Congrats! A 10-Year Accomplishment!

We are celebrating our son David in the early days of October with a family dinner and outing.  He set a goal 10 years ago that he is proud to say he has achieved, and the family wants to take time to tell him that we are proud of him for knowing he needed to set the goal, sticking to it, and achieving it!  He tells me he has set new goals for the years ahead. . .again, good for him!!

We should all take time just to say to our loved ones every now and then how proud we are of them and happy to have wonderful times to spend together as a family and just enjoy each others company.  It says loud and clear. . ."Hey, I love you, I enjoy you, and love to be in your company!  Thanks for being here for me, too!"

I decided I wanted to use the My Favorite Things t-shirt die again and settled on using a couple of stamps that are companions to this die; the saying, You Rock and a lightning bolt.  I embossed the stamp prints with gold and black and used a red shimmer cardstock for the T-shirt.  Various Graphic 45 patterned papers worked in beautiful with the masculine theme and the color combinations.  Below is the final design I came up with.  I know David will like his t-shirt card and probably wish he had a t-shirt just like it that he could actually wear!

Recipe:    Paper:  SU Black cs; American Crafts POW Glitter (gold); DCWV Shimmer cs (t-shirt); Graphic 45-Bird Song (stripe)/ Commuique-Photogenic (pattern); DCWV Gold Stag Star.

Dies:  MFT Masculine Graphic T-Shirt (+ stamps); Spellbinders Five Stars, Pinking Circles LG/ SM; Stampin' Up Framelits Stars; Sizzix Sizzlits Mango Tango Numbers.  Punches:  EK Notebook Border; WRMK Deco Corner Chomper.  (Inside: EK Medium Scallop Corners.)  Other:  Stampin' Up Rhinestones (marker colored).  Size: 6-3/8" x 5-3/8."

Birthday Son is a 12th Man Seahawk Fan!!!

Happy Days!  This card was chosen as a

SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS FAVORITE OF

WEEK ENDING - OCTOBER 5, 2014

My youngest son, Mark, is having a birthday in October, and we are celebrating early because it falls mid-week!  I usually pick a theme for my birthday cards that represents something about the person for which it's made.  The first card I made Mark was an Accu-Cut die of an old pick-up that matched his first "car" when he was a teen-ager.  The next year I made a card embellished with metal tools...he's quite the handyman and a carpenter by trade.  The following year it was a Copic-colored dirt-bike rider on his bike.  Last year's card depicted Mark's love of camping and the outdoors with a bear lumbering into the campsite with two foaming beer steins in paws...don't know if the bear stole the beer from the campsite or was bringing his own BYOB for a campsite visit!  

This year I decided I would make Mark's card with our football team, the Seattle Seahawks, as the theme as he is quite the 12th Man Seahawk fan.  He even has the Seahawks' stretch bird streaming complete around his walk-in closet, which he just added to his master bedroom by going into unused attic space!   The streaming bird is compliments of his wife's artistic drawing and painting abilities...it looks absolutely great...just like the logo stretch bird shown below! 

I decided to make the focal point of his card a T-shirt with a Seahawks' graphic by using my My Favorite Things Masculine Graphic Tee die and a Space Needle die from Impress Stamps.  First, I went online to look for a Seahawk's graphic that could be added to my t-shirt front.  I then chose a shimmery navy paper for the background of the  t-shirt with a touch of shimmery green at the neck and sleeve edges.  I chose some patterned paper possibilities, and the rest of my card design fell into place very swiftly.  I love it when that happens!  I am really pleased with the finished card design, and I think Mark will be surprised and very pleased as well.  He is always so appreciative, as are all of my kids, with my card dabbling art in honor of their birthdays, holidays and special events!

And the inside and verse created follows:

Recipe:  Paper - SU cardstocks - Night of Navy/ Lucky Limeade; SU Printed Poetry dsp (stripe);  DCWV  Lemoncello stack (houndstooth); DCWV Shimmer stack (navy/ green); Bo Bunny Learning Curve Recess (navy grid); Recollections Glitter Opal.  Dies - My Favorite Things Masculine Graphic Tee; Papertrey Medium ZigZag; Savvy Space Needle; MemoryBox Alpha.  Punch - SU 3/4" Scallop Circle.  Other - Lyon Metallic Yarn.  SU Candy Dots.  (SplitcoastStampers Thread: October 5, 2015/ #4).