Heidi Birthday Card

I literally made this card in 5 mins.  My husband had decided last minute, practically before walking out the door, that he needed a birthday card for a friend of his.  Luckily I had already colored this image but hadn't made a card with it yet.  A little matting, a little embossing, and BOOM, it was done!  Thank you Victoria @ Victoria Case Art Designs for the awesome Heidi image! I've had fun coloring her.  I will post another card featuring Heidi in the future, so be on the lookout! :-)

Tools used: Cuttlebug w/ d'vine swirls embossing folder, Heidi digi from Victoria Case Art Designs, Prismacolor Pencils, SU Sassy Suzie stamp set for sentiment.

Wanda's Crafts Contest!

Wanda, at Wanda's Crafts, is having a Blog Button Contest.  You can check it out here.  Add her button to your blog and sign her guestbook and you'll be entered.  Easy peasy!





Wanda's Crafts has freebie svg files - check out her blog or sign up for her newsletter to get more - and also a store where you can purchase even more of Wanda's awesome files!  If you have a cutter go check out Wanda's Crafts!
 
Good luck!

My first blog award!!!

Woo hoo!  I got my very first blog award!  I'm so excited - I feel like I've made it in the blogging world now LOL  Thank you Elizabeth!! 

These are the rules about this award,

1) Send a thank you to the person who nominated you and include their link.
2) To accept this award, answer 7 random facts about yourself.
3) Pass the award on to at least 8 other awesome blog buddies

Hmmm... 7 random facts...  let's see
 
1) I LOVE chocolate...I mean I really love it!
2) I have been married for almost 13 years and I have two kids - no pets.
3) I have been teaching myself how to knit.
4) My latest love is photography - I'm hoping to learn lots more about it soon!
5) I wish I had more time to craft and then blog about it.
6) My family and I love camping!
7) The older I get, the less I like winter...I'm pretty much against it but I can't change it. Oh well!  In my perfect world winter would only last from after Thanksgiving until the New Year, just so we have a white Christmas, and after that we'd go right into spring. 
 
Hmmm.. what if I don't have 8 other people to send to?  Well, I'll do my best...
 
1) First and foremost is my bestest blogger friend (outside of blogging as well!) Diane
2) Debbie
3) Kelly
4) Rivka
5) Meg
6) Wanda
7) and if she weren't the one to give it to me, I would have given this to Elizabeth for sure! :-)
 
 
 

Thank You Card

I wanted to use my border embossing folder so I decided to use it for this card.  It's one of the borders in the Pop Culture pack from Cuttlebug.  For the background I used Versamark and 'thank you' from the Wonderful Words SU set. The sentiment came from the SU Curvy Verses set.  For the piece of paper I used the SU ticket punch corner punch and the ribbon slot punch from Fiskars.  I tied the ribbon in both directions to change it up a bit.  I also cut the front of the card narrower so that the embossed border could be seen while the card was open or closed.

Tools: CB embossing folder - Pop Culture; Fiskars ribbon slot punch; Versamark ink (background); SU stamp sets: Wonderful Words, and Curvy Verses; SU ticket punch corner punch; ribbon; Cuttlebug machine

Anniversary Card

Friends of ours got married the same year we did...and they have the same initials as we do!  They live across the country from us and we always send them an anniversary card.  This is what they got this year:

For this I used the LOVE set from SU and matted the small squares on a piece of red paper that I used the border and corner SU punch for.  Don't you just love punching all the way around a piece of paper now?!  I cut the gold ribbon to resemble an arrow and for the background I used my Cuttlebug to emboss (using the Textile embossing folder).  I used SU Stampin' Pastels to highlight the embossing.  I chalked around the edges as well.  Inside I used the Full of Life set from SU and the 'happy anniversary' is from Inkadinkado.

Tools: SU sets: LOVE & Full of Life, Cuttlebug, CB Textile embossing folder, SU border and corner punches, corner rounder punch, ribbon, ST Stampin' Pastels, Inkadinkado stamp

Another Wedding Card

Here's another wedding card I had made.  This time I used the same bride and groom stamp, but made a different card altogether.  The ribbon holds the front flap closed.  Once you untie the ribbon the flap opens and you can open the bride and groom part.  Then you get to the inside :-)  The bridesmaids wore purple so that's the color I went with.  It's the bride's favorite color after all :-)

(Card closed)

(Front flap open)

(Inside)

Tools used: Scallop punch, circle punch, SU stamp set To Have & To Hold, ribbon, hole punch, colored pencils.

Wedding Card

 I made this card for friends of ours that were getting married.  I like the classic blacak and white look, but I had to add some color to the flowers :-)  I also added glitter to the bride's vail.  The background/frame was done with my Cuttlebug machine and the Scrollwork embossing folder.  For this card I also stamped on the inside and back of the card.  I also used the two hearts on the envelope and wrote their initials in each heart. 

Tools used: Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Scrollwork embossing folder, glitter glue, ribbon, SU stamp sets: To Have & To Hold, Greetings Galore, and In My Thoughts.

Cupcake Honey birthday card

I needed to make a b-day card for friend of ours - he's not the kind of guy to go for frilly things, so I used this image instead of my typical cutesy digis :-)  I hope he appreciated it! LOL  In any event, the image is from Sassy Studios and it's called Cupcake Honey.  The candle background is an embossing folder from Cuttlebug.  The sentiments (inside and out) are from SU Sassy Suzie set.  The digi was colored using Prismacolor colored pencils.

 Tools used: SU Sassy Suzie, Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug embossing folder, Prismacolor pencils



Book Review ~ His First Kill: A Short Story

I usually don't read short stories....because...well...I think they are too short! LOL But this one was filled with twists and turns and unexpected things. I loved it! It was a quick read (as I guess is the point of short stories lol) but it was enjoyable all the way through. Thank you John Brinling! It was a fun, unexpected read!

Dragon b-day card

Here's a birthday card I made for one of my kids' friend's birthday parties.  I used Dustin Pike's freebie image and colored with Prismacolor pencils.  I double matted him and put some ballon brads along the side.

Tools used: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities squares, balloon brads, Prismacolor colored pencils, Dustin Pike digi