Happy 85 Years Young

A very sweet gentleman from our church turns 85 years old today. I used a variety of small stamps in Poppy Parade and French Flourish stamp in black for the background.
The cut is from Mamaw's Legacy which is sadly no longer available. :( I miss her work! I popped up the Cardinals. What do you think of the card?

Sense my card has Cardinals I thought I would share about the Cardinals I have hear at the new house. I think there is about 6 pair of them. The males love to come onto my front porch and peek through the screen door. It about drives the cat crazy but they don't seem to mind them. They will also come and set on the closest branch to me when I am working out in the yard.

Heat Rash

So we have young man in church who is a fencer, and his birthday is the week. I really didn't plan to do a fencing card for him, but while flipping through my Paper Doll Dress Up
Book I hit upon this idea.

I used my cricut markers to draw the castle onto the card and then used another marker to highlight it. I would have liked to have made a nicer background and maybe printed off the words. But I had just pulled an all niter at a youth lock in the night before and was getting pretty sleepy. I did play around with Merlin's beard to make it look like Noah's.

Sorry about the glare on the Dragon. I had lost my natural light and had to use the flash.
I hope you all are staying cool. It sounds like the heat will continue for at least the next week

It's Mario Time!

This is the card I made for my nephew's 9th birthday last week.
I have to say it's one of my favorite cards ever! It was a blast to make.
I pulled a screen shot off the internet and printed it on my card stock for my background.
I then used several files from Mardenz. I did take about her box file and remove the
question mark and put in the letters to Spell - Happy Birthday Clayton. I added a coin bouncing out of one of the boxes.
He thought the card was very cool!

I played with Paper!

Yeah! I finally got to go for Art Club! This is one of the cards I made. It is for my nephew who turned 14 yesterday! He's on vacation so the card should be there when he gets home. This cute Penguin is from My Scrap Chick as are the top 2 waves. The bottom waves are from Zooballoo and the Font is Life's a Beach! I love how Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point colors go together!

Amy's turning 40!

My little sister, Amy, is turning 40 this week. I wanted to make her feel like that turning 40 is a victory and not something to freak out about so here it is....

Yes it is the same cow from my post yesterday. Actually the cow was my inspiration. I was thinking all the things people have cows over. :) I used Rubarb Font in my Serif Scrapbook Artist for the wording. Boy is that program wonderful. I wish I had known about the newer Craft Artist version when I bought mine. Oh well.

Happy Birthday Lizzie

DD Lizzie turned 19 on Sunday! Wow where did the years go? She loves Penguins and she LOVES< LOVES Ice Cream! So her birthday card has both.

The adorable penguin is a part of a set from My Scrap Chick called Beach Penguins. Some of her favorite flavors are here - Chocolate Moose tracks, Lemon Ice, Strawberry and Mint Chocolate Chip!. Just Chillin was jazzed up with a bit of crystal effects along with her sunglasses. The Just chillin' is from Create a Critter (one of my favorite carts). The paper is from DCWV Fun in the Sun Summer Stack that I picked up ages ago.



Inside the card I used Nifty Fifties for the words but needed Printing 101 for the plus and equal sing. The enjoy is from Wild Card and the Ice Cream cones are from Sweet Treats.

I made a homemade Ice Cream Cake of Cookies and Cream ice cream, Oreo Cookies, Crushed Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Hot Fudge and Chocolate Toffee. The 9 x 13 pan only had 2 pieces left by morning so I think it was a hit! :)

Off to Art Club today! I've got stuff piled up digitally for the blog and hopefully I'll have time to get it up this week!

Birthday Party!

Saturday we celebrated 2 of my nephews birthdays. Clayton turned 8 years old on Sunday!
The boys had a Mythbusters Birthday Party. My Sister in law made a cake with a brownie bomb in it. So cool! I used SVG Cuts Jonathon Bear for his card. The dirt is actually from Everyday Paper Dolls and I embossed it with my Happy Birthday folder. The inside of the Card said, "Clayton we dug up lots of awesome Birthday Wishes just for you."

Ben will be turning 4 tomorrow. I used the Waterfall Card set from SVG Cuts for card. I played with the card for quite a while before finally opening his present. :) All the little boys had to have a turn with the card.

Annabelle's Birthday Card

So our worship pastor's youngest daughter has been asking me since Christmas if I have her birthday card done and what I am getting her for her birthday. Her 5th birthday is Sunday and I finished her card today. She is such a sweetie. I've got her a Belle pillow and Fleece Blanket set so her card is to go along with the gift.


Both Belles are from the very talented Mardenz. I used a slew of Carts on this card.

Castle was Paper Doll Dress Up
Hills - Country Life
Bridge and 2 of the Trees - Pagoda
Grass and Flowers - Create a Critter
Leafy Trees - Serenade
Royal Celebration & Birthday Princess - Birthday Cake
Just for You - Stamping Solutions


I had the castle and both Belle's already cut and assembled and the rest of the card
took me 4 hours to finish. I had a blast making it!

Big Bang Theory

So I have a friend who is a fan of the earlier episodes of Big Bang Theory. So her birthday is this week and here is my card. I free handed the pants, but the shoes are form Everyday Paper Dolls.

