CAN'T BELIEVE MY LITTLE BOY IS TURNING 17!!! "MR. MUSCLES"

Hi Everyone!


Tomorrow my baby boy (Brandon) is turning 17! I can't believe it, where has all the time gone, it's gone way too fast though, I know that for sure! 
The poor guy has an exam tomorrow & they don't celebrate Birthdays at the Military School he attends, so he will have to wait to celebrate when he comes home in March for Spring Break.


I didn't want the day to go by without anything though, so I baked him some brownies & sent them along with this card I made for him. Hopefully he will get them tomorrow, they were supposed to arrive today, but I haven't heard from him (not unusual though). I won't get into it now, but being a parent of a child who attends an away Military School is very hard!!! 


I'm hoping to get a serious laugh out of him on this card, because this is sooo not him!!!
Brandon is so physically active in sports like Football & Lacrosse & LOVES weightlifting! The girls are going to LOVE him, he's tall, handsome & has all the muscles! He doesn't know this yet, but when he is home this summer he is going to be my trainer...lol
I think it turned out really cute & am entering it in some challenges that are listed below. Love it when you have a card in mind & can find challenges that fit it so perfectly!

The Digi is from Dude Time Doodles "Weightlifter Wayne"

 The Sentiment & #'s are from MCT "All Around Birthday Time"

 This one I came up with & the font is "Chipper"

I'm entering it into the following challenges:

CCEE STAMPERS-Favorite Sketch & Brads

Crafty Ribbon Challenge For the Men or Boys

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Hot Shot Craft - For the Boys

Here Come the Boys - Favorite Song-Rocky Theme Song "Gonna Fly Now"

The Cheerful Stamp Pad - Birthday

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Blog - "Where The Boys Are" (Boy or Masculine)

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Masculine

Scrap-Creations - 3 Layers

As always Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

BACK IN MY CRAFT ROOM "GIT-R-DONE"

Hi Everyone!


I finally got my craft mojo back & spent some time in my craft room this weekend. As most of you know, my family has been through a lot lately, so I was happy when I felt the craft bug this weekend, as I haven't crafted since before Christmas. 
Before I get on to my project, just wanted to give you a little update on everyone. Since both of my sisters are named Tammy & they both are fighting different kinds of cancer from now on I'm going to refer to them as Tammy (Breast Cancer) & Tamera (Brain Cancer). Tammy is still recuperating from the first part of her reconstructive surgery, unfortunately she's still in pain & very tired, more so than she had anticipated. Tamera started chemo & radiation this past week & is tolerating it fairly well, the good thing is that she's not in pain right now. Being the little sis, I've looked up to them all my life & seeing how strong they have been over the past month just makes me so proud! Gilby hasn't had a fever is a # of days now & appears to be getting back to his puppy self, it's so good see him running around & hearing his bark. We are still concerned about his breathing & the thickening around part of his heart, but for now, we don't want to put his little body through anymore tests at least for the time being. 


Ok, so on to my project. This is a very Belated Birthday card for my BIL (Tammy's husband).
He is really into Nascar Racing, so when I saw this image on the Dude Time Doodles, I knew I had to use it. I thought of the "Git-R-Done", but hubby came up with the inside sentiment, which I think is perfect!

I used my new Cameo & MTC to create the Circle Card, then used Nestabilities for the layers.

You can't really tell unless you click on the picture but I used "Diamond Plate" CB Folder on the Black card stock & distressed it with sand paper & then rubbed some Platinum Embossing Ink all over it. Used Copic Markers & Silver Metallic Gel Pen to color the image.

The font is "Apple Boy BTN" 

I'm entering this into the following Challenges:
Cards for Men~#2 "Boys & their Toys" 
Crafty Bloggers Network~#10 "Distressing"  (Sanding/Inking)
Celebrate the Occasion~#47 "Masculine Birthday" 
Creative Card Crew~#2 "Seeing Red" Red as the Primary Color 
Digistamps 4 Joy~#35 "One for the Boys" 
Simon Says Stamp Challenge~"Anything Goes" 
Lili's Little Fairies~#4 "Masculine Card" 
Craft Your Days Away~#37 "Distressing"  (Sanding/Inking)

As always, Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!
Thanks for stopping by!

BIRTHDAY FISHES!!!

