birthday wishes 21

Hi! Today I have a birthday card x 2 to share. I really struggle creating masculine cards so since I had to make a birthday card for my dear husband, I made one for a male friend of ours. I created a water colored background then layered on a die cut forest scene: I embellished with a double layered die cut snowflake and a die cut male deer then randomly spattered acrylic white paint in hopes of making it appear like snow. For color inspiration,...

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warm winter Birthday Wishes...Exciting News 14

Happy December! I have the honor as the Tag You're It Guest Designer to be sharing another sample for the current challenge.  The challenge is to CASE the Featured Artist or use his or her tag design to inspire you to create a design of your own. Shown below is the beautiful tag made by featured artist Jessica Frost -Balls to be inspired by: This time around, I created a tag for my sweet husband's birthday which we will be celebrating...

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Happy 50th Birthday Scott! 54

Hi there! I'm a week early but I wanted to make sure I had my sweet husband Scott's Birthday card made. As the saying goes, life happens while we are busy making plans so I wanted to be sure to have this one done plenty ahead of time! As I've said before, making masculine cards is not my forte but this one came together rather easily. Gotta LOVE when that happens! I combined lovely patterned papers from the Pink Paislee Nantucket collection...

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