What a Wonderful Birthday!

Good Morning Everyone,
     I just wanted to drop a brief line to share my awesome, awesome birthday gifts and a card that I did at Lesia's.  My birthday day was yesterday May 10th.  I think the older I get the better my birthdays get.  I got calls from many of my family members and some well wishes from FB.  Here at home Lesia really pulled out the stops.  Lesia and her grand daughter Ari picked out some insanely good (non-diabetic friendly) miniature bundt cakes from a store called "Nothing Bundt Cakes".   And of course there is just nothing like a handmade gift!  I got a cute little handmade box filled with goodies.  I got some Momento Lux Expresso Truffle pigment ink, I got some peach and hot pink Chrysanthemums (WOC), I got Maja  Design "Vintage Spring Basics" and Prima "Time Traveler's Memories" paper packs, I got the "Time Traveler's Memories matching flowers, some editing software, and the spectacular gift was my Tim Holtz 9 1/2" scissors (yeaaaah beby)!  I am still smiling.  I also got some scrapbook funds from my lovee...thank you my Angelness.  Just an all around truly wonderful birthday.  I am so very blessed and I thank everyone who made this a Happy Happy Birthday!!!  Lesia and I also made a very cute male card inspired by Ginny from Polly's Paper Studio check out her site, she has some amazing cards.  Thank you G for the inspiration.  Well, it's early and I need to get some rest, so I can get up and have another amazing day playing in my craft lab.  Happy Mother's Day to all my craftin' mommas!

Can't show the bundt cakes, they're all gone-they were yummy!!!

inside

The red shows the pocket for a gift card or money.

Check out my envelope with the liner, not bad ey?

 

 

Well thanks for stopping by...hugz from me



 

Mema's May Challenge

Hello everyone,
   Just want to share a couple new projects I did for Mema's Crafts May challenge (look at the top tool bar or ribbon to find the challenge).  The theme for this challenge is flower and/or mother. So break out the foo-foo she-she and enter those beautiful cards and projects in the challenge.  Lesia has 3 really great sponsors: Stitchy Bear, Rick St. Denis, and Frantic Stamper.  I will post the link to the sponsor above the project I did for that particular sponsor.  I also want you know, these will be my last inspiration projects for Mema's craft as a full-time DT member.  I may do some guest designing every once in a while.  I'm going to concentrate on doing my thing and work on some projects that are stacking up in my craft lab.  Not to fret though, Lesia has some new designers and I'm sure they will deliver great works to keep you inspired.   Sidebar: I coloured 2 adorable little images Carrot Seeds and Tomato Seeds (located under the Floral and Scenery category from Frantic Stamper, while I was visiting Lesia this weekend.   I don't have pictures of those but you can see all my projects over at Mema's Crafts.  As always many thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful and blessed year.

Stitchy Bear
I used the Post Card Set One

 

 

Rick St. Denis

I used the Buttons and Bows Dress Form located in the fashion category

 

 

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Anything Goes Challenge at Memas Crafts

Hi everyone, 
Just a quick post with lots of pictures for the April challenge over at Mema's Crafts .  The theme for April is ANYTHING GOES, so put a little or a lot but make sure you enter!   Lesia has secure to very nice sponsors for this month- one of my favorites Bugaboo stamps and a new one for me The Paper Shelter (TPS) both have a lot fun and beautiful images, so be sure an stop by their sites.  Now, on to my challenge inspiration projects.  Card number #1 is Bugaboo's Fancy Bonnet with an Easter Egg and Card #2 is The Paper Shelter's "In the 20s".  Something else about TPS, some of the images come with coloured images and background paper; how cool is that!?  I already had some paper in mind so, I didn't use my full pack of goodies from TPS.    Well, that's it for now, I hope my cards will inspire you to join this month's challenge and visit our generous sponsors. The card sizes are 5 1/2 x 5 1/2. I made the cards flat and created an envelope to make it easier for mailing. 
Card #1

Here's Ms. Fancy Bonnet with her removable Easter Egg.

