Happy Mother's Day

Just before we head on out to the wondrous land that is Quebec, I wanted to make a quick totally not all related post for Mother's day.

Here's a very unrelated card that I had kicking around waiting to be posted.  My sister, Mom and a few others will receive variations of this sucker... I love the template (you may find this one familiar to other posts!).  I think I also used this template in my BS order??  Anyway, it's a frequent flyer to this part of the woods. ;O)

Happy Mother's Day, everyone!!!!  To those who have babies, those who want them, those that had and lost them, those who gave them up for adoption and mothers who lost their babies through abortions but who still experience that sense of loss.  Here's to you! :O)

Da dum de dum, da dum de dum

Hello fellow non-concurrently diagnosed peeps. ;O)

It has been a good week. Kimmer had her bridal shower on Wednesday and it was done Pampered Chef style! Yeah! It was the kind of party that you invite 30 people to, and all of them plus a few show up. Kimmer racked in $850 in free product (nice) and seems to have more money to spend than sme may want to buy with!! Quite the debacle.

Here's her card... I tried to find a 'steel blue' (no idea what steel blue is) type of colour for the card as this is her wedding colour theme. And the black you ask? Why is there black on such a celebratory card? Well, that was for P, L and I who are the remaining single sistas of our life group. We mourn the loss of another sista who takes that fateful step into wedded bliss. Heda heda.

Seriously though, we are stoked for Kim.

And check out the sentiment inside the card! So fun!

Plus I got to play with the new Marvy Uchida paper cutter using the scallop blade. Score!

Snap! Crackle!

Yep, you guessed it.  My co-worker and his wife popped last week.  They now have two slayer boys with just as slayer names (Malachi and Jericho).

Seriously rock with name choosing.  I wonder what the girly name would have been....

So cute! Those two make amazing babies.

I'm trying to figure out what the heck to put in the 'label' section of the post.  I've been plugging the various brand of products on each card but it's getting old.  What else do you put there?  The card theme?  Some cheesy line like 'you ain't seen nothin till you've seen a drug and alcohol counsellor'?  Thoughts?! Opinions!?  Ponderings?!  Let me know what you think!

Kim's Birthday...

Was totally last month.

But, better late than never, I suppose!

Plus, if you send a late birthday card, then you get to buy one of those 'happy belated birthday' stamps. You see where I'm going here?!?!

For Kimmer's card, we dry embossed it ('we' cause my DS totally helped) using those little folder thingys and used this part as the base of the card.

(See close up below):

Used a Stampendous set for the flowers as Kimmer works at a greenhouse-type business. Something having to do with the flower industry anyway. The 'Happy Birthday' script wouldn't fit so we had to use the 'hello' sentiment instead.

Very funny- I am just now noticing that the paper underneath the card is actually quite obvious that it isn't a blank paper at all (or a nice painted picture-taking rack of some kind). Nope. It's really the bum (or backside) of an invoice for a client. However, only you and I know that. Well, you, because I just told you. But otherwise, only I would have known.

*cough*

So, there's really lots to do with work 'n all so I really should be going.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you come again!

Flower Thank You Cards

I was cleaning up the living room tonight (seems to  constantly be taken over by card-making supplies!) and I found this little gem that I made a few weeks ago.  It had fallen under the coffee table.

I love it- I had forgotten all about it so it was like seeing it for the first time again.

Love how the paper and flower stamp all went together.  

The ribbon has a little bit of wire in it (didn't realize this when I bought it) which made the ribbon stick out a bit more and retain it's shape.  Sweet.  Makes it seem like I know how to tie a bow.  Faker!

The flower brad was a pewter one that I coloured with a copic marker.  Thank you Theresa Unrah for that gem-of-a-tip!!!   Turned out to be a perfect fit.

Can't wait to send this one off!

Love the card template though. Think I will be using this puppy again!

A Card for Kale

A card for my Kale...
Here's a sneak peak card that will be sent out for my little buddy this week.
My sister tells me that he goes on my blog and tells her about it.

"Oh, Raz likes pink, Mom!"

Hot dawg. I love that boy!

Here's a card for you, Dude!
Now it's your turn to draw me a picture!! :o)

Man-type cards... arg!

My co-worker Garret's 28th is next week. Since we give all of our employees a birthday card, I decided to whip one up for him. Ok. Fine. Honestly, it was an excuse to stamp. ;O)
I'm not entirely sold on it as is seems so simple... The challenging part was to create a card for a guy that did NOT have any of the regular girly stamps, flowers, ribbons and other embellies that are so easy and fun to fill up a card with.
Hence, a simple card.
My current fave pattern paper is definitely Chatterbox as they have such a fun and wide variety of paper that is so inspiring!
Very simple design.
Hopefully he likes it!

Congrats on your baby...

This was a fun card to make! It is for someone at my life group who just had a little boy.  

Lots of little boys lately... I have a friend who is expecting this year and another friend who is due any day now.  Hooray for more people to make cards for!

(my family and friends will be very sick of snail mail from me shortly, I imagine)

I think I spent about 2 hours trying to decide how best to fit the format on the template, and then what stamps to use.

So obvious that I am a beginner!! Two hours?!

The stamp set I chose was a really inexpensive one at my LSS which sold for less than $2. Can't go wrong there!!

Loved the small 'boy' metal tag that is adhered to the side of the card.  A bunch of them come in the Memory Makers set which I just love.

The 'Congratulations' is a Class A Peel from Stampendous.  

For the ribbon, I couldn't make up my mind on what looked better so I adhered them together and used the combination.  I was please with the results.

One of these days I will grab some courage to dabble in distressing.  At this point, I am just too unconfident to branch out.  We will see... 

Hello VERSAMARK!!

I've been a regular blog stalker for about a month now and keep hearing about this 'Versamark' stamp.  Finally was able to purchase one and WOW- so awesome!  There's a ton that you can do with this stamp pad!  

Here was my first card experiment with using Versamark in the background.

I kept thinking everyone just had a kazzillion different types of stamp shades to get that perfect one-shade-darker colour.

Love it!

I'm thinking this will be a staple for future cards! 

Loved the Making Memories charm that seemed to fit the Stampendous stamps so well.

The second card was an attempt to use some pattern paper and the small snail and bug fit so well with it!  This card came together pretty well.

Loved the ribbon and had been looking for a place to use it where it would go. Not too bad...

Cards for Been

For those of you who know me, you will know that I spend much of my time thinking about my sister who lives in a different province.

So, much of my stamping thoughts are cards for her.

Here is one that I loved after it was made and was so excited to send to her!

Very simple in blue.

Can't get enough of those pop ups that make parts of the card stick up higher than everything else- sure adds some pizzazz!!

First Baby Boy Cards

One of my friends had a baby boy in December, so this was the perfect opp to put my new stamping skills to good use!  

She was happy with the card and I thought it turned out ok for my 2nd ever card.

It can only go up from here!! HA!!

I borrowed an alphabet stamp set from a friend to spell Brock's name.  All stamps were Close to my Heart with the exception of the Class 'A' Peel (Stampendous).