Thank you cards

Hello Friends! Today I'm back to share some thank you cards with you. Can you believe that many of our friends have already given us gifts for the baby? She is going to be one lucky little girl! We really have awesome friends, and neighbors so I wanted to whip up a few thank you cards to let them know how much we appreciate their thoughtfulness. I made a set of 8 cards (unfortunately I sealed the majority of them in envelopes before taking a photo - DUH, what was I thinking??) I'm blaming it on "pregnancy brain!" LOL! I was able to take photos of two of the cards...

 

And here they are side by side...

I used the same overall pattern on all the cards, I just changed the colors so I wouldn't get bored. :-) I used this great design I got from a blog post by the very talented Betsy Veldman (it can be found in her tutorials section), unfortunately I'm still unable to link webpages on my blog. I really need to contact Blogger and find out what the problem is.

 

All stamps that were used are by Papertrey Ink (Handmade Stationary, It's Official, and Wood Mats). These cards were pretty quick to make and I really like how they turned out.

 

Well, it's back to another work week but at least it's a short one! I hope you all have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

A BIG Announcement!!

Hello Friends! I hope you are enjoying this long Memorial Day weekend! Our weather has been perfect down here, bright sun and blue skies. We don't have much planned this weekend, I think we really just want to relax and chill a little bit. On Monday we'll be visiting our friends for a nice BBQ and that's always fun!

So, you may be wondering...what the heck is this BIG announcement all about?! Well, I have some wonderful news to share...I'M PREGNANT!!! This will be our first child and we are just over the moon excited! I couldn't be more happier if I tried! Our friends and family already know our BIG news as we're currently 18 weeks into the pregnancy, but I wanted to share this awesome news with all of you! :-) So, with that said, I will leave you with a photo

If you're unable to read the sign, it says the baby is a GIRL!!! How exciting is that?! I see a lot of pink in this little girl's future! My crafty friend Leslie made the sign for me, I just adjust the numbers and the update on the baby at the bottom, I love it! So, I try to take a photo every 4 weeks so we can measure the progression of the baby bump! Everything so far has been wonderful, I feel good, my spirits are high, and we truly feel blessed.

 

I hope the rest of your weekend is amazing, have fun, be safe, and enjoy the holiday! And as always, thank you so much for stopping by!

 

P.S. My plan is to get some crafting done this weekend, so I should have some fun stuff to share with you soon!

Carol

Did you miss me?

Hello Friends! I'm sorry that things have been so quiet on the blog here lately. Of course I have to ask...did you miss me? I sure missed you! Things have been kind of crazy around here lately and I just didn't have the extra time I needed to share with all of you.

One of the reasons why I was away from the blog is because I had to take a quick business trip to Orlando earlier this week. Although I was exhausted when I got back, it was so much fun. We did a team building exercise with the Disney Institute which was wonderful. We broke into several teams and played Pluto's Pursuit which was a scavenger hunt inside of Epcot. We had an entire booklet with questions and trivia that we had to answer inside all of the countries at Epcot. Can you say fun?! What was even more fun was that my team won!!!!

The next day we did behind the scenes at Disney which took us to the underground tunnels at Magic Kingdom. Can you say cool?! :-) We also went to their main laundry service. Sounds weird right? Well, they do 54 tons of laundry every 8 hours and their turnover rate for employment is in the single digits! They treat their employees so wonderful there! We also toured their 300,000 sq ft warehouse where they make all of the floats and they even built the monorail system they have at Disney. Unbelievable! Okay, so enough about that, I do have a couple of projects to share with you today. My co-worker asked me to make gift tags for all of the attendees at the meeting (52) and here's what I came up with:

 

I used different Disney character's for the tags - with Mickey being on the majority of them (of course!). Then another co-worker decided to stay in Orlando for the weekend with a few other co-workers for a Girls Only Weekend and she also asked for gift tags.

This whole tag was cut out using my Sihouette Cameo, don't you just love that high heeled shoe?! These were a lot of fun to make, and my co-worker really liked them which is always the goal! Well, I think that's it for me today. I apologize for the lengthy post, but I missed you guys! :-) Have a great Sunday and thanks for stopping by!

Carol 

Birthday card for our God Daughter

Hello Friends! How are you doing today? I hope you are doing well and having a great week thus far! My week has been going by quite nicely, I can't complain one bit.

Today I'm sharing a card that I made for our God Daughter, Danielle. She is just the cutest and sweetest little girl! I decided to use a Pure Innocence image from My Favorite Things, because they are all just so darn cute! Here's what I came up with:

Isn't she a doll?! I used Copic markers to color her hair, skin, and jeans. Then I paper pieced her shirt and added a little coloring to the flower on her shirt. The patterned paper I used is from October Afternoon, it's called Farm Girl. Then, I used a die cut from Papertrey Ink, added the sentiment and some of those enamel dots that I love and that was it. Danielle loved the card as well as her gift - do your remember Baby Alive from back in the day? It was the doll that you fed with "baby food" and she actually does #1, and #2 in her diaper. Well I loved that doll when I was a kid and I thought, what the heck maybe Danielle will love it too! LOL!

 

Have a great day, and thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol



Margarita's for Everyone!

Hello Friends! I hope you all had a great weekend! My weekend was really nice, we celebrated my husband's birthday and did some relaxing as well as some work around the house. It was a fun yet productive weekend.

Today I want to share some margaritas that I made for my dear friend Jeanette. Her company was celebrating customer service week so all of the manager's had a different theme for their group. Jeanette's theme was...you guessed it Cinco de Mayo! So, she asked if I could make some margarita's for her group (44) and at the end of the week (actually I think it's today) the reps that met their goals will be treated to virgin margaritas! Fun, huh?!

So, I plugged in Cammie (my Silhouette) and got to work! This is what I came up with:

Cammie cut the glass, the "margarita", lime, and straw. I added some glitter to the rim of the glass for the salt. :-) Then all I had to do was add some adhesive, and voila a paper crafted margarita! My friend put the margarita's on everyone's keyboard the night before they came in and she said they were just ecstatic when they saw them! This was definitely a super fun project for me, I absolutely love doing things like this.

 

Well, I hope your week is off to a great start and I want to thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

T.G.I.F.!!!

Hello Friends and Happy Friday!!! You have no idea how happy I am that the weekend is finally here! We had some really bad rain here yesterday, there was some flash flooding and even a tornado touched down in Boca Raton! It was a crazy, wet day. I think there's more rain in the forecast today but hopefully it won't be anything like yesterday.

I'm looking forward to the weekend because my husband's birthday is tomorrow! He just wants to have a quiet, relaxing day and we'll go out to dinner in the evening. We were thinking about going out of town for the weekend, but it didn't pan out but I'm cool with being at home. :-)

So, today I have the last of the birthday cards to share with you:

 

The first card uses a library pocket embellishment with some patterned paper from Crate Paper. I used a die cut for the top and added the birthday sentiment. I also did a little stamping on the library pocket as well as a little swirl on the side of the card.

 

For the second card, what says birthday more than ice cream?! This one was pretty fun to make. Again, I used patterned paper from Crate Paper (Maggie Holmes collection) and used one of the doilies from the patterned paper to adhere my circle die cut into. I used a stamp set from Papertrey Ink called Comfort Food for the ice cream, bowls, and spoons. Love how this one turned out!

 

Well, I'm off to start getting ready for work hopefully the day will fly by! I hope you have a great day and a wonderful weekend. Thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol