June Birthday Cards

Here are some of the June birthday cards I made.  All of them were fun to do, but, of course, some of them were more fun than others!

This card was made in response to a challenge to use something old, something new.  Normal people would usually think "Wedding".  My thoughts were an old stamp and a new stamp, old paper or flowers and new paper or flowers.
My old stamp was the books that newer stamp Editor Tilda was sitting on.
The large gardenia flower was an older one from Magnolia and was in my stash.  The tiny roses were very new as I had just received them a day or two before from Wild Orchid Crafts. 
The  Kraft card base and Handsome Hunter layer were old papers, as was the Prima Herbal Garden used behind Tilda and the books.
The background paper was from a brand new DCWV stack called The Primrose.
Tilda was colored with Copics.

Here is the open view.  The label was from The Primrose stack and was mounted on SU Handsome Hunter card stock.  The flowers were from Wild Orchid Crafts.
Happy Birthday, Tabitha.  I hope you enjoyed your card.

The next card was super simple to make, but was very stunning in real life.

The card base was Stampin' Up paper, but I can't remember which one.  The background paper was from DCWV The Solstice stack.  It was shiny and glittery and required sunglasses to look at it!!
Princess Tilda with Curl was colored with Copics and mounted on Cryogen White.

This beautiful label was in the Solstice stack.  I simply stamped Happy Birthday with an SU stamp and the card was done!!
I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Denise Holland!

This card was difficult to pull together and I am not entirely happy with the final results.  Sweet Pea Tilda was colored with Copics and mounted on a Spellbinders Labels Ten.
I had just received the castle and flag dies from Magnolia-licious and had to try them out.
The flowers were from Prima and were in my stash.
The card base was SU's So Saffron.
The background paper was from My Mind's Eye Simply Delightful stack.

The open view shows the sentiment stamped on another Labels Ten piece.  The flowers are from Prima.
Happy birthday, Julia!  I hope you enjoyed your card.

I'll be back with the rest of my June birthday cards in a few days.
Thank you so much for stopping by and looking at my cards.  I love when you stop by and leave comments!  Have a very blessed week.

Huggeroonies,

Tilda's Town Challenge # 56 - Anything Goes

This week I managed to get a card done for Tilda's Town Challenge #56 - Anything Goes!  I really love anything goes - it just leaves the door wide open for any type of card.

This week I have chosen a card that I think many, many people will relate to.

Sneezing Tilda looks like I have felt many days this spring!  Fortunately the Copic markers I love don't have any ill effects on me :D

The background paper is from Magnolia's Mini Princes and Princesses paper pack,  The bubbles in the water reminded me of allergens floating around in the air from the flowers.  I added little asters on top of some printed flowers for a 3-D effect.
The phrases were computer generated in Word Art.
The stamps came from an old Cornish Heritage Farms Get Well Centers set and were perfect for this card!

The feathers and little dots look like even worse allergens than the bubbles in the water :-(
I never leave home without a supply of soft tissues, so I've included one for you.

I hope you have enjoyed my attempt at humor over a condition I have really suffered from this year.

I am entering this card in Tilda's Town Challenge #56 - Anything Goes.
I will also be using it for my June Mingles card theme of Anything Goes.

Thank you for stopping by.  Please leave a comment and let me know if you like my humor!

Huggeroonies,

Congratulations Card for Josiah

Good morning all you Maggie lovers!  We have had some beautiful weather the last few days.  Today is raining, but we really need rain. My hubby and I have worked really hard this past week and got our veggie garden all in. 

My card for today is a celebration/congratulations card for a young man from our church who has made a name for himself playing soccer.  I'm not sure of all his accomplishments, but they were many!

All of  his accomplishments call for a very special card, which I am entering in the Tilda's Town Challenge #55 - Let's Celebrate.

