Birthday Wishes

Happy Hump Day aka Wednesday!!  I hope you are having a great week thus far!  I have been keeping myself busy with designing projects for some classes I’m teaching in March. They will be my first ever and I’m really excited about them!  I will share my projects with you once I’m all done with my samples.  Eeek!!

I made a couple cards yesterday in between cleaning and organizing, so I have something to share today!  A fairly simple card (aren’t mine all?!) using Pebbles and Hero Arts goodies.

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Flashback Fridays 20.0

I’m playing along with the Flashback Friday 20.0 challenge for this month.

This card is 3.5 years old and was originally made for a CAS challenge on Splitcoaststampers.  Wow!  First of all, I can’t believe how dark the original picture is. Wow!  Crazy shadows and all.  At the time I didn’t really do CAS, so I guess it was a glimpse into the future, lol.

 

Rolled Flower and a Thanks!

Happy Monday, all!  I hope everyone reading got today off from work in honor of President’s Day!  Since I’m currently unemployed, every day is a day off from work, lol!  I haven’t had an interview since November and it gets more and more frustrating as the weeks go by.  But I don’t want to talk about that – lets talk about getting inky instead!!

This weekend was mostly about organizing and cleaning our converted garage.  I’m hosting a Crafty Day in a couple of weeks so DH and I are have been working hard to make it nice for when my crafty friends are here.  DH has done the majority of the work and I’ve mostly been doing stuff in the kitchen, like rearranging stuff and putting up shelves.  All in all, it’s coming along nicely and we should be done in plenty of time.

In between cleaning and organizing I was able to put together a card to share today.  It came together pretty quick and love the combination of orange and turquoise.

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ETA: I’m over at the Clearsnap blog today with a quick and easy project.  Come take a look!!

Paper Made Bakery: So Sorry Sneak

Today is Sunday and that means it’s my day over on the Paper Made Bakery blog.  I’ve got a little peek of my card to show you but you will need to head over to the Paper Made Bakery blog to see the full thing!

Happy Birthday Balloons

Hello everybodeeeee!!  I’m saying this in my best Grover voice (from Sesame Street). Remember him??  My mom used to do the best impression of him when I was growing up.  I don’t know why I’ve just remembered this, lol.  Okay, moving on!

So today is Thursday already and I can say this is one of the best weeks I’ve had in a while.  The creativity is flowing, my DH was on vacation 3 days this week so we spent some quality time together and I got good news regarding my unemployment benefits. All very good things!!

I have a fun but simple card to share with you today.  I originally made this without the clouds.  I showed my DH the finished card and he thought there was too much white space, even for me.  So I went back to my desk and added some clouds.  Now the card I liked is the card I love!  The patterned paper is from Echo Park (Springtime collection) and the sentiment is Mint Motif (What a Card!).

 

The Day After

So how did your Valentine’s Day go?  Mine was awesome!  Just me and the hubby all day watching movies at home, take out from Buca di Beppo for dinner and Girl Scout cookies for dessert!  Perfect!!

I did manage to sneak in some time for a card!  Since we are officially past V-Day, I thought I would share something non-lovey today.  Over the weekend I got some happy mail from Wplus9 Design Studio so I inked up the Folk Art Florals set and here is the result.

Supplies used:

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Happy Valentine’s Day: Conversation Hearts

Happy Valentine’s Day!!  I’ve been counting down the days to get to today!  I love Valentine’s Day at my house.  Our tradition is to watch a romantic comedy and just spend the day together – two things I love!!  I got my hubby a fun little gift and I love giving gifts, so I’m excited to give it to him.  :)

I made this card for a recent pub call and it didn’t get picked up so I’m sharing it with you today.  I love, love, love this card and how it turned out!

I used a few different shades of pink/red for the candy hearts and four different stamp sets to make this card.  (Hero Arts – conversation hearts; Practicing Creativity – clouds; Clearsnap – houndstooth; Mint Motif – sentiment).  I’m a total rainbow junkie so I’m always looking for ways to turn my stamps into rainbows!

Thanks for joining me today.  I hope you have a love-filled day!!