Birthday

One more gift….

Here is one more of Melissa’s gifts.This one was made by my friend Colleen. It is basically a larger card and she put in a swirly frame….very pretty.  The set on here is one of my new favorites…Friends 24-7.

One more framed art….

This is another one of Melissa’s birthday gifts…I know you all want to be in our group now, huh? THis one was made by my good friend and downline Sandy Alexander. I really wish my birthday was coming up soon so I could get a whole bunch of presents like these! LOL!  We are very fortunate to have such a great group of demos in this area. There are a ton of us ( I know of at least 10 within 3 miles of my house) , but many of us are good friends and share a lot of ideas. There are 6 of us from this area who all earned the Stampin’ Up Hawaii trip that I am leaving for TOMORROW!!!! I can’t wait!! I am setting up my blog to post a few times while I am gone but I will post pics from Hawaii when I return.

More framed art…

Every other week, I have a group of local demos over to my house to stamp and do a shoebox swap. We celebrate each other’s birthdays with handstamped gifts and lunch.  This month it was my friend Melissa’s birthday. Here is one of the many awesome birthday gifts she received ( I posted another one a couple of days ago). This one was made by another friend, Fairle Carroll. Isn’t it absolutely gorgeous? She used the butterfly die for the Big SHot and layered them to give it a 3D look. She also embossed the wings. It is hard to see in the picture but she did a fantastic job.

Crazy for Cupcakes!

This is another card I did in all of my classes this past month. I love this set! I put dazzling diamonds all over the cupcakes but it didn’t show up very well in the photo. That really makes it pop!  I have the top paper on with dimensionals too so it looks like an awning. The original card was created by one of my downline (Sandy)  and I changed it just a tiny bit.

Lindsey’s 16th birthday!

Today was my daughter Lindsey’s 16th birthday ( I can’t believe it!). My mother-inlaw decided to do a really cool gift for her….she made 16 cupcakes and put $5 bills rolled up to look like candles in the center of each one. She got brand new bills and then rolled them up, used twist ties to hold them and then wrapped a little piece of foil around the bottom so the money wasn’t actually touching the cake. So, here are the pictures….look closely and you can see the money in the center.  My husband just turned 44 last week and he asked her why she didn’t make him the same gift with 44 cupcakes!

Here is a picture of the birthday girl!

DCBD challenge # 11

Hey everyone,

It is Wednesday and that means it is time for the Diva Coffee Break design challenge. I have been running around crazy this week so I was scrambling to get mine done today and didn’t realize my scallop circle was too big til I went to put the card together and I didn’t have room for the 2 side circles. So , I only have 1 circle instead of 3. I hope you all don’t mind. This was our original sketch challenge and this is what I came up with…..

I used the Bloomin’ Beautiful set and watercolored the flowers. The scallop circle is one of our big shot does.Make sure you check out all of the other coffee break divas listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar.

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday! I thought I would share the projects that I did with all of my clubs this month.

  I got the idea for this gift bag from Angie Juda’s blog here . We made these at each club and I gave everyone a bag of my homemade Christmas candy to put inside of it, although pretty much everyone ate the candy before we finished the project! The stamp set is from the Country Living special and I cut out the front and back pieces for the bag using the Top note die in the Big Shot.

This was an ornament I made using a coaster, our Ski Slope DSP, the snow flurries,  and our chipboard frames. These are super easy to make. We sponged the frames with close to cocoa craft ink, glued the paper to the coaster, trimmed it and sanded the edges. The snowman is from Punch Pals and we stamped him on watercolor paper and then colored him. The snowflake is attached with a glue dot and then covered in glitter. I love that twine for hanging the ornaments. You can unravel it to give it a totally different look.  

  This last project was a birthday card I received from my good friend Kimberly Van Diepen. She always does such gorgeous cards and when I showed the card to my customers, they were all begging me to make it in class. The daisies are stamped in white craft and embossed with irridescent ice. THe butterflies are stamped in close to cocoa, cut out and then stamped with the versamark pad and embossed with irridescent ice also. They all loved the card and most of them didn’t want to give it away because it was too pretty to part with. 

More downline swaps….

  Here are a few more cards from my downline swap. These were created by Renee Caffee, Pam Browne, Kristy Harley and Debbie Keane. I think they did a great job! Way to go girls! 

DCBD Challenge #101

I was recently asked to join a group of talented demos called the "Diva’s Coffee Break Designs BLOG TEAM". Each week we are assigned a card design challenge and have to come up with a card using that design. Here is the blank sketch and then underneath that is my card. I used the Upsy Daisy set and the Chocolate chip DSP to create this one. Check out the other girls in this group. Their blogs are listed in my sidebar under the coffee cup.  Why don’t you give this design challenge a try and see what you can come up with??

Here is another one!

I received this beautiful candy/flower birthday bouquet from one of my downline (Sue Sansoucy). I just love this! It is just so cute. SHe also made this adorable pin wheel card to go with it. I have all of these on display in my stamp room. I wish my birthday came more than once a year!