MASCULINE FISH CARD

Another tutorial from Michele Zindorf.  I didn't have  a lot of the right things to work with like the markers or the right color inks so I did a work around.  I usually don't copy a tutorial 100% but this card was just so stunning I couldn't help myself.  A friend of my is having birthday and is an avid fisherman and will really appreciate this card.  I am always so grateful for those talented people out their that share there incredible talent.

GOLD WATCH FOR 90TH BIRTHDAY

What do you give a man who has everything.  I designed this cake for my bosses 90th birthday.It was definitely something he never had and  was really thrilled with it. The face of the clock was an edible image and the gold fondant was a edible spray coloring.

MASCULINE BIRTHDAY CARD

This is a Mo Manning image.  Perfect for the fisherman in you life.  I used spectrum noir markers to color the image and a real fish hook for an embellishment. I designed the circular sentiment.

PET SYMPATHY CARD

If we are lucky enough we have had the joy of sharing  a part of our lives with animals.  Unfortunately, the time is never long enough because they live for such a short time.  I made this card to share my sympathy for a loss of a dog.

JEDI CAPE AND ANIKIN SKYWALKER COSTUME

If you have been following my blog,  I had posted two Elsa costumes that I had made for my granddaughters.  My grandson wanted to know where his costume was and of course it wasn't going to be an Elsa dress.   He picked Anikin Skywalker from Star Wars.   I had already make him a Luke Skywalker for Christmas which he thinks came from Santa so I used the same Karate Halloween Costume for the pants and top and bought a ghoul costume and turned it into a cape.  Unfortunately I didn't get a good picture of the costume  because it needed adjusting and I didn't get back into taking more pictures once it was done.
The important thing being , he loved it and wears it all the time.

ANOTHER SUMMER CARD

This is a Lily of the Valley Image , colored with spectrum noir markers  and it is 3d.  I designed the sentiment and cut the cattails  from MTC . 

SUMMER CARDS

I have never entered a card challenge before , so I decided to try my luck with Crafters Companion  summer card challenge.  I used a sassy Sally and Bella  digi image and colored them with spectrum noir.
I also made them 3d.  Wish me luck

CANOPY CARD

I was dying to try making the canopy card. I am so grateful for the wonderful people that share their ideas, and give us  the instructions  for some great cards.   This card is my version of the canopy card.  The cut out is from the sweetheart cricut cartridge.  The stamps are from Stampin up  Don't you think it would make a great engagement card.

FRIENDS FOREVER

Over the years we have many friends come and go but there are those who seem to be in our lives forever.
My son has a few friends he has had since  he was very young so I decided to do a scrapbook layout of theses special friends.

ORGANIZING YOUR DIES

I have seen a lot of methods for organizing your dies especially the spellbinders sets but I was always worried that they would fall off hooks or magnets.  I decided to  put  magnets sold for printing pictures in a 8.5 by 11 scrapbook album and store my dies.  I filed them back to back with cardboard in between and marked all the sizes and how many I should have in each set.  Knowing the size makes it easier when you want to print an image and use a certain die cut.

RIBBON ORGANIZATION

I have tons of ribbon in every color and if it doesn't stay easily accessible  I usually wind up buying more because I can't find it.  I came up with a system that works really well. I purchased boxes from the dollar store and cut small squares of card stock with a indent in the middle to keep the ribbon from slipping off.
I then took small elastics , also from the dollar store, and secured the ribbon.   If the ribbon was narrow  I wrapped two on the same  card stock square. I cut the card stock squares with a little  tab in the middle  to separate the two ribbons.  Originally  I cut the cardboard squares from my cricut until I realized it was much quicker just to do it by hand.

CRAFT STUFF ORGANIZATION

So much stuff to organize.   All my sentiments stamps were in sets so when I was looking for a Happy Birthday  I would have to pull out all the  different sets of sentiments or other sets and look through them all to see what size or style I wanted to use.  Many times the stamps had fallen off the acetate and I would have to search for them.   It drove me crazy.  I decided to divide all my sentiments by  events , like Happy Birthday,  Sympathy, etc. etc.   I got thin plastic boxes at Michaels and Stampin up , cut two pieces of acetate to fit .   I then stamped all like sentiments on the sheets of acetate in stazon ink and filed two sets in each box back to back with white cardstock in between.  You can find the sentiment in seconds and if it falls off the acetate it remains in the box.

SCRAPBOOKING THROUGH THE YEARS

In the middle of my sons scrapbooks I made a through the years page with all their school photos.
This is my middles sons pages.

MORE WEDDING CARD CHOICES

This is the other wedding card I made for my brother.  It is a  5 X 7 inch card , embossed with a cuttlebug folder and stamped with a inkadoo bride and groom.  You could actually use any bride and groom silhouette.  Simple but elegant.

WEDDING CARD CHOICES

My brother called me this morning, looking to see if I had a wedding card in my stash.  No luck, so I made him  a few to choose from.   This card is one of them.  It is a stamping bella stamp colored with spectrum noir markers . The frame is a spellbinders cut out with a plain oval. The embossing folder is cuttlebug hearts.

POOL( BILLIARDS) CARD

My son is a big time pool fan so for his birthday I made him a pool card.  I took the silhouettes off the net and cut it out with MTC. The letters are metal brads. The background is stamped in memento grey flannel.  In retrospect  if I redid this card I would have changed the 8 on the ball to his age.

SMALL GIFT IDEAS

I am sure like myself you have that special person that does nice things for you, be it a neighbor, friend or co-worker, that you need that small gift for , that isn't the regular plant, flowers  or candies.  My neighbor is just that person. I wanted to give her something a bit different and I knew she loved the flavoured Keurig coffee. In Montreal, it is very hard to find the pods sold separately but I did manage to buy her some and made a special box for them.  I used the box maker on my Crafters Companion  Ultimate Pro and I cut coffee cup shapes out of the front of the boxes.  I then made her a coffee card using an Art Impression girl friend stamp.

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POP UP CHAIR CARD WITH A PERSONAL TOUCH

I love to personalize a card for close friends and family.   This is a birthday card for my best friends daughter and the pictures on the front and the inside card are of her father and family. The dog in the chair is her dog.
The stamp on the front is  from ,MFT ,whos that girl collection.  The embossing folder  and the pop up chair are from sizzix .   Hope you enjoy.

GRADUATION SCRAPBOOK PAGES

My son had so many graduations I needed two sets of  pages to cover them all.  The idea  for the high school grad page was taken from  various cards I had seen.  The collage on the left hand bottom page was an invitation for his last graduation party.

POOL SHARK AND TEENAGERS WITH ATTITUDE

This is a scrapbook page I designed for my teen with attitude.  The pool cues are a digi imaged resized , cut out and colored with markers.

ARMY LIFE

My two sons were in the army reserves for a few years.  I saved their dog tags and added them to their scrapbook pages.  This is one of the army pages. 

SCRAPBOOK PAGES, BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS.

  My sons were born in the seventies before the age of digital pictures. Fewer pictures were taken back then  so preparing a scrapbook proved to be challenging at times.
I mapped out my scrapbook  like a book trying to cover  pages for different ages and special events in their lives.  Over the years I had gathered up small mementos  of their life which I scanned into the computer , shrank down and added to the pages.
Each book had an opening and closing page.
The following are the opening and closing pages for my middle son, Chris.