4 cards...2 designs

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A good friend is celebrating her birthday tomorrow, so I made a card for her.

 And I liked it so much I made another! I used Basic Grey paper called "Indian Summer".

 

"Indian Summer"

By the way, Basic Grey just created a blog, and they have a talent call (if you're interested.)

Then...I watched the Portlandia clip: "Put a Bird On It"

...and was inspired to go forth and do so.

I'm not as satisfied with the bird card as I am  with the Basic Grey card, but that might be due to my low expectation of the BG card and the vision in my head not coming out quite as well as I wanted.

The "hello-birdie" has the bird raised up with foam. The "celebrate-birdie" is flat. I scored the heavy linen paper with my Martha Stewart scoring thing. I like that the lines are spaced 1/8 " apart, but the grooves are so deep I have pressed throguh my paper on several occasions. It's good to have both (more toys!)

12 days until school starts!  Not that I'm counting.

A Masculine Birthday Card

I've made up a basic and rough birthday card that is fairly masculine. The outside is non-descript, so it really could be an all-occasion card.

There is a lot of textrue to this card and while a little bulky, it's not overly so. It'd probably need to be hand-cancled so double the postage, but again...not too excesive. I wouldn't want to have to mail each card like that. ;)

Enjoy!

November trio of Birthday Cards

Wonderful Mr. Dude gave me some much needed time to get a few things completed over the weekend. I didn't get the Halloween decoration completed that I wanted to finish and give to a friend...nor the yummy oreo truffles I want to make (that's probably for the better!) but I did get a chance to work on these three cards and design the next class, too. My list is too long and available time is too short.

These cards were all made with the Making Memories "Spring" series of paper.

The last Birthday class of 2010 is scheduled for November 2, from 12 - 1 pm. Cost is $10 for 3 cards. All materials and illustrated instructions included.

Enjoy!

February 23 Class: Birthday Cards; a study in blues and greens

Here are the 3 cards I have in the Birthday IMIM kit available as of February 22nd. The class will be Tuesday, February 23rd, 12-1:00.

The theme is blues and greens because even if I don't have paper that coordinates by manufacturer, I need to have a theme to link them together. I went with the obvious and found some coordinating colors.

If you are interested in a kit, the cost is $10.00 + S/H and comes with all materials, envelopes and printed instructions. You can e-mail me your request: ladyjcreations@comcast.net

I'm trying hard to come up with something creative to make so I can post again on the Trendy Treehouse blog hop on Friday. My brain is so fried that I can't come up with a single idea. Got any?

Hope you enjoy your week!

I am adding this to Mr. Linky at Trendy Tree House.

Birthday Count-down Calendar

Next week my middle monkey turns 6. 6!!!

So I made him a cute little Birthday Count-down calendar, sort-of a mini advent calendar 6 days before his birthday. Today he had a slip of paper that said "Choose either the box or the envelope". He chose the box, and inside the shoe box on the kitchen table was another slip of paper that said "You need to choose the envelope". Inside the envelope was the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Tomorrow he gets some gum. Kind of a let-down from today, but he's been home with a stomach bug, so he needed the movie today and not next week. Typically, we will put a chocolate or a few quarters or a little gift inside. I might need to make myself one of these in May...

Oh, yeah...It's another Calendar!

I finally finished this fun little idea I wanted to try: A Birthday Countdown Calendar. Funny story...I bought the wrong little boxes for the Halloween Advent Calendar when my sister so sweetly requested 2 calendars to make. And of course I lost the receipt and couldn't return the box favors, so I needed to figure out how to use 100 rectangle boxes. I came up with another type of advent calendar...a birthday countdown. What kid doesn't absolutely LOVE celebrating their birthday? And now they can have an itty-bitty giftie each day for a week (6 days) before their birthday.

As I was making this I wasn't sure it was going to turn out as nice as the Halloween advent, but I think it looks pretty darn good. I made this for my favorite October 26th boy and hope he enjoys counting down the days before his birthday.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think. And let me know if you're interested in buying a Birthday Countdown Calendar kit. I'm playing around with the idea of making this into a kit available as early as October 25th.

Thanks for looking, hope your week is a good one!