Happy Birthday!

Today's post is a birthday gift certificate holder.  I had a wonderful husband call me this week to get a gift certificate for his wife's birthday.  I had some extra time so I made up this holder for the certificate.

I used the flirtatious specialty paper and made a tri-fold holder with belly bands to hold it shut.  I am loving making the little flagged ends with the square punches.  Some die cut fun flowers that were textured with the square lattice and polka dot folders.  Melon mambo and pretty in pink were the colors used along with the white greeting piece.  I really enjoyed doing this.  Happy Birthday!



Frame Art by Jillian!

This frame was created by my daughter, Jillian, who is home staying with us for a while as she waits for her paperwork to clear so she can move to Canada!  Exciting times ahead for her and she has a job awaiting her when she gets there as an interior designer, which is what she did in Seattle area for a couple years now.

Here are a couple of close up pictures.  She has all kinds of dimension in this artwork.  I love it!

Thanks for stopping by today!

With Love and Care

Here are some cards that I made with the hostess set from the summer mini called Love & Care.  Perfect Plum is the color I used. 

I used the first edition and subtles dsp.  Some different punches as each one was slightly different between the modern label, scallop border, scallop circle, word window, etc.  Some had ribbon, some had rhinestones, some had brads, etc.  I used the stamp and write markers to color the flower with perfect plum and old olive and stamped them twice without reinking on the first edition dsp.  Also used very vanilla cs.  A fun card that you can put pretty much any greeting on.  Below is a peek at how I did the inside on some of them. 

Enjoy your Sunday and thanks for stopping by!  Back to the hay fields for me for the day!  Hoping the rain will stay away!





Strength & Hope Cards

Wow!  I am not sure where the whole month of June went to but we are almost to the end.  Today's post includes some cards that I made for a local 4-H member for her teen leadership project.  She was asking for cards to donate to the local Relay For Life.  So off to stamping with the Strength and Hope set from the summer mini. They made some beautiful cards in the pink theme.  I hope they provide some inspiration for you.

You will also notice that I used a couple of the embossing folders with the Big Shot--tulip frame folder and flower garden folder.  Also some pearls from the jewels available in the regular IB &C.  A couple of the cards use the scallop border punch also from the IB&C.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Punch Bunch 2

Sorry I have been absent for so long.  Busy here with calving and we have had some computer problems as well which hasn't helped things out any.  Today's post is done with Punch Bunch set which is a Sale-a-bration set currently.  It is available until the end of this month of March.  Don't delay--get it now!

It uses the owl from the punch bunch set and I stamped it in pear pizzazz and punched it out with the owl punch from the IB&C (page 201).  The branch comes from the two step bird extra large punch.  Base card is baja breeze with a white layer.  Then a smaller early espresso piece that was punched with the scallop edge border punch.  The white piece was stamped with so saffron in the dot, dot, dot stamp found on page 140 of the IB&C.  This is also available as a SAB selection.  I added some baja breeze dsp from the subtles dsp pack found on page 175 of thte IB&C which added the punched pieces to the owl and the little heart.  The greeting for this card comes from another SAB set called So Happy For You.  The ribbon is early espresso grosgrain.

Sale-a-bration time is winding down so don't wait too long and miss out on getting some of these fun sets for FREE to add to your collection.

Have a great day and I'll try to not be sooooo long between posts.  Thanks for stopping by.