Penguin Birthday

Just a quick post as I have to get ready to go to work. I made this card for a birthday card swap. I love these penguins by Memory Box. If you're not familiar with them, they have all kinds of penguins (one dressed up as a doctor, a bee, a mailman, etc). They are all really cute. I stamped the penguins and then stamped the balloon to look like they're holding it. I took two classes at my LSS over the weekend. I have cards from that to share, as soon as I have time to take pics I'll get them posted on here. Maybe later in the week. Hope you have a great week!

Recipe Cards

Just wanted to share a couple recipe cards I've been working on lately. The first one is for a recipe swap with an "On the Grill" theme, so I chose my favorite pork chop marinade. I dry embossed the apron and used floss for the ties. That was time consuming! The Garfield Lasagna recipe was for a cartoon recipe swap. You had to choose a character and make a recipe card related to the character (another example would be Popeye and a spinach recipe.) I'm taking a couple classes at Angela's Happy Stamper this weekend, so I'll be posting more later this weekend.

Extra Postage Holders

I participate in a lot of swaps. If you've ever swapped, you know you have to send some extra stamps to the swap hostess, in case your envelope weighs more on the return trip than it did when you sent it (some of the swappers may get a little embellishment heavy!) I can never seem to find a little envelope or tiny jewelery bag to put my stamps in when it's time to send my swap items to the hostess. So I decided to host a swap on the PaperCrafts site for extra postage holders. I thought it would be fun to see what everyone comes up with. I used this double sided sock monkey paper and made a little holder for my stamps. I cut a window out of the paper so you can see the inside, and put acetate in the window. I know the stamps are going to cover up the sock monkeys, but it looks cute now! I used my cuttlebug to cut some quickutz letters for the word "stamps". Finally, a project that I'm happy with how it turned out! Hope you like them too.

Pop-Up Gift Card Holders

Happy Monday! Hope you had a nice weekend. I had a nice relaxing one and got to do a lot of crafting. I'm seeing a lot of Christmas cards and projects posted on blogs this month and I'm starting to think about Christmas gifts. I found this template for a pop up gift card holder at the Stamp Shack. You have to be a member to get the template, but I don't think it's very expensive to join. I made the one above for a friend, I'm going to put an Archivers card in it. I don't have the card yet, so I put my credit card in the slot for the picture. (That's a picture of my old dog Sammy on the credit card - isn't that cool!?) The two pictures below are gift card holders I made for my niece & nephew. They would make nice Christmas gift card holders if you used Christmas patterned paper. I will probably make some more this weekend, they are addicting once you've made one!

Anniversary Card

I needed to make an anniversary card and decided to copy a card I saw in a Lasting Impressions book. I thought the shoe template with the words "A Perfect Pair" would be good for an anniversary card. I dry embossed the shoes and used embroidery thread as laces.

We went and saw Hancock this afternoon, it was a cute movie. We decided to stay in and avoid the fireworks crowds this year. Rusty gets so stressed out with the fireworks booms and I hate the thought of leaving her home alone. Hope you all had a safe & happy 4th!

Easy Card

This was a quick easy card. I'm not really happy with it, but that's how I've been feeling about all my cards lately. I wanted to make a card that opens differently than a normal card. I love shaped cards or cards that have unusual folds or openings. I dry embossed the flowers & the butterfly using a Lasting Impressions template, cut them out and attached them to the top flap of this card.

Cat Cards

Sorry for not posting in awhile. I've been creating, but just not liking anything I make. Does that ever happen to you? I wanted to make a cat card for a friend, but I don't even think this looks like a cat! I hope with the fish, the recipients will be able to tell that it's a cat.

On a personal note, yesterday I was so happy because the Caps re-signed my fav player Mike Green. But then this morning I wake up to some depressing news, my fav goaltender didn't resign with the Caps, instead he went to Chicago. I'm so bummed out. I don't know anything about the new goaltender we're getting.

Oh! Yesterday I booked a vacation... I cannot wait! The last week-long vacation I had was in September 2003! We went on a Carribbean cruise. Since that time, I've had to take leave from work for a lot of family emergencies, putting the addition on the house, etc. So I haven't had enough leave accrued to take a nice long vacation. We're going here - to Gatlinburg TN. Don't these cabins look so relaxing!? Hope you're having a nice week!