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!!!!!!!!

Doggie Thank You

Well, once I had my new puppy, I had to go and buy the Yappy Day stamp set! It is really sweet:-) I made this card as a thank you from Patches (my beagle) to our next door neighbors. Actually, their dogs, Wrigley and Riley, gave Patches a "Welcome to the Neighborhood" present of a couple puppy toys. He wanted to say "thanks" so I made him this card to give:-) The words are from the AWESOME hostess set called "So Many Sayings." Thanks for stoppin' by!!!

Another Christmas Club Card

I'm trying to crank my cards out for my Christmas Card Club tomorrow night. I have to squeeze in time while the puppy sleeps. Tomorrow morning he needs to go to the vet - so I'll lose a little time then. I will sleep better tonight knowing all three of my cards are at least designed. This card comes together easily due to the colorful designer paper. It sure helps cards come together in a snap! Match the cardstock to the paper - no thinking required. I love those kind of cards!! This is, once again, using the set: Fun & Fast Notes. Hope you like it:-)

Wedding Card

My husband has a good friend that he grew up with whose daughter just got married. So, Hubby asked if I could make a wedding card for him to send. I don't make these very often since most of the people I know are already married. So it was fun to use a stamp that hadn't been used yet! This stamp is from one of my favorite sets - Fast & Fun Notes. I colored the cake with markers in the soft subtle family, but it doesn't show up very well on the scan. I wanted a simple yet pretty card. Hopefully the bride and groom will like it:-)

Boy Birthday

Yesterday my son went to a friend's birthday party. So, as usual, I wait until the last minute to get the card made. The boys play soccer after school quite frequently so I thought that would be a good theme for the card. I used a soccer ball and greeting from old stamp sets, but I think it came out pretty nice. Hopefully the boy's mom like it!! (You know the boys couldn't care less!) Thanks for looking:-)