Happy Birthday, Chef!

This is a birthday card for a chef. I have it on excellent authority that this particular chef is the epitome of a culinary artist – hopefully he’ll move to Colorado next year and I get to meet him {shameless hint}. Bill, the kids, and I used to live in Englewood, literally across the street [...]

Happy Birthday ‘Billy’ Card

My good friend and mentor TinaH sent me some stamped Billy images, for which I will forever be grateful because he’s so stinkin’ cute, and I used him and some overalls and tools to make this card. Oh, and let’s not forget his toy train and tool chest, made shiny with Glossy Accents.  The ‘carpet’ [...]

Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it’s time to go…

So my best friend, and who hubby calls my work spouse, officially got moved tonight to a suburb of Austin. Her last day at work was 12/2/08, and I cried like a baby as she drove away from the building for the last time. Jeepers, the heartache is something I didn’t expect, seriously. I couldn’t [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Well, we are headed to Greeley to the in-law’s house for Thanksgiving, and we weren’t asked to bring one stinking thing, so I figured it would be wise to make them a card to thank them for (I’m certain) a whole lot of work that will go into the meal!! I wanted a really special [...]

Thanks a Million!!

So I’ve had this stamp for quite a while now but wasn’t sure exactly how to use it. Then I looked on Becca’s blog at this card of hers and things just started clicking. Love that! So here’s the recipe for my version of that card:

papers = cardstock from Me and My Big Ideas and Cosmo Cricket; [...]

Happy Birthday to a Baby Doc

I made this card for a friend to give to her ob/gyn friend. The card base is a dark blue textured cardstock topped with cardstock from a Nana’s stack. The doc’s coat and tools are Jolee’s, and the stork is from a Joann’s Old Fashioned baby pack. I pop-dotted the stork and the sentiment, which [...]

Birthday Daffodils and a Bella

Now that her birthday is passed, I can post this card that I made for June, a friend’s mom. She lives in Alaska and adores daffodils. Thankfully I have a hubby who doesn’t mind scouring Hobby Lobby for any daffodil stickers he can find, even if it means acosting an employee (just kidding, no employees [...]

The Card with Busy-ness!!

A really good kid at work (I can say that, he’s 12 years younger than I am – they’re ALL getting younger!) and his wife had their second baby a couple weeks ago, and numerous people pitched in to get them a Target gift card. I made this card for everyone to sign, and nearly [...]

Braeden’s Friend Isaiah’s Birthday

Is that a cute Billy, or what??? My mentor Tina (like I said in the post below) sent me some stamped images of Billy, so I colored one for hubby’s card, only that didn’t work with the theme. So, much against hubby’s wishes (I assured him I could repeat this work), I cut out Billy [...]

Happy Birthday my sweet punkin!

This card morphed into something I didn’t intend, but hubby likes it anyway! My mentor Tina sent me some stamped Billy images, so I colored a super hero one for hubby’s card, but then the whole Cogsmo/robot theme just didn’t seem to mesh. So I set aside the super hero Billy that I colored and [...]