Birdie Wishes!

I made the decision that I wanted to provide birthday cards for my co-workers. I went to the social committee and told them that I would be happy to provide homemade cards. Believe it or not I was turned down! They said they purchased a box of cards and that was good enough. Okay! So I decided that I would make a card just from me for people that work hard on a daily basis.

Being part of the design team for Tuesday Morning Sketches I get to look at every card that is submitted. This design was taken from one of the participants that used a sketch from Create 4 Fun Challenge. I loved the layout and just had to copy it!! I used Birdie Wishes from There She Goes.

This card goes to our Math Facilitator, Linda. She is just the best. She helps me out by pulling my gifted kids and challenging them in math as well as reading. I am very thankful for her presence.

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Buttons and Bows

Here is my next installment of my 2010 photo calendar for my submission to Tuesday Morning Sketches.

This is my beautiful niece Hollyanne. I was going through my Cards magazine and came across a card that I thought was breathtaking. The card was created by Lea Lawson in the June 2007 issue - I made my photo page using inspiration from her card. Her card used brads to do the lace up - I laced through the card and attached buttons. I love it! I thought this looked the the lace-up of a ballet slipper and was perfect for her ballet photos. The DP paper is from SEI - isn't it just yummy!!

A New Calendar Year

Happy 5th Day of the Year!!

It's amazing how time flies...now I have a calendar to watch how time flies. I attended the 12 hour crop at Archiver's this past weekend. I had a blast! As a gift I received a monthly planner. This planner is totally cool...it has a clear cover and then inserts to place photos. Well I certainly can't just stick a photo in the pages - how boring is that? Well I decided that I am going to make 6x8 scrapbook pages to put in my planner. I will use the sketches from TMS to do all my designs, so here is the first design from this weeks sketch.

This is the cover to my planner and it's totally me: pink and green and flowers. I just love this new set from There She Goes - Garden of Friends. I can't wait to work on coloring this image with different color schemes. I also love the DP I used. It's from Cosmo Cricket-Everafter. The solid colors come from Close to My Heart. I just love the combination. I hope you like it too!

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Magical Dreams

I was so excited to use this stamp...I got it from Unity Stamps Kit of the Month and haven't had time to play with it. I decided to get the kit because of this image. Isn't it just the cutest?

Melissa's sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches was a challenge, if I may say so. I guess that's why I like her sketches, because they do challenge one's artistic ability. I hope that you'll want to play along with us.

Here is my imitation of the sketch. Head over to TMS to see the sketch.

My Oh So Late Monthly Card

I am late with my monthly card swap. It was due to be mailed on the 20th...but probably won't make it to the mail until the 31st. I don't know the name of the image, but the host for the month threw down the challenge of making each card different. I don't know that I'll get that far considering I can't manage one card, let alone 6 different designs. I had spent my Christmas day going through 2 entire blogs, one being Jessie Rone. They were on my list of wishes this year. I just love her style - she makes layering look easy. Well, I found one card that I thought would be a great fit for my monthly swap (click on Jessie's name and you'll see her original).

The host sent 2 images, I'll work on my design for the other one later, and 6 different DPs. I love the DP for the card posted, the other DPs (too me) are not that attractive, so this card I'll keep!! The other DP is fine, this one just happens to be my style.

I hope you enjoy!

p.s. - the dark layer is a very dark blue, the photo looks black!

A Special Thank You!

The week we went on winter break my students and I were the recipients of a very fabulous donation. I needed to make a very special thank you card (even though the company did not want thanks...how could I not??) Let me tell you how this gift began....

One of my favorite shows is Unwrapped on the Food Network. The episode I was watching was on Christmas goodies and one of the segments was on Color-A-Cookie. It was just like stamping only on a cookie!! They provide edible markers so that you can color the image - it's totally cool! I contacted the company and for my budget it was out of the question. Well in conversing via e-mail with one of their representatives, Jordan, he was so kind and decided to not only donate the cookies to my classroom, but to the entire 2nd grade class (77 students). How could I not thank him and this wonderful company.

For Christmas today, I spent the day surfing blogs and came across two amazing cards and I just had to CASE them. I'm still working on the second, so I'll post that tomorrow. For the thank you card I took inspiration from Senior Trendsetter, Faith Hofrichter. I just purchased the Act of Kindness and Birdie Wishes from There She Goes and was all too happy to ink these sets up. Now that I've made this card...I don't want to give it away. I hope that Jordan likes it as much.

Well, have a wonderful day and I look forward to hearing from you.

Taking a Twist on Challenges

I decided that I wanted to take a twist on this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches and I wanted to join this week's There She Goes #34 - Baby It's Cold Outside! Challenge - along with a twist too.

Melissa and I were talking and I was going on about Jessica's Stampbook Saturday and how I was making two amazing 12x12 layouts of me. I told Miss I didn't want to make a card-I had spent the week making stockings for my students and just couldn't muster up another "holiday" card. As I was reading the There She Goes challenge I decided to make TMS a scrapbook layout and use it for my submission to TSG. I love the idea around TSG's Stampbook Saturday since many of my 12x12 layouts I use my stamps - it adds such a unique touch and doesn't make the album thick.

Of course as I got into creating, I ended up making two layouts - one 6x6 and one 8x8. I love them both! They follow the theme of the sketch and I hope that I meet the challenge for TSG. Their challenge was to create a non-holiday winter card - I know it's not a card, but the 6x6 could be a large post card!

Well, either way I love the layouts and I hope you do too. The children are my neice and nephew out playing with their Anky Karin in the 2005 winter blizzard in West Virginia.