romantic card in black and creme

I think this could possibly be one of my favorite romantic cards that I have made. I am really proud of how this one turned out. First of all I absolutely love this paper, OMG, it is so pretty....and it is all Donna's M's fault that I bought it too. This is from the DCWV creme stack. this particular piece that I used on this card is flocked. I really do wish you could see it in person, it is the greatest paper. I actually bought the stack to do pages in my wedding scrapbook but I had to do a card with it first. Now I may have to buy another pack for my scrapbook and use all of this pack for cards. I wish also that you could see the center heart. It just sparkles The heart is from the wedding cart cut on 4", both on shift and regular cut. I really like the look of the center of the heart, it was super easy but the final look is really great. I went around the entire piece of white paper with stickles then I took white glitter and sprinkled it all over the heart. The stickles dry raised so the heart looks like it has a raised glitter center. It really is pretty in person. Then I used the jasmine corners and added black stickles to those, the love is from Beyond Birthdays and the butterflies were MS, and they are layered and then I added white stickles. Even Todd said this is one of my prettiest, which is a lot coming from him. Usually I get that is real pretty sweetheart. This one he actually did a good bit of commenting on. Made me feel good. I hope you like it too and please leave me a comment, I love to read them.

here are two more thank you cards for my wedding

Here are a couple more thank you cards for people that are doing things for our wedding. The first one is for the lady that is singing. I have picked Allison Krauses- You say it best when you say nothing at all and John Berry's- Your love amazes me. I am so excited to hear her version because she has the most beautiful voice.

The next is a thank you card for the lady that owns the florist. She knows my soon to be husband ( 2 weeks from today) whoo hooo...... I offered to rent an arbor, candelebra and some potted plants and she said no, she wanted to just let us use them. She said this was something that she wanted to do for us. She is also making my bouquet so I wanted to make her an extra special card. I wish you could see it in person because the picture doesn't show it's true colors. I have to tell you out of all the thank you's this is one of my favorites.

I hope they both enjoy their cards. Thank you all for looking and leaving me a comment. I still have a few more wedding thank you's to do before the wedding so I hope you can bare with me....

Wedding Card Book

Todd and I have finally set our wedding date. September 5, 2009. I am so excited. I went and looked at rings today and went and looked at a wedding chapel and decided that the perfect place for us to get married would be in our backyard. We truly have a gorgeous back yard. We have this old oak tree that is over 200 years old. It stretches over almost the entire back yard. I have the photographer lined up, I picked out the two songs the other day. John Berry - Your love amazes me. You can listen to it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62okIG1DNB8 and Allison Krause It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjsjZWlRVvo

I am excited about both of these songs because I think both of them suite us so much. I will post a picture of our wedding invitation too. Todd said he wanted something simple so I tried to make it as simple as possible but still elegant. It will be a very small wedding with just family and a few friends. This book will be setting out for all of our wedding guest to sign along the inside. I thought it would make a great keepsake. I saw the idea of making the book from Mandi Lou, aka bunny lover. Thank you for the inspiration Mandi Lou. I took a picture of the inside verse but I am not sure how clear in came out. The first page says "There are three things that we will endure- Faith, Hope and Love, and the greatest is love." the second page says "Two hands, two hearts, one love forever! then it says "Better than I was, more than I am and all of this happened by taking your hand." and the third page says "From this day forward by God's grace and goodness, I give you my hand and my life to share." Then I wrote both of our names at the bottom. I didn't want all the folds to show on the edge of the book so I took another piece of paper and made a binding for the book and the adhered another full sheet to the front and back of the book for the cover. Alot of time and hours went in to making this but I wanted it to be special. I truly wish you could see it in person because I really don't believe that the pictures does it justice. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I spent a lot of time on this project and would love to have your input. Thank you so much.

Cuttlebug challenge #42

The cuttlebug challenge this week was to locate 3 blinkies and email their locations to Nilda and then to post a card using the Mr Linky box. The card was to use our favorite cuttlebug folder. I would have to say that my favorite cuttlebug folder would be ther one that I am using at that time. This particular card uses the divine swirls folder and the swiss dots folder. I guess I would have to say these two are really my favs since I use them the most. I used divine swirls with the scalloped circles cut from MM at 3",2 3/4 " , 2 1/2", and 2 1/4". I also used the divine swirls for the burgundy background paper and also for my corner pieces which are jasmine cut at 5". I used the swiss dots folder for the present which was cut from celebrations at 2 1/2". This was the first time that I had cut anything from the Celebrations cart. The flowers in the center of the jasmine corners are a Martha Stewart punch and then I added a gold glitter stickle to the center of the flowers. I love the paper I used. I used the gold metallic paper and then the background paper is from the Once upon a time stack. That stack has so many pretty papers. This will be a birthday card for my SIL, I took my sharpi pen and wrote her name on the gift box tag. I am pleased with how it turned out and I hope she will like it too. Thank you so much for looking and thank you for commenting.

Soccer birthday card

My step son will be 10 on his birthday. He loves playing soccer. So I knew exactly what cart I needed to make his birthday card. I say this cart was my steal cart because I won it off of ebay for $11 and I think that is a "steal". I wish I could win LAB or LL for that. lol....
I am absolutely falling in love with vellum. I think the inside is my favorite part of the card because of the vellum. I love how you can see the soccer shoe behind of the wording.
OK, here are the directions:
Soccer cart- goal net cut at 2 1/2 " regular and shadow, the player is cut at 3 1/4"- reg and shadow. One the inside of the card, the shoe is cut out at 1 1/2" reg and shadow. the whistle is cut at 3/4" and the trophy at 1 1/2". I also took my sharpi and wrote Nick on the trophy.
Base Camp for the font cut at 1" on both reg cut and blackout cut
Jasmine for the corners on the inside of the card cut at 4" and 5".
Thank you so much for looking and thank you so much for leaving a comment. They really do mean so much!

