Happiest of Howling Birthdays...

My best friend Jeremy's family has welcomed me into his family with open arms.  I made this for his stepdad, Ryan for his birthday.

I used Black, Baja Breeze and White cardstock.  Stampin' Ups Nature Silhouettes stamp set, cuttlebug folder, and hodgepodge hardware.  I can't remember which set the sentiment came from.

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Happy Fall...

I made this for a very special friend who had a terrible cycling accident.  Pink is her favorite color so I got her a pink pumpkin and made her a card to brighten up her hospital room.  

I used Regal Rose, Old Olive, Chocolate chip, Crumb Cake, and White cardstock.  My Favorite Things Die-namics, Cuttlebug Folder, Lined Thread, and Stickles.

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Prickly...

My best friend, Jeremy started a tradition that we cook each other dinner requested by the other for their birthday.  It's by far one of my all time favorite traditions ever.  I'm lucky to have such a great best friend who has a great sense of humor!  Each year for his birthday I try to make him a humorous card.  Here's what I came up with for this year.

Jeremy likes to measures "how much I like a person/how much they mean to me" by how many layers I use on their card, lol.  It's an ongoing joke with every card.  He makes sure he counts the layers when I make him and his wife (my bestie too) a card and pokes fun if he feels there's not enough layers, ha!  Anyhow...I used Garden Green, Black, and White cardstock.  My Favorite Thinds Sweet Succulents Stamp Set, stamping the pot and cutting it out, adhering it with pop dots for dimension.  My hubs printed the sentiment for me.  

Me and Jeremy celebrating my birthday dinner.

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Welcome to Tucson Full Time!!!

I was so excited to hear that my friend and teammate Tracey purchased a home to reside in Tucson full time!  I met Tracey earlier this year on one of our GABA Rides.  I was a brand new ride leader and so nervous to lead her and her friend by myself after my co-ride leader had a flat.  Anyhow, Tracey is a ray of sunshine...always so bright and cheerful, happy and bubbly.  I always walk away from her feeling so good about myself.  She decided to purchase a home here in Tucson and also join our racing team, Tolero.  I couldn't be happier to have such an amazing person in my life and on my team. 

I wanted to greet Tracey with some cacti...kept this very simple.  House is a $1 stamp from the Michael's bin.  Cactus from an older MFT set.  Sahara sand, Mint Macaroon, and white cardstock. 

My beautiful friend Tracey and Me.

 Me and Tracey at the Willcox Flyer

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Just Keep Swimming...

For my teammate and dear friend Amy.  She has encouraged, inspired, and motivated me in so many ways and helped me gain confidence and reach so many goals in my cycling.  I am beyond blessed to have her in my life.

Amy loves sea turtles so my hubs looked online for some printable art for me to color.  I fell in love with this image.  I colored it with copics, highlighting with a white gel pen.  

Amy, me, and Carolyn on the podium at the Nogales Road Race.

Me and Amy on top of Mt. Lemmon and the Observatory.  Her goal for me for a year!

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Congratulations Karen...

The Spa I go to for my facials and massages is absolutely amazing.  They give back to the community in so many wonderful ways.  They had a "contest" where each of their providers had you nominate people for certain categories to win a free massage a month for 3 months.  I nominated my friend and teammate, Karen in the nurse's category.  She's an ER nurse.  She works incredibly hard at her jobs, works long hours, crazy shifts, and we all know working in the ER she is exposed to seeing some crazy, intense, and heartbreaking things...despite all of this, she is the sweetest, kindest, caring person and so very dedicated to her training.  She is also an amazing teammate and so encouraging to everyone on our team.  Katie, the spa owner sent me a message a few days prior to their fb announcement to let me know Karen was picked in the nurse's category.  So, I made this card for Karen and hand delivered it to her with the news.  She was so surprised, it was awesome! 

I used several cards as my inspiration for this card (an of course since I'm way behind on my blogging, I can't remember where I saw them, but they were on pinterest).  I used one for the layout, one for the colors, and one for how I colored the image.  Supplies I used were- My Favorite Things Pure Innocence Best Medicine, My Mind's Eye Brighter Day, Real Red, White and Crumb Cake card stock.

Me and my sweet teammate Karen.

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Minecraft Celebration...

My middle grandson, Connor is in a Minecraft phase so I made him a Minecraft birthday card.

To be honest, I have no idea what this is or what I made, lol!  I bought him a Minecraft toy and made the image that was on the box.  I used My favorite things Die-namics.  Quick, clean and simple card.

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