Golfin' Birthday

I'm back! Boy it's been a busy couple months.

Hope everyone is doing well out in the blogging world!

I wanted to share a card I made for my good friend and neighbor's birthday!

The stamp is Stampendous and features one of my favorite guys...Changito!!!
I mounted him on circles cut from Nesties and colored him with my Bic Markers. The sentiment is also a Stampendous stamp and goes with my little golfer guy. The little orange block I Cuttlebugged with the Argyle folder. A little ribbon, a few brads and a button later, I was done.

Thanks for checking it out.

I know I've said it before but I'm really going to try to be better at this blogging thing. :)

Dad's Birthday!

Hi there,

Yesterday was my dad's birthday so I wanted to share the card I made for him.

The patterned paper is from the DCWV guys stack. I cut the tee and golf bar from Sports Mania. The golf ball is pop dotted and embossed with the bubbled folder. The other green block is embossed with the Happy Birthday folder.

Thanks for checking it out!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday!

Hi there,

We are getting more snow here in Ohio! UGGGHHH! I can't take anymore.

I need to see the SUN!

Anyway, enough complaining :) Here is a card I made for a family friend.
The layout is from this weeks MoJo Monday sketch.

The papers are from the new DCWV linen stack. I colored him with my Prisma pencils. I added a few adhesive pearls and a Prima flower.

Thanks for checking it out!

Happy Birthday Sadie!

Hi there,

I wanted to share a card I made for my neighbor's pooch. Our dogs are both around the same age and they play constantly in the summer months. Well Sadie just turned two today so of course I had to make her a card.

I used Paper Pups for the pup and the balloon. I cut the string off the balloon and added wire instead as the "string". To spruce her up a bit I added some pink adhesive gems and a googly eye. The back white layer was embossed with swiss dots.

Thanks for checking it out!

Happy Birthday Sadie!!

Golf is life...

Hi there,

I just wanted to share a card with you all. I made this for my hubby's grandpa that just turned 90. He loves golf and god bless him, he still plays!

Side note....poor Tiger Woods should have stuck to just golfing and he wouldn't be in so much trouble...lol!

I'm also entering this in this weeks challenge over at Just Buggin'. The challenge was Sew it. Well, I have a mini sewing machine but haven't got around to trying it out yet.

So here is what I came up with.....

I cut the golf images from Sports Mania. I cuttlebugged the golf ball and then distressed it with Tim Holtz ink. I mounted the "golf is life" on a block that I cuttlebugged with the argyle folder. It has tiny little stitch marks on it. Then I doodled some faux stitches around the brown border of the same box. I hope that will do for the challenge. That's about all my sewing talents for now....lol!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday

Well the weekend is coming to a close... but the weather was just gorgeous here in Ohio this weekend. Sun and warmth in the middle of November....I'll take it.

I just wanted to share a birthday card I made my uncle the other day.

It's quite simple but perfect for a guy I think. The star is from George and then embossed with my new Cuttlebug folder. The band is embossed with a border folder. The paper is DCWV. Ribbon and button from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by!

Browns Birthday

Good Morning!

I'm heading off to Disney World tomorrow for the Epcot Food & Wine Festival but I wanted to share one more card with you. My Cousin's birthday is next week so I wanted to get a card done before I left. My mom's going to mail it for me so it's on time...lol!

The layout is based on this weeks MoJo Monday sketch....

My family is big Cleveland Browns Fans ( I don't know why we put our selves through that) so that's where the colors come from. The football is from a Quick Cuts die. The paper is single sheet football paper from JoAnn's. The ribbon I found at Hobby Lobby and it's perfect for us Browns fans. The little dots are six orange eyelets. On the inside I stamped Happy Birthday and wrote "I hope your birthday is better than the Browns." For those of you that don't know they haven't won a game all year.....lol!

Thanks for stopping by!

Aunt Pam don't show Zach!

MoJo Monday Birthday

Good Evening!

I wanted to share a birthday card I made for a friend of mine.

I used this weeks MoJo Monday Sketch for my inspiration. It's been sooooo long since I've participated in a MoJo Monday challenge so this was A LOT of fun!

The paper is all from a K & Company fall stack...but now that I look at the photograph it kind of has a Christmasy look to it. Oh Well! Anyway, the stamp is one I found in the dollar bin at a local scrappin' store and it doesn't have a company on it. The circles and the scalloped circle are cut from Nesties. The little diamond shaped gold gems are adhesive gems I found at JoAnn's. The ribbon is from my stash.

60th Birthday!

Good evening!

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Just wanted to share a card I made for my aunt's 60th Birthday!

The layout is a modified MoJo Monday sketch. The stamp is stampendous. I can't remember the exact name. 60 was cut using my Street Sign Cricut Cartridge and set on scalloped circles from Nesties.

Thanks for looking! Have a great night!

Splashin Good Birthday!

