Forever in Love Anniversary card

I made this card for my Aunt Shelia and uncle Harvey's wedding anniversary back in November but I'm just now getting around to posting it. It's a very busy time of year for me. I have a lot of projects I want to get made for the holidays not to mention making Christmas cards too. I made this card using the Love letters paper line from Recollections at Micheals. I used a stamp set from Hot off the Press to stamp the tree and hearts, the sentiment is a studio G stamp. I used colorbox chalk ink for all the stamps. I used the lacy labels cartridge for the cricut to do the label shape on Georgia Pacific white and red from Bazzill Basics paper. I used detail clear embossing powder to emboss the sentiment. The felt flower and the organza flower are from Making Memories, the leaf is from recollections and I believe the metal bling brad and flower are from the Paper studio. Its that line that Hobby Lobby carries. I also used a piece of vintage lace to finish the card off.

Well, that's about it for now, I hope you enjoyed the card and I appreciate you for stopping by. Please come back again soon. I hope you all have a very Happy Holidays. Be safe and enjoy the people or person you spend it with.

Wish Big Birthday card for a special Aunt

I made this card for my Aunt Shelia's birthday this year.  I know that she loves butterflies so I had to go with that theme.  Shelia is my mother's sister and had kept me as a baby on up till the time I was grown.  She has always been a special person in my life.  She always tires to look to the good in people and you don't ever really hear her speak ill of other's.  She keeps with that saying, "If you don't have anything nice to say then say nothing at all".  She's a wonderful person with a warm, loving and giving soul.  I love her dearly.
    In sticking with the butterfly theme I went to my DCWV Mariposa papers, the cream and black are from g.c.d. studios "paris nights" paper stack. The sentiment label is a Tim Holtz die cut for Sizzix. The swirl die cut is also from Sizzix.  The butterfly die cut is from Provo Craft with the cricut.  The sentiment stamp is from Papertrey Ink stamped with Versa fine ink.  The flowers are from Recollections and Wild Orchid Crafts and the bling are from and unknown source. 
    That's all for this post. stay tuned I have one more coming this morning.  Thanks to you all for stopping by and having a look. Hope you have a great day.

Birthday card for Father In-law

This is the birthday card I made for my father in-law, Dale.  He enjoys architecture so I thought he would get a kick out of this design paper. The paper is from Graphic 45, and the post card stamp and the sentiment stamp are from TPC studios, they are stamped in dark brown chalk ink from Clearsnap.  The Dad stamp is from Hot off the Press stamped in the same ink.  I distressed the edges of the post card stamp and then added walnut stain distress ink. Both the dies cuts are from Spellbinders, the circle being from the Lacy Circles set and the label being from Fancy tags.
    That's my card for today, I hope you enjoyed it.  Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  I love to hear from you guys.  Till next time, I hope you have a great day!

Birthday card for Aunt Naomi

I made this card for my sweet aunt, Naomi.  I hope that it's one that she will really enjoy and that she thinks it's pretty and all.  She does so much to help out the family by doing so much to take care of, and just look out for, my Granddad now that my Grandmother has passed away.  Grandaddy has got lung cancer and he has diabetes so he needs help keeping  up with doctor's appointments and making sure he eats good, just basic things like that but it's hard for his own daughters, who don't live quite as close, to run their own families and try and take care of him and his home too.  That's were Naomi steps in.  She and my uncle live just across the road so she doesn't have far to go and she has always tried to do as much for him as he would let her do.  I just wanted to make a special card for her to let her know how special she is to all of us and how much she is appreciated for all that she does and who she really is.  I hope she really enjoys this card.  I notice here lately that my card making style seems to be changing a bit.  I hope its for the better.  Let me know how you like it by leaving me a comment.  I love to hear from you guys.

On to the card...  I used the 'Butterfly Garden' design paper from PinkPaislee to cover the card base, for the sentiment I used a stamp from inkadinkadoo and I'm not sure about who made the butterfly stamps, I then used a Spellbinders die to cut it out from white card stock then, leaving the paper in the die, I used the die as a stencil and applied distress ink in Tattered Rose with an ink blending tool to the inside of the die cut.  I then stamped the sentiment onto it with pink ink and added the butterflies in brown.  The brown scalloped circle is card stock from Bazzill Basics.  The flowers are from Recollections from the Micheal's stores. (It's their house brand). The sea foam (ish) green lace is from American Crafts.  Love their trims. and the bling is from Prima. OK, that's my card for today, hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by.

