Happy Friday friends! We made it through another week, woohoo!! Do you have fun plans this weekend? I sure do, I'm meeting a couple of my girlfriends for lunch and then we're hitting a few stores to start the baby registry! I'm really looking forward to it because my girls are a blast to hang out with, and I can't wait to see all of the baby items that are out there these days. I've been really good with restraining myself from entering the baby stores solo because let's face it, she's my first child so I really have NO idea what I need!! LOL!

So, today I have another birthday card to share with you:

For this card I used patterned paper from Crate Paper - Maggie Holmes collections, I added another one of my favorite embellishments the doily, and then used Papertrey Ink's Boutique Borders Birthday sentiment stamp and die cut. I whipped this one up pretty quickly and I really like the chevron stripes, I think it adds some character to the card. :-)

 

Well, that's it for me today. I hope you have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

More birthday cards

Hello Friends! It's hump day, yea!! This week seems to be moving along a little sluggishly for me, I am so ready for the weekend! I know I've mentioned in the past, that birthday cards are some of my favorite cards to make, not to mention the most popular. I don't know about you, but I love to receive actual birthday cards. I know many of us are busy and the e-cards are a good alternative, but I LOVE paper and I'm so happy to see that many of my friends and co-worker's still enjoy sending birthday cards as well.

With that said, I just finished making a set of birthday cards for a co-worker so I'll be sharing those with you over the next few days. Here are the first two cards:

 

Both cards were made with a stamp set from Papertrey Ink called Up, Up and Away. I used patterned paper from Crate Paper's Maggie Holmes collection (love it!) and I die cut the perforated paper, added the blue sky and clouds with my ink dauber, and also die cut the hot air balloons. Then I stamped the balloon images and added them to the card along with my fave embellishment - enamel dots! These cards truly make me smile (well there's really not much that doesn't make me smile - LOL!!)

 

Well, I guess I should start getting ready for work! I hope you enjoyed today's post and as always, thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol

Happy Father's Day!

Hello Friends! This will be a short post, but I would like to wish all the dad's out there a Happy Father's Day! I would also like to take this opportunity to wish my husband a very Happy Father's Day as well! He's so cute, he says to me yesterday "can I celebrate Father's Day now, or do I have to wait until the baby gets here?" I told him, you are a father NOW so get to celebrating!!

Here's the card I made for him:

This card was made using my Silhouette Cameo and I absolutely love how it came out! David loved it to, he said it was very creative. :-) So, we've been married almost 9 years and I would say I've been seriously making cards for the past 5-6 years and can you believe that he has kept every single card I've made for him?! I love that man!! :-)

 

Again, I hope all of you dad's out there have a great day, and thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol

Be Happy

Hello Friends! Are you having a great week so far? Well, I would say that I am but Tuesday night's Heat loss in the NBA finals was a disaster! Oh my goodness, I still can't believe they played so poorly! Well tonight is another night, and hopefully they will make up for it!

So, since I was feeling down about the Heat I decided to post a little project that really makes me happy. I saw this on the Crate Paper blog and just fell in the love with the saying! I have it on my desk at work and it makes me smile every time I look at it. :-)

This is a giant clothespin I bought at JoAnn's and I dressed it up with some patterned paper, twine and a couple of adorable embellishments. Do you see why this saying makes me smile? Well, I'm hoping that I'll still be smiling tonight after the Heat game! :-)

 

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

Carol

A cute card for a cute little girl

Hello Friends! Are you having a good weekend? I sure hope so! I've had a pretty relaxing weekend, but I was able to get some stuff done around the house (that never ends does it?!). I also did a little crafting and that always makes for a fabulous weekend for me!

So, today's card I made for my friend's very sweet daughter, Grace. She is such a delightful little girl (she's 5) and we all hung out a couple of weekend's ago and she was such a joy to be around. Not only did we have fun hanging out but she gave so many of her baby things to me for my baby. I tell you what, when this little girl gets here she's going to be SO SPOILED!! I truly have the most amazing friends! Here's the card:

This card was made using my Silhouette Cameo and I just added the ribbon and the little pearls on the bottom. Gracie is definitely a girly girl so I had to do something pink! I also gave her a cookies and cream cupcake to say thank you. Her mommy said she loved it! :-)

 

So, that's it for me today I hope your Sunday is great and I will chat with you again soon!

Carol