Hi there! Happy Monday morning to ya!

I wanted to share the card I made for my hubby's birthday last month.

The stamp is a Stampendous Changito and I colored him with my Bic Markers. The wave border was cut from my Life's a Beach cartridge. The white block below the waves is embossed with the Happy Birthday cuttlebug folder. It's not showing up at all in the pic. The green and blue balloons on the side are brads. The sentiment is computer generated!

Thanks for stopping by!

Pink Elephant - Creative Card Crew- Birthday

I decided to jump in and play along with another site I've been lurking at for awhile....Creative Card Crew. They have some fabulous Challenges over there. If you haven't checked out their site do so here. The challenge this week is to use a geometric pattern on your card. In other words, any pattern that repeats itself. This card also qualifies for the challenge over at the Pink Elephant this week which is to use pink, brown & white.

The card itself is destined for hubby's cousin's wife (who was also a good friend of mine in high school) birthday Friday.

Here is what I came with....

For this card I used my Happy Birthday Changito stamp and colored them with my Prismas. I cut them out with my Nesties and matted them on a scalloped nestie cut. The flowers were from my stash. I added two balloon brads in the corner and a lot of doodling!

Hope you like!
Happy Birthday Nikki!

Birthday Bucket

Happy Saturday!

Hope everyone is having a great day. Well I got back into my baskets. I wanted to share one I did for my hubby's cousin Stacey for her birthday. We heading off to a BBQ for the big birthday in a little bit! YAY!

I got one of those plastic drink tubs for summer parties. I filled it with reusable plastic plates, cups, a small ice bucket, napkins, plastic ware, a pitcher, some place mats and some dish towels. The bucket and everything inside is red. They have a basement themed after the local university here and the colors are red and black, so I figured they could use it all outside or in the bar area of their home.
I used Alphalicious for the balloons. Then I ran each one through the Cuttlebug using Divine Swirls, Argyle, Happy Birthday & Paisley embossing folders and tied color coordinated ribbon in a bow around the sticks. The two party hats are cut from the Celebrations cartridge and then embossed with the Traffic Jam folder. The cupcakes and "Happy Birthday" are both cut from Hello Kitty Greetings.

Here is the card I made to go along with it.....

I wanted to use all the same colors so this card came out pretty thick. The monkeys are of course my little buddy Changito from Stampendous.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Airplane Birthday!

Hi again!

I wanted to share a card I did for my uncle who is having a birthday today.

Guy cards are sometimes hard because you can't use a lot of flowers and bling. He loves airplanes so I really wanted to use one. That's the best part of making cards is taking something your family loves and using that to create something unique for them. I used the sketch from Card Patterns for the layout. Check it out here.

Here is what I came up with....

I used the My community cartridge to cut the six airplane silhouettes. The squares are all cut using my Nestabilites through my Cuttlebug. The shadows on the nesties were just cut using my regular paper trimmer. The scalloped edge is my EKsuccess punch. I printed out the sentiment on photo paper and cut it out also with Nesties as well as the scalloped shadow.

I really love how this came out and he did too. He received it today!

Happy Birthday!!! Hope to have some family fun soon! Congrats on your hat pins!

MoJo Monday Birthday!

Hi there,

Here is a birthday card I whipped up using this week's MoJo Monday sketch! Yet again it's fabulous! You can find it here. This card is for my cousin's wife Belinda.

I absolutely love this Changito stamp by Stampendous. Oh, who am I kidding I love them all. I'm not sure who makes the balloon stamp. I will check and add it later. I colored the stamps with my Prismas. The scallops are my EKsuccess punch!

Happy Birthday Belinda!
Thanks for stopping by!

Golfing Birthday- BBTB

I have another card to show you today!

This week over at Bitten By the Bug, the challenge was to use the 24/7 cut from Graphically Speaking. If you haven't checked out what Regina's Design Team came up with you're really missing out. Head on over by clicking here. Those girls are FABULOUS!

I always have to play along when I can.

Here is my take.....

My hubby's uncle's birthday is Saturday and he as well as the rest of the fam are golf FANATICS! So I wanted to do a golf theme. It's not very birthday-ee (<---like that?) on the outside but guys don't care about that. I cut the big golf ball from George...but it was entirely to big so I chopped some of it off. Don't cha just love when mistakes work out in the end? Anyway, I ran it through the Cuttlebug using the bubble folder. I cut another small "golf ball" as a place to put the 24/7 cut from Graphically Speaking. I shadowed it using my Nesties...I was having a hard time with George today. The "Golf is Life" was cut from Sports Mania. I matted it with the same colors from the background. I used my ticket punch from Stampin' Up and added a few brads on the edges. I think the background paper is from the DCWV Summer Stack last year. I added a little ribbon from my stash above the 24/7 and a few buttons.

I'm really happy with how it came out. Hope he is too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Box

Good afternoon!

The sun is FINALLY out here...so it's such a happy day.

