Happy Birthday Kathy

I made this birthday card for one of my SCS buddies Kathy Curry. She was kind enough to help me with the watermark process. I found a package of these big paperclips at Walmart and thought they would make a great bookmark. So I decorated them with a flower image and thought it made a cute little card.
So Happy Birthday to Kathy Curry. I hope she has a great day.

Another Papertrey Ink Challenge Card

Today's challenge over at Nichole Heady's Blog for Papertrey Ink was to create a new project inspired by one of the team's favorite color combos. I was inspired by Lisa Johnson's color combo as shown below. Isn't this just the greatest color combo.

This was the card that I came up with using some of my favorite Papertrey Ink stamp sets and dies.

Papertrey Ink Challenge #2

Today's card is made using one of the freed downloadable images from Papertrey Ink. Be sure and check out Nichole Heady's blog for all the details. I chose the little bird image by Heather Nicols because I thought it was so cute.

Happy Birthday Debbi

Today I am dedicating my blog to my dear sister Debbi. She will be celebrating her birthday today. We are lucky to share our love of the outdoors. We both love our animals but she has just a few more than I do with living in the country. I am very fortunate that Debbi and I share our love of cardmaking also. I am so glad to have her as my partner in crime.
Debbi has a love of her Stampin Up "Owl" punch so I made her this owl card. I gave it to her before I could take a picture of it. The other card was made by our friend Patty. Isn't it adorable?
These two cards below were also birthday cards for Debbi made by more friends Vannessa & Cass. We are so lucky to have such a great group of friends who all join in our crazy obsession with paper.
So Happy Birthday dear sister. I hope we have many more years together in our cardmaking ventures. Thanks for being such a great sister and friend.

Papertrey Ink 5th Year Anniversary

Over at Nichole Heady's Blog they are having a 5th Year anniversary celebration for Papertrey Ink. And what a party they are having. Today's challenge was to pick one of the team members favorite projects to use as inspiration. That is very hard to do since they are all such a talented group of individuals. I chose Michelle Wooderson because I have always admired her cards. The way she layers them is just amazing. So I couldn't make a card with out the Button Boutique set. I also added a doily and ribbon. The flower image is called Flower Fusion #1 from Papertrey Ink. I used the Beautiful Blooms PTI die to cut the flower out of felt. And of course since I am getting inspiration from Michelle I had to add a button in the center. I also used the large scallop border die from PTI.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #131

Well how about this. Two blogs in one day. I needed to make some valentine cards so I went to Tuesday Morning Sketches for some inspiration. Their sketch this week fit perfectly in to my image that I had colored.
The image I used was Stampin Up "Greeting Card Kids". I just love this little set because there are 4 images in the stamp set. So cute. I used the heart stamp from Stampin Up "Sprinkles" set with my VersaMark pad to do the background. The heart border is a Knock Outs punch. I also added red eyelets and put some ribbon through them and added a cute little Love charm. The border die around the image is Picot Edge Circles from Spellbinders.
So thanks to Tuesday Morning Sketches for providing another great sketch to work with.

House Mouse Card

Today's card is for my dear friend Kathy. We have been friends for about 35 years now. We started working at the quilt shop in Olathe together and have been friends ever since. What a fun job that was. Hardly felt like work at all. So I had to do a little sewing on this card to show that my sewing machine still works. I had to used one of the House Mouse images because she has always liked mice. (Cute images of them on paper anyway).

So Happy Birthday to Kathy. I hope to get a few more cards made today. I have another birthday card to post for tomorrow.