Another Kale Cards

My nephew Kale loves to get cards in the mail, and especially loves the colour green.  I always keep an eye open for anything interesting and green that might make for a good card for him.  I came across this paper (by The Paper Company) at a LSS and thought this would be perfect!

There are little raised squares on the paper that make it look like Crocodile skin, but super fun and tactile too!  Put on a few dinos (his other love) and ka-boom! It's a Kale Kard!

Sentiment is by My Sentiments Exactly. I love the handwritten script!

So fun!

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)

Back to Versamark

Ahh, midnight and I still need to finish this blog or it will never go up!

We had a shredder of a BS tonight with the girls.  Got to have a good discussion about accountability and I am so thankful for how the discussion went!  Love my BS girls!!

Finished the last of the cards for the order for my Bible Study group and I have two left to show!

Pace yourself, friends!  One card at a time;O)

Gotta make those blog posts stretch!

Here is a card coloured by my 'colourific assistante', Ms. LK.  

Alrighty, this will need to be a quick post as I'm so tired!

Too many emails accruing and I'm shutting down the computer before more can come in!!

I love this white ribbon although I can't remember who made it.  Got it from my LSS and it's definitely a fave!

Night everyone!

Been and Kale cards....REVEALED!!

Ack. What a night!  DS was sick- vomiting and slightly feverish.  I think he had a migraine as well.  Shoot!  You hope that your kids won't get the bad genetic stuff from you, but, listening to him describe the headaches, it's no wonder we're cut from the same cloth!  

Here are the cards that Been and Kale were sent.  

Kale's favourite colour is green, so I love to add green in where ever possible.  I was going to label the roosters with names of family members (with perhaps two roosters named after his dad, since he's a giant QUACK!) but alas time got away on me.

Loving my new cuttlebug.  So much fun!   This one was made using the musical notes embossing folder.  I also used a little Ellzybell stamp for the girl on front (these are the stamps that remind me of my sister!), some Making Memories patterned paper, SU ticket corner punch and finished it with some American Craft ribbon.

I can't seem to make a card without adding some 3-D dots to make something in the picture *POP*.  Love those dots!  Hard to tell with both pictures, but both stamped images are popped.

Phew! Done!

Off to catch some rest.... I'll be back tomorrow with a new stamp!  See you soon!

Sneek Peak...

At a GREEN card for someone little who loves green!

Hey Little Buddy- this one's for you! :O)

You will see the rest of the card when it comes in the mail.

DS helped to make this card - I love it when he helps although usually it is to crank the wheel on the cuttlebug machine. Speaking of which, he's been roped into coming to another card making class with me on Monday night. Su-weet! I'm hoping L and P will show too. It will henceforth be an embossing celebration!

Hmm. Perhaps we should invite my older bro, who I know completely adores such funtivities. Harsinder? Thoughts?

Elzybell stamps

When I first saw this line of stamps, I was so excited! 

This little girl so reminds me of growing up... she is very fun.  They are the perfect stamp for my sister and Lois!

I ordered some and can't wait to make some cards with 'em to send off.

Good times.

The scallop edging was cut using some fiskar scissors that I saw on sale ($8 for 15 scissors!!). Love sales!  Those scissors are soo much cheaper than the craft punches that cost like $30 for each one. Yikes.  You can spend a fortune on craft supplies so quickly.  

Anyway...

Happy Easter, everyone!!

I heard on the news that this weekend was the most important weekend for us Christians.  Hmm. I would also like to say that Little Baby Jesus' birthday is quite an important event as well. 

So thankful for the Grace of God in my life... I am so imperfect and prone to mistakes, but yet I have a God who welcomes me back with open arms each time.  How's that for feeling loved and never abandoned?!

YEAH!

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)

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... 

Time off from work means stamping!!

Today is Sunday, my day off.

Ahhh, how I love Sundays!  Today is extra awesome because we are hanging out at home and my boy is able to go outside and chillax with the other kiddies in the neighbourhood.

Here are the two cards I finished today.

One was my first sympathy card that I needed to make for a friend who's FIL passed away.

Not so 'sympathy'ish as I wanted to work with the stamp supplies that I had.  Gotta make my new hobby fit the budget too! ;O) 

Inside sentiment is one that I found on another stamper's site and loved. It reads 'May God's love guide you, uphold you, protect you and enfold you'.  Hopefully these are fitting words for people in pain.

Second card was my foray into the de-stressing domain.  The edges of both popped up parts (the sentiment and coloured chick) were distressed using the Memory Maker's distresser tool. Stamps are from A Muse and are so fun!  Tons of fun!  Wasn't sure if I would like it but it seems to fit?

Both cards were coloured with copic markers and stickles for added 'pop'.  

Have a great rest of the weekend!

...more cards to come soon, hopefully!