Baseball thank you card

I wanted to make a card for my son's baseball coach who happens to be my ex. It is amazing how far he has taken these kids in baseball. The have only lost one game all season and they are all, the entire team, playing so great. They are all 12 and it is amazing to watch 12 year old play the game of baseball and understand the fundamentals of the sport as well as they do. It is just like watching minature versions of the pro's.....only better.....because when they are this size you can tell that they are playing with all heart and are playing because they truly love the sport and want to be the best they can. I truly believe that sports are so great for kids. It teaches them to be team players and teaches them so much about life in general. Anyway, I wanted to make a special card and this is what I came up with. There team is name is Crush so I wanted to put that on the card somewhere and there colors are orange and black so I wanted to use those colors too. I used the baseball cart and welded the letters from basecamp for the word Crush. I figure either Brandon can give it to him himself or he can have all the boys sign it and they all give it to him. Either way I hope he likes it and knows how much I appreciate what all he is doing with those boys.

stationary box filled with goodies

I am really proud of this oh so easy project. The lady that is marrying Todd and I on Saturday is fighting her 3rd battle with cancer. The first two times it was breast cancer now this time it is bone cancer from the breast cancer. I wanted to make her something very special and thanks to Marie (aka ~~me~~) I was able to do that. The other day while looking around on the mb I saw her post of where she makes these stationary boxes. I thought they were just great so she kindly shared her recipe for them. I am in love with these, I plan on making many many more. The cards I monogramed with her initials using the storybook cartridge, the note paper is nothing but 3 1/2" scalloped squares cut from mini monograms. The tags were cut from George at 3" and then I ran ribbons through the top. The address book is nothing but notebook paper and then printed paper hooked together with brads. I am going tomorrow to get her a book of stamps to go in the stamps slot. Judy going up the side was cut from Plantin Schoolbook and the flowers on the other side is George with stickles in the center. then I added an ink pink and tied a ribbon around the lid of the box. This was the first one that I ever did so it took me just a little longer but I plan on making many many more of these. Thanks again Marie, I think you helped me make the perfect gift....

thank you box with cards

The lady that owns the flower shop here in town is going above and beyond to help Todd and I out during the wedding. She won't let us rent anything, she is insisting that we just borrow it. We are borrowing an arbor, potted flowers, candelabras, she is making my bouquet- this she is allowing me to pay for but she insist that she give me a discount on it. She is a good friend of Todd's and said she just wants to do this for us. Well, I wanted to do something above and beyond the normal thank you card for her so this is what I came up with. I made this box and filled it full of some of the cards that I have made. The flower on top is layered several times to give it depth. I hope she will like it, plus when she sees what the cards look like maybe she will want to put some up in her flower shop. One more week until the wedding and I am almost finished with everything except the getting married..... that is the easy part.....

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 thank you card for photographer

I didn't think I was going to get a card made today. I went and got my nails done right after work, I have really long nails and I was so afraid that I was going to get them broke before the wedding so I went and go the acrylic put over them. First time of ever doing that and I have to tell you, I am liking it.....Anyway, I really needed to make a thank you card for the photographer, who is a man. I was thinking all day what kind of card would be a good thank you card for a man. I kept thinking I need a camera. Well Jeannie was telling me that going places has a camera and I was thinking darn, I don't have going places. Well I started looking through all of my cartridges and look what I found. A camera on the potpourri basket cart. Yeah, I was so excited. I picked my "manly" paper out and went to town. this is what I came up with. I he will like it. The photographer is also a friend of mine so I wanted to make sure it wa alright. I hope he likes it and I hope you do too. The camera was cut on regular cut at 2" and shadow cut twice on 2" and then I cut a little piece of black to put behind the lense. Thank you is cut on regular and shadow at 2 1/4". Thank you so much for looking and thank you for commenting. I hope I don't bore all of you to death on wedding stuff the next few weeks

Wedding thank you cards

I have been so busy getting ready for the wedding. My daughter and I picked out what I think is the perfect dress. Todd and I both have been through a marriage before so we wanted to do everything our way so my dress is my no means a traditional wedding dress. I tried on a bunch but my daughter and the sales lady both kept saying the red one, the red one.... The sales lady even gave me a very nice compliment and said that not everyone could pull off red but I most definitely could. I even found killer red shoes to match. I was so excited. Well with the wedding dress shoping out of the way I thought I would start on some other things needed for the big day. So I have been working on my thank you wedding cards. September 5th is just around the corner so I want to get as much done now as possible. In the midst of working on these thank you cards I found the frames from Storybook. OMG, I am in love with these frames. I think they work really well for thank you cards. I was even able to use up some of my scraps on these cards because I wanted to keep them light enough to mail with one stamp so they really don't take much paper to make. All of the butterflies were the MS butterfly punch. I layered all of the butterflies 3 times each because I absolutely cannot make a flat card. lol... Anyway I hope you enjoy seeing them because I am sure there will be a lot more to make. The next thing I am going to work on is my hershey kisses with our names on them and little containers for them to go in. I am thinking about the little popcorn containers from TBBM, hopefully I will get those done today to show you. Thank you for looking and thank you for leaving a comment. They mean so much

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

God Bless You

This is another thank you card for Teresa, the lady that I work with whose husband was in a very bad accident. She asked me to make several thank you cards for Churches also. Living in a small community is just amazing. I believe all of the churches have done something for this family. It is just amazing how everyone comes together when someone is in need. Definitely shows the power of what God can do. I didn't want this card to be over fancy because I didn't want anything to over power the verse inside. I hope you like it and please leave a comment to let me know if this is alright for a church thank you card. I wanted this one to be very special. I think I will make all the church ones pretty similiar. Thank you so much for looking...

