Happy Birthday!

I surveyed my finished card box, and think I love green cards. All kinds of green, but especially the moss or celery shades. I think this card followed a recipe listed on SCS last week. I like when patterned paper comes with a few sheets that match, then when layering it has such a cool affect.

More spring flowers

I'm hoping and wishing, as I look out the kitchen window at 5 beautiful birds at my feeder, that spring is here!! There is a bit of snow behind the grill and a few chunks of white fluff in the shade, but the two or so inches that fell the other night, gone! Hopefully for good!!

Signs that spring break is almost to a close, as neighbors come home, tanned, from their weeks stay at some warm location. Our spring break included visits to Wisconsin and Indiana to see the 'grands'. Wednesday, we rode the train downtown (Chicago) to stop in at Maggiano's for a delicious lunch before we went to see WICKED at the Oriental Theatre. It was just an amazaing show!! I highly recommend it!

And then there is me and my creative greetings!! Flowers galore, hoping for my budding bulbs to pop through the mulch!! I tried a new technique on the baby blue and rock colored paper, I stamped a swirly floral image on some acetate... I recycled some plastic that behind or holding some sort of embellishment. Don't know if it was craft ink, but I let the image dry overnight, before I adhered it to the punches with two brads in opposite corners. Thanks for looking.

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Brace Face

Extreme close-up of Bubba here (at almost 15)!!! Before and after. Photo date is wrong, he got his braces on yesterday! You should see him now... he's napping, didn't sleep too well last night. The kid has never been in so much pain, seriously, knock on wood.... his pain tolerance is very low. Good thing we are on spring break while this happened. He's grouchy too!!

Flap Card

Had to try my hand at the flap cards that were 'hot' a few days ago at SCS. I'm trying to get used to the card being slightly small (mainly for fitting into the envelope) than the 5-1/2" height... cuz I'm just using the 11" paper. Haven't found the swiss dot embossing folder yet... so I had some tiny dot patterned paper. Flower is just popped off a 1/2% stem from HL.... I like the white 'cuz you can ink the edges to have it match (if you want). I like the touch of cuttlebugging on the birthday flap... I suppose you could ink it to make the image 'pop' more. This card recipe is nice, you can open it either from the top or the side.

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A little fluffles greeting

I'm just plugging away designing, creating and CASE-ing cards, oh what fun to have the lap top next to me as I create. I don't think there are any new or unusual techniques that I have wonderously developed for this card. My stash of creative greetings to sell or give as gifts is getting larger and larger. March must be a slow time for card giving. The embellishment is off a strip that I had to divide and conquer, found for $1 at Big Lots. Added a few stickle dots to the flowers. Most of the ribbons I buy are 'cheap' ones from M's when they are 3 for $1. But the color of those ribbons always match. I'm trying to eliminate my old paper scraps, I keep turning to that bin to find my background paper.

PS: Thanks Kim and Heather for your comments, I appreciate them so!