Brother's Birthday Card

Finally, the weekend is here. You would not believe my week. It started off with my car not being done on Monday like promised. The dealer called me at 4:00 to tell me the truck bringing the parts did not arrive in time for them to put them in and I would have to drive this RED loaner another day. When I went to leave work the Airbag light came on and would not go off...HUM just like mine the one that was in the shop! I drove from work to the dealership to tell them I needed another loaner! Too funny! They decided NOT to give me another as I was a jinx. I told them NO they were warned not to put me in a red car! They did have my car ready to go on Tuesday and told me to just pull the one I was driving into the garage so they could write it up. This was no minor repair the whole steering column had to be removed> I suspect they will have a recall on this model very shortly as my car only had 14,000 miles and the loaner 21,000 miles both are 2007 models.

I am still running the entire show at work since boss is not expected to return this season. Anyone, that has ever tried managing an all guy shop knows my pain. The size of the shop is slowly dwindling. Two workers were hospitalized one with cancer and the other with similar symptoms to the boss:(. With all this happening my mojo for blogging and creating is down.

My family sucks! Most every member of importance has a birthday in August or September (Kathy included) shhh her birthday is September 18. Of course, they all expect a homemade card. My baby brothers birthday was this past week luckily his party is not until this evening so my card is timely:)

With my mojo down I was stumped on a card until I remember the old rule "just pick out some manly colors" and the rest goes together! You can never go wrong selecting blues, browns and tans for male cards.

For this card I used one of my favorite SU guy sets which is now retired "Words by Wilson". I used my new Argyle embossing folder on tan cs and paired it up with some perfectly matching patterned paper from Carolees called "Preppy Argyle" . The linen sentiment is from Joann's essentials which I inked a bit to match the rest. Added a couple of metal brads to the bottom and a little ribbon to complete.

A tip: I brushed the embossed cs with some ink to give it added depth and make it stand out more. I always use my Colorbox "dune" ink for this.

I now have one less card to make, now I am off to make cards for step sons birthday, hubby's birthday, aunt's birthday, mom's birthday, Kathy's birthday and anniversary. Maybe you ought to check back with me next year!!!!!!

Enjoy your Saturday and thanks for checking in.

A December Birthday Card

Good Evening! My migraine is still kicking my butt so I am somewhat uncreative but did manage to make a couple of cards before it knocked me out. I have had this CHF by Kim Hughes set forever and finally decided to put some ink to them. My color choices make it a good card for someone celebrating in December since I choose Colorbox "warm red and warm green" chalk inks. When I first started to make it my intention was a Holiday card but thought it looked better as a birthday card:). The paper is from Plaid and is a soft white and red checkered. Other supplies used include oval Nestabilities scalloped and oval, Cuttlebug new border dots which by the way is slighly different from thier "Swiss Dots" dots much larger. Rub on is from Lasting Impressions.

Completed card is 5.25 square.

Thanks for stopping by.

Little Monster

I hope everyone had a wonderful day. Mine started with a migraine and ended with a bigger one! I had made an appointment to drop my car off for what I thought was going to be an easy fix, after all it is a 2007. New cars don't go bad. I sat around the house all day waiting for a call to pick it up instead I got a call 15 minutes before we were due to go out of town (in my car) and minutes from when they were due to close for the day. They told me to come and get a loaner! My car is going to take a few days to fix. The main steering spring mechanism went bad. I hate driving a car that I'm not familiar with and not knowing where I am going. To top it off the car they gave me was red! Anyone, that knows me knows I have a huge phobia about RED cars! Luckily my trip there was uneventful with the exception of being told when we were 1/2 way there that we could not come home the same way. Now why could I not be told this beforehand so I could have looked it up. I was one ticked driver trying to make my way home some 100 miles away in one of the worst down pours ever of course, it was in the dark on a bunch of rural roads. Can you say super migraine!


This little monster sort of looks like me right about now with his bulging cross eyes and sort of green feeling. This cute set is from Unity and is called "Little Monster" I mounted him on purple and green Lasting Impressions paper. To give his hair and nose some sparkle I used Spica markers to color and Copic markers on the monster.

Thanks for stopping by hope you enjoy this cute lil card.

Orange You Sweet

We are half way through the week and that is a wonderful thing! Today's card was made just for fun. I have had this SU set for some time and just felt like inking it. I used color Mates "Dark Graceful Geranium" for cardstock and darker orange on the card and a pale peach for the upper. I used both Color Box "rose coral" and Imprintz "cranberry" inks to stamp the oranges on to circles that I punched out using a 1 1/4" punch. I added a bit of hand stiching around edging to finish off the card. The wording was done in word using a couple different fonts. It looks yummy, doesn't it?

Completed card is 5 1/4" square.

Thanks for dropping by, have a great evening!

Joy

Hello, here is another card I dry embossed while making the flower one I posted on Sunday. I thought I would give a non-traditional holiday card a try since I still had some of the Lasting Impressions "guava" colored paper out. The tree template is from Lasting Impressions and "Joy" which is a Sizzix folder was embossed on the back of some shiny white packaging I had on the table! Waste Not, just hope the glue holds LOL

Have a great evening. Kathy really put a bug in me to get a head start on my holiday cards. Since, I make between 75-100 cards to send out, I usually only pick one or two of my favorite designs and mass produce them. What about you?

A Holiday Giggle

Good Evening I actually got out of work while there was some daylight left today. How refreshing! I just hope I can squeeze out another early day soon so I can take my somewhat new car in to be fixed. It seems the airbag light wants to go on for me. I am so afraid the sensor is going to make the sucker deploy and make mincemeat of me :) BG!

I have used the Unity "Giggle Grove" set for so many other seasons I thought I would try my hand at making a simple holiday card. I stamped it on white cs and embossed it using a rectangle die from Spellbinders. I colored the circles in leaving some spots uncolored using Copic lipstick red marker and added some Ranger glossy 3D crystal. The bird was paper pieced using some real awesome paper I had from Chatterbox called "Gingerbread Flowers" and for the green trim, bird wing and scallop circle, I used the reverse side of the paper. I know, what a waste! This paper is a couple of years old but I would love to get more of it. Love it!. I thought about adding some ribbon to the card and opted not to. Do you think it is too plain? "Merry and Bright" is from HA.

I am off to make some sympathy cards a few relatives are in real bad shape and mom just told me a friend has passed.

Enjoy your evening and thanks for stopping by.

Sorry for the long delay in post. My boss (owner of company) just got released from the hospital on Thursday. Since his absence I have had to take over and fill his shoes which means working 55 hours last week. It turns out of all things he contracted Legionnaires Disease which took out the little kidney function he had left. He is now on oxygen and doing dialysis 4 times a week. We do not expect him back for several months.

Now on to todays share ...I needed a quick birthday card and this one whipped up quick!
I created this card using mostly Lasting Impressions supplies. I used Lasting Impressions Guava Dots, stripes, plain cs, rub ons, and S415,SG300 templates. I also used Swiss dot Cuttlebug folder, Nesties, linen white cs, a fine black marker, 3d black paint and a bit of my favorite b&w ribbon.

Thanks for hanging in there with me I did get a chance to make a couple of cards today so I will be able to post a little during the week even if I am putting in 12 hour days.