Snow Girl Birthday Card!

This is a simple birthday card for a family member!  Can't say until they receive it!  I have about 4-5 birthdays that all seem to land in about a week of each other!  Whew!   Some people may just get their cards a little late!  But hey, it makes their birthday seem to last a little longer... and maybe they have given up on getting a card from me and then...surprise!  LOL  Since it is still very much winter here and I just love making Christmas cards and I am having a hard time changing from them...I thought that I would keep that theme going!  Right?  Well, here is what I came up with!

An up-close of her hat!

I used: 

Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge for all the circle cuts

Sweet Treats Cartridge for the tag

Stand and Salute for the nose, I trimmed it up to give it that not so perfect look

Black and White cardstock

Pink Ink

Dimensional tape

Cotton Candy and Icicle stickles for that little something sparkly

Paper flowers and the ribbon are from my stash from collecting for years

Pink Rhinestone from my stash

For Challenges:
Birthday Sundaes

Well, thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a  wonderful day!

All Occasion Cards

Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing really well!  I have been very busy as of lately, but somehow I have managed to squeeze in some time to do a little card making/therapy.  I need that sometimes!  Well, at Christmas time my family gave me a gift card to Michael's...and I had to choose between several things that I wanted and needed.  Oh decisions, decisions!  I am not very good at making them, plus when there are soooo many things I would like to have and such. I really struggle with that!  Do I buy, ribbon, sparkles, tools, stamps, ink, embossing stuff, embellishments....you get the picture!   Well, I decided on giving the Copic markers a try!  I always have loved what people have done with them and such.  The ability to "shade" with them and of course color appeals to my artistic side. 
Also, on top of that my wonderful hubby and family bought me the I-rock tool.  So naturally, I NEEDED the rhinestones to go with it.  So that was something else I HAD to buy.  Plus, a bunch of paper stacks were on sale and there was some very sparkly paper that I had never seen before....so again I HAD to get some of that.  The list just kept growing as I walked around and the money kept getting smaller and smaller!   I bet none of you have that problem! 
Any who, these cards are my first attempt at using my Copic markers and the I-rock!  So of course, I had to have a reason for using them all.  Naturally an all occasion cards are a perfect occasion!  Right?  Well, this is what I came up with and I hope you all like it!  They are basically the same card the only difference is the coloring of the stamps and the I-rock studs and the first one I did a little bit of "distressing" with a bit of silver ink.  I guess, I was just having a little bit of fun and playing around with my new necessary toys!

Well, stay warm and have a great day!

Liebster Blog Award!

I have a blog award I want to share with you!  Sarah at Sarah's Crafts & Stuff was so sweet to honor me with the "Liebster award! Thank you so much, Sarah! “Liebster” is a German word meaning dearest, beloved or favorite, and the Liebster Award is sort of a chain letter among bloggers that’s intended to showcase exceptional up-and-coming blogs (typically, those with 200 or fewer followers). Now, there’s no evaluation committee or formal award process for the Liebster, but in a way it’s even nicer – it’s recognition that a peer has noticed and appreciated your hard work.

Here are the rules:
Choose 5 up and coming blogs of fewer than 200 followers to award the Liebster to.
Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
Post the award on your blog. Link back to the blogs you have given the Liebster to so everyone else can pay them a visit.

So here are the 5 blogs I have chosen:
Gracenotes For Today
Fairly Crafty
Mindless Creativity
A Day InThe Life Of A Horse Bunny
Imaginational Wonders

Bird Birthday Card

This card was made for my pastor's wife, who just happens to share the same birthday as mine. She is very special to me and has been such a huge encouragement to me. She somehow holds a full time job and is also our music director and pianist all in the same package plus she cares for our loving pastor and manages to make it to alot of her grandkids ball games and squeezes in time for a 2-3 hour practice with our worship team. And yet she is such a Godly woman and is a wonderful teacher and friend.  I know she will like this one.  I really do appreciate her and all that she does! 

I used:
A Child's Year Cartridge for the shaped card and the bird
Potpourri Basket Cartridge for the branch
DCWV The Linen Closet Stack
Core'dinations Super Assortments Sandable Card stock
Polka Dots Cuttlebug Folder
Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacy Squares
Brilliance Moonlight White Ink (to highlight the dots on the embossing)
Both ribbon from my stash
Butterfly brad from my stash
The sentiment is computer generated

Well, stay warm and thanks for taking a peek at what I have been doing on these wintery days!

