Mojo Monday 300

Here is my take on the historic Mojo 300 sketch. Thanks to the Mojo group for the opportunity to enter to win such awesome prizes!! Good luck to all.

Birthday Card for Friend

Inside card:


Just a quick post with a birthday card I did for a friend of mine. This isn't an original design, but one I copied from a friend. I did, however, make my own designer paper with one of the new Stampin' Up floral stamp sets and a piece of yellow DP from a floral Stampin' Up designer paper pack. I love the new Stampin' Up embossing folder too. On the inside of the card, I used two spellbinders dies and then I cut a couple of flowers out from my homemade dp to use as accents. I love the bright colors on this so thought the sentiment was a good match.

Thanks for stopping by for a peek.

Birthday Card for friend

Inside card:


Here is a card I made for one of my stamping friends. In the past, we have enjoyed a few bottles of wine while stamping:))

Birthday card for Daughter-in-law

Just a quick post to show you the card I did for my daughter-in-law, who's birthday is on May 5th. My attempt at a vintage card.

The gorgeous butterfly image on the left corner of the card is from Inkadinkado. The musical stamps are from Hero Arts Clings and the vintage lady stamp comes from a new set by Hampton Art called "Cling Vintage Ladies".

Hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping in for a peek.

Birthday Card for Hubby 2011

Inside card:


It's about time for me to post a few cards again. This one was for my husband's birthday on April 11th.

Friend Valentine Birthday Card

Inside of card:



One of my very good friends was a Valentine's baby. It's easy to tell because she's one of the sweetest people I know. This is her Valentine/Birthday card for 2011. I've also attached a photo of the inside of the card.

Birthday Card for stamping friend

Just a quick post of a birthday card I did for a fellow stamper.

Vintage Chocolate Birthday

Whoohoo! I'm now done with all my cards for May. This little vintage chocolate beauty is for my sister who lives in Boise, Idaho. We share a passion for dark chocolate and when I saw this image on the internet when I was surfing, I knew I had to have her so I could create something special for my sister. This was hard to photograph, especially at night. The color of the image is a bit redder than real life. I may try another photo in the daylight and swap it out if it turns out closer to the real thing.

Anyway, here are the card details:

Paper: Dark chocolate linen from Archiver's, Basic Grey Cappella DP, Kaiser Scrapbook DP (for sentiment), Paper Studio shiny copper

Spellbinder label die, MS border punch, SU sentiment, choc flower accents, trim and ribbon from JoAnn Fabrics, CB embossing folder for papers behind image. This was just my second vintage card and I was quite happy with how it turned out. Hope you enjoy peeking at it.

Daughter-in-Law Birthday Card

This card is for my daughter-in-law, who loves frogs, especially "Kermit the Frog". This isn't exactly "Kermie", but it's the best I could come up with from my stamp selection.

The the frog images come from my Simon Says acrylic frog stamp set. You can find this set at www.simonsaysstamp.com. I added some red bow ties to my frogs, just to dress them up a bit and to add a contrasting color. My daughter-in-law is a piano and guitar teacher so I added the musical notes for fun. I used several CB embossing folders to give texture to my background and a number of nesties on my sentiment and to finish off the inside. The black and white dotted background on the inside of the card was made with SU's top note die. The corner accents were done with an EK success punch and finally, I added some black and white dotted ribbon loops on the right side and glossed up the frogs' eyes with a little Diamond Glaze.

Now I'm down to just one more card for my sister and I will have all the May birthdays done. Whoohoo!

Birthday Card for Max

This card is for my precious grandson, Max, who will be 5 on May 2nd. Max is autistic and just the sweetest little boy you'd ever want to know. He's smart as a whip but a bit behind in his language skills. He has really come out of his shell over the last 6 months and we are so happy to see him starting to interact with the other children at school. He seems to have a very special connection with one of the little girls in his class who has downs syndrome.

Back to the card...I always have fun with Max's card each year. I get to use stickers of his beloved Sesame Street characters. I love kids cards with primary colors and these stickers were just made for a card like that. I dug through my papers and found this fun piece that worked out perfect. I just had to figure out a layout so I could use all the characters, then I added the stamped and punched "5" circles and the "Happy Birthday" greeting. At first I wondered if it was a bit too busy, but the more I looked at it the better I liked it. I know that he will take time to examine it very carefully and it will bring a big smile to his face. I had fun with the inside too.

