Round 2 – Child Birthday

Scraps:

….and my card…

Supplies Used (CTMH, unless noted):

Paper: Caboodle Level 2 (retired)

Stamps: Zoo Friends (retired), A Little Everything

Embellishments: Orange Brad (retired), Glitz Glitter Glue

Tools: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Happy Birthday, Jaxon!

Today, my nephew, Jaxon, is three. He is crazy about trains and as I looked through my stamps, I realized I did not have a single one with trains (must rectify that real soon)! So, I shrunk a coloring page and printed it out and paper pieced it. I am alright with how it turned out. And Jaxon is three, so he really won’t care about the card at all Happy Birthday, buddy! We sure are going to miss you when you move away to Alberta!

Supplies Used (CTMH unless noted):

Paper: School Zone Level 2 (retired)

Stamps: A Little Everything, Say It In Style

Embellishments: Clear Sparkles, Silver Brads, Glitz Glitter Glue

Happy Birthday, Brother!

No, it is not my brother’s birthday, but when it is, I have a hard time making a card for him. Him, or any other male for that matter. No matter how hard I try, my cards always look very feminine. Making masculine cards is definitely something way out of my comfort zone. When I do make one, it always ends up looking so plain. I ordered the Passages paper, hoping for some inspiration on making a masculine card.  Well, I got the paper on Monday and decided I would try using the Heart 2 Heart challenge this week to design my card. They did a sketch challenge. It is City Scape from the Wishes Idea Book. Here is a graphic of the sketch:

…and here is the card I came up with:
(front)

(inside)

All of the products used to make this card are CTMH. I used the Passages WOTG, A Little Everything (March 2010 SOTM), Cocoa grosgrain ribbon and Wonderful Friend (June 2010 SOTM). The watch face on the front of the card is covered with Liquid Glass. The final size of the card is 5x7.

Happy Birthday, Jess!

Another friend, another birthday! Jess’s birthday was on Monday. She was my boss at the Co-op, but now that I am not working there anymore, we can be “real” friends. It was hard for us because we hit it off right away when I started there, but because she was my immediate supervisor, we couldn’t really have a relationship outside of work. Now we can and we are both happy about it. Our kids are the same age and we will definitely getting together a lot more now. So, my real friend, Happy birthday!

All products used in this card were from CTMH. The paper was from the Cherry-O pack. Other things used were the tulip mini medleys, the autumn daisy flowers (retired), big pinks flowers, heartfelt wonder, cocoa grosgrain and tulip grosgrain. The stamp sets used were Treasures of the Heart (retired), A Little Everything (March 2010 SOTM), and Say It In Style.

My Mother-In-Law is Tea-rrrific

Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there. I was looking for online for ideas for my MIL for Mother’s Day. She LOVES tea so we bought her some wonderful types of tea leaves and a tea diffuser. There are things like Raspberry Passionfruit and Mint Chocolate Truffle. I know she will enjoy this gift very much. I had made my mom a tea cup card for Mother’s Day already and I rarely make the same card twice, so I wanted to find something different. I looked online for a teapot pattern and I came across this really cute pattern. You can find it here. I knew it would make the perfect card for a tea-riffic Mother.

Supplies Used (all CTMH unless noted):

Grace Level 2 My Reflections

Cranberry Crossgrain

Friendship Alphabet (small)

For Every Occasion

A Little Everything

Honey Bigger Brad (retired)

Vellum

Floradoodle Flower

Jeanette’s Color Me Monday Challenge

Every Monday, Jeanette Lynton has a color challenge on her blog. She challenges us to put together colors that we might not normally try. To be honest, this is the very first time I have ever done one of her challenges and I have to admit that I had a very hard time with it. I don’t know that I am even happy with the end result, but it will have to do because I am not starting over again. Jeanette made some very creative things with this color palette and they can be seen here. I don’t know how she does it, but it could be because she is probably the single most creative person alive.

 

Supplies Used:

Sorbet Cardstock (sorbet is the only ink pad out of all 60 that I do not own; YET)

Cocoa Crossgrain Ribbon

Heartfelt Wonder – olive

A Little Everything (March 2010 SOTM)

A scrap of older retired paper (I don’t even know what it is called)

Stardust Glitz Glitter Glue

Cocoa Brads

Heart 2 Heart Challenge #5

The challenge at the Heart 2 Heart blog for this week was to create something for Mother’s Day. I had not made my mom a card yet, so this was just the push I needed to get me into the scrap room to create something special just for her. I started a few projects and quit half way through because I was not happy with how they were turning out. I ended up making her a teacup card, which has a real tea bag in it for her to enjoy. Who am I kidding…she will never take it apart and drink the tea!



Supplies Used:
Topstitch Level 2 My Reflections
For Every Occasion
A Little Everything (March 2010 SOTM – no longer available)
Build-A-Brad (SU!)