Hi Everyone!
Hope this short week doesn't feel long to you, I hate weeks like that, thankfully this isn't one of those weeks for me! It's not over yet though is it??? LOL 
I'm looking forward to the weekend because hubby & I are going to IKEA to look at more storage options for my craft room. I love IKEA, especially when shopping for things like this. I love my craft room, but it needs to be be less cluttered, I need pretty containers to put other containers & such in. Also need to figure out what to do about my ribbon, it used to be on a couple of those dowels that go in that storage thingy that goes up on the wall (they sell it at Michaels), hopefully you know what I mean, but the ribbon kept getting all over the place. So, now I'm leaning towards making the cards to wrap the ribbon around or getting those old fashion clothes pins & wrapping them & keeping them in jars. I don't know, will just have to see what I can come up with. I need a place for my punches as well. Have all my Stickles (just got from Blitsy) where the ribbon was, but I don't like that either. I also need some more wall art & a bulletin board, but that will have to wait. If anyone has any ideas for my ribbon, punches & stickles please let me know. I like to keep them close to me. I promise to share some photos of my craft room/office when I get it to looking the way I want it to or at least what I can do (since we are renting).


Anywhoodle who, I promised earlier in the week that I would share the card I made for my niece's Birthday, it's actually a gift card holder that I put cash in. Decided cash for her Birthday & something fun for Christmas, so I got her a bunch of Smash products which she loved. It's her freshman year in college, she's an artist & is studying interior design. She loves pinterest, so I knew she would love the Smash stuff. 
I needed something quick & easy since I waited until the last minute & this is what I came up with. I think it turned out real cute & she liked it, so that was all that mattered.

Ingredients~

 MCT Embossed Gift Card Holder

MCT Gift Card Sentiments (Happy Birthday)

Bugaboo Digi Stamp (Fish & birthday fishes)
AC White Textured Card Stock

Imaginisce Lady Bug Ball Pattern Paper

Copic Markers

Tim Holtz Fired Brick Distress Ink

Momento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink

Glossy Accents (over the bubbles)

Twine

Pop Dots

As always, Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Happy Crafting & Thanks for stopping by!

ROUTE 22..A HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY CARD

Hi Everyone!
Hope you all had a Happy New Years Day & that all your resolutions are in full throttle! LOL
I'm not one for New Years Resolutions, because I always seem to fail (it's always about losing weight & exercising). There is one that I plan to do though & that is to craft more/post more often, but not let it get in the way of family time & responsibilities. So, I think I'm doing pretty good  so far on this 2nd day of January! 


I actually made this card for my nephew a couple of months ago, just never got around to posting it.  How old do you think he turned???...22???...You guessed it right!!! LOL

You can't really tell, because the base is black, but it's a shaped card

I used the weld feature on my gypsy to create the card & the hide/contour to remove the 66. The cart is Nifty Fifties.

 I used Black Enamel Accents on the 22 (Something to Celebrate Cart) & the outside
 & inside dots. I popped the white part of the card from the black to give it dimension & I used some bakers twine. The card stock is American Crafts.

The inside sentiment is my own (I crack myself up with the things I can come up with) LOL

I printed it on my computer-it took a few tries to get it lined up just right.

We celebrated his belated Birthday along with my niece's on Thanksgiving, everyone, including him got a kick out of his card. With a 22yrd old guy it's kind of hard to make a handmade card that they would like, so I happy that he liked it so much. I'll share the card I made for my niece sometime this week.


Linked to Passionately Artistic -see my "Linky Love" tab at the top.


As always, Gilby & I love comments...his little tails just wags away when he sees me smile!!!


Thanks for stopping by & Happy Crafting!

MCT THROWBACK THURSDAY CHALLENGE...BIRTHDAY MARTINI

Hi Everyone!
Hope you all are doing well!!!
I made this card for my Mom's Birthday which is today, Happy Birthday Mom!!! I'm also including it as an entry for Miss Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge. The challenge was to create something from one of the "Font" cartridges, but you don't have to use the actual font, it can be an image, as there are lots of "Font" cartridges that have really great images as well. I chose the "Cuttin' Up" cart for my project, because I knew it had exactly what I needed to make my mom's card,The Martini!!!

My mom is a HUGE fan of The Martini, ever since I can remember that's been the only alcohol she drank, except for wine. I used to love it when she would give me the olive & still do!!! Now me, I'm not such a fan of The Martini, in fact I think they are nasty, but give me the olive & I'm a happy camper!!! No need to call social services people, think the time limit has long since past!!! 


