More Thank You Cards

Hi Everyone!

I am stopping by to share some more thank you cards with you.  Look at how simple and summery this first one is.  Think of how easily you could create similar cards for other seasons.

Robbie makes the best cherry pie I have ever eaten.  Whenever I see cherries I think of his pie.  I added a clear Wink of Stella to the Lockhart cherries I stamped on this card.  That simple touch added so much to the card.

 

 

This was another easy card to create.  I found a piece of paper that already had waves on  it.  All I did was add some Favorite Findings fish buttons and a sentiment.  

 

Thunderstorm is heading this way.  I am seeing flashes of lightning and can hear thunder in the distance.

 

Have a great night!

Carol



Thank you cards

Hi Everyone!

It's a hot one today.  I did some errands, went out to lunch with Robbie, and have been sitting at my computer since the middle of the afternoon working on my lesson plans for the week.  It's not so bad sitting here in "my own little corner".  I have a window fan in each of the windows and both of them are blowing directly on me. 

I thought you might like to see some thank you cards today. 

 

 

 

 

Have a great night!

Carol

 

Happy 70th Birthday

Hi Everyone!

Today I attended a 70th birthday party for my dear friend Sandy.  Sandy's real birthday was on June 13, but the party was today.  It was a wonderful party.  The food was fantastic and we hung out with a lot of fun people.  I knew some of them, but hadn't seen them in years.  Sandy's grandchildren and some other children entertained us as they splashed in the pool. 

When I first started to create cards many years ago Sandy cheered me on and encouraged me to keep making them.  She always took the time to look at the ones I had made whenever she was visiting me.  She often bought some of them to give to her grandchildren. 

I decided to make Sandy 70 cards in honor of her 70th birthday.  I've shown you some of those cards in recent posts, but now I can show you others.  At least 35 of them were mini cards that I didn't photograph, but happily I have many others to show you. 

Here are 2 of the get well cards I made her.

 

 

I'll be back tomorrow with more cards to show you.

 

Have a great night! Go Bruins!

Carol



Birthday Cards

Hi Everyone!

It's amazing how quickly life can move from crazy to crazier!  The school year ended for my students, but now we are in the summer program where I have new students and a temporary room for the summer.  Meanwhile, back home the heavy rains that we have been having lately finally flooded our basement and family room sometime over the weekend.  We have a pump which clearly wasn't working.  Happily most of my stuff wasn't on the floor this time as we have been flooded many other times.

As always making a few cards calmed me down.  Card therapy is such an amazing treatment for almost anything that ails me!  Now that I have so many cards in my card box I need to make the time to sort the ones I have photographed and blogged about from the ones that I haven't done yet.  Happily there are at least 100 cards in that box that need to be shared at some point.

This morning I grabbed 2 birthday cards to share with you.  The light is tricky in the morning.  Most areas are too bright from the morning sun and others aren't light enough.  The best time to take pictures is usually midafternoon and sometimes I am not here to take pictures.

Here's card number one for today.

It's simple and festive.  The cupcake, present, and party hat are all dimensional stickers.  The sentiment is from the Hero Arts "Wonderful Birthday" clear stamp set. 

Here's card number two for today.

 

I wish I could have gotten a better picture of this card.  It came out adorable after lots of tweaking.  I cut the "half frogs" from patterned paper.  I used a Hero Arts stamp to create the frog in the center.  They are all attached to the card with foam tape.  I love the effect of the wiggly eyes.

 

The cattails were created with one of my new stamps from the Springfield Show.  They were created with a DRS Designs stamp.  I highlighted them with a gold Uniball gel pen which added color and a little texture to the card.  The sentiment was created with another new stamp that I bought at the show from Endless Creations. 

 

That's all I have time for right now.  Must get ready for work. 

 

Have a wonderful day!

Carol

  

Get Well

Good Morning!

I am going to share 2 cards with you today.   Here's the first one.

I used a die to cut out the sentiment.  I learned a very cool technique for die cut sentiments from a recent post from Jennifer McGuire at this link.  I cut multiples of the sentiment and glued them on top of each other.  Now the words pop off of my card. 

My papercrafting supplies are the most organized part of my life, but somehow a long time ago I managed to lose a couple of clear stamps from an expensive ($24.95) set.  Over and over again I hesitate about replacing that set in hopes that one day the stamps will reappear.  They were among my favorite go to stamps so I was thrilled to find a Sizzlets die that is similar in appearance to one of the stamps.  I used that die to create this card.

 

I paper punched the flowers which just happen to look like some of the flowers on the floral strip of paper.  The papers are from Lawn Fawn's "Daphne's Closet" petite paper pack.  The sentiment is from The Stamps of Life's "Flowers2share" clear stamp set.

It's going to be a long day. 
Hope yours (and mine) is a good one!
Carol

stop and smell the daisies

Hi Everyone!

I bought a Denami Design's "Flower bloom" wooden rubber stamp at the Springfield Stamp show last weekend. It's been sitting in front of me on a shelf calling out, "Pick me!  Pick me!"  Meanwhile, I ordered a couple of packages of Granny's Kitchen Rub-ons from SEI a couple of weeks ago.  They arrived in the mail yesterday.  One of the rub-ons says, "Stop and smell the daisies".  I decided that rub-on would work perfectly with the "Flower bloom" stamped image. 

I stamped the flower onto 3 scraps of paper.  I used some of my Ranger Distress Inks to paint each flower.  Then I brushed a coat of clear Wink of Stella over each of the colored images.  I stamped some grass from Lawn Fawn's "Gnome Sweet Gnome" clear stamp set below each flower and added a tiny insect brad from Eyelet Outlet to each of the images. 

The layering paper I used is from Lawn Fawn's "Pink Lemonade" petite paper pack. 

Have a great day!
Carol

Thank you cards for children

Hi Everyone!

I've been having the best day.  I've spent most of it creating thank you cards for the gifts that my students gave me yesterday.  I'll share a few of them with you.

The little boy that I created this card for loves to play in the block area. 

I used some of my dies to cut geometric shapes.  I used foam tape to adhere them to the card.  The sentiment was created with a Stampendous wooden stamp.

The little boy that I created this card for LOVES to sweep.  He was a little shy when he joined our class in the middle of the year.  On his first day with us he pretty much stood there watching the other children.  When it was time to clean up I turned around and noticed that he was holding a broom that was taller than he is.  He was grinning from ear to ear and was busy sweeping the sand from the sand table off of the floor.

 

The broom was created with a stamp from Paper Smooches.  The stickers were all in my stash.

 

The little girl that I created this card for loves to draw.  She was constantly using crayons to draw a variety of little pictures.

 

 

The crayon brads are from Eyelet Outlet and the stickers are from Heidi Grace.  The stamped crayons were created with an A Muse Artstamp. 

 





This card was create for a little girl whose mother works at Dunkin' Donuts.  They gave me an insulated coffee mug for a gift. 

 

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Dunkin' Donuts their colors are pink and orange.  The papers I used are from Creative Imaginations.  The mug is from Hero Arts.  The sentiment was stamped with a Stampendous wooden stamp.  I added some Recollections jewels to the card to pick up the swirls on the paper and to resemble swirls of steam. 

 

That's all for today!

 

Enjoy the rest of the day!

Carol