One more card done...two more to go.

Birthday Card for Great Niece

Just a quick post with a card for my great niece, who will be 2 in May. Her grandma tells me that she loves "Wow Wow Wubbzy", so I went searching online for an image to use to make her a Wubbzy card. This was actually the top of a cake image I found, but it worked out nicely. Nothing too fancy here, just the birthday CB embossing folder and the newest SU border punch. For the inside I used some Nesties and a Fiskars punch to finish it off. The sentiment was done on my computer. Along with the card I'll be sending a super soft small Wubbzy blanket that I found at Target online.

I'll be back tomorrow with another card to post for my grandson. Then two more BDay cards and I'll be all set for May.

B-Day Card for my daughter

Just a quick post of my daughter's birthday card. She loves shiny, glittery cards so I think she'll like this one.

I used my new candy cane stripe CB embossing folder on some shiny red paper for the background. Then I added some shimmer white paper embossed with my swirls CB folder.
I heat embossed both the image and the sentiment. Both are from and Inkadinkadoo clear acrylic set called "Birthday Sentiments". I double stamped the image and cut out and popped the gift box and a number of stars on dimensionals. The backing papers on the image and sentiment are also shiny papers. Finally, I added a red cord bow to the bottom half of the gift box. Thanks for taking a peek.

We are currently enjoying some unseasonably nice weather here in Wisconsin. Temps are in the 60's today with lots of sunshine. I hear more is on tap for tomorrow. Woohoo! Hope your day is filled with sunshine no matter where you are.

Hubby's B-Day Card

Here is a card I made for my hubby's birthday next month. I used Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch from this last Sunday again because I thought it would work perfect for this card. I realize it may not look like a very masculine card, but trust me, he's going to love it.

Okay, so maybe I'll have to do some explaining of this card. It is a birthday card. However, you may ask why that cute doxie has bunny ears? Well, my hubby's birthday just happens to land on Easter Saturday this year, so the bunny ears are appropriate and the doxie just happens to resemble our little Liesl dog who has been gone out of our lives but not out of our hearts nearly two years now.

The plaid paper is from We R Memory Keepers, the red is from American Crafts and the blue is Bazzill. I used my nestabilities to cut the circle and scallop, double stamped the image, colored it with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol, then cut out the doxie head and 3 of the tulips and popped them over the original stamped image. I was tempted to pull out a cuttlebug embossing folder for the blue strip, but I decided to pierce the paper instead. I created the Happy Birthday on my computer and punched it out with the Stampin' Up word window punch. I inked the edges and mounted the pieces with the green brads. I'll have to hide this one as soon as I finish the inside sentiment. Hope you like...I know he will.

Birthday Card for Tracy

Here is a card I created for my daughter-in-law, inspired by a card I saw on Splitcoast. She is a music teacher specializing in piano and guitar. I always try to make her a card with a music theme. Her birthday is on May 5th. That happens to be the same day as my sister's birthday, which is the next card I hope to get done ahead of the game.

I embossed the silver background paper with my Cuttlebug music notes embossing folder. The red patterned paper is from Paper Pizzazz that I bought at JoAnn Fabrics. The musical notes are eyelets from Eyelet Outlet and the piano is a brad that was in my stash. The Happy Birthday is an acrylic stamp that I think came from Archiver's. The ribbon was a scrap I had that just seemed to fit with the rest of the card. I hope she likes it.

On to the next birthday card.

First Birthday card of 2009

I love frogs and I have a big collection of frog stamps so it is always appropriate to start the year off with a froggy birthday card. I have 2 siblings that have birthdays in January and more often than not, one of them will get a frog card from me. I was so happy with how this turned out that I decided to make a big crop of frog cards to have on hand for relative's birthdays this year.

The cardstock is certainly celery and certainly celery Designer Paper from Stampin' Up. The frog is an Inkadinkado stamp that came from Michael's Craft store. The birthday sentiment and balloon are from clear acrylic sets.