Baby is a Blessing - Shower

Pool Birthday Party Invite for the Boys!

Birthday Card for a Lady!

Princess Birthday for a 5 Year Old

Happy 60th Birthday BBQ

Here's a quick 60th birthday card that I made for a friend who celebrated with a BBQ cook-off!

Mother's Day Workshop

It's been a while since I've updated my crafts blog, so I deeply apologize. To get caught up to where we are at today (Nov 28), I'm going to just make simple post of the projects that I've worked on over the months, so that you don't miss out on seeing them. But if you want more detail about the projects, just contact me and let me know and I'd be happy to share!

Here was my Mother's Day Workshop that included creating a flip calendar for every month to remember the special occassions plus a cute little purse card for Mother's Day!

Sponge Bob Birthday for Tristin!

We went to a birthday party for our friend Tristin today who turned one. His party theme was Sponge Bob Square Pants. I found some Sponge Bob stickers from Michaels and had a bunch of old water related stickers that I used to make this fun card for a 1 year old. It's hard to tell from the picture but the letters and numbers (T, W, 1) all have a raised bubble on them to make them seem like bubbles coming up through the water. It's nice to do a card every once in a while that doesn't have specific lines or layout. Hope he (or his parents) enjoyed his card, I had a fun time making it.

Supplies:

Ink:

CTMH - Star Spangled Blue (Z2149) & Cocoa (Z2114)

Stamps: CTMH - Good Times (B1332), Hero Arts - Live it Up

Paper: The Paper Company - Tan (from JoAnn's), Creative Imaginations - Splash

Other: Sponge Bob Stickers (Michaels), Creative Imaginations - Bits & Baubles, Making Memories - Chunky Wave Alpha Stickers, Fiskars - Boundary Waves (Michaels)

Happy Birthday to my Mother!

This is the last of 3 birthday celebrations we had this weekend. I didn't have much time to sit down and stamp a special card, so I had to go the scrapbooking way and used patterned paper as my main feature. The 3 birds are symbolic in two ways for me, one was that my Mom had 3 daughters and two, this was the 3rd birthday celebration of the weekend. My Mom loved the card and that's all that mattered to me. (Sorry about the photo, had to take it in my car to get a copy before I gave it to my Mom).

Supplies:

Stamp: Stampendous - Birthday Whimsey

Ink: CTMH - New England Ivy Z2135

Paper: Green Cardstock (unknown mfg.), DCWV - Spring Glitter paperpack

Other: Silk flowers (unknown mfg.), Dragonfly brads (Michael's), Making Memories - Polka Dot brad, Queen & Co. - Green floral adhesive ribbon

Happy 50th Birthday

We celebrated our friend Mark's 50th birthday today and so the card was made to be masculine, simple and to the point. Whenever I get the chance, I like to make the card as personal as possible, especially by using a photo. That worked out great for this card, as I used the new "book ends" by Quickutz Silhouette. The paper was two sided, so it was the base of the card as well as the background (reverse red side) to the white cardstock and sentiment. I really like the "book ends" from Quickutz and hope to use them a lot in the future.

Supplies:

Stamps: CTMH - Good Times B1332

Paper: Cloud9Design - Dog Stripe (two sided), White cardstock

Ink: CTMH - Black Z2105, Cranberry Z2116

Other: Silhouette - 5 & 0 Book Ends

Happy Birthday - Rock Star

Today we went to a birthday party for our friend Eetu who turned 2. The theme to his birthday party was "Come Party like a Rock Star." I used my Quickutz Silhouette to cut the stars (Stars - stackables) and also cut out "Eetu" and "2" to personalize them. As you can see, I didn't add any bling to it since it was for a boy, let alone a 2 year old. Love personalizing with the Silhouette.

Supplies:

Stamps: CTMH - Good Times B1332

Ink: CTMH - Black Z2105

Paper: DCWV - Happy Birthday, Blue A2 Card

Other: Silhouette - Stars (Stacked)