Happy Birthday To My Son

Tomorrow we celebrate the birth of my son.  When he was born I knew nothing about taking care of a baby, much less raising him to be an incredible man.  However, with the help of the Lord, through all my mistakes, he has become a good Christian man.  He's hardworking (too hard working, if you ask me), a faithful companion to my lovely daughter-in-law, and a good father to his two sons.  I'm afraid I don't get to see them as much as I would like but we live 5 hours apart.  Can you tell?  I am very proud of him.

This is the card I made him.  It is a simple card made with an Anna Griffin card topper, but it was made with love.  I love you, Brian, and am so glad the Lord gave you to me and your Dad.

THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO YOU!!!!

Thank you for your visit today.  I hope your day is filled with Peace, Joy and Love.

God Bless You!! Peggy

Challenges for this card:

Come and Get It - W, 3E - Anything Goes

Glitter n Sparkle - W, F - #258 Happy Birthday

The Corrosive Challenges - M, 3E - Always Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Add A Sentiment

Today starts a new challenge at Crafty Cardmakers.  Our theme is "Add A Sentiment".  If you could, make your sentiment prominent.  I hope you will join us in the fun.  Here's my DT card, front and inside.

The tutorial on how to make this card is at Beccy's Place.  Beccy Muir is the owner of this site and has a lot of tutorials for various card folds.  I created a Design Space file for this card after seeing Beccy's tutorial.  The DS file can be found here.  It's a very easy card to make and you can decorate in many ways.

Thank you for visiting with me today.  I hope to see your lovely creations in this challenge.

God Bless You!! Peggy

Challenges for this card:

Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5  #179 Flowers +A Sentiment or(W1 of 2)

Cardz 4 Galz 2W,3E #46 A Shaped Card (W2 of 2)

Crafty Girls Creations M, 3E  Always Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday W,C5 #476 Anything Goes

In The Pink 2W,3E use more pink than other colours #118 Birthday (W2 of 2)

Seize The Birthday 2W   Birthday + Optional Topping of Anything Goes (W2 of 2)

Simple Birthday Card for Nephew

I have quite busy lately in my craft room.  As a matter of fact, I haven't gotten much of anything else done.  I don't know where the time goes.  I don't get through with one birthday or design team duty until it's time to go again.  And I don't belong to as many design teams as some of you do.  I think I must be getting slower in my old age.  Of course, I've never been really fast when it comes to making anything.  I think I'm too picky.

One of my nephews has a birthday next week as well as his mother.  I've been working on a card for each of them.  I made his really simple.  I don't think men really care for fancy cards.

A2 Card Base

Background Paper - 8X8 Echo Park "Dots and Stripes" Paper Pad. All the papers in this stack are good colors for masculine cards.

Label is from a Make It Now project from Cricut Design Space.  Here is the link to it.  I changed to papers to make it appropriate for what I needed.

Thank you for visiting with me today. 

 God Bless You!!! Peggy

Challenges for this card:

Card Mania (M, P1, E3) #78 Polka Dots and/or Stripes/"Points and/or Bars"

Connie Can Crop (M, P2/3, E2) #44 Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore (M, P1, E3) Make a Card

Crafty Time (M, P1, E3) Birthday

Noor! Designs UK (M,P1) #16 Clean and Simple

Crafty Creations - 2W - #310 Sentiment As A Focal Point  (Week 2 of 2)

Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #86 Always Anything Goes/ optional twist use a sentiment on front of project  (Week 2 of 2) 

Little Red Wagon - W - #332  Mainly Manly

The Crafty Addicts M, 1st Wednesday of M, E #9 - Anything Goes/ Spots or Stripes (Week 4 of 4

Florals Embellished/Mother's Day Bouquet BD Card

I am loving Florals Emellished and Mother's Day Bouquet.  I used both of them for this card.  I need some birthday cards for some ladies in my church home group.  I think either of them would like this one.

 Card Materials:
A2 Card base
Background Paper - KayandCo. Blue Awning 
Florals Embellished Cricut Cartridge - Page 59 Silhouette and Silhouette Blackout features.  Brown and Blue Cardstock cut at 4.25X5.5"
Mother's Day Bouquet Cartridge - Flowers from background paper-3 different floral shapes cut at 1.25, 1.0 and .75 in.
Mini Floral Brads

This is the inside of the card.