Ok, so on to my card, I found this ribbon at Michaels probably over a year ago & I knew then that I wanted to make my mom or sister (yeah, she likes those nasty things too) a Martini card, it's perfect!!! I'm really pleased with how it turned out, I hope you all like it as well!!! There is one thing I would change if I were to make it over again & that is the Bling-Bling. I would have put the green on the glass & the diamond on the card, but oh da well. :D

Sorry, not the best photos

The Martini glass can be found on pg. 74 of "Cuttin' Up" I used the Main cut & Shadow feature for the glass & the "Holly Cow" cut for the olive. Everything was cut @ 4"

I used PTI & AC Cardstock I used my I-Rock for the Bling-Bling as well as 

"Fired Brick Distress Stickles" for the pimento

 All Stamps & Dies are Miss Emma's

~Happy Birthday~"Stitched Oval Die" & sentiment is from "Gift Card Sentiments"

~Celebrate You~ "Scallop & Oval Stitched Die" & the sentiment is from "Many Greetings"

~Little Martini Glass is from "Anyday Bingo & Cross Word"

As always, Gilby & I love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

JUST DUCKY~HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Hi Everyone!

It feels like I haven't posted anything for a long time now! My days are filled with work & I've been cherishing the time I have with my youngest in the evenings! Being divorced, means having to share my time with him this summer, it doesn't mean I have to like it though!!!

Anyway, on to my project. Today I wanted to share (see I like to share some things..lol) the card I made for my dad's Birthday! He's turns 84 today & I thought he would get a kick out this! I miss him sooo much, he's in WA & I'm in VA which is too far away!!! I think it turned out really cute, please let me know what you think. I, of course (since I'm still in the challenge mode) will be entering it in some challenges, which I will list below. I don't know about you all, but I really like challenges! Sometimes I'm not really sure where to go with a card & they help to inspire me!

Ingredients:
Digi Stamp "Dick Van Duck Party" Inklined
Sketch Copics-0,B21,N1,N2,R08,R20,Y11,Y13,Y18,YG06,YR68
Stamp - "Take the Cake" PBD
Font-Arnold 2.1
Plain Cardstock-PTI (white) DCWV-DCWV Textured (orange & green)
Pattern Cardstock-DCWV-Animal Crackers
Cuttlebug-Swiss Dots
Glossy Accents (for his glasses)
Ice Stickles (for the hat)
Ribbon-Michaels
Brads-Stash

Challenges:
Birthday Sundaes #17 - Use orange, green & white
Card Patterns #123 - Sketch
Colour Me Creative Copic - Favorite copic technique I just colored & tried to blend (newbie)
I Copic Lover #38 - Birthday
One Stitch at a Time - Anything goes They are also looking for DT members!
Penny's Paper Crafty - Birthday They are looking for DT members as well!
Ruby's Rainbow - Birthday
The Crafty Pad - Lots of texture Embossing, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Glittery Embossed Cardstock, Ribbon

I also shared this with the following Linking Parties:
Craft Junkie Too TGIF
Inspire me Fridays
Made it Myself Mondays
Passionately Artistic

Gilby & I LOVE your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WONDER WOMAN!!!

Hi Everyone!

One more day until the long weekend, can we say woo hoo?!!! Plus, I get my youngest this Holiday!!! Could only get better if we were with my oldest as well!!! We don't really have any plans yet, guess it depends on what the weather is like. My hubby already told me he did NOT want to go to DC, lol. I knew that already, he never wants to face that nightmare! :)

Today I wanted to share the card I made for my boss's Birthday! She is the "Wonder Woman" in every way!!! The inside of the card says it all!!! I'm also entering it in some challenges which I will list below. I think it turned out really cute & it goes with the whole 4th of July theme. Please let me know what you think!

If you click on the picture you can see that her cuffs & headband are gold.

I downloaded the font from dafont "Badaboom"

Here is the list of Challenges I will be entering this card for (in order by date):

OTWC Challenge #56 (Red, White & any shade of Blue)

Card Creations & More - So Saturday Challenges #11 (Patriotic)

Catch The Bug Recipe Challenge Blog - (Red, White & Blue w/Ribbon)

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog (Simply Red)

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #61 (Patriotic, use the colors of your flag)

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #117 (Inspiration Photo)

Craft Your Passion Challenges #64 (Seeing Red)

Die Cut Dreams Challenge #92 (Red, White & Blue)

Paper Playtime Challenge #49 (Digi Monday, using Red, White & Blue)

Scrapbookaholic by Abby #8 (Red, White & Blue)

Celebrate The Occasion #20 (4th of July, Red, White & Blue)

Tuesday Throwdown #55 (Red, White & Blue)

Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog #4 (Red, White & Blue)

Crafts and Me Challenge #41 (Birthdays)

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #56 (Red, White & Blue)
Craft Us Crazy Challenge #11 (Red, White & Blue and or Summer Theme)
Rainbow Lady's Challenge 159 (4th of July/Red, White & Blue)

I am really loving these challenges lately, if you want to have some fun yourself, try anyone of these or try http://felineplayful.blogspot.com/ , there are sooo many there!!! This is the most organized list of challenges I have ever seen, they make it sooo easy!!!

