My parents celebrated their wedding anniversary on July 17th and this is the card I made for them.  I used spellbinder dies for the corners and the sentiment tag.

Three years ago, they celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. My siblings and I gave them an anniversary party and we surprised them with the renewing of their wedding vows!

My daughter and I made the invitations to the event and here is what they looked like.  My daughter used her Cricut machine to make the labels.

Gatefold design: This is the outside.

Inside of invitation

Sunday, July 3rd, was my husband's birthday.  He didn't want to do anything special so we had dinner at home after church. Nothing fancy.  Daughter, son-in-law and grandkids came over.  And his sister and her husband made a surprise appearance. It was nice.

This is the card I made for him.  I had to write in the greeting by hand.  

(He does wear glasses so I wanted to say something funny).  

All three stamps are by Stampabilities.

Hello, It's Me!

Hello everyone!  I know that I said I was back in the saddle again in July of 2015,  Well...I fell off big time!  So before it gets to be July 2016, I decided that I'd better post something.

I've been making lots of cards since then and I want to share them with you.  A lot of birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and other events have taken place between July 2015 and now.  So here are a few.

Birthday card for Grandson

The stamp on this card is from "Stamps by Judith" called Sadie Bell & Otto Cat.  I thought it was so cute.  The cats kind of look confused like, "What did you say?"

Mother's Day card for my Daughter-in-law

I made this card for my Daughter-in-law and this image does describe her.  The young woman is relaxed and on her laptop.  This is a digital image by Mo Manning.  I just love it. It was colored with colored pencils and gamsol.

Birthday card for my mother.  I used Spellbinder dies and pearls on this card.  The layout is a Splitcoast Stampers one.

Birthday card for my mother

These two cards are Mother's Day cards that I made for both my daughter and daughter-in-law.

The image is from C.C. Designs.  Again it's another young lady on her laptop!

The one with the purple nightgown on was for my daughter (her favorite color...and mine too).  And the one with the aqua or teal nightgown was for my daughter-in-law.

These are two cards I made for my father.  One for his birthday and one for Father's Day.

The stamped images on the birthday card are from Impression Obsession.  The stamped image on the birthday card is from Art Impressions.  I just love their stamps.

Father's Day card for my dad

Birthday card for my dad

 

Back in the Saddle Again

Hello there!  I have been absent from my blog for sooo long!  The last time I posted anything was on February 5, 2014.  That was almost 18 months ago!

But now I am going to commit myself to updating my blog on a consistent basis.  And I am going to start by posting the cards that I created from the stamps that I colored back in 2014.  So to refresh your memory, I will include the stamped images along with the completed cards.  Here they are:

"Rose cuddling the winter bunny" by Stampavie

Completed Valentine's Day card for my granddaughter Ketaliah

"Being together" by Stampavie

Completed Valentine's Day card for my granddaughter Keziah

"Puppy" by Stamps by Judith

Completed Valentine's Day card for my grandson Marcelus

"Love-struck squirrel" from Michales

Completed Valentine's Day card for my grandson Matthias

Copic Colored Stamped Images

Remember I said it was a snow day today and I used the time to work in my craft room?  Well, this is what I worked on. 
I stamped these images and colored them with copic markers.  These are going to be used for my grandchildren's Valentine's Day cards.

The first image is called "Rose cuddling the winter bunny" by Stampavie.

This one is called "Being together" also by Stampavie.

 

 

 This one is a wood-mounted stamp called "Puppy" by Stamps by Judith. 
I think he's kind of cute!

This last one is a wood-mounted stamp that I picked up at Michaels.
It's a love-struck squirrel.

 

Let It Snow!

Today is a snow day. And I do mean snow day!  The roads were just a mess! Not very passable at all. Schools were closed. Some businesses were closed. (Including mine - yeah!) Having a whole day off in the middle of the week was a joy.  It gave me time to sleep a bit and to work in my craft room.
We got up to ten inches of snow.  Here are a few pics to prove it.





My car covered in snow





My husband's truck covered in snow

The brick wall near our driveway
  

 

 

My husband hard at work with the snowblower!

A Valentine's Day Card

I've just been in my craft room this evening working on Valentine's Day cards and I wanted to show you the one I made for my grandson in North Carolina.  I didn't want to make it too gushy, but I still wanted it to be sweet. Here are details with step-by-step instructions.




I started with a white 4 x 51/2 card base and inked the edges with Tea Dye distress ink.

I used a MS scallop trim heart punch to put a border on the bottom and the DP for the top layer is called Bittersweet by Basic Grey. The bottom is a brown and the border trim is a maroon. Actually all three colors are from the same paper pad. 

The jar stamp is by Sarasota Stamps and I stamped it onto white cardstock with Memento black ink.

 

 I stamped the inside of the jar with little hearts from Inkadinkado with Memento cataloupe ink. The hearts have "Be Mine" "Kiss" & "Hugs" sayings on them.

 Then I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to align the sentiment and stamped my Happy Valentine's Day sentiment with Memento rubarb stalk ink. 
The stamp is by Stampendous.

After stamping the sentiment, I carefully cut out the jar image.




















I used my Cuttlebug to cut out a Wonky Rectangle Spellbinders die. I added the diecut to the DP and then the jar image.  I stamped a couple of little heart images, cut them out and placed them at the top of the jar to appear as if
candy were going inside.





Thanks for looking!