My youngest turns 11!

Yikes! how time flies!! My son turns 11 this weekend and here are his birthday invites :) We are going to be playing laser tag with a ton of boys!! We are so looking forward to it!

Valentine challenges

Some of my stamping friends get together and have "tea" and treats for each holiday....I have made these boxes with my cricut with some small stamping goodies in the box. I hope they like them.

Here are some other valentine cards I have made for my niece and nephews. I have also entered this card in the http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/ Challenge #112 :)

Be My Valentine

I love making Valentine cards!! But I am very far behind on the number of them I need to make! But here are 3 (and the only 3) I have made so far! My first one uses the chipboard hearts from CTMH and I sponged tulip ink on it. The words together comes from the card chatter - love stamp set.D1464

this next card is a http://www.house-mouse.com/ stamp set! I just love them :) Hearts are from the affection c1441 stamp set from close to my heart. And the new sparkle flourishes! I just LOVE them!!!

 And this card uses the retired stamp set called In My Heart from Close to my heat and the new bakers twine. I also love this! This was my first time using it..

All the "patterned paper" is STILL wrapping paper from a Christmas gift from my sister in law :) 

Retiring Product

Wow there are some of amazing stamp sets retiring THIS month!! Here are some of my fav.

Also retiring is all the paper packs in the 2011 winter idea book including Believe, Wonderland, Dreamin and Roxie. Cranberry Ribbon, Cocoa Ribbon, Soft set Eyelets, Bliss Level 2 assortments and many other items.

Sneak Peak with Stella

I have been working with new stamps, papers and embellishments from CTMH's New spring/summer idea book :) I just love butterflies and the stella paper! Here are some cards for you to see...this first card uses the new stella paper pack, quick cards-butterfly and sparkle flourishes with siver glitter gel.

My next card uses the same paper, stamps and ink but with the bronze glitter gel.

And this last card was an inspiration from http://cleanandsimplestamping.blogspot.com/ clean and simple sketch challenge. I hope you like them.



Hello

I really wanted to get more done today but after my weight class I was just too drained to do to much! Luckily it was my day off and my kids were sooo great to help with the cleaning!! There are a lot of challenges I wanted to do but I only managed one :) over at CCEE there was a sketch and I love how my card turned out! My second card is cute but definatly not my fav. Check them out :)

http://cceestampers.blogspot.com/

The paper is actually STILL from my recycled wrapping paper from Christmas...it is very shinny which is why the picture didnt show up so well. Thanks for looking...Hope your week coming up is excellent!! I am working all week so I will be very busy :)

Roxie paper pack

I have not really played with the Roxie paper pack yet, and I am still intimidated by the zebra strip sheet ~) But I have finally put together a card box and matching cards :)

the last 2 are my fav! I will send one to my sister who's birthday is coming up :)

More Challenges

Today is my last day off for my winter holidays and I have done nothing but hang out in my craft room :)
Over at http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/ the little red wagaon blog there challenge was warm fuzzies. Well I made my card with a felt snowflake :) and wonderland paper...more like a cool fuzzie but oh well!

And at Christmas Cards all year round http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.com/ there challenge is to make a non-traditional colour card. The image was stamped from my friend Laura (thank you) and paper was a give away at our Weekend Crop at Geneva park (thank you Lori)

Hope you like them :)
Michelle

Double Challenge :)

Last year I challenged my club members to make 5 Christmas cards a month....I also made 5 a month. This really helped cut down on the holiday stress....So this is a goal I would like to continue this year. So for my First Christmas card of 2012 I used 2 Challenges.
1. Creative Card Crew's Challenge was to make a "snow" card http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/
2. 365 Cards Challenged us to use Blue and poka dots..... http://365cards.blogspot.com/

So here is my card

I used the cricut art philosopy for the snow flakes, Bling assortment for the centre, snow flurries stamp set and Believe paper pack and sliver glitz gel :)
Thanks for looking! what FUN challenges!!

Mojo Monday 222

Hello :) Today I am still playing that beautiful wrapping paper :) I love the fact that I am making cards and recycling at the same time. I used the mojo monday sketch as my inspiration for this card.

I love how it turned out :)