SHARED WITH ALL THE LINKY LOVE SITES ON MY SIDE BAR!!! SHARE YOU PROJECTS TOO!!!

Recipe:

Digi Stamp-Bugaboo "Dottie-Wonder Woman"  (My Favorite Digi Store)

Copic Sketch Markers

Gold Gel Pen

White Cardstock-PTI

Red-Stash

Blue-DCWV Summer Texture

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Stars

Ribbon-Stash

Star Buttons-Stash

Wish me luck on the challenges!

As always, Gilby & love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

BUGABOO WACKY WEDNESDAY

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all had a nice weekend!  I'm starting to really get into Digital Stamps lately, I like how they are just literally at your fingertips and you don't have to go to the store and spend a fortune on one stamp.  I also like that you can change the size to whatever you want. 

I'm still exploring all the different Digi Stamps sites, but there is one I found, that I really like,
Bugaboo  they have a wide variety of stamps and great blog as well. They are having an awesome sale through the end of the month of, where every Digi Stamp is 50% off!!!

Here is the card I made  for their Wacky Wednesday challenge over at Crafters Digital Art Center   This was a color challenge, using Red, Yellow and Turquoise with one of their stamps. I used one of their characters, "Stella" along with the sentiment that came with it.

Recipe~
Bugaboo Stamp "Stella Birthday Aged to Perfection"
Copic Markers
Card Stock~AC Textured (Black card base), DCWV~Citrus (Yellow)~PTI (Red)
Flowers~Prima
Stickles Glitter Glue for the Balloon
Paper Glaze for glasses, dots & shoes
Stash-Brad & Red paper

As always, Gilby and I LOVE your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Fabulous at Fifty!

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to share a card I made for my sister's 50th Birthday! She was actually in Hawaii on her Birthday (soooo jealous), so we celebrated last weekend. She has accomplished quite a bit over the years, she has an excellent carrier, is a great parent, loving wife, fabulous cook/party  hostess AND a she's a WONDERFUL older sister!!! She even finds time in her incredibly busy schedule for yoga, which she loves. So I thought she would appreciate this card AND I was right, she loved it!! :D

This is my first attempt with a Digi Stamp and using Copic (Sketch) Markers...yes I said Copic!!! I'm so excited that I finally own some (Birthday present to myself), I've been wanting them forever forever!!!

I have to say, I'm thrilled with how my card turned out, but that's probably still the high from actually coloring with my new Copics!!! Please let me know what you think, and please be kind, since I am a newbie. :D



Did you notice hear Diamond Earring's? :D

Ingredients:
Digi Stamp~Bugaboo Stamps "Dottie Yoga" http://bugaboostamps.com/pg_dottie.html
Stamps By Judith~Happy Birthday
Sentiment~50 and Fabulous~Architect Bold (Font)
Card Stock~Paper Tray Ink (Green & White), DCWV~Textured (Purple)
Pattern Paper~AC Paper "Tea Party"
Copic Sketch Markers (Can't remember which colors)
Spellbinders Nestabilities~Deckled Rectangles Large (
Irock Gems (Purple & Crystal)

Thank you Kendra and Bev for all your expert advice!

As always, Gilby and I just love your comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

16!

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all are having a great Valentines!  My sweetie surprised me with a pink frosted doughnut with heart sprinkles, so I was a happy camper.  He's also going to make me dinner tomorrow night since we both weren't up to eating much tonight.

I made this card for my youngest who will be 16 on Wednesday (I can't believe how the time just flies)!  Since he is away at school I sent it along with a care package of goodies that he can share with all of his friends.  He'll be home at the end of this month for a visit, so we can do the grand celebration then!

I have to say, I had a really hard time coming up with a card idea for him, I'm still not sure if I made the right choice, it may be a little too cutesy for him. It has nothing to do with the fact that I don't want him to grow up any more than he already has...LOL..yeah that's it.  Since I was having such a hard time coming up with an idea, I turned to a few challenges for some inspiration (I'll list them below)  I hope he likes it, even if it is a bit too cute!  :0)  Let me know what you all think.

