Baby Rattle Shaker Card

Hello! I am back at it again, making cards!  I am trying to decide weather or not to make a bunch of Christmas cards again or not.  I have a ton of things going on in my life right now, like kids and sports, and trying to run a wonderful business, and life in general.  Anyways, it has been a long time since I have had the joy of making a sweet baby card. So I went all out and made a fun interactive card. I really love shaker cards so very much!   They are so much fun to make, and they are fun to play with too.  This one was made for a young couple, who about a year ago, was pregnant with twins, and God chose to keep them safe in His arms in heaven.  So again He has blessed them with the gift of life with a sweet baby girl, who is about to make her entrance into the world.  So I am praying that all goes well for momma and baby.  I can't wait to meet her!  Her grandma is my sweet neighbor, and I know she is so excited.  Anyways, here is the cute little baby rattle shaker card I made for them to go along with their baby gift!

Thanks for stopping by again! 

I hope you have a fantastic day!

50th Wedding Anniversary

Hello!  I am sorry, I have gone missing for quite some time.  Life for me this year has been extremely busy, with a 16th birthday party, a graduation, and open house, and then a surprise 50th anniversary party...my year has consisted of many parties!  Anyways, the Surprise 50th Wedding Anniversary party was for my parents.  They are such special people in my life, and so many others. They are such a Godly example of what love is about.  Their marriage is not perfect, but it has been filled with so many blessing and wonderful memories and joy.  Anyways, my 2 sisters and I, along with our families, were able to pull off a Huge surprise for our parents, we surprised them with a Surprise party and then a few weeks later sent them off on a trip to Oregon, to visit some friends, that they thought that they would never get to go see.  It was a lot of work, but Oh so much fun and rewarding to do this for them.  They greatly deserved it, and needed it too.  They were stunned and totally surprised by it all.  Even down to being on their trip, they still were in disbelief that this all took place.  What a joy!  :-)  I am so glad we got to honor our parents in this way.  We even hired a professional photographer too!  Anyways, this card is a pop-up box card, that I made and was able to slip into their suitcase right before they left on their trip.  They were totally surprised!  This year has been full of surprises for them!  :-)  I love how this card turned out, simple yet elegant, with the touch of gold for it being their 50th, and the splash of blue from their wedding colors.   I am so eager for them to share their pictures and stories about their trip!

The shoes were for the "Shoe Game" where they both had one of each shoe, and answered questions, of who is most likely to... then they would raise the shoe that it pertained to.  That caused a lot of smiles and laughter from all 100+ guests!  What great time!

They are still very much in love!

 

 Anyways, thank you all for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Nerf Birthday

Okay, this is the last post for the day!  This was for my wonderful son!  He recently turned 16 years old!  Where does the time go?  Really?  I cannot believe that my boy is now 16!  I grew up with only sisters, so he is the only boy, (besides my dad and my hubby), in my life.  So I love watching him grow up and change.  I love seeing the changes that he is going thru, like that facial hair!  That one cracks me up!  I was more the "tomboy" in my family of all girls, so him and I really do connect in so many ways.  He has a large obsession with Lego's and Nerf!  So we had a blast for his 16th party and had a large Nerf War with his basketball team, friends and family.  He has always wanted to have a big party with a Nerf was, so we fulfilled that dream!  Almost all of his basketball team came.  So we had a nice crowd, for some b-ball and Nerf wars!  Woohoo!  It was so much fun!  He will have great memories of that for many years to come.  Anyways, I made this card for him, complete with the Nerf "swoosh" logo, and Nerf darts!  Do you see them?  I think it turned out pretty good! 

Thanks for checking out all these posts, and I hope you have a day filled lots of joy and blessings!

Umbrella Shower

So this cute little card was made for my niece who we had to have a bridal shower for, before she and her hubby leave us soon.  She is already married due to his military deployment, so we decided to have a shower before he comes back and they officially start their lives together.  We would not want to send them off with nothing to start their home with.  Anyways, here is the card I made for her!  It really is a simple yet pretty card that could easily be used for a baby shower, depending on the gender of the baby you could just simply change the colors of the paper and such!

Isn't it pretty! 

Well, thank you for taking a look around and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Basket Ball Coach!

This card was made for my son's Basketball coach.  He has been a great teacher and very patient with all of the team.  This was his last year coaching the boys.  He is passing the torch onto another dad to take over the team!  We are sad to see him go, but also looking forward to what the future may hold for the team and my son.  Either way, I wanted to make his card extra special/fancy!  So I did a Shaker/pop-up card!  LOL  Take a look!

 

I think this card turned out really good!

Anyways, thanks again for stopping in and seeing what I have been creating!

13 Birthday Candles Bendy Card

GSo I made this cute bendy card for my sweet, smiley girl who just turned 13!  Where does the time go?  My baby is now a teenager!  Wow!  She is growing up and is so pretty and is always smiling and is always the first one to laugh!  She bring such joy and laughter to our family!  I love this girl! 
This was my second but my first attempt at making a bendy card completely on my Cricut Explore!  What a wonderful machine and program!  Anyways, here is what I came up with for her!
 

Thanks for coming by! I hope you have a wonderful day! 

