It's Official...

Hello Friends! Happy Hump Day! I hope you're having a great week so far. My week didn't start out too well, I was sick on Monday and Tuesday and that's never fun! I'm feeling much better today, so I'll be going to work and getting myself back into the swing of things. I have to say that although it's nice to have a short work week, it sucks to burn PTO!

I'm very excited today because my husband has officially become a paying customer to Carol's Custom Cards! I think you all know that I sell my cards and recently my husband asked me to make a set of Thank You cards for him. He says "babe, I'll pay you." My ears immediately perked up and I said "really?" He proceeded to tell me that I do good work and I should get paid for it. He is so sweet and I just love him so darn much! So, this is the card I made.

I used the Harvest Berries and Graceful Greetings stamp sets from PTI for the focal point of this card. I added that little strip to the bottom using the Travel Girl paper pad from October Afternoon - an oldie but definitely a goodie. A little red and white baker's twine completed the look. I always say that I have such a tough time making masculine cards, but I think the color scheme helped this card not look too feminine. And I think I hit the mark because my husband really liked them.

Well, I guess I better get a move on and get my day started. I hope you have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

Thank you

Hello Friends! I hope you had a great weekend! I think I'm finally starting to get used to "springing forward" with the time change. Hopefully today will be the start of a wonderful week!

Today, I'm sharing a thank you card that I made for my co-worker's wife. I've been having a really hard time finding someone to braid Paige's hair on a regular basis. So, she recommended a hair salon just for kids! Unfortunately, it's an hour away from my house but the stylist did a fantastic job! I've decided that we'll take the trip down there once a month. That shouldn't be too bad, plus Paige looks really cute so it's worth it! Here's the thank you card I made.

I found that cute little girl in the Silhouette Design Store, it was a print and cut file. I just added that gorgeous plaid patterned paper from Lawn Fawn and that script Thanks sentiment is from PTI, the stamp set is called Graceful Greetings. Another super easy card with super cute results!

 

That's it for me today, I hope to back soon with more crafty goodness to share! Have a fantastic day and thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Thanks honey

Hello Friends! Happy hump day! Well, it's been quite the week for me. I mentioned that Paige had a fever over the weekend, well yesterday morning it went up to 102! I took her to the doctor and my poor little punkin has an ear infection. She's on antibiotics, plus a breathing treatment because her chest is really congested. She already seems to be doing better, so we'll see how she does at daycare.

Today I'm sharing a card I made for my co-worker. He recently went on vacation to upstate New York and he brought back several jars of honey made with buckwheat. He's been telling me for awhile that I need to substitute the sugar I use in my tea for honey, so he brought me a bottle. Can you say delicious?! It is REALLY GOOD! So, you know I had to make a thank you card for him!

I'm sure you can guess that I cut the honey jar and honey with my Silhouette! I used a piece of vellum cardstock I bought from Michael's to cut out the jar, you know to make it look glass-like! I also cut the honeycomb from my Silhouette put some patterned paper behind it to add some interest. Then I stamped the thanks sentiment and used my paper trimmer to cut that out. The word honey was added with stickers. I hope he likes it!

 

Well, let me go check on my little patient. I hope you have a great day, and thank you so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

Thanks for everything

Hello Friends! Are you having a great weekend? I most certainly am, I love spending time with my husband and baby girl! We had a relaxing day yesterday and today we'll go to church and probably out to lunch. Then tonight, it's on because we'll be watching the Heat bounce back to beat the Spurs! LETS GO HEAT! :-)

Believe it or not, I cannot for life of me remember who I made this card for. Either I'm getting old or I still have some lingering effects of "baby brain!" Anyway, here's the card...

I absolutely love that wet paint stamp set by Papertrey Ink. They have a few more sets with different sentiments that I think I want to pick up as well. Hopefully this card brightened up the person's day that this was given to (it's killing me that I can't remember!). Well, that's it for me today, I hope the rest of your weekend is spectacular!

 

Edited to add: I finally remember who I made this card for!! It was for my husband's cousin, she recently sent a gift for Paige and I made her this card to thank her. Whew, that was really bothering me!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Carol

 

Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Crate Paper (Flea Market)

Stamps: Papertrey Ink (Wet Paint)

Misc: tag, button

Thanks ever so much

Hello Friends! Happy Hump Day! The weekend is almost here and that's always a reason to celebrate! My week has been wonderful, me and Paige went to lunch with my neighbor yesterday and we had a great time. Paige is such a good baby, she doesn't mind going out at all! I really need to get started on her scrapbook so I can share all of these wonderful moments with her when she gets older.

