Birthday Pup

Daisy turned 4 years old yesterday. I got her doggy ice cream, and I just love this shot of her - licking her lips in anticipation. The funniest part was that when I went to give it to her, Lou said, "Hold on. I need to get the camera. It's her first ice cream." As I was laughing, he said, "Oh my gosh. Look what you've done to me. I'm thinking about taking pictures for your scrapbooks." Too funny!

3's a charm

I can't believe this is my 3rd post today - or that I made 8 cards today. Of course, this could only mean one thing: I'm procrastinating things I should be doing. It's true; I should be working on papers for my internship, but I just can't get inspired. Looks like that's on my Sunday to-do list.

So here are the last 2 cards. The first one is a sympathy card for my husband's stepbrother's wife (since her father passed away). It's pretty simple, but I figured simple and understated are good for a sympathy card. Thanks for lending me the stamp, Wendi.

The last card is for the challenge at Cute Card Thursday that challenges their readers to make a card with the theme of "people" - any people. I chose Ballonabella, as I've only used her once since I got her. I also broke out the Cuttlebug and Crop-a-dile for this card - gotta love the toys!

Part 2

Here are the other 3 cards I made from my afternoon in the scrapbook room with my friend Michele. The first one is for the sketch at Card Positioning Systems' blog. This is the first time I used my new Magnolia stamp, and I really like her.

The next card is using the sketch from My Paper World. I found this paper in my stash and haven't used it in a while - another great perk of challenges.

The final card I made is for the challenge at Arty Girlz blog. It says, "Make something that includes chocolate! Chocolate coloured paper, ribbons, flowers, chocolate smelling embossing powder. A chocolate cake perhaps! The only other condition is that it HAS to include only one other colour (oh ok I'll let you have white too then lol)."

With a Little Help from My Friend....

My friend Michele came over to crop this afternoon. Michele and I worked at our local scrapbook store together a few years ago and love to catch up over scrapbooking and card making sessions (although not often enough).

I wasn't in the mood to scrapbook today, so I made 6 cards for challenges or sketches I found online. I told her she needs to come over more often because I'm very productive when she's here!

The first card is from Di Hickman's blog challenge - make a birthday card with pink, black, and white. It's a little hard to see in the picture, but the pink is vellum printed with pink daisies.

The next card fits the sketch from Sketches from Tamara. It's not something I would have done on my own, but I guess that's the good thing about sketches - streching us beyond our regular designs.

The last one for this set is for the sketch at Papertake Weekly. I pulled out an SU set I haven't used in a while, but I do like the dragonfly.

I made 3 more cards, so I'll post them later. Have a great Saturday afternoon!

8th Birthday

My husband's twin neice and nephew turn 8 years old on Monday, so I used my new Cuttlebug embossing folder to make them cards. (The pictures are a little dark, but when I used my flash, I couldn't see the other embossed numbers as well.) In case I have't said it lately, I just love the Cuttlebug! :) Happy Friday night, girls.

And the winner is......

Thanks so much for all of the entries on my blog candy. I got a lot of good color combination ideas to try. :)

So I asked my DH to pick a number from the comments, and he picked #7. So comment # 7 comes from Sally: Today my favorite is lime green and orange with a little hot pink thrown in.

Congratulations, Sally! Email me your address, and I'll put the goodies in the mail to you. Enjoy!

Blog candy time! (updated)

Wow - I've reached 1,000 hits on my blog (yeah - thanks for visiting!), so I'm here to offer blog candy. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post with your favorite card-making color combination. Enter by Friday, March 28th, and I'll randomly choose one entry to win blog candy.

Here's what you can win:

• 3 clear, unmounted stamps (thank you corners, flower background, and flower/circle)
• a purple mini-album entitled "Ten Things I Love About You"
• 12 strands of various ribbons

Thanks for playing. Have a great week!

Inspired

I've subscribed to the Yahoo group "Stamin UP with Beate" since I read about it on someone's blog, and I love looking at everyone's creations. I saved a few that I really liked and used them as the inspiration for these cards. (Sorry I don't remember who made each inspiration card.)

Pink with flowers challenege

I made this card for the challenge over at Megastamper's blog. To win the blog candy, you have to make "a card or atc or tag ... in ROSA and use flowers for the coming spring." It has to be posted by today, so if you want to play, get crafting! :)