A card for my oldest friend

Sara is like my oldest friend in the world.  You know, not like a Facebook friend, someone who I've lived with in my younger days and actually made apart of my life.  Not to offend anyone and their facebook friends. lol,  I love it too but there's something special about the people that we bring into our daily lives and share families with.  I actually named her first born daughter.  Isn't that great!  She's so smart and has done great to keep in touch with me even though she has moved many times sense the days that we were room mates. 
     To make this card I used design papers from My Minds Eye; the LaPaperie stack, a sentiment stamp from Hot off the Press in ink from Ancient Page in Bordeaux,   I used some barn door distress inks to distress the edges of the sentiment piece and then sprayed it with some pearl spray.  I used some red card stock from Bazzill to mat the sentiment piece with and layered it with a paper dollie.  I added flowers from Recollections and Wild Orchid Crafts and some white lace and braided trim to finish it off.
    Thanks for stopping by and peaking at my card.  I hope you enjoyed it and have a great day!

A Birthday card for an extra special someone

I made this card for Nanny's birthday this year.  She's technically my husband's Nanny but she's also been mine for many years now.  She's such a sweet and special lady.  Always kind and loves her family, and she's got a BIG family, let me tell ya.  I just love her to death and she always has been so good to me.  She and I used to stay up late into the night playing Yatzee (spelling?).  I am not certain but I'm thinking this was something like her 86th birthday?  I appologize for not having my facts straight before making this post.  We'll go with 86 tho because I know that's close. She's still very indipendant and lives alone altho her family and friends all live close by. I just can't say enough good things about this lady who has ment so much to me in my life.  Ok.  On with the card...
    I made this card using some K & co papers and flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts, the sentiment stamp if from Close to my Heart and I die cut it using a Spellbinders label die and my Cuttlebug.  I distressed the edges of the paper a bit using Vintage Photo distress inks by Tim Holtz and just added some lace to finish it off. 
    Thanks for stopping by today and checking out my card.  I hope you enjoyed it. :)

Masculine birthday card for Chris

This card was made using the Basic Grey paper line "Lime Rickey".  I used the Cricut cartridge; Elegant Edges for the red label piece and the notebook and tab dies are from Papertrey Ink.  I used stamps from Scrappy Cat and Inkadinkado and ink by Ancient Page.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I edged it with distress ink by Ranger, and an adage ticket from Tim Holtz,  I covered the notebook die cut with Pearl glimmer mist.  The leaf punch is by Martha Stewart and the stick pin is made by me.  I hope you enjoyed my card today, thanks for stopping by.

Birthday card for a special young lady

Penelope is not only my Niece, she is also my Godchild.  I love her and her brother very much.  They are the special kids in my life.  Penelope just celebrated her first birthday this month with a party at Jumping Jake's.  They have those huge inflatable jumping gym things.  (I don't know the technical name for them).  She had a blast playing with her brother and all the other children.  She liked to jump up and down and climb and slide down then do it all over again.  We had cupcakes and then opened gifts, which she got a ton of. lol.  Sense you only have one first birthday I wanted to make her a special card.  One that she can keep in her scrapbook and have forever.   I hope she looks back one day and likes this card.  She sure seemed to enjoy trying to pull all those balloons off of it when I gave it to her. lol. 

This was a pretty simple card to make.  I used papers from My Minds Eye, the LaPaperie collection.  I added some snow cap white dabber paint to the edges, then I cut out the label shape with the cricut using the Elegant Edges cartridge and edged that in Vintage Photo distress ink.  I then added all the balloon shaped stickers from ek success then finished it off with a bow tied from some cream colored seam binding.  I hope you enjoyed my card today. Thanks for stopping by.

Birthday card for Wendy

This card was made for my BFF Wendy.  She's such a great friend and she never forgets a birthday so I wanted to make her a pretty little card to let her know how special she is to me on her birthday.

I made this card using the Basic Grey "Sultry" paper line.  Its an older paper line but still one that I enjoy very much.  I used stamps from Inkadinkado and used my Prisma colored pencils to color in the images. It uses Hero Hues chalk ink by Hero Arts in night to stamp the images.  I used my circut to cut out the circle and scalloped circle shapes.  I think you can find those shapes on the Alphalicious cartridge and I just used the gypsy to hide the hole cuts.  To finish it off I added some lace trim and some buttons.  I hope you enjoy this card today.  Thanks for stopping by.

Baby boy Banner and shower invitations.

I'm making the decorations and invitations for my cousins' baby shower that I'm thowing for her.  I thought I would share those with you today.  So here's the video so you can get a good look at what I've created.  Hope you enjoy and dont forget to leave me a comment and let me know what you think.