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Card for a baby shower

Hi-
My boss's son and daughter-in-law are having a boy this month. As an office we wanted to take up a collection to get them some gift certificates.

I made this card for them. I CASED the idea from Valita's fresh folds and made it with punches. The card she made was for a girl so it was easy to embellish the safety pins, well, for a little boy, I had to improvise.



Anyway, I hope they like the card and gift, but more importantly, may the birth of their son be safe and may the child be healthy!

Thanks for visiting, I hope you are having a nice Saturday!

May birthday card #1

Hello everyone!

May is another busy birthday month for me. I have to make 3 birthday cards for co-workers to sign and 3 personal birthday cards and 2 mother's day cards! Geez, I'll be busy!

Anyway, this is a card I made for my sister. I used a Penny Black clear stamp set and laid out the 3 stamps on a large rock a block. I love these rock a blocks b/c it almost always makes your stamped images come out perfectly (the only problems that I've had with it is when I made a mistake) I have always had problems putting equal pressure on stamps and messed up my images, but since I got these, my stamping is so much better. I bought my set from an UK company, but cute stuff did have the large rock a block sets in at one point, so go check them out if you have trouble like I do w/ stamping.

I colored everything w/ my copics and added bling with my sakura silver pen. I then added dew drops to the corners to make them pop.



Just a simple card, but I like the simplicity.

Take care and I hope you are having a great Saturday

April OCS and Aloha RAK

Hello everyone-
It's FRIDAY! Hallelujah! I hope you are all well and have a great weekend planned. I have to go to my cousin's wedding on Saturday and still need to make her card. I was planning on having some friends over for crafting today, but since I cleaned up my living room last weekend, my craft room is now a mess so I still have to straighten up and also cut out the sets for them. I plan to have them over next Friday since it's another furlough.

Anyway, I participated in the April OCS and April Aloha RAK and I got the same person for both activities. Colleen Kwan made me this beautiful card using the 5th avenue floral impressions folder from SU and since I was still working on her stuff last weekend, I decided to use the same stamp set for her card and RAK.



I used the emboss resist technique again to create her card and I wish that the stamp set had 2 big roses instead of just one, but oh well, I guess they need to make the embossing template different otherwise you wouldn't buy that plus the stamp set :) Smart retailers! Anyway, I inked up the card using PTI hibiscus burst and addeded plum pudding accents to the middle of the flowers. I then covered a notepad for her and used the same flower from the stamp set as the accent image. I hope that she likes her gift set. I enjoyed making it for her.

Another card for a special friend

Well, a 2nd post this week- pretty good. I hope you had a great Thursday, tomorrow's furlough Friday for me so I'm very happy. I took yesterday off though to take my mom to the doctor. She is still suffering from her abscess and an infection, but it looks like it's healing and we'll see. Maybe she can come home soon- she's been in the hospital since December.

Anyway, I totally cased this card from Shirley when she made me one like it for Easter (using the nestabilities and MS fence punch), but I wanted to make a thank you card for a friend. I made her a RAK a while ago and again didn't get around to making her card until now so this is what I came up with.

As you can tell, I REALLY love penny black animals and this is a hedgie from a clear stamp set Tiny Wishes- I have most of the sets w/ hedgehogs in it, but haven't inked up most of them. I used a DSP that I got free from my last order from Addicted to Rubber Stamps.com and another DSP that I got from cute stuff. I accented the little flowers on the bottom DSP w/ little flower buttons that I also got from cute stuff and added the MS fence punch in yellow. I then added some butterflies to finish up the card. I really like this style of card and plan to make more :)



Have a great evening and take care!

Penny Black Saturday and other Challenges

Hello everyone-
I'm back- it's been a rough couple of weeks so I haven't been able to post. I've been creating some things and catching up on some RAKs that I've meant to send out and I'll be posting those over the next few days.

Anyway, I have been wanting to participate in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for awhile, but never got around to it. I made this tent card for a special friend and I decided to also submit it into the challenge. This week's challenge was to use 3 flowers, 2 buttons and a bow. I used this mouse stamp that I bought last year but never inked up and then I suspended it from the card. I made a bow w/ purple organza ribbon (and I'm really happy about how the bow turned out) and then I sewed a button to the center of the bow. The flowers are a mixture of prima flowers and some stickers that I had before. I closed the card w/ 2 eyelets and then glued 2 roses that I picked up from Photocraft before. I decided to balance the card w/ 3 green pearls. I copied Shirley's idea, but I didn't have the grass MS punch so I used the icicle one to add a border on the bottom of the card to "somewhat hide" the base

I also decided to submit this card for entry into Tamiko's challenge #2 (using your nesties) I used my circle nestie to cut out the hole for the mouse to suspend into and then I used my scallop circle nestie to outline the circle.



I hope my friend likes her card and RAK, I've been meaning to send it out for a while but just hadn't finished everything yet.

Anyway, I hope you like my card and thanks for visiting- I really appreciate all of your comments and I look forward to reading all of them.

Until next time, take care and God Bless

Clip-n-cuts paper crafts blog hop

Hey everyone-
I just saw this on Maria's site and Mel Stampz site and decided to add my blog to it.

Here is how it works:

1. Click the blue frog below to add your blog.

2. Copy the following script and put it on your blog post while in HTML view.


3. Provide the above code on your blog for others to grab. Just mention to paste it on HTML view when blogging.

4. Ask your readers to add their blogs on the list and also copy and paste the script on their blog as well!

This will make a thumbnail collection that will grow on everyones blog and we can meet each other! I’ll be moderating it so no worries. It will be updated on everyones blog when someone enters a new link.

LOVE IT! Please DO participate! You don’t have to link them back here. Just tell everyone to add their cardmaking/scrapbooking blog and make the collection as big as we can! Can we make it to 1000? If you have any issues let me know and I’ll be happy to help asap.

Here goes!