The image is Soccer Edwin and colored with Copic markers.
The papers are from a We Are Memory Keepers 6 x 6 stack called MVP.
The medal is from Magnolia's Sports collection.   The gold circle in the medal center was punched from a scrap of gold glitter paper.  The ribbons were colored with Copics.
The black star was cut using Spellbinders Stars dies and edged with orange rhinestones from a wonderful package of stamping goodies from my friend Lillian.
The orange ribbon was from my stash.
The orange and black are the colors of Josiah's school.  I modified Edwin's shirt to more closely resemble Josiah's shirt and his number.

Here is the card opened.  The font I used to write "Congrats! Way to go, Josiah!" is a little difficult to read in the picture.
The designer paper is from the MVP stack.  The word "For" in the "For the Love"  doesn't show up very well.
The orange star was punched using the Stars dies.  The small stars were punched with Martha Stewart's Star Confetti punch.

We are so proud of Josiah and all that he has accomplished.  Way to go, Josiah!!

Thank you for stopping by and spending some time.  I hope you have enjoyed your visit.

Huggeroonies,

May Birthday Cards

A big hello to everyone.  The weather here has been so changeable.  Saturday and Sunday (Memorial Day) were so cold the furnace was running, the heat lamp for the garage kitties was turned back on, my winter nightie was pulled back out and I wore my  winter coat to go shopping.  Sunday our church had our annual pig roast (sort of).  It was very windy and chilly so many of the attendees sat inside to eat.  Monday was sunny and rather warm getting into the 60's.  Today is rainy and chilly again.

Now that the birthday girls have posted thank yous for their cards I sent, I can post pictures of them for all to enjoy.

Study Tilda sitting on her picnic quilt reading her book was very fun to color with my Copics.  Offsetting the layers seems to be the answer to uneven margins around the pieces.
The circles background paper came from My Mind's Eye Simply Delightful stack.  The paper with the numbers was from DCWV Kids 4.5 x 6.5 stack.
The cardstock was Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler and Prismatic Sunflowers.  I sponged the lighter Prismatic paper to breakup the solid color a bit.

The ribbon was a gift from an SBS22 sister (Sisterhood of the Blogging Stampers group 22).  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and Hooked on Crafts.

The die cuts, Spellbinders Labels Two, were popped up on dimensionals, as was Tilda and the quilt.

Here is Study Tilda open.  Happy Birthday, Lisa Whittemore!!

Tilda with Daffodil is too cute.  Imagine a daffodil as big as she is and it looks a little heavy as Tilda is struggling to hold it up!

Tilda was colored with Copics and mounted on a Crumb Cake oval with dimensionals.
The background papers were from Magnolia Love Collection, Stampin' Up Tempting Turquoise and Crumb Cake.
The oval Tilda is on was cut using Spellbinders Ovals.  The daffodils and leaves were from Hooked on Crafts.  The ribbon was from the stash.

Here is the inside of the card - no easel this time :-(
The ovals were cut with Spellbinders dies Scalloped Ovals and Classic Ovals.
Happy Birthday Aida Gonzalez!!

Wishes for a great day go out to all of you.  Thank you for stopping by and looking at the latest birthday cards.
I hope you have enjoyed seeing the May birthday cards.

Huggeroonies,

Tilda's Town Challenge #53 - Use a Magnolia Background stamp

As soon as I saw the challenge for this week, I knew just which background stamp I would use.  I had colored this image several months ago, but didn't have a card in mind for it.  The Tilda's Town Challenge was just perfect!

I used the Waterfall Background and Hiking Edwin.

I have no idea what Copics I used to color the background.  I added white gel pen to the clouds and mountain peaks.  Edwin was also colored with Copics, cut out, and mounted on dimensionals and placed so his feet were on the soil path and the first hill.

I tore the edges of the image to rough it up a bit.
The cardstock is Stampin' Up Soft Suede.  The ribbon is from my stash.

The inside of the card is very simple.  I found the sentiment on line and printed it out on the computer.  I tore the edges of it since the lines were a bit long to nicely fit one of my dies.

That's it for this time.  Enjoy the warmer weather we're having!  I won't complain about the heat - I've waited all winter for this !!

