Two birthday cards to show

Happy Sunday everyone :)

Wow, what a week.  It has been Crazy, let me tell you.  I am taking vacation this week, so I have been trying to make sure everything was done before I left and that meant working late and getting started early.  I do believe my goal was accomplished and I can now enjoy the upcoming week because I have lots planned.

I have two cards to show you today.  Patrick told me on Wednesday that he was invited to a friend's house for a birthday party on Friday and would I make a card for him.  I said of course but couldn't do it until Friday because of trying to get things done.  We (yes, Patrick did help - shh, don't tell him I told you) created this one is about 30 minutes.  I thought it turned out pretty good and was thankful for Patrick's help.

The second one is for a lady at work whose daughter is turning 16 this week.  She showed me the colors of her cake and some of the things she enjoys, which is mainly music.  I wanted to have some musical notes on her card as well as the bow, but I couldn't find any stickers with musical notes, so I created them myself :)

I hope to be showing you more this coming week because I do plan on being creative.

Have a great one

I'm trying :)

Hey everyone:

As you can tell, I'm trying to stay the course (my planner is really being a huge help with this) and do at least one blog post a week and so far this week, I've done two :) making this the third one if you consider Sunday to be part of the week and not beginning.

I'm going to start you off with a few pictures I took yesterday of our beautiful fall colors here in SC.  I haven't really used my camera these past few months, but had a friend post some cool pictures on FaceBook a few weeks back that made me itch to get out there and start back up.  I also played around with PhotoShop (still trying to learn how to use that program).

I did create a few cards this week and am working on several projects for some people who are looking for Christmas gifts as well as getting our Christmas card making class at work scheduled for next month.  This card is one I made for a friend at work.  I have been watching some YouTube videos from the talented Jennifer McQuire and loved the diagonal stripe background stamp from My Favorite Things so had to give it a try.  I don't use those often (well, I only have three) but really loved how easy it was to use.  I also used a few sequins to bring some bling to the card :)  These are relatively new to me, but do believe I will be using them more often in the future.

I hope you are having a great day.

Thanks

Janet

Supplies:

New Year's Eve Wedding Invitations

Hey there:

As I mentioned last week, I was given the honor of creating 85 wedding invitations for a friend at work who is getting married on New Year's Eve.  I bet that will be fun, but then since I got married on January 6th, I wasn't too far off :)

My friend had seen several designs via Pinterest that she really liked but just couldn't come up with a specific one to choose, so we decided to put all 4 designs she liked into one card and this is what we came up with. Since they are bringing in the new year with a wedding, she wanted some glitz, so this glitter paper was perfect.  This is a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 card, so that was a little different for me to work with, but with using my cricut, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.  I was even able to make the envelopes using the wonderful tool, WeRMemory Keepers envelope board (love that thing).

It was such an honor doing these for her and I can't think her enough.

I hope you have a great week.

I have to apologize for the poor quality of these pictures - it was overcast and cold outside so they didn't turn out very good :(

Janet

Supplies:
Cardstock:  Bazzill Blackbird cardstock, Recollection glitter paper
Accessories:  Papertrey Ink Confetti star die cut, Xyron adhesive machine, Cricut Pennants cartridge, Cricut Plantin Schoolbook cartridge, WeRMemory Keepers envelope board  and Ranger's AWESOME wonder tape :)

Money for the birthday boy

This weekend Patrick went to a birthday party celebrating his friend Andrew's 16th birthday. As we were on the way over, Patrick goes, "you know momma, Andrew and I have been best buds for 10 years now" and that sort of hit me hard because that just reminded me of how much Patrick and his friends are getting older.

Well, Patrick asked me to make Andrew a card and as I was looking for ideas, came across an old friend's blog and thought why not make a card to hold birthday cash in instead  This was inspired by Beate Johns, who I miss so much. I hope she is doing well. The card came out pretty good because I got an "Awesome" when finished :)

I hope you are all having a great day.  I'll be back tomorrow with pictures of the invitations I mentioned last week.

Janet

Supplies:

Cardstock - Stampin Up chocolate chip and Marina Mist

Patterned paper - October Afternoon Fly a Kite

Ink - Stampin Up chocolate chip

Accessories - Stampin up metallic brads; Papertrey Ink Circle Scribbles die cue, MFT stitched circle die cut; Stampin Up dimensionals and WeRMemory Keepers Envelope Board (love that thing)

Happy Birthday and couldn't believe it :)

Hi there :)

I hope everyone is doing well this week.  We were in total shock when we arose yesterday to find almost 3 inches of snow had fallen overnight.  Yes, SC does get snow from time to time, but it's not usually until January and the fact that we had 80 degree weather that Monday through Wednesday made it even more confusing.  But I can say, it was sure beautiful.  The flakes were HUGE.  I'm sharing a few photos from our November 1, 2014 blizzard (I decided to do a collage so it wouldn't take up so much of the blog post).

I have been creating some these past few weeks, but I have an 85 wedding invitation order that I am working on (pictures to come after I have delivered and received permission to share) so I have been doing other things in between.  They are due Friday, so when that is over, I'll get back to creating more :) 

Patrick attended a birthday party on Friday and the girl lives on a farm and loves horses, so of course, he wanted a card that had a horse on it.  I, however, found this to be a difficult task. I'm not typically one to put pictures on a card, but I looked through some old sketches and found out her favorite colors, so we got started from there. I found the horse via the internet since I didn't have any horse images and loved this one. Patrick's friend was very happy with this creation and I do believe Patrick was as well.

I hope all is well with everyone and that you have a great week - I probably won't be back until then because of me having to finish up the invitations before Friday.

Bye

Janet