to the sweet, lovely, and talented Kimber McGray! Thanks for hopping on over to my blog on Kimbers special day. I'm happy to share my card with her and wish her a wonderful day and year ahead. :)
You've reached the end of the hop, thanks for sharing in Kimber's day. :) To start from the beginning and see the full list of birthday cards visit the Jillibean Soup blog!
Hope you're enjoying your day and feeling loved. ((hugs)) DS & I made his classroom Valentines this year. Inspired from this pin on pinterest:
We printed out the image and stuck glow sticks in there for all the kids. DS loved them. :) And in honor of this day I thought I'd share an old layout featuring the love of my life. :)
Have a wonderful day!
Yesterday I had fun making my Valentine centerpiece for the PTI anniversary challenge. Today the challenge to use a fun digi print out made by the designers (thank you).
I used the birthday digi sentiment image and combined it with this weeks Shabby Tea Room (use a heart and food theme.. see the cupcake) and this is what I came up with:
I used Webster's papers & trim. PTO frame, dress form, and embossed strip dies along with the digi sentiment. made the resin rose (see tutorial here). Thanks for stopping by! :)
PTI is celebrating their 5th anniversary with lots of inspiration and challenges. :) Today the designers picked their top 5 favorites and the challenge was to create something inspired by the designers.
I love what the PTI girls come up with, each so unique and always inspiring. Today I created a project inspired by Danielle Flanders homespin chic style. She has such amazing talent and is so sweet to boot. ;)
I used a old wooden spool that my mom gave me (thanks mom), twine, doilies, and PTI "Love Lives Here" die and stamp set. The tag die and stamp is from Fillable Frames #9.
Thanks for stopping by! :)
Happy Saturday, I thought I'd post some Valentine projects before I run out of time. ;) I have a few more and will hopefully post again soon.
Wishing everyone a wonderful Saturday. :)
A card I made for Emma's Paperie:
This one below has a place for a love letter or gift card:
I added ribbon roses for this one:
A gift bag:
A adorable paper cupcake decoration:
Thanks for stopping by!!
about any of the CHA releases? I haven't gotten a chance to check out many.. what should I be checking out??
I'm excited to see what Emma's Paperie buys. :) Cindy, Anabelle, & Jessica are all there crusing the floor to stock the store. Since I'm SO behind posting my Emma's project I thought I'd do that today. ;)
A card set for our Hambly feature. I used transparencies and recycled a plastic box. Each card uses Hambly tape. Sweet & Simple.. I gave it as a Christmas gift to my SIL.
We featured Simple Stories a few months back. I used their birthday line to make a mini book documenting my sons birthdays (1-8). I left it open so I can continue to add to it.
And one more card from our color challenge:
Thanks for stopping by!
9 years ago today I welcomed the light of my life.. my son! I had been sitting in the hospital for a week since my water broke at 34 weeks and he picked Jan. 24th to arrive. He was whisked off to the NICU and I was able to see him just before midnight. And after 9 days he finally came home. My life has been complete ever since, :)
Today I thought I'd share a little timeline of layouts and photos.
2 days old.. finally off most of the tubes & hoses and I get to hold him.
A layout from when he was about 6 months old. Do you remember Diane's Daughter.. I did this for them way back when, lol.
I think this one was in Memory Makers.. he's about just 2.
About 3, our fishing trip. It was in Memory Makers ( I miss that magazine).
Pre-school graduation
Kindergarten
About age 7, we had a tree frog living by the pool.
And last week.
I realize I haven't made a layout in so long.. need to work on that.
Happy birthday to the sweetest and best boy in the whole world. I'm so lucky to have him. Thanks for stopping by and celebrating with us. :)
My son turns 9 tomorrow. How time flies!! I scheduled a post for tomorrow about him, but today I have a few projects I made for his birthday.
First I used todays PTI MIM challenge (to make a shaker card) to make his birthday card. I recycled some packaging to make a shaker full of red glitter and stars behind the star and guitar. I was excited to finally have a chnace to use this stamp set and guitar die. On the inside I used the same stamp set to make the boder and sentiment.
The inside:
And for his class tomorrow I made some treats. My son wanted a Lego Ninjago theme. Since they don't make such a thing yet (for birthdays) I found a seller on Etsy that sells Ninjago printables.
So I made my own cupcake toppers and candy bar wrappers;
The candy bar wrappers front:
back:
Thanks for stopping by and have a rockin day! :)
Finally, we have snow here! It's so beautiful and makes everything look fresh and new. Ds had a snow day Friday and even though I'm not in school I still get excited for him. If only they'd call off work, lol. It was a challenge traveling for work.. some places the snow was higher than my car hood.
Here's a photo fom the yard (I'm trying to a photo a day this year):
So ds & I decided to make snow angels:
Today Betsy had a fun masking technique for PTI MIM that I decided to try. Keeping with the snow theme this is what I came up with. I used lots of PTI dies, inks, and stamp sets.
Thanks for stopping by! :)
Yes, I know I spelled "so" wrong. ;) You'll see why when you see today's project. Here in Michigan the weather is... a nice and balmy 45 degrees today. This has been the weirdest "winter" yet. I keep waiting for the snowstorm?! Are you having warmer weather as well?
Well , onto todays creation. I decided to combine The Shabby Tea Roomand PTI challenges again this week. The Shabby Tea Room has a gorgeous inspiration photo (check it out) and asks that you use a "sewing" element in your creation. PTI technique this week is to use a border punch to make a background. I used the Victorian Lace Border and used both the positive and negative image to make the background. I also die cut the dress form and added little spools with twine to my stick pins. I added the scissors and Singer sewing machine charm.. how fun!
I'm "sew" happy you stopped by and have a great week! ;)