Huggeroonies,

Something Old, Something New

The challenge at Tilda's Town this week is Something Old, Something New.  As I was thinking about this theme, the first obvious thoughts were Wedding.  Then I was thinking of an old Tilda stamp and a new one.  Next were thoughts of old/new card stock and designer papers.  Then I thought of an old Tilda on the front of a card with a new Tilda on the inside.  Then similar positions of the old/new stamps.  By this time my head was swimming and I could feel a massive headache coming on :-(

As I started to look through my stamps, I had very few stamps that were old/new similar positions.  That was hard to believe since I have 5 storage bins of Magnolia stamps :D :D  I am a happy woman!!  I had two that were very similar - Study Tilda from 2008 So Heavenly/School/Travel collection and Editor Tilda from 2012 Turning Leaves.  Perfect!!!

Then came papers.  Since I have several new paper pads that I'm not yet very familiar with yet, I sat down and looked through all of them.  Editor Tilda was pretty easy to find the perfect DP.  Study Tilda took a lot longer.

After finding just the right paper, I colored the Tilda's and something for each of them to sit on.  After all that, I still didn't have any idea of how to pull the two Tilda's together.  Then I ended up deciding two cards would work better than one.

Here is the first card and I love it!!

The base is Stampin' Up Crumb Cake. The second layer is an old paper from Prismatic Herbal Garden Multi Pack.  The designer paper is from my brand new The Primrose stack from DCWV.  This page was perfect - newspaper print on the bottom and beautiful roses and swirls on the top with a diagonal line of glittery triangles separating the sections. Love it!!

Editor Tilda is sitting on Books from 2008 So Heavenly/School/Travel collection and is mounted on the 2 papers from the Prismatic pack cut using Nestabilities Labels One .  The gardenia, which I've had for a long time, is from Magnolia; the tiny Gypsophil and roses are from Wild Orchid Crafts and are brand new.

I really liked the look of the papers offset to one side rather than trying to get an even margin all around.

 The little tag used for the sentiment is from the Primrose stack, mounted on the Prismatic paper.  The sentiment is old and I've forgotten where it's from.  the corners were punched using a Fiskers punch that has 4 corner designs on it.  The tiny pink Gypsophil flowers are brand new from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Thank you for sticking with me through the long description of the creative process for this card.  I am entering this card in Tilda's Town Challenge #52 - Something Old, Something New.  Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about this old/new card!!

Huggeroonies,

Spring Stamp Camp 2012

Our stamping group held our first Spring Stamp Camp on April 27.  It was a lot of fun! And a lot of work for the three of us presenters - Deby Scott, Kim Leach and me.

The tables were decorated with spring flower pots.  Under the green styrofoam disks, each pot was filled with stamping goodies - ribbons, bows, stickers, chip board pieces, brads, and roses on top of the disk.  There was also a small bag of stamped images.  Rather than bend them, we put them on the table with each pot.

When the attendees arrived, they were greeted with this scene -

Each person received a personalized decorated gift bag containing the kits for each of the cards to be made.  After brief instructional directions, everyone went to a table to begin working.

The gentleman in the picture has attended every stamp camp we've done.  The first Christmas he and his wife attended together.  She has had to work the day of the others.

 Here are pictures of the cards each of us made.

Kim's Cards

Deby's Cards

Kathy's Cards

 Kim had a meeting in another part of the building, but as she had a break she would come in to see how everyone was doing.  Deby and I helped anyone who needed assistance creating Kim's cards.

Kathy and Deby

We couldn't get Kim to stop long enough for a quick picture!!

Our kitchen staff made us another scrumptious lunch of sandwiches, hot pasta, chips, punch and desert.  All in all, everyone had a great time and got all of their cards finished. 

Did you notice that the ribbons on the tables, the gift bags and flower backgrounds all perfectly matched?  It was not intentionally planned - it just all came together perfectly!  The bags were purchased one day, the ribbons a few days later.  Deby had the cardstock for the flowers in her retired Stampin' Up papers.  We believe God had it all planned that way for us!

Thank you for stopping by and sharing our Spring Stamp Camp with us.

Huggeroonies,