Eagle Birthday Side- step

Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing well.  We are having such a mild winter here in Ohio.  I love the snow and its beauty and how it brightens up the world around us and how it sparkles like diamonds in the moonlight!  Such beauty for our eyes to feast on and marvel at God's beauty.  Today though, we are getting a little bit of snow.  The forecast is about 4.5 inches.  We will see how close it is...maybe we will get more! 

Anyways, I made this card for a special gentleman at our church.  He is such a blessing to all of us at our church and encourages us in so many ways.  Well, I was actually struggling with my mojo.  I have made other cards for him in the past which are posted on here.  But you can only make so many butterfly cards before you, yourself get "board" with them.  Then we were visiting him in his home the one day and he told us a wonderful experience he had with an eagle and how he loves eagles too.  You see, he LOVES God's nature and its beauty.  So I guess, I could never go wrong if I made cards with something to do with nature, right?  Anywho, that is where my inspiration and my mojo came to life, sorta!  I have made and posted a similar card on here before that I made for my nephew but his was a center-step card and this one as you can see is a side-step card.  It was pretty simple to make. I computer generated the background behind the eagle using the part of the bible verse from Isaiah 40:31, With wings as eagles...  I am very pleased how it turned out!  Well I hope you like it too!

I used:
Potpourri Basket Cartridge for the stars
Blue and Red Card stock
White Velum Paper (eagle is stamped on)
DCWV The Glitter Card Stock Stack
Polka Dots Cuttlebug Folder
Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist Mustard
Silver Grommets
Computer Generated sentiments (background behind the eagle and the HB)
Eagle stamp is from Stampadilities from Hobby Lobby
Tim Holtz Distress Ink brushed Corduroy

Brilliance Moonlight White Ink (to highlight the dots on the embossing)

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and I hope you have a very good day today!



Musical Birthday!

Hey everyone, I hope your new year has started out good!  Mine has been very busy, but pretty good!  Due to the holiday season keeping me so very busy, I have been a little late on getting some birthday cards done!  Next year, I will just have to plan better and have the birthday cards done that come either at the end of the year or the beginning of the new year done way a head of time.  Well, as the saying goes, "Better Late than Never!"  Right?  This card was again made to my nieces interests, plus I have always wanted to use the grand piano cut.  My niece is going to college for music, and she is always playing the piano and singing!  So naturally that was my inspiration or excuse to use that cut!  LOL  This was a very simple card to make!  I love the look of the embossed music in the background made by a simple stamp, too. 


I used:
Core'dinations ColorCore Cardstock
DCWV The Linen Closet Stack
A Child's Year Cartridge for the piano
Kate's ABC's for the flower vase
Recollections Music Stamp
Silver Embossing ink and powder
Ribbon from my stash

Well, thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

50th Birthday!

Hey everyone, I really hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!  I sure did!  Actually, it was an extreamlly busy day for us.  I got up at 5:30am and then about an hour later we got the kids up.  Then we spent some time reading the Christmas story of Christ's birth and then opened our gifts.  Then we quickly ate breakfast and got ready for our worship servie at church.  After church we went to my in-laws home and ate lunch and opened gifts with them.  Next, we raced of to my hubby's grandma's home and opened gifts there...Our next stop was at my parents home with my sister in from out of state.  We all ate a snack and then again read the Christmas story, and opened our gifts!  By about 11:30pm we left and made the half hour trek home.  We came into the door with our arms laden with gifts and went to bed.  Thank goodness for nothing going on the next day except rest and having fun playing with all of our new toys!  All in all we had a great day seeing friends and family and rejoicing in the birth of our Saviour.  Well, that you know what our Christmas day was like...
Okay, now on to the card I just made!  This was a really simple card for my BIL who turned 50 today!  He and my sister live down in Mississippi, and I don't get to see them much at all.  But with all the comotion of Christmas and such, I just got around to making his card TODAY!  I guess it is better late than never! Right?  Oh well, I know that he enjoys getting my cards...so much so, that my sister had to hint around that it was his 50th and when his birthday was!  LOL  I think she was putting in her order and making sure I didn't forget.  Which I would have if she did not remind me.  Whew! 

I used:
Blackletter Cartridge for the number 50
Stand and Salute Cartridge for the stars
Sweet Treats Cartridge for the "Happy Birthday" quote
DCWV The Glitter Mat Stack
Gray Cardstock
DCWV The Glitter Card Stock Stack
Dimentional Dots
Silver Stickles
White Satin Ribbon from my stash

Well, thank you so very much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful New Year!

Handmade Christmas Gifts!

