Final card for my co-worker

Hello-
Well, I wasn't able to craft very much this week, but I did make this card last Sunday. I made it for our LPN Linda, she is so hardworking and funny and without her we'd never be able to handle the large numbers of attendees we have for our weekly immunization and TB clinics.

Anyway, I used a grass stamp and bee stamp that I bought from Munchkins. The stems for the smaller flowers are from a Papertrey ink set and the flowers are from several single hero arts stamps that I picked up last year from J's. The main flower image is from a unity stamp set that I picked up from Munchkins when it was on sale. I then cut the design and backing out w/ my scalloped oval nestabilities. I added dew drops, rhinestones and used a MS border punch. The butterflies are from a MS punch too. I was trying to use a sketch that I saw, but I didn't think the layout came out too nice so I adjusted everything to make this card. The sentiment is from PTI too and I cut it out using a tag nestability. I like that you can thread the ribbon into the tag.




Hopefully Linda will like it.

Have a nice weekend! Cyn will be having a make and take at Munchkins Saturday so check it out. Liann got some cute items in on Thursday so check her out too!

I will be trying to save money this weekend by staying home. I still need to make 3 more cards (one for my mom, my friend and my OCS card- it's coming Evie-sorry!)

I still have to make some things for my friends for Easter too~ YIKES!

Anyway, take care of yourselves and have a great weekend! Hopefully I'll post something on Sunday, but no promises :(

March birthday card using new techniques

Hello everyone-
Hope you are having a great Saturday! It's a beautiful day out, but it's HOT!--I'd rather have the wind,but not so much of it :)

Anyway, this card I made for my stepmom. She is a card maker too so it had to be special.

I used a SU stamp and I then cut it out w/ an oval nestability. I clear embossed the oval several times using versamark to give it a crystalized effect (note to self, be careful afterwards b/c the embossed surface may crack). The background, I made faux tin tiles (learned it on papercraftplanet.com) and dry embossed it afterwards w/ a sizzix embossing plate. Used a Dandelion designs sentiment for the top of the easel card and used a butterfly I picked up from the stamping expo last year. Used the whimsical words sentiment for the bottom of the easel card and the SU pinking border punch.



She loved the card which I am very happy about.

Anyway, have a great day and I hope to post something tomorrow. I still have 3 more birthday cards to make and my OCS card. YIKES!

another March birthday card

Hello everyone-
well my goal of posting a lot this week fell short, but I did make 2 cards. This one I made for my cousin's wife (the same cousin that I made the albums for)

Her favorite color is purple so I used that for the main color, but then I popped the images with other colors. The stamp I used is a new one from Penny Johnson and I got it from Munchkins in Mililani. I colored the bears using watercolor pencils and then colored the flowers w/ a combination of copics and pencils. I got the SU scallop trim punch thru the sale-a-bration sale so I used that to decorate the base. I also got the whimsical words stamp set so I used that for the sentiment. I added some dew drops to the base and used the MS butterfly trio punch for the little butterflies. Hopefully Pili liked the card.




I made another card for my stepmom and I will share that tomorrow!

Check out Cute stuff- Liann has some new penny black stamps that are adorable (I bought a ton of those too)
Check out Munchkins this weekend, Cyn has a sidewalk sale and stuff is on sale in the store too. She will also have a make and take tomorrow~
I went on a shopping spree this today- YIKES, I was doing so well :P So I will be hopefully creating this weekend~

Have a great weekend everyone. Take care and God Bless

Have a great weekend~

Many March birthday cards to make :)

Hello everyone-
I hope you had a nice weekend and your Monday was uneventful.
I have 3 co-workers, my mother, my stepmother and my cousin's wife celebrating their birthdays in March. So I will be busy and I also have my March OCS card to do :)

Here are the 1st 2 cards I made.
They both have dogs as the main image because my friends are dog lovers.

For the first card, I used a Julie Fujii stamp that I got from cute stuff a while ago and never inked up. (HOARD MUCH?) I followed a sketch by Our Creative corner but I had a really difficult time figuring it out because the tree would have been covered, so I hope I followed it. I got the tree from Munchkins in Mililani Town Center and I also got 2 sets of Hero Arts stamps that have grass stamps on them. You can't really tell, but I popped up the doggies using pop dots and I used glossy accents to enhance the hat, collars and sunglasses. I hope Gail likes the card.




The 2nd card is for my co-worker Gloria, I followed the same sketch for her card and I had an easier time following it. I used this Milton and company stamp that I got from Cute Stuff this weekend (wouldn't you know it, I waited too long and most of the bear stamps that I wanted were sold out. But Lianne will be ordering them again). I JUST REALIZED WHY I LOVE THIS DOG- HIS NAME IS TOBY ;)
I used a Fred She Said flower to embellish the card.





Well, I hopefully will finish the other cards this week and I will post again soon. Until then, I hope you all have a great week. Take care of yourselves

Happy Girl's Day

Hello everyone!
I hope you had a great girl's day. I'm not Japanese but I did make some cards and gave a few gifts to my co-workers' daughters. My aunt did give me a girl's day doll when I was younger and my co-worker told me that if I kept it out all year, then the belief is that it would take you longer to get married. WELL, THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH! Darn, if I knew that belief, I would have hidden my doll and I WOULD be married by now! Oh Well.

In any case I cased the faces for these girls from Patti (she has amazing creativity!). I found how to make the kimonos using tags on this blog I used scraps to make my card and the kimonos.





The girls loved the card and the gifts.

It's furlough Friday today so I'm off to visit my mom in the hospital.

Have a great weekend and God Bless

My OCS card for February

Hi-
I made another easel card for my OCS partner, she lives in Florida so it'll take a while to get to her.
I used a Hope and Grace image that I FINALLY INKED up,
I backed it onto an Asian inspired paper and at the base I cut 2 strips of the same paper to accent it. I then applied 2 way glue to the above or below each strip and added glitter. (sorry you can't see it very well). Finally I added bling to some of the flower centers and I made the sentiment tag.



In any case, I hope that she likes the card.

Take care and have a great day!

Bunny Zoe's 2nd anniversary candy

Hello-
There is blog candy available here. Go check it out and her store. I've ordered some things from here before and it was great!

Have a great day!