 Thank you so much for visiting us today.  We love having you and hope you'll come back soon.  GOD Bless YOU!!!!  Peggy

Don't Go Bananas

Happy Sunday Everyone!!  I made this card using the Create A Critter Cartridge for a friend of mine.  It was part of a set of four cards.  The banana was cut at 2". 

I thought the sentiment was cute because sometimes I feel this way about my birthday.  Well, I'm keeping this short and sweet today because my Mom is here visiting and we're off to play in the "Happy Space".  Hopefully, we'll have some pretty creations to share with you this week.  Have a good day and we hope you'll visit again soon!!  Until another day, God Bless!  Donna

A Thorn in My Flesh

This card has been a thorn in my flesh today.  I know I must be bleeding from being pricked by it.  There is just something about it I don't like and I can't put my finger on it.  I need some male birthday cards but I'm not sure I will send this one.  LOL

I started by embossing my background paper with Distressed Stripes Cuttlebug folder.  My card is actually taller than the folder but I turned it around and embossed the other end of the card.  That made a definite mark so I covered it with "Happy Birthday" ribbon.  I cut 3 1 1/2" scalloped circles from Lacy Labels cartridge; embossed them with the Birds & Swirls Cuttlebug folder making sure to get a bird in each circle.  I popped the circles with pop dots.  The bird house is a  digistamp from Creative Mind of Silvie.  (This lady is very generous with her digis.  She has a free one every week.  Be sure to check her out.)  I inked the edges of the card with brown ink.

I'm asking for constructive criticism on this card.  I'm thinking the background is not dark enough.  It looks pinker in the picture than it really is.  It's a light terracotta.  I've asked Donna about it but I think she's afraid she'll hurt my feelings.  LOL. 

Thanks for dropping by our little place of happiness.  We love your visits and comments.  God Bless You.  Peggy

Birthday Card - Cricut Lite Lacey Labels

Hello Everyone! You know it's amazing the things you will find when you are specifically looking for something that you put somewhere so you would remember where you put it. I don't know about you but when I do that, I never find what I'm looking for! The other day I was looking for that one elusive item and I came across the label on this card. My mom actually made this label using Lacey Labels during a weekend visit to my house. I was busy taking care of Jacob so Mom just made herself at home in my "Happy Space." It's a funny space, it makes you HAPPY just being in it - but I digress!!

As I said, I came across this label in one of my organized (HA) drawers so I decided to make a card with it!! All paper used on this card were scraps - YEA! I covered the base of the card with pink Bazzill cardstock, applied the label that my mom had already made, used a Martha Stewart punch on the dark green cardstock, tied a bow with a coordinating ribbon around green cardstock, and applied the green paper to the side of the card. And wah-la, a card is born! Oh, I forgot to mention that I used a Michael's $1 stamp for the Happy Birthday sentiment. One more card completed of the MANY September birthday cards that I have to make!!


It's amazing how fast I made this card and all by simply using scraps from a drawer. If you are a member of my family and you get this card in the mail, please act like you've never seen it before!! Just know it was made with love!!

Well, thanks for stopping by and as Grandma Ruby always used to say in her sweet Southern accent, "Ya'll come back now, ya hear!" Until another day, God Bless!! Donna

Sweet Treats Birthday Card

Hi Everyone - well, Mom gave me some inspiration yesterday. She told me to go find a cartridge that I had that I HAD NEVER USED and make something with it!! Well, we won't discuss just how many cartridges that I found that fit that description. I told Mom that she had gone to "meddlin' now" by giving me that instruction. But as the saying goes, "Mom's know best" and that holds true in this situation.

Our family has "way too many" birthdays in the month of September - so many that it boggles the mind - so I decided I better get started on making some of those cards.
I chose to make a card with the Sweet Treats cartridge (we will not discuss just how long I've had this cartridge without using it). It has lots of birthday ideas on it and you can make a card from every image on the cartridge. Just what I needed.

I cut the card base at 8" and then cut the layers using some patterned and glitter paper that I got at Big Lots. You can really find some bargains at that store if you hit it on the right day!! I punched holes for the ribbon and stamped the first of many Happy Birthday's with a stamp from the Dollar Bin at Michael's.