Well, as I said in my previous post, I was busy making gifts for family members!  My wonderful hubby cut out and made the little sleds for both of our Moms and then I spent some time painting and decoupaging a Christmas card on it and put dementional snow paint around the edge of the card and lots of glitter.  Next, I put the metal stars on, and again decopauged over everything, just to kinda put a seal on it.  I am very pleased with these and I hope that our Moms will like them.

I got the inspiration for these little plaques, from an email from Oh My Crafts! blog. Since the season should be about celebrating the birth of God's one and only son Jesus, and how He was sent to be our Saviour. I knew I had to honor that in some kind of way. So this is what I came up with for my sisters and sister in laws!  Again, my wonderful hubby cut the boards and plained them down and spent some time even sanding everything for me.  My job of course was to paint and cut and adhear the vinyl word "Emanuel" and then to decopauge.  Then once everything was dry I glued the stars on and again sealed everything with another coat of decopauge.  I think these turned out pretty good!  Again, I hope our sisters will like these! 

I guess you could call all this a labour of love!  I really enjoyed doing these because it is something different than the "normal" cards. 

Well thank you for stopping by and I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed Happy New Year!

Christmas Cards Galore!

Well, I am sorry that I have not posted as of lately but you can tell by this post that I have been very busy making lots and lots of Christmas cards!  I obviously gave up on the idea that I was making just a couple of patterens and sticking to them.  I just cannot seem to do that!  Oh well, I have had alot of fun making lots of different cards and then doing something a little different to each one!  Weather that be just changing the ribbon or the paper or whatever!  I think I am finally done though...I think!  I had to of made around 60 cards.  I lost track after a while, so I am not really sure!  Eitherway, I am very pleased how they all turned out.  It was fun while it lasted.  Now to get back to making birthday cards and such.  Oh yes, my hubby and I just decided that we are going to make handmade gifts for some of our family members!  I will share those when they are completed and if they turn out like they are supposed to! LOL  I can't wait to get started on those next!   

 

Well, thank you so much for taking a look at where I have been hiding these days...in my crafting corner!

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

My Parents Birthdays

 Hello everyone!  My parents birthdays are only a few days apart, and we usually just celebrate them both on one day.  So that is what we did!  We had them over for dinner and sang Happy Birthday to them and had Dairy Queen ice cream cake and gifts. Yummy! Really, we spoiled them for an evening and made them feel special,

(at least I think we did). 

Well, my youngest, who is 9 years old wanted to make her grandparents an exploding box, but on a much smaller scale.  So with a little help from her Momma (Me) on the cutting of the boxes and the lids, she made her own rendition of what she thought an exploding box should be like.  I loved hers!  Much more simple and less work!  But weather it is simple or very detailed, they are all done as a labor of love.  I thought that it was so sweet of her that she wanted to put money inside of their boxes...her own money from her own wallet, $.20 to be exact!  It was all in pennies, too!  Then she put a small Milky Way candy bar in it too!  So cute, and they both loved it!

Then after that, my oldest daughter gave my Mom, handmade earrings, with red glass beads!  She loved them so much that she put them on right away and wore them the rest of the evening.  My Mom loves having a granddaughter who is her own custom jewelery maker!  LOL  My dad was a little jealous that she did not make him a pair of earrings or something!  LOL  Of course he was just teasing her.

Next, it was my turn to give my gifts/cards to my parents! First I gave my Mom her napkin fold card, (which I posted earlier this past month).  She loved the front very much and then when she opened it there was a lot of Oohhhhh's and Ahhhhhh's coming from both my parents!  She thought it was so beautiful!  And yes, she saw how it reminded me of a quilt and the quilt squares.  She even started to cry a little, on us. 

Then I gave my Dad his exploding box/barn.  He was to funny with it!  He acted like he didn't know quite what to do with it.  He almost seemed afraid to open it up!  His expression in the picture says it all!  He loved it...I think!  Later as he looked at it and read all the quotes and birthday messages, he said to me, "this had to of taken you a really long time."  He didn't believe that I made the straw bales myself.  I love the box because there is so much to look at and see.  And then I explained that when I grew up we had cows and chickens and a horse and cats and an apple tree and laundry was always hanging out on the line.  Then my Mom saw the clothes line and was a little flustered about the undergarments hanging on it!  That gave us all a good laugh! Each picture has some kind of sweet memory for me as I grew up and they helped make those memories for me. 

Anyways, I just wanted to share with you all, their response to their cards and the fun we had celebrating them and who they are.  I am so blessed to have such great, Godly, loving parents.

Well, thanks for taking a look at this and I hope that you have a blessed day!