Hubby's Valentine card...

Hello Craft Friends!

Just a quick card for hubby.  This worked up fast using stamps and die cuts from one of my Card club kits from The Stamps of Life.  Stamped on the inside is All of me Loves All of you.  My husband dedicated this John Legend song to me when it first came out.  Kind of our theme.  Love him so much.  <3 <3 <3

I just purchased my first pack of water color paper and tried to do a water color look wash with my Momento pens and sprayed some water on a big Ziploc freezer bag then transferred to the paper.   Not exactly what I imagined it to be.  But I try not to let things go to waste.  Including the background papers.  ;)  (They were from an old bridal shower order and wedding scraps.) Besides...purple and green are my favorite colors. I will keep practicing.

Side note: I did clean it up after I saw the close of  the photo. ;)
I think I need stronger readers!  Noooo!!!  LOL!

Hope you had a wonderful ❤day.  

Happy First Birthday Card....

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Today's birthday card share is one I made with the new The Stamps of Life stamp set candles4birthday.  I love, love, love this set.  Plus, it came in just in the nick of time for Hunter's first birthday!!  I thought the sentiment was very fitting.  :)

I am a Die Hard Member at The Stamps of Life, so my stamp set came with a matching die set.  Click on the link and check out how you can become a member too!

Here is the card...

Hubby's Birthday card...

Hello Crafty Friends!

It was my hubby's birthday the other day.  He went on a motorcycle ride for the weekend with his friend and our son.  They had a wonderful time cruising up the Norther California coastline and through the Redwood Forest.

My hubby <3

So staying with the Redwood Tree theme, I made this card for him.  :)

Happy St. Patrick's day!!! What to share today???

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I am not sure what to share today???  Let me look into my bag o' tricks!!!

I guess in honor of St. Patrick's Day, I'll share a beer mug card I made for my BIL back in July.  It's not green beer, but on St. Patrick's Day who cares if it's green...IT'S BEER!!!!  LOL!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Baby Baby Baby....

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Well I guess it's about time I got caught up around here.  Been super busy.  I have a few baby shower projects I will be sharing for the next few days.  It's a boom around here lately.  I LOVE IT!!!  <3 <3 <3

My friend Nicole asked if I could help her with some banners for a few of her friends showers.  She has a new little one herself and well, you know how it is when you have a baby.  Enlist help!  :)  LOL! Which I am always happy to do.  I got the owl svg from Scrapcation Getaway  The letter font is Pupcat.  I love this color combination.

Sorry I don't have a pic of it strung up.  When she gets one to me I will share.  :)

So this is one of several, but I will save those posts for after their showers.

My gift for the nursery...

Hello Crafty Friends!!!

Just wanted to share the pillow I made for Kristine's chair in the nursery room and the card I made. Someday I will get over there and get a pic of the finished nursery.  LOL!  It's absolutely adorable.  :)

This is the first time I worked with a rope edge. I don't think it turned out half bad. I had to do some research because it was so thick it made it hard to get through the machine, but I did it somehow.  LOL!  If there's a will, there's a way, right?!

I was so proud of my perfectly pinned corners.  :)

I used the Love You Tons svg from
Miss Kate Cuttables

If you want to see what else I made using Miss Kate Cuttables Love You Tons svg and digis you can check it out here  and here.

Dirt bike diaper cake...

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I became a Great Auntie again back in November to a beautiful baby boy.  It has been quite the baby boom around here lately.  I love it!!!!!

His nursery theme is dirt bikes.  I made this diaper cake for the sprinkle.

Since this is his color scheme I was not able to find receiving blankets, etc, that you would normally use to make a diaper cake, so I improvised with flannel fabric and felt sheets.  Worked beautifully (and was a lot less expensive to make).  :)

Namma (aka-My Bestie)...

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My bestie, (who will now be known as Namma) has been a Namma  for quite a few weeks now.  :)  She is over the moon about her first born grandson.  He is pretty perfect :)  She definitely found her creative crafty side these last several months while preparing for his arrival.  I just could not, not share some of her wonderful crafty projects.  Soooo cute and creative.  :)

First she made this beautiful blankie, you know how babies
love those silkie trimmed blankies.  :)

She made this adorable little blankie cape for his little elephant
friend.  <3

Don't you just love this!!!  A elephant pic made with buttons!!!
I am so crazy for this picture with its drift wood frame.
This soooo matches his nursery theme.  <3 <3

She made a watering trough out of a big galvanized
tub, full of peanuts and water bottles labeled to match the decor!!

Here she is making the shower cake.  She is amazing and so talented!
(Cake pops provided by Tracy)

Glad she had the summer off.  We had a blast crafting together, well, and shopping ;) LOL!!!

