SCY: Happy 8th birthday!

I made this card for my medium daughter's birthday last week. Thanks, Sketches: Creatively Yours, for the inspiration!

Baby's 3rd birthday

Today was my youngest's 3rd birthday.

Here's her card:

And, here are the cupcake toppers and party favor labels that I made:

40 Days of Celebration

My husband turns 40 today!

A lot of his family lives out of town, so I wanted a way that we could involve lots of people in his celebration without them having to travel.

Enter the 40-Day Countdown Party... My idea was for him to receive something special representing the number of days left until his birthday, starting 40 days ahead of time. On each person's day, they either dropped off items at our house, emailed them to him, or mailed them to arrive on that day.

Here's the final list of what he received:
40 birthday cake candles
39 half-dollars
38 marshmallows
37 lollipops
36 cookies
35 packages of Ramen noodles
34 baseball cards
33 balloons
32 (+18) balls at the driving range
31 minute nap
30 sticks/pieces of gum
29 jelly beans
28 things that happened in 1972
27 mints
26 word searches
25 jokes
24 mini cupcakes
23 wasabi peas
22 fortune cookies
21 Jumble puzzles
20 dollar donation to charity
19 sunflower seeds
18 batting cage pitches
17 candy bars
16 oz. of coffee
15 pretzel rods
14 sodas
13 bagels
12 doughnuts
11 origami cranes
10 lottery tickets
9 car fresheners
8 iTunes songs
7 snack bags of peanuts
6 different beers
5 cans of chili
4 peanut butter cups
3 bags of popcorn
2 bottles of wine
1 gift card

It was a ton of fun, and he looked forward to each day.

Here's the card that I made him:

Scrapdango July reveal

This month's Sugar kit screams Summer (and, oddly, three of my four layouts were from winter! LOL.).

I love hexagons, so I turned my double-layout into a hexagon party!

The sheet of Webster's Pages tags begged to be featured on a page, too:

On this next layout, I wanted to show how well the papers blended, so I punched ton of hearts and arranged them into large flowers.

And, this intertwined swirly line sheet made me think of stained-glass windows, which reminded me of the theater where I took my DD to see the Lion King. I used my exacto knife to carve out parts of it and placed different patterns behind each. Once that was set up, I spread crackle glaze over top to give it a fun stained glass look. I love how it turned out!

I also made two cards, and the end result reminded me of why I don't make too many cards... :( I am just NOT a card designer but am incredibly jealous of those that are! :)

Hop on over to the store on July 5th to pick up your kit!

Happy Easter!

These were Scrapdango kit leftovers.

Scrapdango April Sugar kit reveal

I LOVED this kit, featuring Simple Stories Fabulous line {Available April 5th)!

I remember weaving a basket as a child, so, on this layout about my niece, I decided to give it a try with paper:


I used every bit of the yarn in the kit on this layout, and I love the effect...


On this layout, I decided to only use the journaling cards in the kit as the patterned paper. The baker's twine on the second page was the actual twine from the bakery. Love that I was able to use it!


This one was simple... I only matted the picture twice and then added in lots of embellishments.


This kit just begs for cute, springy cards to be made.




Have a lovely week, and don't forget to get your own kit on the 5th!

Before tomorrow's reveal...

I wanted to share one extra card, made with last month's Scrapdango sugar kit:



My medium DD had a tea party for her birthday last week, and these doilies were the perfect touch for the card.

A quick card...

using the leftovers from the January Scrapdango Sugar kit.

S:CY card sketch

I participated in the card sketch this month (rare for me, lately, I know!). Luckily, Valentine's Day gave me a great excuse to create some cards. :)

Thank you

I made this card and welcome sign as a thank you for my husband's cousin, who we stayed with a few weekends back. I am so proud of the way the canvas turned out.

Father's Day card

I just realized that I never shared the father's day card that I made for my husband...

SCY: Sympathy card

I created this one based off of the new Sketches: Creatively Yours card sketch.

Happy Mother's Day!

Wedding celebration

No, not that one (although I AM going to wake up early to watch it)...

Today is my and my husband's 11th wedding anniversary.

We don't have plans like the people across the pond.

But, I made him this card...


It's a totally different style than I usually use, but I think he'll love it.

Have a beautiful day!

Happy birthday to my beautiful 6 year-old!

Blinged birthday card

It's my sister's birthday (and my half-birthday!). I created this blinged-up card for her for a Scrapdango challenge using the Lucky Girls January kit.

Valentine's Day cards

Here they are... cute, no?

Happy birthday...

to my sweet, smart, getting-bigger-by-the-moment 8 year-old!



Materials were from the October 2010 Dixie Pieces kit.

Imaginisce

I created these pieces for the Imaginisce design team try-out.

Last of the cards