Happy Birthday, Judy!

I recently spied this cool Silhouette design in the Silhouette Online Store. Now that all the designs are 50% off until Nov 30th, I decided to download several.

Today we had an impromptu birthday celebration at school for my friend, Judy. I made this card for her.

The cardstock is from Stampin' Up and the rhinestones are from Michael's.

Thanks for stopping by...especially, my sweet blogging friend, Amy, who always manages go leave a kind word. Woman, you were up in the middle of the night just like me!

Happy Birthday Sweetie

Hi there! Today I made a birthday card for my hubby. We happen to share the same birthday. It's been a great day already: lunch with friends, hugs, flowers, gifts, red velvet cakepops, and a red velvet cake. Oh my...such sweet friends!

I love this Happy Birthday design from the Silhouette Online Store. It felt like a perfect design to use on a masculine card. The patterned paper is from Stampin' Up and the heart was cut from an older piece of Cosmo Cricket paper (I think). The letter stickers are from Cosmo Cricket.

The guys and I are off to dinner this evening to continue the celebration. When the principal at school asked me if I had any philosophical thoughts on my birthday, I remember saying I didn't have anything profound to say. But, I really do believe that age is just a number. It doesn't define us unless we let it.

Life is good. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Botday Dante!

I've said it before, but I love robots! And nothing says young boys birthday more than a birthday card with a robot on it.

We went to a birthday party for 6 year old cousin Dante this past weekend. Here's the card I made for him.

Here's a closeup of the Best Bots Forever stamps from Stampin' Up.

The embossed background was created with an embossing plate from Papertrey Ink.

It's been a busy week here, so I'll make this short and sweet. Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Robot Candy Valentine's Day Treats

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope today is treating you well. 

I saw some really great Valentine's Day ideas on the Scrapbooks Etc. website a few weeks ago, and I thought these robots were amazing, especially for my robot-loving kiddo to give away to his classmates.

These treats were a great way to use up older Stampin' Up and Cosmo Cricket patterned paper. Each robot was unique. They are cute, but a lot more time-consuming than I anticipated. I didn't do as much to the robot's head as the sample on Scrapbooks, Etc. I started running out of time last night, so I made these for Kalino's teacher, the girls in his classroom, and his close friends outside of class (the boys got Superman Valentines with a mini chocolate attached).

While I was working late in the studio, I was watching "Downton Abbey" on the PBS website. They have Season 2 episodes. Have you watched the show? I love it! I noticed Season 1 was on Netflix last week, so I started watching the show. I was hooked. I watched all 7 episodes within a few days.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

I hope your day is going well. You're going to see a lot of thank you cards on my site. I made 18 of them a few weeks ago to thank the wonderful parents and staff who made my birthday celebration very special. Here is one of them.

The stamp is Technique Tuesday from the A Million and One by Ali Edwards. I love her handwriting! The gorgeous papers and ribbon are all from Stampin' Up. The pearls are from Want 2 Scrap.

The Little Guy is waiting for me. We are going to watch a movie before bedtime. I love Netflix! We are going to watch Free Willy. Good night!

Happy Botday!

I love robots! It could be the influence of my 7-year old on me, but I can't resist a cute robot. My nephew Stephen turned 6 this past weekend and had an awesome Star Wars-themed party. I decorated his gift bag and created this matching gift tag. The stamps are the Best Bots set from Stampin' Up.

I cut the tag with my Silhouette digital cutter and adhered different Cosmo Cricket Cogsmo Robot paper to it. On the tag and gift bag I stamped the robots and colored them with Copic markers. I layered their torsos on with foam tape to add some dimension.

The white paper I used on the gift bag was totally wrong for coloring with Copic markers. It was matte kromekote paper instead of a Copic-friendly paper.

I added some cool masculine brads and some baker's twine (you know how I LOVE baker's twine). That's it.

We're getting ready to go on Spring Break, so I'm busy, busy, busy. Later!

Happy Birthday, Esther!

(Sorry, the photos disappeared, so I'm re-posting this blog entry.)
The busy birthday month continues in my family. Today is my sister, Esther's birthday. Here's the card I made for her. The stamps are from Hero Arts. Loved this birthday set. You can never have enough birthday sentiments and images. I dry embossed the cardstock with an embossing folder from Papertrey Ink. I had finished the card, when I accidently smudged the Stickles glitter glue on the card. To minimize my mistake, I scraped away the glitter and rubbed a white ink on the card front. I can still see the mistake, but hopefully you can't.

I popped up the cake with dimension adhesive. I used a Copic marker to highlight some of the details on the cake. The papers are all from Stampin' Up.

Right now I'm listening to music from Aston. They are a classical group from Australia that re-do current songs, like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Coldplay. Check out this site. I'm addicted to their music! They also have YouTube videos here.

Well, I've got to run to school right now. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday, Dad!

I have a sick kid home from school today with a fever and a sore throat, but I wanted to post this card. Today is my dad's birthday. This card didn't get to him in time, so I wanted to show it here.

The sentiment is a combination of a Stampin' Up stamp and alphabet stamps from Lawn Fawn. I did add a comma after "happy birthday", but I took this photo before doing that addition.

Thanks for stopping by and I'm hoping you manage to stay healthy during this cold and flu season.

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (Stampin' Up), Just My Type, Jessie's ABCs (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: white, kraft (CA Paper Goods)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Tools: Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)

Other: Colored Pencils, Diamond Glaze (JudiKins), foam tape (3M)

Happy 7th Birthday, Jonah

Hey blog peeps! Today we went to a birthday party for one of our favorite young friends, Jonah, who turns 7 this week. My Little Guy had a great time with his friends getting drenched with water guns, a water slide, and a Slip 'N Slide.

I made this card really fast this morning because I didn't have time to work on it this week. I used my Silhouette digital cutter to cut out the circle and the number 7. I love that you can use the fonts located on your computer with the Silhouette. The number 7 is in a cool font called Bodoni MT. You can't tell from the photo, but I cut the number 7 several times from Kraft cardstock and glued them together to create my own chipboard. I then cut the Cosmo Cricket paper out and adhered it to the chipboard.

I want to wish one of my best friends, Cris, Happy Birthday today. I didn't have time to make her a card.

I can't help but think about today and what our country went through on September 11th, 2001. Thankfully, we have little ones and celebrations for loved ones in our lives to show us that life goes on. My thoughts and prayers are with all the innocent individuals and their families who are forever changed by September 11th. Peace, my dears!

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)

Paper: Kraft (SU!), The Boyfriend (Cosmo Cricket)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Tools: Silhouette digital cutter

Other: Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, Scoring Board (Martha Stewart), foam tape (3M), white gel pen (Sakura)