Gorjuss Girl Birthday Card

I made this card for my cousin who just turned 18 on Monday.  She and her parents lived with my parents for a while before buying a house of their own so I was able to watch her grow from the time that she was born!  I can't believe that she is 18 now, just graduating from high school, and starting college!  Amazing how old that makes me feel! LOL!!!  Now that I have kids of my own, I truly understand what it means when people say "they grow up so fast!"

A Quick Birthday Card

A few weeks ago my family attended a birthday party for one of my son's old preschool classmates. It's nice that even though our kids have moved on to different schools, that we are still able to get together to catch up on things. Anyways, since easel cards seem to come together so quickly for me, and as usual I had lost track of the days and found myself trying to put together a card the night before the party, I decided easel was the way to go! :-) I didn't really have time to sit and "bling" it up plus since the birthday girl was turning 5, I figured she would appreciate her card with or without the extra bling! hehe! This was a fun card to put together! I enjoy making cards for kids since there isn't as much pressure for it to look perfect! LOL!!

Thanks for stopping by! :-) Hope you're enjoying the weekend!

Yet Another One

I know, I know, not another one...LOL! Sorry, I really love making these easel boxes and I actually pre-made a few of the box part of these..I just needed to decorate them. I made this one for my mom for Valentine's Day. Her favorite color is purple so it worked out perfect since I already had a pre-made purple box! I was able to throw this together in no time! :-)

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you're all having a great day!

Thank You Cards

Woo hoo!! I'm back in business. My DH surprised me today with an early birthday present...a new LAPTOP!!! Yippee!! Since my last laptop suddenly bit the dust, I have been trying to squeeze in time here and there to post things via my husbands computer. Now I will hopefully be able to start posting my projects more regularly (clap, clap, clap), but also I'll have to start getting things moving with my online classes (blah)!

Anyways, a few days ago my MIL asks if I could make 20 Thank You cards for her to give out to her friends. She wanted me to make them an assortment of different ones. With 20 cards to make, I'm trying to keep them quick and simple so that my MIL isn't waiting the rest of the year for her cards (since that's pretty much the rate at which I normally work)!! :-) I'm done with almost half of them...although I may make some extras because I don't know if I really like them all. Here's what I've completed so far. Thank you for stopping by and for all of your kind words! It really brightens my day when I receive comments from you so I wanted to make sure to thank you all!

Gorjuss Girl Birthday Card

I just love the GG images that Kyoko so generously gave to me. I made this birthday card for a friend whose birthday is coming up in a few weeks. I hope she likes it. I kind of screwed up the coloring of her hair so I added some Diamond Stickles and it covered it right up!! :-)

Playing Catch Up

Okay, I'm sorry for all of these posts but since my computer was down for so long I have lots of catching up to do. In fact, my computer is still not fixed and I decided to just start downloading pictures onto my husbands computer!

Anyways, after receiving my framed art from Michelle, a little while back, I wanted to make some of my own using her masterpiece as my inspiration! I actually found some 12x12 frames that my mom-in-law had bought for me a while back and decided to use them. Since my cousin is having a birthday party for her daughter in a few weeks, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to make one!

This one's not framed yet...I was having a hard time getting a good picture of it so I took it out of the frame.

I used my Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background and some Stickles on the hula girl for some bling!

After the first one, I was on a roll.....

My GF had a birthday party for her daughter this past weekend and so I made one for her as well. It was the perfect project to use up some of my Smirk scraps!

Again, I used my Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background and Stickles for some bling. Here's the matching card I made to go along with the gift!

After my mom saw the first two I made, she asked me if I could make one for her friend who was celebrating her birthday this past weekend.

We found the smaller 8x8 frame at Wal-mart. Her friend's favorite color is purple and she likes Asian themed things.

Here's the card that I made for my mom to give with her gift. I let her choose what she wanted on it and she chose this Gorjuss Girl image.

And the last one I made was to welcome a new addition to the family. My DH's cousin & his wife welcomed their second child last month. I still have to deliver this to them so hopefully they don't see this before it gets to them! But if I'm not that lucky, Ardis I hope you like it!

Took it out of the frame because the glass and my camera's flash were not cooperating

I just think Stickles are the greatest! Easy to use and adds such great bling to your projects!

Thank you again Michelle for your inspiration! As you can tell, I just LOVE the framed art you made for me!! :-) I hope you're all having a wonderful day!!