Grandpa's Birthday

My best friend requested a birthday card for a Grandpa. Perfect timing too because I had just come back from JoAnn's where I had gotten this card Stack for 40% off :) The new FALL cardstack that has all this beautiful paper in it. That's when I decided that it was ok that fall get here, even though we barely had a summer this year. The colors are too pretty to dislike it.
Anyway, I pulled out 3 of the coordinating papers and put them up on blue panels, mounted to a yellowy orange panel, mounted on a brown panel (all SU! colors, but Im too lazy to figure out which ones...I think its More Mustard, Chocolate Chip, and cant remember the B for Blue one...lol!) Some stitching, and a Sizzix Cupcake punch complete the card, along with some birthday sentiment stamps from SU!

Candy Corn Mice

My niece Hannah is about to experience her first Halloween (she'll be 6 months old the day after *sniff*sniff*) and I wanted to send her cute Halloween card. I searched thru many blogs, links from google searching, and finally the gallery at the Shack, before I found this cute House Mouse image. Perfect! Their mice are so adorable, and since my coloring skills are lacking, I thought this would be an easy fix!

As soon as I saw the image, I saw the background....cardstock layered in the same colors the candy corn is. A little ribbon, a lot of Stickles, some rhinestone brads and cute card appears! And, as you can see, I also had to buy both coordinating sentiment stamps. One to use on the front, one to use inside :)

And after coloring over the Prismacolors with the Stickles, I decided to color WITH the Stickles in the card below. Which totally made the image pop and had me wishing I had done the same on Hannah's card! Oh well. She'll never know ;)

Special, just like you

I drooled over all the new September stamps sets at Verve Visual alllll month long, and finally caved last week! And what should come, with perfect timing for my 4 nights off, but a lovely package of these cute birds (inspired by their first set, Anniversary Birds, which were such a hit!), pretty florals, fun sayings, and a cute little bunny! (which you'll see in a post later).

All was going well with this card until I added the bird. She's cute and all, but still missing some color or something. Not really digging the tail cut out like that. Looks more like she had a blowout while delivering her balloons...LOL!

But she's done, and stuck permanently, so I'll just go with it.

Papers from a Prima pack (I think!) that I bought at Michaels a few months ago.

Punched border is a Fiskars punch. The first one I scored. Just YESTERDAY I scored the Threading Water punch, so you'll see that coming up a lot too soon!

Stickles added to the balloons, the hat, and her tail.

Anniversary Wishes

I've been printing off a bunch of sketches lately to help get me back in the mood to make cards. This card sketch is the Taylored Expressions Cupcake #35. I love this layout and I think it'll be one sketch that is revisited many times!

Papers are from a stack, I cant remember which one right now though! Flower stamp and sentiment (on card front) are Verve Visual stamps. Ribbon is SU! Also used a MM rhinestone brad, Stickles, SU! ink and a water color pen.
Inside the card. I used a Stampin' Up set to stamp another sentiment on the dotted paper. And a smaller flower from the Verve set to decorate the corner.

The baby girl

Its been awhile since I shared a picture of Hannah. She's growing to be so big! Now out growing 9 month clothing, and she just turned 5 months old today!
I'm told she smiles A LOT, and giggles, and a lot of times cracks herself up. Just like her Auntie, I tell ya! ;)

And, apparently, likes to suck on her fingers.
Even more exciting, I get to see her in 2 weeks! :D