Christmas Noel- church cut at 3 1/2" once regular cut in champagne paper, one blackout cut in yellow, once black out in chamagne, and layers cut in brown for the roof and layers cut in green for the grass.

Wild Card- God Bless You cut at 51/2"

bottom of my heart thanks

Here is yet another thank you card that I have done for my friend. I still have a lot of thank you cards to make but this weekend I promise to post something other than a thank you card. With this one I used the hearts from George and layered them with pop glue dots. I also used stickles around the edge of the hearts. I was in a hurry to take my picture of this one so I used the freezer method for drying my stickles faster. It really does work. I used SYI for the tags behind of my setiment which is computer generated. The inside verse came from my own little mind. I also added brads to the setiment and if you look close enough you will see that I added a stickle dot to the center of each brad. I hope you like it and thank you for looking and thank you for commenting. Be sure and check my blog out too. I am getting more and more cards posted to it. Be sure to leave me a comment there too so I know that you have been there. Thank you all so much.

Thank you

Here is another thank you card. This one I used the hearts from George using the shift function. I cut them at 3". The Thank You is from Beyond Birthdays and is cut at 2 1/2". I inked around the whole card with green ink. I am starting to like this inking method. I hope it looks alright. I decided to leave this one blank so she could hand write her own thank you. I added brads to the ribbon and called it done. I hope you like it and thank you so much for leaving your comments.

many thanks

Any yet here is another thank you card. My friend asked for a bunch of thank you cards and a bunch is what she is going to get. For this one I used the flower form Home Decor, I used clear and red stickles and lots and lots of pop dots. The flower is cut at 4" and the leaves are from plantin schoolbook and are cut at 2 1/2". Many thanks is from wild card and is cut at 5". Jeannie you will be so proud of me, I inked the entire card. I was so nervous about doing that but I figured the worse would happen is that I would have to throw it away. Kinda liked how it turned out. I hope you like it too. Thanks for looking and thank you so much for commenting. I love reading each and every one.

dragon fly thank you card

This is another one of the thank you cards that I am making for my friend at work to send to people that have been helping her since her husbands accident.

The scallop circles are from mini monograms cut at 2 1/2", 2 3/4" and 3"

the Thanks is also from Mini monograms

the dragon fly is from Doodlecharms and I used stickles on the center and on the wings. I also used lots and lots of glue dots to make everything poof... thank you so much for looking and thank you for commenting. They really mean the world to me

thanks - Vicki's Take

Jeannie and I just couldn't wait to do another card so here we are. The husband of a lady that I work with was in a really bad accident. He was on a garden tractor going across a small bridge and the bridge broke and the tractor overturned on him. He has went through numerous surgeries and is just really lucky to be alive. Well, we live in a very small town and everyone knows him and has been great in pitching in and doing things for them and helping them financially, they have 3 small children, and it is so hard for the mom to do everything. It is amazing how a small community comes together when there is a need. Well, she came to me yesterday and asked if I could make her some thank you cards for her to send to everyone that has helped. I was honored that she would want my cards to give to everyone. So I am making a bunch of thank you cards for her. I hope she likes them and I hope everyone that receives them likes them too. For the challenge Jeannie picked the flower from George (one of my favorite flowers) and we used the saying thanks for going above and beyond. I hope you like it. I can't wait to see Jeannies. Believe it or not, I did 90% of the card while talking to Jeannie on the phone.
George flower cut at 3", 3 1/4" and 3 1/2".
Plantin Schoolbook- leaves at 2" #4 cut at 1 1/4" and also shadow cut
Mini Monograms- Thanks
I think Jeannie had thought I had lost my mind because I told her I had to wait a few minutes before I could take my picture because my card was in the freezer, yes the freezer. That is the fastest way to dry stickles.... I used the stickles on the ends of the flower petals. I am still laughing because she sent me a pm and it said freezer?????? do tell. I know she thought I had sniffed too much glue .

Teacher Thank you cards

One of the ladies that I work with asked me if I could make her 4 Thank you cards. 3 for teachers and one for the principal. I wanted all of them to be different and this is what I came up with.

The owl is from paper doll dressup and is cut at 3" and the Thanks is from George

The #1 teacher apple is from DoodleCharms and is cut at 3" and the font is from Plantin Schoolbook.

The chalkboard is from Pooh and Friends, the font is Plantin Schoolbook and the apple is doodlecharms. The lady bugs are walk in my garden and the catepillar is from stretch your imagination.

The bushel of apples is from Pooh and friends and the thank you is from beyond birthdays. I used lots and lots of pop glue dots and lots of layers on all of these cards.