Baby shower card

I made this one for a co-worker who is expecting, but not finding out the sex of the baby until he/she is born. I applaud that, but it made it a little more difficult to buy presents! I ended up getting a crib-to-floor light-up piano that had jungle animals on it, and made this card to match.

The animals were all made using Everyday Paper Dolls cut at mostly 3.5" (I can't remember for sure on all of them - MUST start writing this stuff down!).

It seemed to be a big hit at the shower. Thanks for looking!

Second 60th Birthday card

This is the card she chose. I added some "bling" to the big empty spot on the front, but unfortunately forgot to take another picture. Also, I know the diaper on the inside is hideous. I don't have a cartridge with a good diaper. Had to do the best I could with the diaper from the Paper Dolls cartridge. I'll remedy this by buying a new cartridge soon.

All that being said, I love how this turned out. It was my first attempt at a "pop-up card and I think that part worked well. I also have to give big kudos to my friend Trudi who came up with the idea for the sentiment. It got a big chuckle from all the girls at work.

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60th Birthday card

One of my co-workers asked me to make a humorous 60th birthday card for her sister. And I had less than 24 hours notice. Now, I can be somewhat witty sometimes, but this one had me stumped. I decided to make 2 and let her choose. This is the one she didn't pick. I paraphrased a quote from George Carlin for the sentiment.

I used 5" x 6.5" basic white cardstock and some paper I had laying around (don't know the maker). For the background, I used the Twinkle Toes cartridge and for the circle shape, I used the Sugar and Spice cartridge. The number 60 was cut from Plantin' Schoolbook. I also used some birthday rub-ons for the balloons and confetti (again, don't know who made it).

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Harry Potter birthday card

I made this card for my sister's birthday. She's been a little Potter-obsessed lately - she reread the entire series of books from start to finish leading up to the final movie (I'd never be able to do that with all the "Mom!" interruptions from my girls). Anyway, I tried to be as detailed as possible. Didn't turn out perfect, but I was still pretty pleased - hope she likes it! I used Paper Dolls and Everyday Paper Dolls for the cuts.

Picture perfect love

I made this card for a dear friend at work who is having her wedding shower this week. The bride and groom are in their 50's and it's somewhat of a non-traditional wedding, so I thought I could go a little "out of the box" on this card. They are both photography buffs, so I had the idea to incorporate that theme.
I made the camera at 4", cut from Locker Talk. I also used Design Studio to make the shaped base of the card (also at 4"). The bride and groom are from Stretch Your Imagination, cut at 1". I used Alphalicious for the "a picture perfect" and welded the words on DS. The "Love" is from the Heritage cartridge.
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Hey Chicky!

I made 12 of these little pails for Easter baskets for my nieces and nephews. It's so hard to find something relatively easy to do that also satisfies my obsessive need to go overboard :). I started with $1.00 buckets from Target - so cute, and I loved the little ribbon accent!

The chick is from Simply Charmed, cut at 3 1/4". The scalloped square background is from Storybook, cut at 4" (I think). I mounted each on a candy-colored popsicle stick from my stockpile of miscellaneous supplies. I really wanted to add the message "Happy Easter to one of my favorite peeps", which I saw on someone else's project, but my daughter wouldn't let me do it - she said "They're not your peeps, they're relatives". Buzzkill!

I think they turned out pretty cute! Thanks for looking!

First Came Love...

I made this card for one of my dear friends. Miss Amber was one of the first people I hired when I was the store manager of our local video store, and she worked for me through her college years and beyond. She is one of the smartest, most genuinely wonderful women I've ever been lucky to know. She will always be one of "my kids", but now she's expecting her first little bundle of joy and I could not be happier for her and her husband. I just had to make this card to celebrate this milestone.

I used Stretch Your Imagination for the wedding bell and the baby carriage and Beyond Birthdays for the heart. I embossed the baby carriage using a Cuttlebug folder and the heart using a Sizzix folder - I'm such a cheat, though - I use my Sizzix Texture Boutique for all my embossing and it works just fine :)

Thanks for looking!