Happy Bird-Day!

This card is for a friend whose birthday was last week. The bird is from Whimsical Winter @ My Scrap Chick. I randomly cut white paper and stamped snow flakes all over it. The inside is from Song Bird. (It's one of the carts I'm babysitting.) :)
Sounds like the poor birds are in for a rough time of it the next couple of days. I've even heard that nasty rumor of 2 feet! Snow that is. Hopefully not. Trying to get a lot done today, but not overdo it. I'm pretty sure that's an oxymoron.

Radio Waves

My brother is having a birthday next week. This is the card that I made for him. He is a Ham radio guy so I used his call letters. The base of the card is embossed with the Stampin Up Lattice Folder. I used the Radio tower from Nifty Fifites. The letters are from Designers Calendar. The inside says Happy Birthday in Morse Code.

PS. He loved it!

Surprise Birthday

I made this card for a dear friend. Her husband threw her a surprise party tonight. She is such a special gal and is always doing so much for so many. I used so many of my resources to make this card.
The base, door, vines and poem are Penny Duncan, The gate is part of a card from Monica. The pillars and flowers are from the Moonlight Garden set at SVG Cuts. The grass is from Plantan Schoolbook cart. The butterflies are from MS Elegant Cake. The hummingbird and dragon flies are from Lyrical Letters.
I made the door seperate so she could open it. I'm happy to say she liked it. It was a wonderful party.

So Cely asked if it would fit into 5 x 7 or half sized envelope. Here is the cut file on an envelope.
I have also sized Penny's card files smaller, but it is think and the space is pretty small.

Truckload

Poppy is having a birthday this week. This is the card I made for him. I used the truck of Nifty Fifties. The tress are from Plantain Schoolbook, the road is from Everyday Paper Dolls and the Wishin' is Pooh Font.

Hey Daddyo

This is a birthday card for a special friend. His birthday was last week but his present didn't get here until midweek. I used my new Nifty Fifties cart for the car and the words. I love the font on this cart as well as the great word combinations and pictures. The sun is from Pooh and Friends. The presents are from Sweet Treats. The great road and sign are from a Jpeg that I've earmark as Mama's Mels Stampin Addiction, but I can't find it on her blog. I hope I didn't tag it wrong. Anyway I traced it in SCAL2 and it cut beautifully.

I'm finally getting over the cold that won't end, but DH now has one so I hope I don't get it back. It's cold here again and DD is getting ready to head back to college this weekend. It's been a wonderful holiday season for us. Lots of great family time, a great deal of giggles and Mario Kart. Finally got my hair cut yesterday. 9 1/2 inches gone. I feel so light. Slept so good. My hair had been getting caught underneath me and waking me up. So glad for a bit of a change. Off to do laundry and mop. Got one more Christmas party tonight.

Happy World Card Making Day!

I however will be way too busy to make cards today. It always seems to be that way. However I did get a lot made last week. Here is the birthday card for my niece who will be turning 19 in a couple of week. No it's not the 10th. I had to fix that before I sent it. I'm always a day off on her birthday. ACK!

Anyhoo, I used another leftover card base from graduation. The "girls" are all Greeting Farm girls. The Music notes are from Hannah Montana cart.

Hope you enjoy your day!

Eli is turning 6 soon!

And I had an idea eary for his card. I love how it turned out. I used Penny Duncan's Stair Step card, My Scrap Chick's Monkey Busness set, the frog was a Free SVG Cuts, and the Ants are from Scrappin Table's Patriotic set. The card base is cut full 12 x 12 page. All the paper is Stampin Up.

90th Birthday

Our dear Pastor Gerber celebrated his 90th Birthday yesterday. I wanted to do something super special for this wonderful man. We have been so honor to work along side him. I used an Old Summertime Pack from DCWV paper. On the front I used a Cake from the cart From my Kitchen and the worlds from Wild Card. On the inside I used a cut file from Just for Sharing. Sadly she doesn't post anymore. I had just discovered her too. I used Zoo Balloo Cart for the Happy Birthday, Storybook for the 90 and the edging on the cake and a Child's Year for the Candles. I blinged the candles with a little Stickles.

Hips

I got this stamp at the "new" Rubber Rainbows store in the Tremont Gallery , IL. Aren't these folks just a hoot. I colored it with a variety of Stampin Up and Copic markers. The letters on the front of the card are Mickey Mouse font.

Whooo's special

Here is a card I made for my nephew. I had stamped the image and colored it eons ago. My friend and I stopped at the new Rubber Rainbow store in Tremont, IL. We will miss running to Galsburg to see Marge and wish her the most in her retirement. But we are tickled that Rubber Rainbows still is here. She bought the cute "For someone Whooo's special" stamp there. The bottom of the black base I used a cuttlebug border embossing folder on it. I used a bronze stamp over it to give it a little shine.

Our Youth/Worship Pastor's birthday is coming. He is a like 7?th degree Black belt in Hapkido. Hapkido is a Korean Marital Art. This is his card. I'm sending it with my Daughter because they will be on a youth mission's trip to Mexico on his birthday. The digital stamp is from Greeting Farm.