Thank you for visiting and we hope you'll come again soon!! You'll be seeing a LOT of birthday cards in the next few weeks. I think Mom counted 14 birthdays this month. Now that's just wrong!! Well, until another day, God Bless!! Donna

Picturesque Birthday Cards

Thank you everyone for your kind words and prayers Monday. It was a rough day (a lot of them are) but with God's Daily Grace we made it through it.

I was looking through my cartridges and there are several I have not used. I'm sure none of you are like that. As I was looking through the Picturesque Handbook, I noticed it has a nice card feature. It is a double fold card. So I decided to use this feature for today's card (s).

I don't have a 12X24 mat so I cut it as large as I could with my 12X12 mat. It measured 11.5X5. I chose page 30 for my card. I scored it on the score lines and folded it. I then lined the two ends with a different color paper and added embellishments to blend with the color scheme. I made two cards to show how you can use it horizontally or vertically.

I hope you enjoyed looking at these cards and we hope you will return on a daily basis. We love your visits and comments. God Bless You. Peggy

1st of Many Birthday Cards

I hope you won't get tired of seeing birthday cards for a while.  It seems most of our family's birthdays are in August and September.   I counted them up and there are 10.  

This is my first.  I used My Mind's Eye Paper.  I got it on sale at Hobby Lobby for 4 for $1.  I cut around all the sections with Martha Stewart's Eyelet Lace Cut Around The Page Punches.   The ribbon is Basic Grey.  The flowers are Spare-Parts by the Paper Studio.  I cut the Happy Birthday with the Stamping Cricut Cartridge and added Diamond Stickles for bling.

Thanks for visiting our blog.  We love our followers and look forward to your comments.  God Bless.  Peggy

Black, White & Red Birthday Card

This card is made using a cut file from Capadia Designs.  I tried to find the actual post it was on but was not successful.  Diane has great talent and a beautiful blog.  The name of this file is Fancy Edge Card A2.  It is a Storybook cut file.

I chose a black and white butterfly paper to cover the front of the card.  I then cut the butterfly from Indie Art along with the shadow of it.  I used my Zig 2 way glue pen to attach the top at the middle to the shadow.  I added Stickles to the wings of the butterfly but they are pretty if you emboss them using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.  I curved the wings and applied red jewels down the spine of the butterfly.  I attached larger size red bling along the edge of the card.  The stamped sentiment is from a stamp I got at Michael's for $1.00.

I gave this card to one of my sisters-in-law.  She was so pleased she said, "This is one I will keep forever."

Thank you for visiting our blog and we hope you have a wonderful weekend.  God Bless.  Peggy

Male or Female BD Card

I made this card with a sister-in-law in mind. However once I got it made I thought it could be used for a male as well. (You all know I have the most trouble with masculine cards) I used DCWV Sweet Glitter Paper Stack. Not all of the sheets have glitter but a large number of them do.

The card size is 5 1/2 X 4 1/4. All of the elements came from a single page of paper. I just cut around the argyle design to get my label. I then stamped a "Birthday Wishes" on it. You could use this card for something other than birthday.

I hope you are having a good week. It seems to be flying by. We truly appreciate your visits and comments. God bless you. Peggy

Birthday Card for the Hubby

Hey Everyone - This was the year that my hubby turned 50!!  Well, you know that I had to make sure that his card reminded him of that fact over and over.  I created a cut file in Design Studio to weld the numbers from the Mickey Font cartridge to the card and cut "happy b-day" from the same cartridge then covered the card in glittered black paper from DCWV.  

Well, needless to say, he liked the card but he didn't like the reminder - HA!!!  Until another day, God bless!  Donna

Stay A While Longer, Donna and A BD Card

Donna is going home today much to my dismay.  However, Jacob is going to stay a few more days.  He usually stays with us a week or two each summer.  We call these times "Camp Grandma."  This year will be different because we lost Papaw Ben, my wonderful husband in March.  He and Jacob always enjoyed one another's company. 

This is the birthday card I made Ben last year.  The reason I chose this theme is because he loved working in the yard more than anyone I ever knew.  I used Walk in My Garden for the elements on this card.  He loved it.

