Abby's Birthday Party

My Granddaughter Abby turned 3 years old today. She had a Barbie Party at the park on Saturday and had a great time.

Here is the link to view her birthday pictures on my kodak.com website. Enjoy!

http://adobe.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=rooj8oz.7dybssi7&Uy=-s70z79&Ux=0&UV=139003118756_803505398111

I hope the link works for you, otherwise here are a couple of my favorite pictures. She won a bike from a kids bike race held here in town a couple of weeks ago, we saved it for her party to surprise her...boy was she surprised!

Gift Card Holder

Here is a card I made for a gift card.

The insturctions for making this card can be found on this website: http://stampwithdiane.blogspot.com/2008/05/gif-card-holder-tutorial.html

I used different color paper and the "She's All That" SU Stamp Set. I used Certainly Celery, Barely Banana, and Regal Rose for my colors.

White Dawn Rose Bush - Happy Memorial Day!

Here are some pictures of my White Dawn Rose Bush that I got in memory of my mom when she passed away in 2006. She was very fond of White flowers and said you should always have white flowers planted among your other colors. Her name was Dawn so this rose is in memory of her. I never had an interest in gardening but she loved it and turned my sister Karen into a gardener (after she told her that gardening was like decorating except you move or place plants around instead of furniture. My brother-in-law Brian now gets to relocate plants whenever my sister decides to rearrange the "furniture" (plants). Mom enjoyed Brian "thanking Mom for telling Karen that"! My "God Mother" Laurene, Mom's best friend told me that I could keep this plant alive and she would help me, which she has. I bet Mom is smiling down enjoying the fact that I actually enjoy some of this gardening - especially watching her rose grow each year.

Happy Memorial Day - Mom, we are thinking of you (as always)...enjoy!

Granddaughter Abby's Birthday Card

Here is Abby's 3rd Birthday card, she is having a Barbie Princess Party today at the park...I found the embellishment at the Dollar Store...fun and easy!

June Project - Father's Day Wiper Card

Here is a card we will make for one of our June projects. It is a card design from Dawn's Stamping Thoughts...I love her stuff!

http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com/dawns_stamping_thoughts/

It is hard to see the pop up but you can watch Dawn's video on how to make this card if you can't come to class on June 9th. I am also going to use this same design and have the pop up say "I hope your sail into retirement is as great as you are" by using the computer to type it out. I have a special person retiring on May 30th and want to make her a fun card...If it turns out the way I hope I will post it later.

Congratulations Card

Here is a cute congratulations card I got from my friend Barb N. for my new job. She made this from the Stampin' Up! set Tart and Tangy. Thanks Barb!

Here is my version of the card Sue made me for Mother's day (see last blog). I didn't have the same stamp set, cuttlebug background, or ribbon but I still liked the concept of her card. We are heading to see Jackie, LEroy, and Maddie after visiting Carrie, Tim, and Abby for Mother's day. Maddie is having surgery tomorrow...pray all goes well and she isn't in pain and heals 100%!

Remember Stamp Club tomorrow night. Sue is hostess and acting demonstrator...bring your designer paper, cardstock, and ribbon for your box...

Happy Mother's Day to all you special Moms. Enjoy your day!

Happy Mother's Day

I have been so busy that I didn't make any Mother's Day Cards until this morning, too late to mail to my special Mother's living out of town but I made one for each of my two special, wonderful mothers - Jackie and Carrie. Of course I cased the idea for the card from the one I received the above card from Sue for Mother's Day...I didn't have all the same stamps or punches but I liked my version of her card with what I had on hand...Thanks Sue for the cute card.

Stampers -

May 12th is our next Stamp Club...Sue is the hostess and will bring a project.


We will also be making one of these cute little boxes (shown above). I cased the idea from someone on Split Coast Stampers.



Please bring the following for this project:

• Designer Paper (two sided works great) size 8" x 8" for the lid
• Card Stock 8 1/2 x 11" (any color to coordinate with your designer paper lid) Used for bottom and border inside window.
• Ribbon to go around your box ( between 18 to 20 inches long)

We will use the Tart and Tangy set found in theMini Collection 2008 Catalog along with a couple oldie but good sets for stamping an image on the transparency. I will project the ink, stamp sets, and transparency paper for this project.


If you have a stamp set that you want to try bring it along the size of the hole is 1 3/4" circle so anything that fits should work!


I will have some paper with me in case you forget but if you want to make a box with a certain theme please bring your own paper.