Wear a poppy, visit a local cenotaph, attend a service or a the very least a minute of silence. Remember our solders.

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In Flanders Fields - By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)

Hello Monday morning. I had a fabulous weekend, it was my Birthday on Friday. I received a ton of wonderful Birthday wishes ☺.It felt like the whole weekend was one big extension of my birthday (the birthday cake fed us for three days).

My husband spoiled me rotten with a large gift certificate to the local stamp store. Lisa Strahl was teaching a class there Friday night so I signed up (Happy Birthday to me ☺). I spent the entire Certificate + some after the class… sigh.. so much for savouring it. My sweet sweet husband also gave me a Michaels gift card. So I brought one of these…
Minus all the embellishments of course. I did not have a space dedicated for my cardmaking but I have been given free reign of our office to pretty much turn it into my very own craft room. So we did a lot of looking for things like storage. It is all coming together.

I did sit down to make a couple of cards on Sunday, but I can't show them for a couple weeks. People who should not might peek. I think I have a few in reserve though that I can post later this week.

My blog is 1 year old now, my sweet sister designed it for me as my Birthday gift last year. Blogger tells me I have about 207 entries and being it is rare for me to post without a card to show means I have posted around 200 cards. I don't remember making that many.

When all else fails..use clipart. I don't have any cars in my large stash of stamps so I found a clipart that suited me just fine. One of the owners of the local stamp store told me a while back that when guys look at cards they see solid colors, greys, black, browns and blues. Keep it simple, maybe that is why I seem to pull of masculine card so easy. I am not sure I should trust him though, I have seen him make cards with Pink Flowersoft (I don't think that particular card was for a guy :))

For the inside (sorry no picture) I put two matching layered strips down either side, and put a popped up steering wheel in the middle.

Supplies: Cream and Black cardstock, Designer Paper - Hot of the Press, Car clipart and font - Microsoft office, Doodlebug - Sugar coated brads.

Stay with me, I am still riding the Halloween wave. Well actually I am just behind but I am not quite ready to just into Christmas (although I have started my cards).

I love the little fuzzy spider up in the corner, it has the cutest little wire legs and beaded eyes.

Supplies: Cream, green, orange and black cardstock, Designer paper- Recollections Halloween, Penny Black – Scare in the Air, Jolee’s boutique – Spiders web

Happy Birthday Miles.

I love this card, I definitely wanted to make a music themed card for my brother in laws birthday. Little snippets of ideas formed in my head over a week long period till I decided my plan of action.

I don’t have any DP that is a music sheet so I decided to make my own. I printed off a music sheet of Happy Birthday for piano? I could not find one with lyrics attached. I wanted the paper to look aged so I soaked the whole thing in tea, the first time I did that I only soaked it for a short period as I did not want the paper to fall apart. I used my embossing heat tool to dry it to give it a roughed up look. I did not think it was dark enough so the second time around I used a wet tea bag (Thank you Celestial Seasonings Tea – Morning Thunder) and ran it randomly over the paper, this time after it dried it worked perfect. I then sponged the edges with a few shades brown ink to give it a more aged look.

I did not want to take away from my proudly created DP so I left the adornments down to a simple ribbon with a gold filament in it. I had such fun making this card.

Have a Fabulous Birthday Miles!!

Supplies: Cream, tan and brown cardstock, misc free music sheet, Celestial Seasonings Morning Tunder tea bag, Microsoft Office -Music note clipart, misc ribbon

This is another card from my last Stampin' Up! gtathering, the technique was using versamark and chalk to make the image different colors. Apparently I am not so good at that. I also am not qualified to cut anything out free hand, even more so when I don't have my own tools.

Halloween tomorrow:) Pancake breakfast at work today... Jeans Day... TGIF.

Supplies: All Supplies Stampin' Up!

I made this quick card for an upcoming birthday, I love the dimentional K&Company purses.

Supplies: Cream, green and gray cardstock, Designer Paper-K&Company, K&Company-Amt Butler Faded China Purses, K&Company Ancestry stitched brads, mesh ribbon

I love this stamp set, this is a card we made during the last Stampin' Up! workshop I attended.




Supplies: All Supplies Stampin' Up!

This was a quick and easy birthday card that was fun to make.

Supplies: Cream, burgundy and green cardstock, Designer paper-Memory Box Sprout, Stampabilites-Happy Birthday 10, Recollections Gemstone Brad, misc ribbon.

This is just a small little note card, 2.5 by 2.5, I think. It is a sympathy card for a co-worker of my husbands who lost her cat. I know it is almost a repeat of the card my made for Caesar but it works. The picture does not do it justice though, it turned out great. Apparently it matches her office.

Supplies: Cream, burgundy and tan cardstoc, Designer Paper-My Mind's Eye, Pink Cat Studios- cat paw, Celebrate It - Holiday ribbon.