies can make.       I got this new Snowflake die around the Holidays.  I could not wait to find a little spare time to sit down and play around with a haul of goodies I had ordered from Scrapbooking Made Simple.  I am in love with the specially designed sets that the owner, Stacey, of Scrapbooking Made Simple has created.  The Snowflake Background Die is part of a collection set called the Simply Defined Winter Wonderland Collection.      Here is a picture of the die cut I was cutting out the snowflake on the lower levels and stacking the outer portion of the die to give the height needed for a shaker area.      Once the layers of the outer portio...

     I stepped out of my box and tried something besides just making cards.  I thought I would try to make a banner for a birthday party I would be going to and to surprise the guest of honor with it.  I know she loves The Greeting Farm Cheeky Beach girl as much as I do.  Love TGF!  I took and colored the Cheeky Beach girl three times in different colors.  The banner letters were stencils that I traced and hand cut out.  Yep you heard it correctly....all were hand cut and then glued onto another layer and hand cut again.  Once the letters were layered to give a shadow affect, they were popped up onto the die cut banner piece.  The flowers were sticker embellishments I had gotten from the Dollar Tree Store.  The background banner pieces were from the decorative pack of DP that were all shiny patterns, but I am not sure the name of the company the pack is from.  If I was to guess at it, I would guess it was a Recollecti...

     I forgot to post this one when I made it and sent it out, so I am posting it now so I can share it everyone.  I hope you like and enjoy it.  Thanks for stopping in to view my latest creations.   and the inside of the card is:  

     Here is yet another one of my posts for this mega marathon postings I am doing today.  This one is very dear to my heart since this is the special one I did for my Granddaughter.  It seems rather fitting these days..... she is always taking her Mommy's phone for one reason or other.        I was rather upset and disappointed with the different glue I used to put this card together.  I should have stopped what I was doing and took time to go buy my favorite Tombo glue I normally use.  But I pressed on and did the best I could do with what I had at the time of working on the card.  I guess I am chalking this up to live and learn...... do not use a new glue on projects until its been tested out on scraps before projects.  Yikes what a space out moment!       The I Love You embossing folder was used in the background.  I thought it...

     While I was digging into my valentine themed stash, I found the perfect embossing folder that matched up with some new embellishments I picked up at Michael's Store recently.  I could not have asked for a better match!  Awesome!!  It took more time trying to find what I wanted to do than it took to do the card.  Go figure, right?        I also found that the green color of Sparkle Foam Sheets  from a variety pack I purchased from the Dollar Tree Store, to use for a variation of green color to add to make the card designs pop.       On top of the sparkle foam sheet, I then added the hearts designed layer done with the Cuddlebug Embossing Folder.  I love, love, love this heart design embossing folder!!      I  randomly added the little colored hearts with sentiments onto the embossed layer.  These colored heart embellishments are from the...

     I was able to find a bit of time to play in my Valentine's Day themed stash.  I was also blessed with spending quality crafting time with my Granddaugher for the day.  What a great time we had!       It is amazing what one can find in their themed stashes.  LOL.  I came across a puppy stamp, and I just had to use it for one of my cards I wanted to send to family members.    The puppy stamp is from the SP and Company.  I think the SP and Company is a retired company.  I love their stamps I was able to purchase..... awesome stamps!    This puppy stamp is colored in with my Spectrum Noir set of markers I use when I am crafting with my Granddaughter.  I then added a layer of different colored hairs to puppy with colored pencils.  I used stickle type glitter glue on the larger hearts the puppy is holding, and a pink colored gel pen on the little hearts on the pre...

     Here is another card I did for another birthday.   This card took a different path than the ideas I had in my mind on what I wanted to make..... but I thought it wasn't too bad and cute enough to share with everyone who stops in to view my creations.   Of course I am beginning to repeat myself when  I say... I did not have a sentiment to say what I wanted it to say and one that would bend around the die cut I used for this card design.... so again I decided to free form it since it was a card for family member.  I was limited in embellishments at the time I was putting the card together, so I went with something close in color that I found within my stash.  The stamp is from CC Design, the Mashi Collection.   I just love that collection of stamps.....they put a smile on my face every time.  I hope it does the same for everyone who drops in to view this too.