One of my goals this year is to enter more challenges and when blogger or website lets you use your card for more than just their challenge it makes life a little easier.  So this card is being submitted for the following challenges (in alphabetical manor):

http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ Miss Emma's Throwback Thursday you had to make something from the Wild Card or Just Because Cards carts (I chose Wild Card)

http://karens-kakes-krafts.blogspot.com/ her challenge was to make something Celebratory ***You still have time to enter, challenge ends on the 20th!!!***

http://www.peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/ theirs was a Sketch (#45)

http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com  you had to use the Simply Charmed cart

Ingredients:
Gypsy
Cricut carts~ Wild Card (frames, half circle and rick-rack frame)~Simply Charmed (flames of the candle)~Pooh Font (16)
Stamps~PKS Everyday Character~Pink By Design Take the Cake & Scripted Year
CB Folder~Diamonds in the Rough
Paper~Imaginisce (stripped)~DCWV Brights Textured (orange and aqua)
Tim Holtz Distress Inks~Butterscotch and Stream
Diamond Glaze
Stazon Ink Pad
Black Gel Pen

As always, Gilby & I love comments...his tails just wags away when he see's me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

CHEERS!

Hi Everyone!
I wanted to share a card that I made for my BIL last month, but have never gotten around to posting it.  I'm sorry about the photos, but I haven't been able to figure out a good way to take pictures of acetate, if anyone has any ideas please let me know.  Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!!!

Ingredients:

Gypsy

Smiley Faces

Card Stock is from my stash

Acetate~Inky Anticks (had to cut 4x)

Twine~Paper Tray Ink

CB Folder~Divine Swirl

Sentiment~My own, isn't it cute?

Font~Grilled Cheese, isn't that even cuter?

Black gel pen

Brown ink

As always, Gilby and I love comments...his tail just wags away when he see's me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

METAL HEAD 22-BIRTHDAY CARD

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to share the card I made for my oldest son.  He turned 22 last Sunday, boy the years have just gone by sooo sooo fast....too fast!!!  He's really into music, particularly heavy metal and his all time favorite band is Metallica, so I thought he'd get a kick out this.  It turned out just as I imagined, it's nothing fancy, but I was going for a simple look.  Am happy to say that really loved it!!!  Hope you all like it as well.

Ingredients:
Black & White Card Stock
Black Ink
Metal Eyelets
Aluminum Metal Sheet by Making Memories
Diamond Plate Cuttle Bug Embossing Folder
'Metallica Old' Font from Dafonts

Gilby and I just love comments...his tail just wags away when he see's me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

MPS BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE...I HAVE ELEPHANTITIS!! :)

Hi Everyone,

What can I say...I'm liking the elephants right now.  I made this one for the Birthday Challenge over at MPS http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2010/12/birthday-challenge.html .  I had lots of fun making him, he reminds me of a computer game my youngest played years ago, just remember the song 'the circus is coming to town'.  He loved that game, but I doubt he remembers it now, since he's almost 16!  I think it turned out really cute, please let me know what you think.

Recipe:

Gypsy, CWF Cricut Cart, everything was cut at 3.75"

MS Loopy punch

Yellow & Light Blue AC Card Stock/Dark Blue "Shimmer Stack" DCWV

I-Rock for the bling-bling

AND of course it wouldn't be a MPS challenge without one of her fun stamps! It's from Everyday Occasions

Gilby & I just love comments...his tail just wags away when he see's me smile!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Elephant/Card Patterns Sketch #92

Hi Everyone!
Hope you all had a safe and Happy Holiday weekend! 

My niece just turned 18 and I needed to make her a card (and send money of course) however, I wasn't feeling very creative.  I decided to look check in to some of the challenges that http://felineplayful.blogspot.com/ had listed.  I get a live feed from her & she has a variety of different challenges that bloggers have for everyday of the week.  You should check her out if you haven't already.  Well I found a sketch challenge over at http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/  (sketch #92) that I thought would be fun to play with and I did have fun! It was hard to come up with something because she's really not into clothes or music, but more so into Art and school. She's a wonderful Artist, I'll have to post some of her paintings she gave me for Christmas one year. In fact she's looking into Colleges now with a good Art program.  I hope she doesn't think it's too babyish, but I've always wanted to use this Elephant.  I think it turned out really cute and it's not the best photo, but please let me know what you think.