Baby Shower...

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I'm back with some projects from over the last few months.  Trying to get the blog all caught up...(you know one of those resolution things...I give a couple days...LOL)  I heard someone call them New Year's intentions.  That just may be how I roll from now on.  haha!

A HUGE family event for my Bestie was the arrival of her very first grandchild in December, and boy did we have a blast preparing for this little guys arrival.  I get to be an honorary auntie....eeeeee!!!!  We did so many different projects for the shower, nursery etc that I will break it out into a few posts.  I really don't know where to start so I think I will share the invitations I made.  Here we go...

This is a 3 layered 5x7 flat card with a little ribbon embellishment.

Created with Windows
Background chevron digital paper from StarFlowerStreetDA
Digi stamp is Love You Tons from MIss Kate Cuttables
Fonts are Cutie Patootie by Vanessa Bays at ByTheButterfly.com
and Renaisssance
Paper from PaperandMore.com in Classic White and Aqua cardstock
(Chevron is printed on Classic White)
Special thanks to my son who helped adjust the colors on the elephants to more
match the shower theme.  <3
(ok, I hope I got everyone included)  :)

Some Fishy invites...

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Well, we are back to school in our neck of the woods.  My baby has started his senior year!!  WHAT?!?!  I know right???  Eeek!  He is excited for this year.  I have somewhat mixed emotions.  LOL!

We had such a wonderful busy summer and when we weren't busy "vacationing", I did lot's of projects Here is one I did for my friends dad surprise party 75th birthday party.  She loved the invitations I made for my hubby's 50th so I came up with this.  Bob loves hunting and most especially fishing.  We had sooooo much fun!!!!

Got to love those flip its dies.  :)

Summer...

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I made this card for our friend that hosts us every year on her houseboat for our annual girls get together to kick off the summer season.  Thanks again Mel for a wonderful, fun filled weekend. Oh the memories...LOL!  ;)

I'll try to remember which stamp sets I used. Of course they are all The {Stamps} of Life.  I made it at the beginning of summer.  :)

island2visit, daisies2garden and award2stamp

words2color
I believe the You are AWESOME! Thank You! stamp set
is from a thank you exclusive to members
set.  Just another reason I <3 The {Stamps} of Life club.  :)

 
OK, I better get.  I'm supposed to be paying the bills.  Yuck!  :(

A little guitar...

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My nephew turned 18 in June!!!  Where has the time gone???

I made him this little guitar card from an idea I saw on Pinterest.  (I know, imagine that??)  I can't help myself.  LOL!  If you click on the link "idea" you can get more information.  :)  I went to that site then on to Google images and then and then....  There are lot's of ideas out there.  Here is what I came up with.  I found the template here.  I changed it up a little bit for the look I was going for and the size.  :)

That's our dog Bear and Brady's (my son) guitar in
the backdrop.  Bear loves when Brady plays.  :)

My nephew and son started playing guitar in 7th (Brady) 8th (Jared) grade.  We had a wonderful young man named Josh who was a great guitarist and guitar teacher who was still in high school himself at the time. Needless to say both my nephew and son are still avid guitarists in their own rights and owe it all to Josh.  I could listen to them play all day.

Happy 18th Jared!!!

Some Pioneer Thank You Cards...

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I recently had a very good school teacher friend ask me if I could make her some Thank You's for some really outstanding parent helpers.  They took the kids on a Pioneer Days trip and it wouldn't have been possible had these wonderful parents helped out.  I tried to make them period looking to stay with the theme.  :)

For the Dad helpers

For the mom helpers

The Thank You stamp set came from The {Stamps} of Life as my 2nd year anniversary gift if I remember correctly.  :)  I couldn't find it in their shop as a regular item.

Now to pay bills.  Yuck!

Baby Shower Frog card...

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I love these little frog stamp and die set from The {Stamps} of Life.  I made this little baby shower card for our friends daughter that I have known forever.  I can't believe she is having a baby of her own.  Seems like yesterday she was a baby (Well, second grade).  :)

She is having a little boy!  They are sooo excited.  :)  I can see him spoiled already.

Update:

I don't know how this never got published??  Just found it in my draft file.  Weird!  ;)  LOL!  Her little boy came a few weeks early (he was a big boy).  Still haven't got to see him in person yet, but he is adorable!  His grandma was here last night sharing her pics.  :)

Anniversary card...

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It was our wedding anniversary this month.  :)  It was very low key this year.  Here is the card I made my hubby:

I finally got a background word stamp that I liked.  :)

Sentiment stamps from The {Stamps} of Life
anniversary2celebrate
words4family