Cased Birthday!

I love this card! I don't feel funny saying it, either, since I cased 99% of it off of a creative stamper on http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/. I apologize because I don't remember her name. I needed a boy birthday card and looked under "Just Baseball" as Ben LOVES baseball! I fell in love with this card but made a couple tiny changes. I wanted his name on the front to make it personal and then I added the baseball and the corners. The corner I punched out (love that punch!) because I made a mistake in the lower left corner of the card and needed to cover it up!! There is ALWAYS a way to fix a mistake:-) Thanks for looking!!

New Rubbah!!!!!!!!

This card looks much prettier in person. My scanner does a really bad job with making colors look accurate:-( Anyway, this set is from the not-yet-released 2008 Spring/Summer Catalog!! The best part is - Stampin' Up! sent one to all of their demos for FREE!!!!!!!! I LOVE NEW RUBBAH!!!! Especially when it is FREE!!!!!!!! OK, I'll stop screaming now:-) It's just that this company is so generous with their demos - they really know how to make us feel appreciated. This card uses Certainly Celery paper for the background (which is one of my faves!) but it looks so bright in this photo. It's actually much duller - but in a good way:-) It's a fun set and will be one of the Level 3 Hostess sets in the new catty which comes out January 1st. Can't wait!!!

Teacher's Birthday

As is typical of kids, my 10-year-old daughter approached me this morning a little before 8am to tell me it was her teacher's birthday today. "Can you make her a card?" she asked. Of course, my "stash" of cards has everything but a birthday card. So I scrambled to throw something together before she had to leave at 8:10am. Didn't make it. I did, however, make this card shortly after she left and will have to run it over to school. I challenged myself to make it simple without embellishments. It may not be visible in the picture, but I used the tool kit to make a row of holes in the top of the certainly celery strip of cardstock and used the crop-o-dile to make dry embossed circles in the scallop part of that same piece of cardstock. I was pretty happy with the results. Thanks for looking!!!!!!!!