Helen's Birthday

When I started this blog I had full intentions of posting every Sunday. As you can see, this has not occurred. I’ve had a computer crash and a few anxiety attacks over losing many files and pictures. Thanks to Jeff at Right Click on Glick and my beloved Evan, I’m “back up and running”. Keeping fingers crossed that all is well.

My “cyber” friend Helen celebrated her birthday in April. I only mention cyber since we have never met in person. We met a few years ago over the internet and have a struck a special friendship. Helen truly inspires me to be a better person. She had recently mentioned her passion for birds which motivated me to create this box and set of cards for her special day. In my stampin’ circle anything but a card is known as “this is not a Julie project”. Literally thinking outside the box and with the help of http://melstampz.blogspot.com/, a BIG thank you to Mel for the easy to follow instructions on making this box, I came up with this little gift. There are 5 different designs, two of each. It was created using Baja Breeze textured cardstock, Parisian Breeze designer paper with Brushed Copper cardstock and embossing powder. The pictures pretty much tell how they were designed. Should you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Helen sent a beautiful thank you card with birds on it :) thanking me for the "beautiful cards and the time and love put into them".

LNS Challenge #13

This week's challenge at the LateNightStampers Yahoo Group was Birds of a Feather. This was my entry. I thought it would be appropriate to take a picture in front of Florence, my hen. We moved to an acreage about a year and a half ago and I have been teasing my husband since that we should get chickens, for fresh eggs every morning and a donkey to keep the coyotes away. Florence was the closest thing I could find, without having to shelter, feed, and clean up after. Still working on getting that donkey :)

I started with a piece of Baja Breeze, layered it with a piece from the Parisian Breeze Specialty Paper. Then I inked up the bird stamp from Love You Much with a Night of Navy marker. I had this brilliant idea that an Aqua Painter would work to color in the birds and not make it so dark. Wrong!! The paper bubbled and bled. So, I stamped the birds on some of the Sahara Sand color from Parisian Breeze, cut those out and popped them up on dimensionals. Then I stamped the sentiment from Best Wishes & More using the Night of Navy Classic Ink Stamp Pad. Added the branches from the Decorative Strip Birds and Branches using a 2-Way Glue Pen and my card was done. Enjoy! Please leave a comment. I love to hear what you think.

Gift Box with Cards

This is a monogrammed card box with 10 matching cards, taught to me by my upline Wendy, that I made for my dear friend Abby. Her favorite colors are blue and green. I was so pleased that it arrived to her safely (Alberta to BC) and that she really liked it. This was a bit out of my comfort zone since I don't much like making anything other than cards.

Utah Divas International Sketchy Saturday #22

I decided to answer the call of a sketch from http://utahdivasinternational.blogspot.com/

Recipe:
Paper: Rose Red Cardstock, Whisper White, Rose Red DSP, Delicate Dots DSP
Sets: Botanical Blooms, Love You Much
Additional: 1 1/4 circle punch, rose red marker, sponged Going Grey

Bar-B-Que

This is an invitation that I did last summer for a Bar-B-Que we were having to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of our new house.

The sets used were Backyard BBQ and Bunch O' Bugs from Stampin' Up. I embossed the red checkerboard to make it look like a plastic tablecloth and stamped the ants in black. The "cooker" was stamped in Encore Silver Metallic. I used punches for the gloves and used dimensionals to pop-up the bottom one.

Road Trip

I am a member of the Lion's Club. There is a convention coming up in Minneapolis and I have been teasing one of the member's to go. She carries this really big purse. I mentioned that we should put all sorts of items starting with the letter V in her purse.

This is the front of the card:

And on the inside - hopefully you can click on it to make it bigger:

Let me know what you think!

Bridal Shower Card and Basket

Bridal Shower


My friend's daughter is getting married soon. This is the card I made for the bridal shower in the colors of the bridal party. The bride has chosen a seashell theme. Below the wedding dressing I wheeled Seashells in versamark. The corset was traced with a gel pen. I don't have the particular stamp...

This is the basket her Mom and I made together. Plain napkins wheeled with Seashell wheel in cerely green