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Sunday, August 17, 2014
Happy Birthday Addison!!
We are celebrating my granddaughter Addison's 2nd birthday Saturday August 30th. She is going through the terrible twos stage, and just had her baby brother Parker appear on the scene (born just 2 weeks back!!) Needless to say...she is kind of being a pain in the butt, but is learning to adjust to her newly shared spotlight!! Anyway...I made this card for her 2nd birthday. This darling image comes from the Pure Innocence set called " Something Special Just for You". I colored her with my promarkers, then fussy cut her out. I also stamped her crown onto gold sparkly paper & fussy cut it out and popped her up using foam tape. The pink polka papers are from Bo Bunny, the numbers & balloon designer papers are from DCWV called The Birthday Wishes Stack. The banners were cut using YNS Fishtail Banner Die Set. The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Special Girl Designs set, and were punched out using two Stampin Up Ovals punches. I put two pink enamel dots in the left hand corner, and a heart shaped crystal on her crown from my stash. I'm sure she won't have a clue how cute her card might be, but I sure had fun creating it! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!!
Friday, August 8, 2014
Happy Birthday Shawnee
I made this card for my granddaughter Shawnee's 7th birthday. Unfortunately her parents, my daughter & son-in-law Emily & Jason, would be on vacation during her actual birthing day. And my other daughter & son-in-law Elaine & Bryan would end up delivering their 2nd baby, my eighth grandchild, the weekend after when we were going to celebrate Shawnee's birthday!! Sounds very chaotic at best...and it was!! I made this card for Shawnee at a moments notice, so I'm not exactly jumping up & down about it, but I still think it turned out cute enough. The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil called "Lacie". I don't think it was in the birthday image category, but it was so cute, and reminded me of Shawnee...and what birthday doesn't involve ice cream! I colored her with my Promarkers, cut her out with a Spellbinders circle die, then behind that, I joined together two Cheery Lynn Chasing Rainbows Doily die in light blue & yellow. I finished off with a big yellow flower in the lower left & some yellow candy in each of the other corners. Hope you like it..thanks for stopping by!!
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Thinking of You
This is another "Thinking of You" card I made for my mother-in-law. She requested some cards from me because she said she just can't find any pretty ones in the store. I saw a card on Pinterest that was similar to this, but had a spray of colored stamps on it. I had just bought a set of Sizzix Triplits flower dies recently and thought they would be perfect to use to make a CAS card like the one on Pinterest. I cut some of the flowers out using my scraps stash, and set them out on the Fanciful Flourish die from Cheery Lynn Designs. I manually pierced holes around the entire base of the card. I really love the sentiment...it is from Hampton Arts & I bought it at Michael's from the $1.00 bin...can't beat a deal like that!! Anyway...I really like how it turned out and I think I'm going to make several more in A2 size using other colors to send to Operation Write Home. Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!
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Sunday, July 27, 2014
Thinking of You
My mother-in-law lives in a retirement home and she recently asked me to make some pretty Thinking of You cards to send to people because she couldn't find any decent ones in the "stores". I have been making her birthday, Christmas & Mother's Day cards the last few years, so I guess she thought I could help out. Of course I freaked at first ....when someone asks you to make a specific card for them...kind of makes you feel "under the gun" so to speak. At the same time I thought it would be a fun challenge & of course I would help her...she's priceless...the most loving mother-in-law anyone could dream for!! Anyway...I will post some cards I made for her over the next couple of weeks. This is one of the first ones I came up with. I love this Stampendous stamp called "Daisy Thanks"...looked exactly like the Black Eyed Susan's growing in my garden every year & they just spoke to me as a great versatile stamp! I colored them with my Promarkers and framed them out with Spellbinders A-2 Fancy Ribbon Threader die. I proceeded to thread some dark brown woven ribbon through the slots in the die & struggled QUITE A WHILE till I managed to tie a bow in the center!! Then I stamped the Thinking of You sentiment from a Tim Holtz set at the bottom in dark brown ink. I think she'll love it! Thanks for stopping by to take a look!!
Happy 60th!!
My husband turned 60 a week ago and he wasn't a bit happy about it!! I wanted to make him a card & was trying to decide between a couple of images to use on it. I ended up using two images...one on the outside & another on the inside. I guess I was trying to cheer him up & be funny at the same time. The outside was supposed to be how everybody viewed him, and the inside image was supposed to reflect how strong he actually is & how he thinks he should still look!! Anyway....the image on the front is "Bob" from Mazy Arts Digital Stamps, and the muscle man on the inside is "Strongman" from Mo's Digital Pencil. I colored them both with Promarkers. The small balloon is a Martha Stewart punch. The other two I created using some Spellbinder Ovals dies and tied them all together with some black waxy twine. The sentiment on front is from a Stampin Up set that I don't have the name for, and I printed the one on the inside on my computer. I do believe he got a kick out of his card when he opened it! Thanks for stopping by to take a look!
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