Garden Bendy Card

Okay, this one was a bit of a challenge for me, yet so fun to make.  This was my first attempt at making a bendy card.  I made this one for my sweet SIL, who is so kind and thoughtful.  She introduced me and my family to an amazing business that has life changing, all natural products.  What an amazing thing!  I have joined her and her family in a journey to better health.  In the past year, my health and asthma has improved and I have finally been able to have a GREAT report form my "Lung" Dr.  Who was impressed with my health improvement.  These amazing health products/supplements have saved my nieces life, too.  The products are all Natural and are changing lives drastically for the better and it is diabetic safe. Actually, it was originally made for people with diabetes and they found so many happy side effects, caused from these amazing products.  Side effects like, weight loss, joint pain improvement/gone, IBS gone, planters fasciitis gone, fibromyalgia gone...the list of testimonies just goes on. Anyways, you are probably wondering what this company's name is and what it is all about!  It is a relatively new company and it is exploding in its growth so fast!  This amazing company is called, Plexus!  I love what their products are and that they are ALL NATURAL!  They are GMO free and Gluten free!  It is so awesome to be a part of this company and this opportunity of a lifetime!  If you ever want to know more about this company and its products please take a look around on my website or message me, and I will be glad to answer any questions you may have!  So here is My Plexus Website, go check it out and see what it is all about!  I love my yummy Plexus Pink Drink! 

Either way, I am so very thankful for my SIL, for introducing me to Plexus and how it is changing my life and hers and our families lives and so many others, all for the better!  So either way, she needed a special birthday card!  So I took on the challenge and made another bendy card!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

 

January Birthdays!

Okay, so these two were made for some very special people in my families life.  One was for our Pastor's wife and the other was for our Assistant Pastor.  They share the same birthday month as I do!  They are both such Godly people and people to look up to.  So here is their cards!  Oh, and I LOVE the Ornamental Ironwork 2 Cricut Cartridge! 

Thanks for stopping and by and I hope your day is filled with many blessings!

Baby Stroller Mobile

I am so sorry, I have not posted in a while.  Even though I have not posted in a while, doesn't mean that I have not been making my cards and crafts.  I am still very busy doing them, it just takes time to post and share them, and its seems as of lately, I just have not had that.  Anyways, so I will share with you a bunch of cards in the next few post that I have made.  Enjoy!

So this one was made for a cousins baby shower, and we knew she was having a girl, so that is why it was pink.  Plus the baby carriage, was an Action Wobble.  The inside had a pop-up part that was so very simple to make.  Looks like a baby mobile!  I think the whole card turned out so pretty! 

Thanks so much for being patient with me and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Craftyness for Christmas!

So this Christmas, my teenage daughters and I bonded and had fun doing some crafts together for Christmas gifts.  So I will start with my big project which totally involved all three of us and lots of patience.  So let me start with a little history of why.

 

In 2014 my wonderful empty nesters of In-laws decided to become foster parents.  God put 4 little children into their lives overnight.  They are a challenge and a lot of work.  Their ages ranged from 3months old to 7yrs. old, and they come from a horrific background of abuse.  We have all as a family, pitched in and helped them out whenever we can and have truly loved on them as if they were our own.  Well, there is a chance that they may be leaving our family soon, after having them for nearly 9 months.  So I wanted to make something of a "keepsake" of these children for my in -laws.  All I could think of doing was, salt dough handprints and putting them into a shadow box frame with some kind of quote on the glass, in vinyl.  So we "borrowed" each child for a few hours to let them put their handprint into the dough, then once they were baked, we let them paint them up the way they wanted (except the baby of course).  The amazing part was that none of the kids squealed at all for almost 2 weeks before Christmas.  It was a total surprise for my in-laws!  Their was not a dry eye in the room, and even now I still tear up a bit, remembering their reaction to it.  The kids were very proud of their handprints too.  The quote says: "You've held our hands for a little while, but our hearts forever..."  So here is a few pictures of the work we put into this wonderful project for some AMAZING in-laws!

                      

                      

I think they liked it!

 

Now onto our other projects!

My oldest daughter is very close to her cousins and has a great relationship with them all, but one of them just recently got married very quickly due to her fiancé being deployed.  I posted about their wedding day in a previous post here: Wedding Bells.  My niece greatly misses her husband and only gets to talk to him maybe once a week.  So we wanted to make something extra special for her and her special day.  So she decided to make her coasters that we decoupaged some wedding pictures to some tiles and sealed them with a clear coat and put adhesive felt on the back to protect the table surfaces.  We also, made a monogram for 2 of them on my Cricut Explore, with vinyl and did the same of sealing them too.  They turned out beautiful!  My niece cried when she saw the pictures and so did we.  This Christmas was full of sentimental gifts for many!  Check them out!

Aren't they beautiful!

 

Anyways, next she wanted to make the same thing for one of her other cousins that she is really close to, also!  But she kept it simple, yet they turned out so beautiful too!  We just decoupaged some pretty paper to the tiles and then did her monogram on 2 and then her name on the other 2 with my Cricut Explore.  I really liked them so much, I wanted to keep them, except that none our names are Kimberly!  That would be a little weird!  LOL

Anyways, here they are!

Aren't they adorable!

 

Okay the next project she did was for another cousin that she is very close to, also!  I know, I know, how many can she possibly have that she is really close to?  Well, there is just the three.  So this is the last of these!  LOL  She went a little different route on this one, a very fun and creative one.  This particular cousin is always posting private messages back and forth and sharing funny little videos on Instagram.  The three are all from one side of my family and they are more like best friends than cousins.  Anyways, she came up with the idea to make up a frame to look like Instagram and they even have their own cute little hash tag!  So here is her adorable frame that she painted up and then I made their hash tag up on my Cricut Explore in vinyl.  I think it also, turned out so cute!  She did a fantastic job!

 

Here it is with the my daughter on the left and two of her cousins!  Didn't it turn out so cute!

 

We did several other little projects, but I think you get the point that we were very busy, and had a wonderful Christmas with everyone!

Again, thanks for stopping in and seeing what we did this year for Christmas.  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that your New Year will be filled with many blessings!