Today I have another thank you card to share. You are not going to believe this, but we received a gift for Paige from our drycleaner! Okay, just so you know we haven't been there in a couple of years because we moved, but David will drop by from time to time to say hello. Anyway, I just can't believe they did that for us. We truly are surrounded by some wonderful people!

I find this card to be colorful and sweet, the perfect way to say thank you! I hope they like it, oh and we also dropped a picture of the baby in there for them as well. Well, that's if for me today, thanks so much for stopping by!

 

Carol

 

Supplies:

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink - Kraft

Patterned Paper: Crate Paper - Flea Market

Stamp: Papertrey Ink - Rosie Posie

Misc: Twine



Thank You - October Afternoon style

Hello Friends! I hope your holiday weekend was fabulous and I also hope you were able to get in some good shopping! I can't believe it's already December and Christmas is just a few short weeks away! I haven't even started my Christmas shopping yet, but I will be holiday mode very soon!

Today, I have a card to share that I made for our neighbor. First, I have to say that we live in a great neighborhood, all of our neighbors are so darn sweet! This particular neighbor stopped by last week with a gift for the baby and I wanted to say thank you.

As you know, I'm a HUGE fan of October Afternoon, they have awesome paper and embellishments! This card came together pretty easily and now I'm off to hand deliver it to my neighbor. :-)

 

Supplies:

Patterned Paper/Chipboard Sticker - 9 to 5 (October Afternoon)

Stamps - Boutique Borders Thanks (Papertrey Ink)

Misc: Ribbon

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol



I'm Back!

Hello Friends! I can't believe it's been over a month since my last post (Bad Blogger, Bad Blogger - said as I'm slapping my wrist - LOL!). Pregnancy and life really throw a monkey wrench into blogging on a regular basis. Things have been going great with me, I'm now 35 weeks pregnant and we had a BEAUTIFUL baby shower last week, and my co-workers gave me another baby shower this past Friday. Paige really has a lot of people who love her already!

My husband had a boys weekend in Key West so that gave me some quiet time to just start getting things ready for Paige. My girlfriend Jeanette came over yesterday and washed all of her clothes, and put them away, she put her high chair, high tech swing, and pack & play together she really helped me SO MUCH! I absolutely love and adore her.

I promise that I will post pics from both showers very soon! Everyone was just so sweet and I am so blessed to have all of them in my life.

So, I do have a card to share with you today. We had some seriously delicious food for our baby shower and we had it catered from a local restaurant. We had baked chicken (which was seasoned like nobody's business!), green beans, pigeon peas and rice, candied yams, and cornbread muffins. Can you say DELICIOUS?! Everyone enjoyed the food tremendously and my husband asked me to make a card for the restaurant owner, which I happily obliged. Here's what I came up with...

For this card I embossed a piece of cardstock with the twig like image you see in the background. I used the Rosie Posie stamp set from Papertrey Ink for the flowers as well as Boutique Borders Thanks mini stamp set and a little chocolate ribbon finish it off. Even though there are flowers on the card, I still feel that it's manly enough to give to a dude, my husband agreed so I'm cool with it! LOL!

 

Well that's it for me today. Since I only have 4 more weeks to go before I deliver, I will do my best to post as much as I can! I guess that means that I gotta get to crafting, right?! As always, thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Happy Thanksgiving friends! Don't you just love the look on this little guy's face? It literally cracks me up! This little turkey was one of the 30 cards I recently made for a co-worker so hopefully he made his way to someone's home and put a smile on their face.

 

I just love Thanksgiving, it's really a time to sit back and reflect on all those things we're thankful for. For me, I'm thankful for family, friends, good health, my job, my favorite passtime-papercrafting, this blog and of course all of you who swing by from time to time to get crafty with Carol! I'm looking forward to spending the day with my in-law's and eating some really good food. I'm going to try my best not to overindulge, but hey its the holidays! :-)

 

I hope you all have a great day and are able to spend time with those that mean the most to you. Be thankful, be blessed, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

 

I'll be getting started on my Christmas cards (can you believe it's almost Christmas?) so I'll be posting those soon!