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I have to include a picture of something - so here is my son on his 7th Birthday.  My birthday is 4 days after his, so this was my cake too.  Trust me, it had enough sugar in it to last 4 days!  The frosting had hot fudge sauce in it, yummy. 
I haven't made cards lately.  I worked many hours on my Honeymoon Scrapbook.  I am finished with it and will be giving it to my husband as a surprise gift for our 9 year anniversary in a few weeks. 
Headed out to Colorado Spring tomorrow morning to teach DeNami classes.  I've had a lot of time off, so I am ready to have fun stamping!  Oh, and Cathy has a fabulous store to shop at. If you are in the Colorado Springs here is the link to the scrapbook/stamp store:  Simple Pleasres.

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #6

Dawn has another fabulous color combo this week.  I haven't participated in a few weeks and I've missed it!  Honestly, I already had this card made up and photographed, I just hadn't posted it yet. Lucky Me!  I used Paper Trey Cardstock: Chocolate, Coral, Aqua Mist & White.  DeNami Large Filigree stamp was used to make the background with Vintage Sepia Ink. I used a smaller DeNami filigree stamp to stamp onto the coral strip.  Stampin Up Scallop Punch, Papertrey Chocolate Satin Ribbon, DeNami Quickie Glue Pen & Xtra Fine Glitter.  

Mish Inspired Thank-You

 The Making Memories Patterned Paper display at Michaels sucked me in.  I had to buy some paper, because of the gorgeous cards Mish shared with us here.  I love how she used a tiny bit of ribbon, tied with twine on top of her button. SO easy, but added just the amount of detail I needed on this simple little Thank you card. OH, and I picked up a sweet border punch by EK Success.  I didn't even know there was an additional aisle of border punches until I wandered around the store a few days ago. This is the dotted scallop punch. 

My sweet son will be turning 7 tomorrow. Happy Birthday Kasen! 

He had his class program yesterday at school.  He did a portrait of me, SO cute!  Hope everyone has a great weekend and Mother's Day!

Love you rain or shine - for my hubby.

My husband had to go to Green Bay for 4 days for work.  Before he left I secretly tucked this card in his suitcase.  It was a nice surprise for him to find a card when he arrived at his hotel.  I used the new PTI Scattered Showers set and background basics spots & dots.  Simple, but thoughtful, and that's what counts! I get to go pick him up at the airport in a hour.

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #4 Happy Anniversary

 
Dawn has another fabulous color challenge this week.  Her colors for this week are Brown-Soft Aqua- & White.  You can see her full post here.  I love these colors together - my bedding is the same color scheme, and it is damask, so I had to use her Damask set!   Today is a very overcast and gloomy day here in Vegas, which rarely happens.  NOT a good day to try to photograph a pretty sparkly background.  Hopefully you can see a bit better in the close up shot.  I used PTI Fresh Snow Ink and sprinkled a mix of embossing powder & DeNami Xtra fine glitter on it.  Embossed it and now I have a pretty shimmery background paper.  I think this would make a great wedding card too! I am off to get my son at school, we are headed to Dairy Queen for an afterschool treat!  Have a great weekend.

Baby Shower Thank-You's - Simple & Easy

I'm not a huge fan of mass producing cards. I'd much rather do a unique card, enjoy it, and move along to something different.  Not today! I needed to make 20 Thank-You cards for a mom to be.  I made her the beach/stork invites a few weeks ago, so these thank you cards match.  They are post card style, which takes 1/2 the amount of cardstock for the base.  I used Stampin Up Tempting Turquoise 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.   Stampin up top note die was perfect to add a little detail but still give her enough room to write out her thank you message.  Cute stork is a retired SU one.  Thank You by Amuse. Simple & Functional!

Happy Baby Shower - 2Sketches4u

I had a baby shower to attend on Sunday... so I whipped up a quick card using the 2 sketches 4 u sketch.  Super Fun sketch, but I was too late to post it on there sight.  I thought I would share it with you anyway.  I bought Dawn's new Scattered Showers set from PTI.  I think it is so cute and versatile.  The mom I made this card for loves turquoise. I found this DCWV patterned paper in my new glitter stacks, this one is from the citrus stack... I used it on the thank you card a few days ago too!  I'm loving the apron punch from Fiskars, just the tiny detail and bling really finishes off the card.  Happy Monday!!

Turtles & Flowered Thank-You --- My Time Saturday Sketches

Lauren always has unique layouts for her cards, I really wish I could see how her amazing brain works - SO creative!  Anyway, she posted 3 sketches for this week - I had time to try out two of them.  All of the sketches can be seen on her blog here.   Oh, and she is choosing lucky people to be on a design team too - I'd love to be chosen!  

Turlte Card: I'm always needing birthday cards for kids, so these DeNami turtles are perfect for boys.  I colored them in with my copics and added crystal lacquer so they are shiny little guys.  I thought the fun pom pom layer added just enough texture, and is a little more masculine than a bow would be.  All decorative paper is from Stampin Up. Cardstock is PTI. 

Thank You:  Still loving my DCWV Glitter Stacks. All of this patterned paper is from the Citrus Stack.  I just grabbed a quick Thank You stamp, otherwise this is a scrappy card.  3 Flowers, with Making Memories Brads in the center.  I did try to add a little glitter accent with my Fiskars Apron Punch, it added just a touch of sparkle.  Stickles and white cardstock... easy, easy.

A Bun In The Oven - for WSC77

When I saw the sketch for this weekend I knew this bella stamp would be a perfect fit.  Bella is so cute eating her ice cream with her pickle jar nearby.  Super simple card, but I love the way it turned out.  Colored in with my copics.  Glittery patterned paper from the DCWV Glitter Stack.  I added some stickles to the scalloped oval layer just to tie it into the background paper.  Some bling, and pom-poms finish it off.  Easy, easy, but says it all "bun in the oven".  This is for a newly pregnant mom, so I thought the sentiment was perfect.  Happy Monday!

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #64

Happy Cupcake Friday! I was out of town for the last 2 Friday, so I was excited to participate today!  You can see Taylor's sketch here.   Fun sketch this week - you have all weekend to participate.  I used my set I bought month last month from her- "branching out". I had fun building the little tree branch scene.  I even used the tree base to make the swirly image on the kraft paper.  I really like the swirls!  The green stampin up paper I found had leaves similar to the ones I stamped, so I just added a few brown stamped images to the background to tie it all together.  I stamped and cut out a few extra leaves to add some dimension to my stamped panel.  OH, and I love my copic markers. It doesn't show too well - but I made the birdhouse look like wood.  Colored in with a dark brown and just used the colorless blender to pull some color off - so cool!  Have a great weekend.