Graduation

My middle daughter is graduating this Saturday! It's been a great senior year for her. As well as her normal school, she has published a book (Etched on My Heart) and started her own business on Society 6. I am very proud of all her hard work!

She has many friends graduating this year also. So I thought I would make a card for all the parties I will be going to this month! Or many cards!

I love the little critters from the set Cheerful Critters. I was sad to see this set retire, but I got a lot of use out of it!  

Thanks for stopping by to look!

Big Day

I finally got a chance to actually do a challenge over at SCS. The Try a New Technique challenge was a Pop-Up Diorama. When I saw it, I knew I wanted to use the Big Day set from SU!

I also used the SAB paper and the alcohol markers. It was fun to try something new. Actually, it was fun to make cards again! I haven't had much time to do that lately. 

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

Snowflakes!

Winter seems to be making up for us having a green Christmas this year! It has been bitter cold for the last couple days and has started snowing. So I thought it would be a good time to enter the challenge over at Merry Monday. Their challenge is snowflakes!

I love the washi tape and embossing folder from SU! I really like the way the card turned out. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for stopping by!

Color Challenge

Over at Christmas Card Challenge it's colors! I've stated in a previous post that this particular color combo has been a problem for me. Other people come up with these beautiful cards using it, but I could never seem to make it work! I finally made one that I really like!

Hope you enjoy it too!

Curvy Keepsake

I just love the Curvy Keepsake box die from SU! I'm sure you've seen all the cute designs that are our there on Pinterest. Well, I just had to add my own!

I made the little girl first. Then I had to try a little boy.

Now all I need is a baby shower to make them for!

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A Star is Born

My nephew and his wife just had a baby boy a couple weeks ago. I haven't had the chance to see him yet, since they don't live by us. But in September, we will be going down to see them. Here is a card I made for the event. I'm going to write his name on the circle.

I used the July My Paper Pumpkin kit and the star framelits. Great set! I'm entering this over at My Pumpkin Challenge, wishes and stars.

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Daydream Medallions

I have been having so much fun playing with Daydream Medallions from Stampin' Up! I have had it for awhile and never used it. With SU's promotion of the bigshot this month, I thought I would make up some cards using it to show what you could do for my stamp class.

This first one was inspired by a sketch over at Colours and Sketch. When I saw it, I thought of this stamp set right away, and so began my playing.

The next card is for the following challenges. 

Christmas Card Callenges - anything goes

Complete Christmas - anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas 

Festive Friday- inspired by photo

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - deck the halls

I love the woodgrain stamp and use it a lot. Also love that you can color the pearls with the alchohol markers to match your color scheme.

The next ones are just more playing around. Some are inspired by pins on pinterest.

I love how by just changing the color you can get a totally different look. Plus, who doesn't love sunflowers!

I think I'm going to make this one for my next card club.

This one is just fun! I found something similar on pinterest. This is my take on it.

There are a few more ideas that I want to do but this is it for now. Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.