It's A Baby.......Shower!!!!

Good day everyone. Well my good friends Shannon and Cesar are expecting a baby in early May. I am so excited for them I can hardly contain myself. Of course I had to throw her a baby shower and of course I had to do the invitations for the shower. So I got the inspiration for these invitations by checking out the Resources page on Splitcoast Stampers. This is the Double Diagonal Pocket card (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/diagonal_double_pocket_card/)

I thought it was so cute and easy and would be perfect. The colors are taken straight from the nursery design and you would not believe how close the striped paper matches the valance over the window! What a lucky find! They don't know the sex of the baby so I decided to match the nursery colors. The paper is all Bazzil cardstock. The green is Irish Eyes Bazzil Dots and the Yellow is Buttercup (or Buttercream). I forgot to save the tab label across the bottom of the patter paper, but I purchased it at Achievers as well as the baby stamp and welcome little one stamps. The ribbon is from American Crafts and I formatted and printed all the text in Word on the computer and printed multiple copies at one time. I did 25 invites. At least I remembered to do one for the baby book and one for my album!!!!! I have done two other custom invite type orders and both times did exactly the number needed and forgot to save one for me!!!! Oh I almost forgot. Shannon called me and said she would like for people to help build the baby library and so the little red tag has the registry information on one side and on the other has text to read "Please bring a new or gently used Children's book for the baby in English or Spanish. You will be entered into a raffle for a prize." The raffle is sponsored by Shannon so I don't know what the prize will be, but I think this is a great way to promote reading and family time. I am all for it!

I am sooooo excited, I can't wait to be an Auntie again!!! (Well not really, an auntie, but close enough) Congratulations to the happy couple and I'll see you at the shower!

Another Birthday celebration

Good morning,

Happy monday! Well today I would like to share a recent card. I am the official birthday card maker for everyone at work right now. Over the weekend, one of my co-workers had her 40th birthday(Shhh-don't tell her I told you). So I had recently made this fantastic card at a workshop run by my friend Debi Squires. Debi is a consultant with Close to My Heart Products and runs a monthly workshop for a group of ladies. I joined this group recently and I have truly enjoyed the classes, plus it gives me some time to spend with my daughter doing something we both like. I am not certain the names of these papers, but I do know the stamp is from the set "Mom on the Go" and it was colored with Stamping Up markers. The classes are so full that we all bring our own adhesive and she does have markers there from Close to My Heart to use, but it speeds things along if we bring our own coloring tools as well. I don't have a picture of the inside, but it completes the sentiment with "Born to Shop....not to mop". I thought it fitting for my co-worker as she is really a mom on the go. Happy Birthday to a fabulous lady. Until next time.

Another one from the Archieves

Good day to all. Until I get all this technical stuff figured out I can only show pictures of some of my older cards that I have on my computer already. Thank you to those who visited me yesterday for my blog debut - I hope I didn't disappoint you. Well today I'd like to share a card that I made for my mother's 50th birthday a couple years ago. She lives here in Denver, but for her 50th birthday she was with her sisters, brother, and mother at a family reunion in Kentucky. A good time was had by all, but we sure missed her for her birthday. I made sure to get several special made cards out to her from my dad, niece's and nephews, and my siblings. I loved them all, but this was one of my favorites. Simple and elegant - just like mom. Enjoy! Until next time.... Bye.

Welcome To You All!!

Hello and Welcome to my blog. I have followed so many blogs for so long and just wondered how do they do it? How nice must it be to share thier work with tons of folks with just a few clicks of the mouse? Alas, I was scared, hesitant, lazy, whatever you want to call it. I was happy to spend my day searching through tons of blogs and checking out all the creativity and beautiful work out there. Everytime I left a comment for someone, I thought of a card I wanted to share with them. I envied all those who could play along with challenges that required you to "link to your blog" with your take on the challenge and I secretly despised everyone whose entry into said challenges resulted in some fabulous blog candy. Well, I finally took the leap and decided to just get over it and start my own blog! WHO KNEW?? I CAN do it!

I welcome you all to the misguided ramblings that only a select few currently follow and appreciate - you know who you are :) My hope is that the rest of you can look past them and enjoy the work I have been waiting to share with you all. I'd like to share with you a card that I made some time ago for a friend who was having a hard time with some things. I wanted her to know that I understood her trials, supported her through them, and most of all that she was loved. The main image was a sticker I bought at Archivers, I think the paper is Archivers card stock, but it was some time ago so I am sorry I don't know the exact colors. The ribbon is the elastic kind and matched so nicely. When I made this, blogging and receipes were the furthest thing from my mind. I promise I will get much better as the time goes on here. I hope you enjoy it and I hope you come back for more soon. I have a little invitation to share with you for my next blog. Until then....Thank you for stopping by.