I discovered a new challenge blog that one of my design team sisters help run so I wanted to play along. This is my first time so I'm so excited. It's called Scrappy Frogs Challenge blog. If you haven't checked it out do so here.

The challenge this week was to model a project after the ad for the new Making Memories Slice. They are going to pick a winner and you can win a Making Memories Slice Apron. So Cool!

Here is the ad.....

Here is my project.......

I cut the cake box from Tags, Bags, Boxes & More at fit to page. I think it cut at 9".

I used a grayish paper from Bazzill. For the center "layer" I used a piece of blue vellum and added a sparkly tinsel like ribbon to the center of that. I found it at Hobby Lobby. For the scalloped edges I used my EKSuccess scallop punch and punched them in Turquoise paper also from Bazzill. I added a few Blue adhesive gems to the top. I wanted to use the word "Slice" too. The sentiment was computer generated and cut out with tag Nesties. I piled a bunch of turquoise flowers on the top. On the very top of the pile of flowers I cut a green flower in half and stood it up to mimic the green logo on the slice. The top "frosting" was run through the Cuttlebug using divine swirls.

I also did a card that I'm not happy with...but you can't like em all!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope your day is as sunny as mine. Can you tell I have the Cabin Fever??!!!!

Cuttlebug Ice Cream

Happy Monday everyone.

Hope everyone had a great Easter and weekend!

This week over at the Cuttlebug Spot, Nilda asked her team to create a card that wasn't rectangular or square. So, I pondered this all day and realized I needed a birthday card for one of my best friend's daughter. I was looking up at my carts on top of my new shelves and poof I saw the ice cream cone on the side of the Doodlecharms cart and I had an AH HA moment!

Here is what I came up with......

I welded the cone in Design Studio on shadow and cut it I believe at 7". I cut the cone again on blackout in tan. I ran that layer through the Cuttlebug using the Argyle folder. I cut the cone again and cut the top off and popdotted it to give it dimension over the bottom half. I distressed it a little bit with Tim Holtz Distress Ink. I cut the ice cream part using Glass Slipper Bazzil Bling paper. I then ran it through the cuttlebug using Divine Swirls then used Ice Stickles to trace the swirls to give it a little more shine. I cut the cherry in pink and also ran that through the Cuttlebug using Divine Swirls and stickled it. I had the pink ribbon in my stash and tied a little bow and added a Prima and a skittle to finish it off.
I pretty happy with how it came out and am getting a bit addicted to the shape card. Be sure to head on over to The Cuttlebug Spot and check out the Design Team's cards they are FABULOUS!

Have a great evening!

Bitten By The Bug

I have one more card to share with you today.

This week over at Bitten By the Bug, Regina asked her team to use the Happy Birthday

cut from Hello Kitty Greetings. I LOVE this cartridge, so ANY time I have an excuse to use it I'm a happy happy girl!

Here is my take.......

The background paper is from a stack by Me & My Big Ideas. I love this stack. I cut Happy Birthday at 2 1/4 and doodled around the edges. I added a band of sheer glitter ribbon at the base. You can barely see it but it adds a bit of sparkle. I tied some smaller sheer pink and solid brown ribbon together in a bow and placed it at the top. A few little adhesive gems and I was done. I'm really happy with how this came out.

Hope everyone has a great Holiday weekend!

And always, THANKS for stopping by!

Very late MoJo Monday

Happy Saturday everyone.

I'm very late this week in completing the challenge for MoJo Monday. As always the sketch is beautiful (click here to see the original) and I needed a Birthday card for my friend Kim.

I used the Stampendous Changito Birthday stamp. I can't get enough of those little monkeys. They were colored with my Prisma colored pencils and some Goo Gone. I know sound funny but it works as good as Gamesol and smells much better! The paper with the candles is from Archiver's and the rest were scraps. The sketch called for a sentiment over the candle paper but the Changito is holding a sentiment so I threw some button brads in there. The scalloped border with the holes is a Martha Stewart punch.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of the weekend!

Two challenges and One Happy Birthday!

Good Evening!

My father-in-laws birthday is coming up so I wanted to make him a card.

I ended up getting two challenges done while getting a birthday card out of it....LOL! The challenge over at the House Mouse challenge blog was this sketch. Also, over at 365 Cards the challenge this past Friday was to create a birthday card with only the colors red, blue and yellow.

I poured through my stash and found the perfect papers. I really like the way the card came out but sometimes it seems a little girly. I may make him a new one.

Here is what I came up with. I used the House Mouse Ball & Tees stamps. I colored him with my Prisma colored pencils. The circle is my Nestabilites Pinking Circles layered a bunch of times. The cupcake was a Studio G I found in the dollar bin at JoAnn's. The "Fore You" is stamped using Martha Stewart Alphabet clear stamps. I doodled a bit and I was done.

Thanks for checking it out! Have a great night!