Surprise - Happy Birthday Anne Marie :)

Today is a very special day for a wonderful friend.  Anne Marie is celebrating her birthday today and when I was asked to participate in the birthday link party for her, I was so excited and said yes immediately.  I was honored to serve on the Dynamic Duos design team with her the past six months, but I have know Anne Marie for almost a year now and I am very thankful we connected.  She is the sweetest lady, always so upbeat, helped out with any questions I had without hesitation, is EXTREMELY talented, and so very, well, wonderful.  

Anne Marie loves all things pink, girly and animal, so I had to create a birthday card for her that contained those elements.  Well, I sure did accomplish the pink part :), there are butterflies and I do believe this is pretty girly.

Anne Marie, I hope you have a FANTASTIC birthday my friend and I am truly blessed to know you.

Janet

I am back again :)

Hi again :)

I have enjoyed myself so much this weekend - can't you tell?  It has been a long time since I have created pretty much the entire weekend and it was so much fun.  I recently became a Stampin Up demonstrator (thanks Debbie) and I think that has a lot to do with it. I mainly joined as a hobbyist, but I am excited about doing some classes at work, so you just never know where it may go.

I got the theme for this card using The Paper Players challenge this week - Jaydee chose wildlife and thought the SU zoo babies stamp set would work perfectly.  Just how cute is this stamp set?  I say A LOT.  I have a friend who is going to have a baby next year and even though this will be her 3rd, I know she is beyond thrilled.  Since we don't know the sex of the baby yet, wanted to keep the colors neutral and was really surprised when I put these colors together and they matched really nice.  I just have to ink up my stamp a little bit better next time. 

I hope you can join in.  I think I may be finished for the evening because it is getting late, so I will see you tomorrow.

Have a great one.

Janet

Supplies:

SU more mustard, island indigo and going gray ink
Papertrey Ink ivory and gray cardstock
SU island indigo cardstock
SU zoo babies and cuddles and kisses stamp set
SU white ribbon (colored with island indigo marker)
Spellbinders scallop die cut
Lil'inker designs cloud die cut

Happy Birthday Tracey

Hi everyone:

I hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday.  I know I am :)  Today is a great friend's birthday and they are having a linky birthday for her.  Tracey is such a wonderful lady and I had the wonderful privilege to work with her the past six months on the Dynamic Duos design team.  She is so sweet and such a fabulous creator.  

When I visited Joyce at Cards-by-the Sea blog today, I saw she is throwing Tracey a Happy Birthday linky party.  In her post, she was showing us some wonderful cakes and decided to use the colors she had on the owl birthday cake and I used the sketch from Clean&Simple.  I realized after I stamped the sentiment that I didn't have the correct punch (will have to get that soon) so I improvised and used the apothecary accents framelits instead.  I also wanted to put a different spin on the balloons and like how they turned out :)  

Tracey, I hope you have a spectacular birthday my friend.  YOU are a true inspiration to us all.

Janet

Supplies:

SU lucky limeade, island indigo and blushing bride cardstock
SU lucky limeade and island indigo ink
SU Label Love and A Round Array stamp set
SU apothecary accents framelits
lime and pink baker's twine

Playing along with Dynamic Duos today :)

Hi everyone:

Well this is the first Saturday in 6 months I am putting up a Dynamic Duos card without being on the design team.  I am so happy for the new members because I know they are going to have a great time.  My awesome friend Tenia Nelson made the team and I am so excited for her - she is AMAZING !!! and look forward to meeting the new members as well.

I have been energized these past few weeks and wanted to start getting more creative so here I go :)  Hopefully it will last a long time to come because I am having so much fun today.

This week's color at Dynamic Duo is Real Red and Bermuda Bay, which are beautiful together.  I used the Mojo Monday sketch challenge, but I wasn't paying any attention and cut all all my pieces and after putting them together realized it wasn't square, so I went with it and hope it will be okay to submit as is.  I couldn't find any design paper, so I decided to create my own by taking the smaller ornaments in this set and stamp across some whisper white paper and love it.  I also added some glitter around the top and bottom ornament - I distressed the one in the middle with crumb cake ink.

I hope you get the chance to play with this week's color.  Have a great day.

Janet

supplies:

SU bermuda bay and real red cardstock

SU bermuda bay, real red and crumb cake ink

SU ornament keepsakes stamp set

SU More Merry Messages stamp set

SU real red ribbon

SU dimensionals

SU crystal effects

Cuttlebug snow flake embossing folder

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