Catch Up

A quick card I did for my niece who is big into hula dancing. I used Lettering Delights Mahalo cut files and the palm trees from the Florida cut files.



Birthday Cards

A few birthday cards made quite some time ago but never posted. The first is one I made on the fly for my niece's 2nd birthday. I used design studio to weld the cupcake image together to form a card base and then welded the number 2 candle on one side of the base. The images are all taken from the Sweet Treats cartridge. And because I was in a hurry and not really paying attention I had to make a custom envelop using a treat bag since the card wouldn't fit into any of my standard envelopes. You know what they say about measure twice and cut once.

This next card was put together using Life Style Crafts (Quickutz) dies. Quick, easy and putting lots of scraps to good use.



Just Saying Hello

A quick card I made using scraps from some of my favorite papers, a few punches and some hand stitching.

Santa Key

Found the idea on Pinterest from  thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com. Super cute idea and perfect for little believers with no chimneys for Santa to shimmy down. Made one for my youngest niece and them several more for our church X-mas Bazaar. The keys were found at Michael's dollar spot last year.

2011 Treat Bags

A bit late for posting Halloween but it's been crazy around here. I count myself lucky to have found the time to even make treat bags. The teen bags were made using a regular kraft lunch bag. I made the decorative edge using an ek punch; definitely need to use one of the larger border punches the small ones won't cut through so many layers. Paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle and purle trim and rinestones from Recollections.

For the little kid treat bags I used treat bags from my stash. I think they were Martha Stewart. Of course I had to include a Mummy hershey bar. I saw them all over the web. Super easy to make.

On a Roll

A few more birthday cards. We're very much into the bright colors at the moment. I think it's our desire for warmer weather that's driving our recent color selections, as if that would hurry Mother Nature along to usher in Spring. So far it hasn't been working. Ha!

I had a big piece of the striped paper remaining from a recent layout. Along with our mission to make a dent in the big list of photos needing to be scrapped I'm trying hard to use my scraps immediately rather than have them languish in the scrap pile. I just about used up my stock of little party hats from K&Company; I think i have one or two more floating around, finished up 2 sticker sheets and added a few more fun cards to our birthday stock.  

Drowning in Scraps

Mom and I have been hitting the scrapping pretty hard. And this means we're generating scraps galore. I'm good about saving and sorting scraps but not always that good about putting them to use but I couldn't let these go to waste. The papers are from one of my all time favorite old KI lines. I love the bright colors and they're perfect for some cheerful, fun birthday cards. I paired them up with a box of K&Company party hats, very old KI tags and went to town creating a few cards to replenish our stash.