Happy Birthday!!!

 Happy Birthday Brooke!!!  I hope you have an amazing day today!  Brooke is such an incredible athlete, mom, and friend.  She's always wanting to do, be apart of, lead, and take charge of things when things need to get done.  She has an amazing drive for her sport/sports and just did a Half Ironman last month.  What an awesome accomplishment!!!  I'm so happy to be teammates and friends with Brooke!!!

Splitcoaststampers holds a challenge every day to get your creative juices flowing.  I was the Featured Stamper FS716 on Splitcoaststampers the week of October 25th (completely took me by surprise!).  What you do for this challenge is look through the Featured Stampers Gallery and CASE (copy and share with everyone) a card, changing one or more things about the card.  You share the card in the FS's gallery and your card and what you changed.  I played along in the challenge too!!!  This is the card that I created for Brooke for her birthday.  I used Black, Gorgeous Grape and White card stock. My favorite Things High Rise Alphabet Lower Case and Happy Birthday.  My Favorite Things Sweater Weather in the Woods stamp set, stamped in Neenah, colored with copics.  SU sequins.

 This is the cards that I CASE'd.  I didn't realized it until my friend opened the card in front of me that I put the p's and y in the wrong position.  They're lower case letters, not upper case, lol.  It's bothered me ever since and I wanted to do the card justice!  I also changed the hot pink to purple, the image, and added sequins.

Me and Brooke last year, meeting each other on the loop to train for El Tour de Tucson.

Hope you have a wonderful day.  

Prayers for the Lautaire's...

A friend of mine asked me to make a couple of sympathy cards for her to give to a mom and boy who lost their son/brother.  The three of them were crossing the street in a crosswalk and were hit.  The driver didn't stop.  The mom didn't have any injuries, but the driver killed her 9 year old son and left her 11 year old son in a cast and wheelchair.  It was absolutely heartbreaking.  My friend asked that I make something with dinosaurs for Max and a cross for his mom.  Here's what I came up with-

Playing along in the featured stamper challenge on splitcoaststampers FS716, I used this card as my inspiration-

I changed the colors, flipped the image, used a different image, and didn't use the clouds.  I used My Favorite Things Little Loveosaurus, Taken with Teal, Basic Gray and Neenah cardstock.  My Favorite Things Wonky Stitch Die-namics, and pop dots. 

This is the card that I came up with for the mom.  I made an extra one for a friend who lost her sister in law.

I also used the Featured Stamper FS716 challenge for inspiration.  I changed the shape of the card, square to the standard 4.25x5.5, changed the circle to an oval, the image, colors, sentiment and put a bow instead of a strip of ribbon.  I used Coastal Cabana, Sahara Sand, and Very Vanilla card stock.  Crosses of Hope and Thoughts and Prayers stamp sets from Stampin' Up and the ribbon is from Michael's.

My card inspiration.

LOOK! Save a Life

Slow down and don't drive distracted...

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Praying for You...

Sympathy cards for two friends who asked me to make them.  They are always the hardest to make.  One is for my friend Joanie who lost her sister-in-law.  I'm so sorry for your loss Joanie.

 I was the Featured Stamper for Splitcoaststampers FS716.  This is the card I used as my inspiration-

I changed the shape of the card, square to the standard 4.25x5.5, changed the circle to an oval, the image, colors, sentiment and put a bow instead of a strip of ribbon.  I used Coastal Cabana, Sahara Sand, and Very Vanilla card stock.  Crosses of Hope and Thoughts and Prayers stamp sets from Stampin' Up and the ribbon is from Michael's.

Thank you for looking!

For Lisa's Sister...

My daughter, her mother-in-law, and I have a group text going.  It's really nice to get to know her a bit since we've never met and our kiddo's are in Idaho.  I shared with them that I was the Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers.  Lisa took a look at my gallery and said she loved this card and that her sisters birthday is coming up.  So, off to work I went....

 I used Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Daffodil Delight, and white card stock.  I ran the white panel through the cuttlebug.  My Favorite Things Sunflower Die-namic and Denami Design ribbon.

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Happy Mail...

I posted on my FB page in July that I was updating my address book and that if anyone would like a card from me to please send me their address.  I've been working on that list and this is one of those cards.  This is for my Junior High School/High School friend Michael.  We had great fun in school together.  Michael is an all around great guy with a kind heart.  Him and his wife Vikki love the Steelers so I had to make him a Steelers card.

I started off with Neenah card stock, using the My Favorite Things Wonky Stitch Die-Namics.  I stamped Quarterback Ian from The Greeting Farm in Memento, then colored it with copics.  I sponged Summer Sun around the image and grounded it with copics.  I added the the drops because somehow I got red ink from the Summer Sun in the top right corner, lol.  It worked so I was happy with the addition.  Black base, Summer Sun ran through the Cuttle Bug and I added a gel pen to the helmet to give it some shine.

2010 at our combined High School Reunion- 1990, 1991, & 1992

Berta, Michael and his wife Vikki, and me.

Have a great day!

Old Fashion Birthday...

Happy birthday to my best friends step-dad, Ryan!!!  It's always a good time when Ryan is around.  He makes the best spaghetti when he comes to visit and loves his Old Fashions.  I purchased this stamp set just so I can make him a birthday card with it.  Hope you had a great day Ryan!!!  

My base is Cajun Craze.  I stamped the images in Smokey Slate and in Versamark ink, then I used my embossing gun to heat set it.  Colored with my copics then went over the images with a gel pen.  I did several layers on the ice cubes to try to give them a bit of dimension.

Ryan and me in 2017.

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