Hello Kitty Birthday Card

I have a grand niece who is a "prissy" little thing.  She's all about being a girl.  I think Hello Kitty is a very girly cartridge so I used it to make her birthday card.

I cut Hello Kitty at 2" or  21/2", added bling to the flowers in her hair and hand.  The birthday sentiment is from Lyrical Letters to which  I added green & pink  stickles after I adhered it to the green cardstock.  I popped Hello Kitty over some hello ribbon with adhesive pop dots.  I always try to tie my envelope and card together with a little stamp on the front of the envelope.  I stamped a little present and colored it with glitter gel pens.  The end result I thought was very "girlie".

May your Monday be blessed with much joy.  I hope you find time today to create something beautiful.  Thanks for stopping by our blog. 

Paper Pleating

Thursday I posted a masculine birthday card I sent my son.  This is actually the first card I made with him in mind.  I think it could be used for men as well as women.  Probably the color combination would determine which.

The scalloped edge was cut from Plantin Schoolbook.  The paper is some I picked up on a bargain rack.  I pleated a strip of paper to add a little dimension.  Pleating does better if you use a score board.  Then I cut the labels from Storybook.  I'm not sure who ended up with this card..

Speaking of labels.  Have you seen the Lite Cartridge Lacy Labels?  I have got to make a card with it.  I think it's one I'll use a lot.

Thanks for stopping by our blog.  I hope you have a great weekend.
Peggy 

Masculine Card

I have been working on my "Woman Cave" today.  Actually I'm working on getting more room in my sunroom at the same time.  I have a computer in my sunroom that I'm going to move out along with the desk in order to have more space when family visits.  I can't wait to get this done.  But on to why we have this blog.  Making fun stuff.

I have a harder time coming up with masculine cards than I do for ladies.  This one I made for my son's birthday. 

I used Tiny Mosaics Cuttlebug folder to emboss the front of the card.  Embossing adds so much to your creations.  I cut the labels using Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge.  I cut 3 different sizes and stacked them and added the brads, which are K&Company Rough & Tumble Hardware Brads.  I then popped the completed label with adhesive dots. 

For the inside I cut a birthday present from the Stamping cartidge and wrote my message to him on it.   You can also see from this picture the pop dots I used on the label to make it stand out.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a blessed day.  Peggy

Hoots Birthday Is It

Hello Everyone!  I had a relaxing day of card-making on my day off.  I spent most of the day in what I call "My Happy Space," technically known as my scrapbook area.  My daddy always referred to my Mom's and my area to scrap as our "Woman Caves!!"  He always enjoyed seeing us working away on a project when I visited them for the weekend or going off to some scrapbook store or convention.  I know that he's smiling down from Heaven to see that Mom and I have finally started our blog.  It was something he strongly encouraged us to do.  I can't take credit for setting up the blog.  My Mom is more techno-savvy than I am so she deserves the credit for how good it looks.  Great job, Mom.

For this card, I used craft paper for the card base and cut it to 8 1/2 x 5 1/2.  Score and fold the 8 1/2" in half to make an A2 card.  The colored and striped paper is from American Crafts.  The Happy Birthday ribbon is Martha Stewart.  I used the Cindy Loo cartridge for the owl and cut him at 2 3/4".  I love this cartridge and basically everything Provocraft.

Well, I'm going back to "My Happy Space."  Thank you for stopping by and we hope you will come back and send your friends our way!  Until next time, God bless.  Donna

Card Set Inspired By Vera

I made this card set for my niece's birthday. It was inspired by Vera Bradley's pattern Sitting in a Tree. A couple of times when I visited her office at the YMCA I noticed she had a purse and a duffle bag in this pattern. I had just gotten the Cricut cartridge "Cindy Loo" and decided this was the perfect cartridge for these cards.

Everything was cut from Cindy Loo except the bird which was cut from Lyrical letters.  In Design Studio I changed the size of the "doilies" (so called in Cindy Loo) to 4.25" X 5.5"  They came out perfect for the front of the cards.  I stamped a line of birds on the envelopes to carry the theme throughout.  The clear box is from Clearbags.com.  They are perfect for card sets.  My niece was quite pleased. 

I hope you enjoy visiting our blog and will follow it and tell others about it.  Thank you for your visit.  Comments make us happy.               Peggy