For some reason I couldn't get the inside of the card to upload, but it says

"Hope you had a Ton of Fun!"

Recipe:  
Gypsy/Cricut/Cuttlebug
Elephant is from Paisley & cut @ 2.25"
18 is from Cuttin' Up, welded & cut @ .95"
Scallop is from Create a Critter @ cut 4.22"
Swiss Dots embossing folder
Sentiment~MPS "Punny-licious" reads "Hoppy Birthday", but I made the o into an a
Pattern Card Stock~Provo Craft "Celebrations"
Plain Card Stock~AC & from stash
Flower~Sandylion Essentials
Stickles~Distress, Blue Jean & Ice Glitter glue
              
Gilby and I just LOVE comments...his tail just wags away when he sees me SMILE!!!

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!!!

Sweet Wishes x 2

These two cards are basically the same, just done a little differently.  I made these a while back and I remember totally scrap lifting the idea, I just added my own touch. The problem is I can't remember who I lifted it from (hey I sound like a real thief), so I'm sorry to whomever created this cute card to begin with that I'm unable to give you credit!  Hope you like my take on the design!

Products I used were:
Happy Birthday Cuttlebug Folder & Devine Swirls
MPS "Sweet Wishes" stamp
Prima Flowers
Martha Stewart's Double Scallop punch for the pink card
Doodle Charms in Blackout for the Cupcake
Can't remember what papers I used or other embellishments

GILBY JUST LOVES COMMENTS...HIS TAIL JUST WAGS AWAY!!!

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY,
Wendy (aka; Roo & Gilby's Craftster)

Sunny Side Up!

LIFE SHOULD BE LIVED

SUNNY SIDE UP!

I MADE THIS CARD FOR MY MOTHER-IN-LAW FOR HER BIRTHDAY, I THOUGHT SHE WOULD GET A KICK OUT OF IT. I  ALSO MADE HER A LITTLE SOMETHING, WHICH I WILL POST IN THE NEXT DAY OR SO.

RECIPE: STAMPS ARE FROM INKY ANTICS

ACETATE-INKY ANTICS

EYELETS-EYELET OUTLET

SCALLOP-NESTABILITIES

RIBBON-AMERICAN CRAFTS
SPARKLY FLUFF FOR HER HAIR (TECHNICAL TERM "COMB")
PAPER GLAZE ON HER BIKINI

GILBY LOVES COMMENTS...HIS TAIL JUST WAGS AWAY!!!

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!

SOME GUY CARDS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

My Dad loves to spend hours in his shop working on his

BEAUTIFUL Entarcia Woodwork.

He sells his Woodwork along with my Mom's BEAUTIFUL Floral Arrangements & Jewelry at local craft shows in Wenatchee, WA.

I thought the patterned tool paper was perfect for him!

Recipe: 

All cardstock is from DCWV "The Guy Stack"

Dad is from BB cart & run through CB "Happy Birthday" embossing folder

Lots of sanding & some inkin for distressed look

Celebrate today stamp is from MPS "Simply Sweet Occasions"
Thought it needed a little something extra, so added swirly paperclip that I inked

GILBY LOVES COMMENTS...HIS TAIL JUST WAGS AWAY!

Happy Birthday Atom! (Adam)

This is a card I made a while back for my nephew Adam's 20th Birthday

I thought it was really PUNNY!

Recipe:
DCWV cardstock run through CB "Happy Birthday" embossing folder
IA cart for the "Atom"
Lots of sanding for distressed look

GILBY LOVES COMMENTS....HIS TAIL JUST WAGS AWAY!

Po from Kung Fu Panda-MPS Design Team Entry

Robyn's contest to be one of her Design Team Member's couldn't have come at a better time!  As I needed to make a B-Day card for my DH.

He is a BIG fan of "KUNGFU PANDA", I can't tell you the number of times he's seen the movie.  He recites the lines with such enthusiasm, my boys go right along with them, it's too funny!  One of my DH's favorite line is "WHATCHA GONNA DO BIG GUY?.......SIT ON ME".

I hadn't used my Pagoda cart yet, so I thought this was perfect!

Recipe:
Carts~Panda~Pagoda~~Cake~EPD
Cardstock~DCWV for Card~AC, Black & White
White Crushed Velvet Flock for Po's Face & Belly
Gel pens
Ribbon is AC
I used my Computer for the Sentiment

Tell me what you think, my Blog needs some LUVIN'  :)
Thanks for looking,
Wendy