Relaxing birthday

Hello Friends! Happy Saturday! What are your plans for the weekend? Not much going on this way, my sweet little girl woke up with a runny nose and a slight fever so I'll be spending my day giving her lots of TLC!

I don't know about you, but this has been a really long week! I am so happy it's the weekend, and we have lots of sunshine and blue skies so if nothing else, I'll probably take Paige for a nice stroller ride around the neighborhood. So, I wanted to pop in and share a relaxing birthday card for you. I made it for my boss to give to her husband for his birthday. Yup, another brown noser move by yours truly! LOL!

 

This card was a lot of fun to make. I used my Silhouette to cut the palm trees and the hammock. The stickers and cardstock are from Authentique and I used some chunky glitter for the "sand." My boss and her family actually spent that weekend in Key West so this card helped to reflect the type of weekend they wanted to have.

 

Well, I can't hang out long, I gotta go check on my little punkin. I hope you have a great day, and a wonderful weekend. Thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Love is in the air

Hello Friends! I hope you're having a nice start to your week. As I mentioned in my earlier post, my husband and I decided to take the day off yesterday and just hang out together. So, we dropped Paige off at daycare, and we went to the movies! We saw Get on Up - the James Brown biopic. Then we went out to lunch, and gazed in each other's eyes while birdies and butterflies were fluttering overhead! LOL! Just kidding, but it was really nice to spend some time together.

Today, I'm sharing a wedding card that I made for one of the teachers at Paige's school. She got married two weeks ago, and Paige will be going into her toddler room when she turns one, so you know we have to get in the good with the new teacher ;-)

So, this card was easy peasy! Isn't that the cutest little car? Well, I cut it out with my Silhouette Cameo it was a "print and cut" file, so I just printed the car with my printer, then sent it to the Silhouette to be cut - see, easy peasy! That patterned paper is to die for! It's by Authentique and it's so appropriately called "Pretty!" A doily and a decorative edge border punch finish off the card. Paige's soon to be teacher absolutely loved the card and she couldn't believe I made it. I told her I had a blog, and she told me that "I just became even cooler!" How funny is that!

 

Well, I hope the rest of your week is fantastic, and as always, thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

 

Supplies:

Cardstock - PTI (black)

Patterned Paper - Authentique (Pretty)

Stamp: PTI (Love Birds - congratulations)

Embellishments - Silhouette (car), doily

Tools: EK Success - decorative edge border punch 

Thank you cards

Happy Monday friends! Did you have a nice weekend? Mine was pretty good, still feeling a little under the weather, but this too shall pass. So, today I have a few thank you cards that I made for one of our Pastor's at church. He requested a set of thank you cards because he has his own business and wanted the cards to send to his clients. I think that's so thoughtful of him. So, I came up with a couple of different designs, used the same patterned paper, and whipped up 10 cards.

 

 

 

I used a great patterned paper pad from Authentique called Renew for all of the cards. I tried to make them somewhat masculine, but still pretty. My Pastor was very pleased with the results. Well, it's the start of the work week so I guess that means, I should be getting ready for work! I will have more to share soon, thanks so much for stopping by!

By the way, I sometimes have issues with Blogger when I try to make images larger, so if you
double-click on the last two photos they will enlarge.

Carol 

Happy Anniversary David!

Hi There! Today is a very special day for me because I've been married to the most wonderful man in the world for the last 8 years! David, I just want to take a few moments to let you know how much I love you, and how much I care about you. You are such a ray of sunshine in my life and I am so happy and blessed to have such a fantastic husband. These 8 years have gone by so quickly and when I step back to take a look at our relationship I see how much we have grown and how our love continues to blossom. When I look at you I see a man who loves the Lord, loves his wife, and loves his family. You take such great care of us and I just wanted you to know that my love for you is beyond measure, Happy Anniversary!

Let's chat a little about today's card. It's always tough for me to make a somewhat masculine card, but I think I did okay with this one. Although I chose to use ribbon at least it's a masculine shade of gray. :-) The supplies used for the card are listed below. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Patterned Paper - Authentique (Curiosity)

Stamp: Papertrey Ink (Damask Designs)

Embellishments: October Afternoon (Woodland Park)



Happy Birthday Roselle!

Hello Friends! Today is my sweet sister-in-law's birthday and I wanted to wish her a very Happy Birthday! This is the card I made for her and I sure hope she likes it! I just love the patterned paper because if you look closely it says Greetings from Sunny Delray Beach, and living in south Florida it's pretty cool to see a nearby city's name printed on beautiful scrapbook paper like that.

Roselle we hope that your birthday is filled with loving family, wonderful friends, and a day that is truly blessed. We love you!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper - Authentique Fresh collection
Stamps - Papertrey Ink (Happy Day)

Set of Thank You cards

 

 

Hello Friends! It's been a few days since my last post and I apologize for that! I've been working on a set of 14 Thank You cards for a co-worker and just completed them last night. I decided on 3 totally different designs with varying patterned papers. The cards today encompass one design and I will post the other two designs throughout the week.

I believe the art of the the Thank You card has been a little lost lately because it's so much easier to send a quick text or email to thank someone. But, I don't know about you but I love getting happy mail (happy mail would consist of just about anything except for a bill - LOL!). I think that people really appreciate receiving thank you cards because it lets them know that you really truly are thankful for what they did for you. I have a friend that ALWAYS sends thank you cards and each time I've received one it just made my day! That same friend recently sent me Oprah's Rules for Life After 35, please check out Rule #6. :-)

I hope you enjoyed today's post, and thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper - Curosity collection by Authentique
Stamps - Happy Trails and Postmarks by Paptertrey Ink

Coffee Anyone?

 

 

Hello Friends! Well anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE coffee so when I came across these stamps at Joann's I just had to have them! I made this card for my co-worker Amanda who gave me the cutest the little magnet for my cubicle that says "I {heart} coffee" and that just made me smile! So, I made her a quick thank you card to let her know how much I appreciate it. And, if you know Amanda this sentiment is definitely true about her! LOL!

 

The coffe image is a stamp from Hero Arts and the sentiment is from Inkadinkadoo. Those beautiful patterned papers are from the Delighful collection by Authentique. I'm sure I will be using these stamps again and again, I hope you don't get too bored with them!

 

Have a great day everyone and I thanks so much for stopping by!