A Husband's Birthday is Soon!

FEELING GIDDY!  THIS CARD IS NAMED A

SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS FAVORITE OF THE

WEEK ENDING - FEBRUARY 5, 2017!!

My husband will be celebrating his birthday soon, so it is time I started thinking about his card.  One of the items on his "Bucket List" is take a hot air balloon ride, so using my new Stampin' Up stamp/ die bundle,  Lift Me Up , will be perfect.  

I made my first card using this bundle at a stamp camp hosted by the dynamic duo, Dar Peterson and Luci Kirschbaum.  I thank Luci for the inspiration from her card design as a jumping off point for mine.  

To start my card, I wanted my clouds to be lightly glittered, so I used spray adhesive on white cardstock and sprinkled with ultra fine white glitter, tapped off, and let dry.  Then, I was able to treat it just like any commercial glitter paper.  I used a commercial lightly glitter golden yellow glitter paper for my sun, and used SU's Seaside embossing folder to give my sky some texture.  Then, the "glitter bug" got a hold of me, and I added Wink of Stella-Clear to my clouds, giving them some gray tones, which I loved.  Then, I added "Wink" to  my sun to make it a bit more shiny and to my balloon outline as well!  I think my husband will be pleased with birthday card featuring his very own hot air balloon. 

My traditional final step to completing my cards is to create an inside design that is complimentary to my card front and compose a verse that fits the card's occasion...in this case, a birthday!  Take a peek at my finished inside card design.

Ingredients:  Stampin' Up products:  Cardstock--Dapper Denim, Raspberry Ripple, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Sweet Sugarplum, Whisper White.  DCWV Glitter Stack--yellow glitter.  Stamps--Lift Me Up.  Ink: Island Indigo, Smokey Slate.  Dies--Up & Away.  Punch: 3/4" Circle (sun); Curvy Corners (retired).  Embossing Folder: Seaside.  Dazzling Diamonds Glitter.  Other:  Pretty Pink Posh dies--Camping Friends (sun rays).  My Favorite Things: Essential Sentiments.  Wink of Stella-Clear.  Queen & Co.--Twinkle Goosebumps. Elmer's Spray Adhesive.  Computer verse.  Fishtail Flag: hand-cut.  Size--4-3/4" x 6".  (Thank you to Luci Kirschbaum for the design inspiration.)

A Grandbaby on the Way!

I'M THRILLED!  THIS CARD IS NAMED A

SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS FAVORITE OF THE

WEEK ENDING - JANUARY 29, 2017!!

I am going to be a Grandma. . .hallelujah, yippee!  My youngest son and his wife are expecting at the end of February, and we are celebrating this new little person, who is on her way, with a baby shower!  The theme for room decorations are woodland animals, and the shower invitation arrived with a darling little white, Arctic baby fox wearing a pompom-laden, knit snow hat.  My creative juices immediately began to whirl and groan, as they were so not use to being accessed.

I have not been to my craft table since the night before Christmas Eve. . .I was just too sick to care. . ., and this went on for four weeks and three days without any noticeable improvement.   Finally, on the 31st day, halfway through the day, I noticed my constant coughing was considerably better, my nose was not running continually, and my sinuses were a little less plugged.  By the end of the day, I was pretty sure I was really on the mend.  It took three days, and I was quickly back to normal with an abundance of energy!  Thank the Lord!

For my card, my original intent was to use the Stampin' Up Foxy Friends stamps and punch set, but after a bit of searching through my digital images, I found a cute little fox that I thought would be perfect sitting on the left lower side of my shaker circle.  Yes...I wanted to make a shaker card.  Once I made my mind up about those two things, my card flew together.  I was able to use several new dies that I had recently acquired, which lend themselves to a woodsy, fox theme.

I finished my little woodland fox card, and then completed the decor and verse for my card interior.  Take a peek below...I'm pretty pleased with the way Ginger's card turned out!  I think she'll love it!

Ingredients:  Stampin” Up products:  Cardstock—Shimmery White – cardbase; Daffodil Yellow; Soft Sky.  Stamps—Weather Together (raindrops); Foxy Friends (tree stump); Baby Bear (sentiment).  Ink--Sahara Sand; Old Olive (mixed).  Punch—Scallop Edge (retired-inside design), Curvy Corners (retired-inside design).  Embossing Powder—White.  Other:  October Afternoon pattern paper—Hide and Seek (floral.  Digital image:  Pixel Paper Prints—Woodland Animals (fox).  Dies—Impression Obsession—Three Trees Background; Reverse Confetti—Edgers Confetti Cuts (scalloped "V"); Cottage Cuts—Stitched Wide Circle Frame, Pierced Ovals; My Favorite Things—Stitched Circle Scallop Frame; Spellbinders—Scalloped Petite Ovals.  Stash:  1/8” Daffodil Yellow Satins ribbon.  Sequins—misc. colors.  Size:  4-3/4" x 6."

Splitcoaststamper's Best of 2016 Favorites!!!!!!!!!!

EXCITEMENT GALORE!!!!

SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS BEST OF 2016 FAVORITES

I am over the moon!  I have just been notified that my vintage-style BETTY BOOP card that I made for my daughter Michele's birthday this year at the end of June and was a Splitcoaststampers' Weekly Favorites for the week ending July 3, 2016, has now been chosen as one of their Best of 2016 Favorites!!  I can not even tell you how surprised I am. . .I did not even know that they had this award.  I just assumed, "Okay, how marvelous, my card was a Splitcoaststampers Weekly Favorite."  Can I say again, I'm over the MOON!

So, I thought I would repost this little beauty to refresh your memory if you read my blog often or to bring it to your attention if you missed its original posting and are now reading this one. (See below.)  I am also posting a link CLICK HERE back to that post as there is a story why the title of the post is, HAPPY CELEBRATIONS FOR "BETTY!" when my daughter's name is actually Michele.

Ingredients:  SU cardstock: Blushing Bride.  DCWV Old World Stack (glitter applied).  Authentique: Promise collection/ Six (floral).  My Mind's Eye: The Sweetest Thing collection/ Honey "Love" Fond (check).  Dies: Spellbinder's-Heart Squares; MFT-Stitched Squares STAX.  SU punches: Modern Label; Word Window (both retired).  Recollections flowers.  Elmer's Craft Adhesive Spray.  Martha Stewart Glitter: Crystal Fine.  EK punch: Basketweave Corner.  Computer-made sentiment and verse.  Size: 5-1/2" square.  (Splitcoaster Thread: Weed Ending 7-3-16/ #142).

Out Visiting with a Bug!

If you were wondering what happened to my blog and my cardmaking, I guess I am being forced to take an at-home vacation so I can be sick.  Ugh!  Hope to be back in the thick of things soon.  

I'm falling behind and the new year has only just begun. . .and my most important New Year's resolution was to try not to have so many belated birthday cards this year.  My card calendar tells me I've missed three masculine birthdays, two female friend birthdays, and one of my little niece's birthdays, plus, I joined a Christmas Card challenge for 2017 to try and help me get Christmas cards done and avoid the rush in December.  I've got three for January to do, and I haven't even begun the creative process.  YIKES!!!!!!

Hope to be back soon if I can just shake this terrible cold. . .until then, it's 

mañana!

Ring in the New Year....2017!

Happy New Year's from the

Pacific Northwest!