My Hero Ribbon card Vicki's take

This is a Jeannie/Vicki challenge card. Jeannie and I wanted to do something really special this time. She came up with the Hero ribbon idea. We were either going to do a yellow ribbon or a pink ribbon. I chose the pink ribbon because it is a little closer home to me. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and thank the good Lord above she is cancer free. If I think of anyone as being a hero in fighting this terrible disease I think it is her. She battled it very hard and very courageously and never not once gave up. The hope on the front of the card is for all the hope that she had, the faith is for the faith that she never lost and gave up, the miracle is her and that she is living proof that it can be beat, and the inspire is for all the inspiration that she gives everyone around her everyday. I put a lot of heart into this card. I actually made two just alike. One to keep for another day and one to send to her. I can't explain the feeling I had while making this card. It was a very emotional card to make. I guess I could really feel what each word stood for. On the inside of the card I put anothe pink ribbon on the card first. Then I printed my sentiment on vellum and layed it over top of the ribbon. I wasn't for sure it was going to work out, needless to say I was so happy that it did. This actually is an A-7 card because I couldn't make it work right being an A-4 card. Here are the directions and thank you so much for looking and leaving a comment, they mean so much to me.

George- pink ribbon - this is actually the & sign cut at 3" and using the shadow feature

the ribbon on the inside of the card is cut at 5" shadow feature- stickled around the edge of the ribbon

Hope- home decor- cut at 1 1/2" on regular and shadow cut

Miracle- home decor- cut at 3/4" on regular and shadow cut

Faith- Home Accents- cut at 1" on regular and shadow cut

Inspire- Home Accents- cut at 1" on regular and shadow cut

corners are Jasmine and are cut at 3 1/2", 4" and 4 1/2"- added stickles

scalloped circles are from Mini Monograms and are cut at 3", 3 1/4" and 3 1/2", I added stickles to the scalloped circles to give it a little glitz.

thank you again for looking and for leaving a comment, this really was a labor or love.

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Dragonfly - Vicki's take

Yeah! Jeannie and I found time to do another challenge. I have so much fun with these challenges.It really is hard to make a card without her. Well, Jeannie has been really busy this week with all the birthdays and getting Madison moved and I have been really busy making all these thank you cards but we still wanted to get at least one card challenge in this week. It really was nice to make a card other than a thank you card. When we were trying to decide what our challenge would be, I told Jeannie that I loved the dragon fly from home decor and she came up with the "Good Luck" sentiment since that is a sign of the dragonfly. I was excited about it because I needed to make a good luck card so it worked great for me. This card is for one of the ladies that I work for. The assistant principal of the elementary school is leaving and going to another school, she said that she wanted something really special on the inside because this lady has been great with her kids and that she would be greatly missed. this is what I came up with. I have to tell you, I struggled really hard with this card, It actually started out a different color, different papers, different idea...I couldn't get it to come together the way I wanted to so I left and came back and had a whole knew idea to try to work with. I like how this one came out better. It definitely is not how I pictured it in my head. I hope you like it and please leave me a comment, they mean so much!

Home Decor- dragonfly cut at 2"- twice in gold and once on shadow in purple, stickled with purple

Walk in my garden- daisy cut at 1"- each flower is 4 cuts, I took my hole puncher and put a hole in the center and hooked them together with brads. I love how they came out. this could be my favorite flower now.

Jasmine- front corners cut at 4" and back corners cut at 4 1/2"- stickled with gold

lots of glue dots and lots of stickles.

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Angel thank you cards

I needed to make 4 angel thank you cards for Teresa. She said that her and her husband had felt as if 4 people truly had been their angels in all of this. She wanted them just alike so this is what I came up with. I used the angel from Christmas Noel. I cut her at 3 1/4" once on regular cut and twice on blackout. I also cut her wing once on regular cut in purple and twice on blackout cut in the pearlized white paper. I hope you can see from the last picture that her wings actually bend forwards like she is flying. I also had the neatest paper for the background. the paper directly behind of the angel is clouds and one of the cards you can actually see a little bit of the ocean behind her. The very back ground paper has words all the way across it that refers to faith and living life to the fullest, I thought it worked perfect. I also used my Jasmine cart for the corners, I love those corners, I think they really can add to a card. I used lots and lots of pop glue dots and of course I stickled her wings and bottom of her dress. The inside says "You truly were a blessing in disguise, Thank you for being my angel. I hope the recipients like them as much as I enjoyed making them. Tomorrow I have to make 5 more church cards and then I think I am finished with all the thank you cards she needed. That will make 42. Thank you so much for looking and thank you so much for commenting. Don't forget to check out my blog, I have been really busy putting a lot of my cards on there. I would love to have you as a follower....

Many Thanks

Here is yet another thank you card for my friend at work. I am running out of ideas for sayings for the insides of my cards so I may have to start duplicating the verses on the inside. I hope I am giving everyone ideas for thank you cards instead of boring you to death with thank you cards. Thank you so much for looking and thank you for leaving your comments, I appreciate them all so much.

Walk in My Garden- flower cut at 2 3/4", 2 1/2" and 2 1/4"

Jasminie- Corners cut at 5" and Many thanks cut at 3"

Lots and lots of stickles and lots of glue dots