Go Ahead and Smile

 You know you are somebody´s reason to smile don´t you.....

 It is always a good thing to bring a smile to somebody´s face.

 It makes life that much more enjoyable.

These are some of the birthday cards I made for October.  I know a lot of  people who had

their birthday´s in October.....

Are you an October baby?

I am a January girl myself.....what month were you born in?

I am sharing this with Mandarin Orange Monday.

Tomorrow

Light Tomorrow with Today

This sounds like good advice to me.

A simple bookmark for sharing at Less is More.

The quote is from Quiet Fire Design.

This is the reverse side.

Want more green inspiration,,,then go to

Decor Green.

Springtime in January

SPRING

I feel like I am definitely jumping the gun on the seasons here.

I know a lot of our snow melted last weekend but

that doesn´t mean it´s spring.

These two tags came about because a bunch of my painting

friends and I are taking one of our friends out for a

surprise birthday dinner to a restaurant called

The Maganolia. I was in charge of making the card.

The photos came from a friend. I cut out the magnolias

and collaged them onto a handpainted background.

Added a strip of fabric along the top edge and finished

it off with a few stamps, papers and ribbons.

Gabi´s Tag

This is the tag we will give Gabi.

Here I added the knife, spoon and fork because on the back

it says,,,,one free dinner at The Magnolia.

Gabi loves to knit so I added and over abundance of fibers.

She can later use this as a bookmark and have a little

keepsake from all of us for her birthday in 2011.

This dinner came at the right time as these tags

fit right in over at Tag Tuesday with a bit of fabric.

Also at Wednesday Stamper where the theme is music.

Even at Take a Word where everything is beautiful.

And last but not least,,,Theme Thursday featuring spring.

What Makes You Sing?

Money Talks,,,Chocolate Sings

A creamy piece of Belgian chocolate direct from

Belgium is enough to make anyone´s taste buds

sing a pop tune or even an opera aria for that matter.

Louise from Tag Tuesday wants us to use our

scraps leftover from Christmas. I don´t have

any cardmaking scraps but I have plenty of

candy brochures and wrappers from all this

Christmas Belgian chocolate that we ate.

I know it´s a rough job but somebody has to do it.

I cut up a brochure to create a praline edge at the

bottom as well as the tasty piece my model is holding

in her hand. A blue foil wrapper is used as a collage

element including some of the brochure´s script.

This is all adhered to a watercolor background which I

stenciled with music notes and stamped with flowers.

Go pay Tag Tuesday a vist....you´ll like it and while

you are clicking around the web... go take a look at

Take a Word where the prompt is Music.