 

 



Supplies:

Authentique patterned paper pack and stickers, Neenah, Spellbinder D-Lite Egg, Momento Cocoa Brown, Copic Markers, We Are Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board.

 



 Card #2





 

 

 

Supplies:

Vanilla CS, Neenah CS, 6x6 paper from Michael's former $1.00 bin (Paula Deen), Petaloo flowers, Cheery Lynn leaf die, Spellbinder's D-Lite Frames One and Matting Basics A, Stampin' UP! stamp, matching punch, Very Vanilla ribbon, Rose Red ink, and  Copic Markers.

 

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Graphic 45 Secret Garden Mini

Howdy y'all. 
     Today, I am sharing a mini album that I made for my good friend Barb, she is also my Stampin' UP! demonstrator.  It's really interesting how things work out.  I went to a SU party at Barb's house in 2008, at the time she was not a demonstrator.  Barb and Jennifer (Barb's upline and my former upline) convinced me to join and be a demonstrator.  In 2009 I became demonstrator but decided to quit in 2010 or beginning of 2011. I was Barb's demonstrator.   I recruited Barb and she became a demonstrator.  Now Barb is my SU demonstrator.  Life is just funny that way...   But nevertheless she is an awesome demonstrator, very talented.  She is one of the nicest, kindest, and most caring individuals I've met in years.  I've been telling her for a while I was going to make her something.  She loves gardening whether it be flowers or working in her vegetable garden.  Barb has an amazing green thumb.  For me it was a no-brainer that the G45 Secret Garden paper line would be perfect for her mini.   I was also inspired by Cathy Chapdelaine from her SoMuchScrap You Tube channel.  Cathy has some very pretty mini albums, many of which you can purchase the tutorial for in her Etsy shop or you can bid on the finished mini albums on Ebay.   Because of her beautiful work I was inspired to sew on my mini album I made for Barb. I kept it pretty simple since this was my first attempt.  The mini album turned out wonderful!  I was very please with the finished product.  Now, I think I will sew on all my minis!   I started a birthday card for my nephew and yep! I stitched on it too.    Well, I hope you enjoy the photos and give sewing a try.   Tip: a smaller sharper needle works wonders  75/11 best.  

Under the tie is an accordion fold extension

 

This is a little book mark I made from some of the scraps

 

Back side of the book mark

 

 

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Sketch Your Way Challenge at Mema's Crafts

Hello everyone,
     Just want to share a couple of cards I made for the March challenge over at Mema's Crafts .   The theme is "Sketch Your Way".  When you get to the site,  look up on the top tool bar you will find the March challenge button.  The sponsors this month are Rick St. Denis, Stitchy Bear,  and7 Kids College Fund.  For my first card I used Rick St. Denis' Out House 2 and on the second card I used Stitchy Bears' Who's the Boss.  They are both digi images.  The paper for the Out House card was Bo Bunny, Paper Studios, and Neenah 80# Classic White.  I also used Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles and D-Lite die Cattails.  The little clothes pin is from Wal-Mart (in the crafting area).  The greeting is something I made up and typed out on my computer.  The second card's digi image is call "Who's the Boss".  My concept did not work out too well so, I only took a picture of the image.  The red and white flocked paper; I believe is some very old MME (I could be wrong).  Any way; I only had a few pieces left so I thought I would use it.  I used Spellbinder's dies Fleur-de-Lis Rectangles, Grand Rectangle (smallest one), Nested Crowns, Nested Lacey Pennants, and Banner Basics One.  Both pictures were coloured with Copic Markers.  On the Who's the Boss card I used  Gelly Roll Metallic (Gold), Gelly Roll Clear Star, Atyou Spica #21 Lip Stick, and Crystal Effects.  To give the fur on the robes dimension, I used Snow-Tex.  I also added some flooring with my Copic Multi-liner 0.03. 

 

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