Happy Birthday Jeanne

Hi Everyone!

Can't believe that it is already 9 PM.  The past 5 hours of this day really flew by.  We celebrated Jeanne's birthday tonight even though her birthday is tomorrow.  Marie made her the most awesome cake.  We found the inspiration for it on Pinterest. 

 

I used stamps from 2 of my favorite companies to create Jeanne's card, Denami Designs and Lockhart.  It's a small tri-fold card.  Here's the first panel.

 

 

As you can see in the picture "Mimi" has been shopping and is adding more packages to her stack of gifts.

 

Panels 2 and 3 show even more packages being stacked.

 

 

And here's the sentiment in the card along with the gift cards that are layered onto the card.

 

 

 Happy birthday, Jeanne!

 

Enjoy the day everyone.

Carol

 

Welcome Lucy Grace

Good Morning Everyone!

I thought I'd write a quick post before I do some major cleaning.  Since the card I made last night is sitting next to me I snapped a picture of it and decided to share it today.  I made it for a friend who is hopefully too preoccupied and busy to read my blog today.  If you are reading it, Janet, you'll get the real card in a day or two!

Yesterday my dear friend Janet became a grandmother for the second time.  Her daughter Emily and son-in-law Brian's second daughter was born yesterday.  Her name is Lucy Grace.  Sadie will meet her baby sister today. 

Here's the card.

 

I know that I used a sketch that I use way too often, but the side of the card is different.  It was inspired by a post by Vicki Boutin on the Scrapbooks and Cards Today blog at this link.

Congratulations to Janet and her family.

Have a wonderful day!
Carol

Birthday Gift Bag

Good Morning Everyone!

Cards, gift bags, gift tags, mini cards, and boxes - I've been making them all lately and I am having trouble keeping up with what I need.  Maybe it's because it's a season of milestones...one friend turned 70 and at the other end of the spectrum 2 babies have turned one.  Robbie and Jeanne have July birthdays.  Paula and Pam will turn 50 in September.  The 4th of July was a time to give something to Annie, Bob and Jan. 

Yesterday I spent a few hours organizing my supplies...again.  I updated the lists I keep of sentiments on my clear stamps, cut sample swatches of my embossing folders, cleaned and reorganized some of my drawers, and did my usual cleaning and dusting of everything in this little corner of my world. 

I bought a package of 13 blank Kraft bags and have been decorating them as I need them.  I finished a gift bag for the party I am attending later today. I'm very happy with the results. 

 

I used a clip art image as the pattern for my cupcake.  I ran the "cupcake wrapper" through my crimper to give it texture and to make it look more realistic.  The "frosting" is attached to the bag with foam tape.  I added tiny pearls to the frosting.  The candle is a piece of a straw and the flame is a dimensional sticker. 

 

Inside the bag is a gift box I made that is filled with thank you cards.  I have shared many of them with you. 

 

Have a nice day!

Carol

 

Under the Weather

Hi Everyone!

I purchased the Denami Design's Polka Dot border stamp at the West Springfield Stamp Show last month.  I knew it would be a stamp that I would use again and again.  When I saw this week's CAS-UAL Friday "polka dots" challenge I knew it was time to ink up my stamp and get to work.  I stamped onto pink. blue, and orange tag.  Then I used some cloud dies and cloud punches to create some clouds.

I created the sentiment for my card on my computer.  I stamped a
Denami Design's large umbrella onto my card and onto a scrap of yellow polka dotted Memory Box tag.  I fussy cut the top of the umbrella and adhered it to my card.  Then I added my clouds to the card.  The blue one is attached to the card with foam tape so that the umbrella is truly "under the weather. 

This card also meets the color combo challenge for the Summer Card Camp 2 online card class I joined on Monday. 

Enjoy your day!
Carol

Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Good Morning Everyone!

I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep.  I went onto my computer and saw this week's CAS-UAL Fridays challenge, "Polka Dots".  Now I really couldn't fall back to sleep as the lyrics to the song "Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" crept into my mind.  I knew I had the perfect Lawn Fawn stamp that I could use to create a polka dot bikini for the challenge.  The stamp is from Lawn Fawn's "Swimsuit Season" clear stamp set.

I created the sentiment on my computer.  I stamped the bikini onto my A2 card and onto a scrap of yellow Memory Box polka dot paper.  I fussy cut the yellow bikini and adhered it onto the stamped image.  And that's my card.  Clean and simple. 

Have a great day!
Carol

DIY Jewelry Holder

Hi Everyone!

Instead of papercrafts, today I'd like to share a jewelry holder that my daughter Marie made this week.  She's been studying jewelry holders on Pinterest and asked me to make one for her.  I said I would be happy to help her, but knew she could do it on her own. 

We went to Marshalls where we planned to buy a frame before we headed to Home Depot to buy window screen, chicken wire, or possibly some other type of screening.  We walked around Marshalls and found a framed chalkboard which had possibilities, and then a frame with some metal "clotheslines" strung across it that also might have worked. 

Suddenly I spotted some herb gardens on the clearance shelf.  I picked one up and studied it and knew it definitely had "jewelry holder" potential.  I showed it to Marie who agreed that it might work.  It was only $6.00 so we bought one. 

We stopped at Home Depot on the way home to purchase a can of spray paint and some cup hooks.  As soon as we got home Marie gave the herb garden it's first coat of paint.  She gave it 2 more coats of paint before she was satisfied.  Then she screwed in the cup hooks and hung it on her bedroom wall.  (It also could have stood on her bureau, but she has more room on her walls than she does on her furniture.)

Here it is.

She plans to add more cup hooks.  She is storing some bracelets in the section where the herbs would have been planted.  I love it and Marie is pleased with it too.

Have a nice night!
Carol

We must ketchup

Hi Everyone!

I LOVE being on vacation.  For one week I have the time to do the things I enjoy without worrying about lesson plans or creating games and other activities for school.  It's too hot and humid to cook, bake or clean so I can spend my time doing some guilt-free crafting.

When we were growing up my sister Paula hated most vegetables, but especially disliked tomatoes.  She actually paid me to eat her tomatoes.  Paula is now and has been a vegetarian for many years.  She not only eats tomatoes and other vegetables, she actually grows her own.

Whenever I see a vegetable stamp or some vegetable patterned paper I think of Paula.  It was Paula that I was thinking of when I purchased "Vegtastic" from Paper Smooches.  Last night I used the tomato and one of the sentiment stamps from that collection to create this card.

The bushel basket was created with the large cling tea cup stamp from Hero Arts.  I used some of my Copic markers to color the tomatoes and then brushed a layer of clear Wink of Stella across each of them.  The single tomato is attached to the card with foam tape.

Have a great day!  I know I will!
Carol