Cards and a box for my Mom

Once a week my friend Lisa and I meet to scrap. Last week Lisa was making a bunch of birthday cards. When she was finished, she handed them to me and told me to give them to my mom for Christmas. Now there was a stipulation, I had to make the box!

Now, knowing that it was just a few short days to Christmas, I had to find time to create. Not a problem, if someone is going to do a nice thing like this for your mother, you are going to find time to finish a little box.

Actually, the box went together really fast. The original pattern came from the tutorials on Split Coast Stampers.

This was the first year I started stamping and blogging. I have met a few people through various boards. First I met Kara through 2peas. I joined a group through 2peas and Kara is the leader. From there I met Amy. Amy is no longer in the group, but we have stayed in touch. Then, I posted a note on the forum on Split Coast Stampers looking for other stampers living close to me. That was when I found Lisa. Recently, I have been conversing with a girl from Texas. I think the funniest story was when I was "private messaging" someone not knowing who I was talking to and it was my next door neighbor!

Till next time - have a Merry Christmas! ;)

Celebrating Cupcakes

In January, my husband's family celebrates A BUNCH of birthdays. There are 5 in his immediate family and one of his cousin's birthday, for a total of 6 birthdays. I am so glad I have been playing with challenges from other blogs. If I do several each week, I will be ahead of the card making and not stressing about what to do to make a card. However, 4 of the birthdays are for 1 brother, 1 brother-in-law, 1 dad and 1 very young nephew. I will have to figure out how to make masculine cards!


This is a sketch from Taylored Expressions.

This is my version. I have used the same DP and papers as in the past post. The cupcake was paper pieced. For the scalloped circles, I used on the small scallop the QuicKutz Nesting Flowers and the larger scallop I used Nesties. The cupcake image and sentiment are from Inkadinkado "Birthday Cupcake".

Thanks for looking. Have a great day!

Happy Birthday to my big boy!

This is the sketch challenge for Prairie Paper & Ink. I used this sketch to make my oldest son's birthday card. He will be turing 22 soon after Christmas. I cannot believe he will be 22!

I think it is hard to make cards for boys, especially when I don't have any images that look like boy images. You know, cars, etc. Thankfully, we all like cats in our family, so I used this image from Whipper Snapper Designs called Cupcake Kitty. The DP is by Debbie Mumm from Creative Imaginations. The solid paper is Bazzill with brads from American Crafts.

Thanks for looking.

Silent Night

This is the sketch provided by Poetic Artistry.













Here is the card that I made from Julee's sketch. The image was given to my from my friend Lisa. The DP is by My Mind's Eye that I purchased from Hobby Lobby, along with the cardstock, rhinestone and ribbon. The sentiment is by Stampabilities.

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Trying to Play Along

At my friend Lisa's suggestion, I decided to try the weekly sketch on the blog "Prairie Paper & Ink". The stamp is called Jingle All the Way by smARTworks. The DP is Loverly Stripe by www.pebblesinc.com. The snowflake is a Paper Studio punch, the brads are Hobby Lobby and the lettering is computer generated. The snowflake has been embossed with transparent powder. Thanks for looking!