Great Nephew's First Birthday!

So... Felix's First Birthday is today! 
This little guy is my great nephew and is just as cute as a bug! 

 My first and only creation was to be this card below.  Then, after I looked through the Cricut booklet, I saw the sign (shown above) and just had to make it for the party!

This shows just the sign I made, and the card...  we definitely will shower him with many gifts! 

Happy Birthday, Felix!  We love you!

Birthday Card for a Little Boy!

We have a little boy in the family turning 2 in January!  I sent him the Elmo with 1 a year ago for his first birthday - a trend has started...  I'll see how long these cards are popular, then I'll move to something a little more 'grown up' when he gets there.

I've always seen the edge doodling on crafter's cards.  This was my first attempt.  I'm pretty happy with it.  I'll have to keep playing with this technique.

Got to LOVE Cookie Monster!!!  COOKIE!

Happy Birthday to you, Michael!

First Birthday!

We have a family member celebrating his FIRST birthday today!

 Though we live quite far away, we send messages and packages his way often.

I made this birthday card for him.  Elmo is perfect for celebrating birthdays!

Cards and Things

Here are some of my latest creations... I got out the watercolors again, and had a good time playing with them, made some more cards for our Chinese project, and we also decided that we needed some birthday cards for the little ones!









This Elmo includes flocking - a new technique I've been playing with. SO easy, and so cute!!!











Your comments are always appreciated!

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Lime Light Design Team August Project -Cards for Soldiers!

Our Lime Light project for this month was to make Cards for Soldiers! I always love doing these projects!

There are a total of 25 cards, all ready for someone's birthday! How cool to get a card with your own birthday number on it! I was even able to make them all identical because the cards are so small, I could get all 5 out of one 12x12 sheet. That doesn't happen often!!

Using the challenge from My Pink Stamper, I got out the Pomegranate ink (I really LOVE that color!) and used my star wheel behind Elmo, Cookie, and Big Bird! It was a WHEELIE great challenge! One I'll use often, for sure.

Again, I used one of my shortcuts to make the face pieces. I cut all the eyes, noses, all of Big Bird's face pieces in white, and used my Stampin' Up markers to color in the pieces. Saves SO much aggravation with cutting those teeny tiny things!! I used: Elmo's nose: Only Orange, for Big Bird: Pink Passion for his eyelids and tongue, and Real Red for his mouth. Cookie's cookie is colored in Close to Cocoa.

Though we can't use glitter, I used my black glaze pens to make the eyes shiny, and the white to mark the highlight, and Brilliance Blue ink so the Happy Birthday was nice and shimmery.

I'll apologize for the glare, I already had each card individually wrapped before I took the pictures. They're in a protective covering to make sure they make the journey safely!!

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Cards for Soldiers "Free Reign" 7/6 - 7/24

WHY did I include every single picture in this post???
To show what a difference the background makes!!!
Every single cut is exactly the same, size, color, etc.
I cut the Sesame Street characters all at 4 inches,
the 1 year old balloons are 4 inches, and all the rest
are 3 inches. The Happy Birthday cut is 1.5 x 2.25 inches.

YES, I cut 105 balloons, and the blackout to adhere behind the stars! :) :)

So, take a look, and see what a huge difference just the background paper makes!!!

I was very careful not to use blue paper behind Cookie, no red paper behind Elmo, and no yellow paper behind Big Bird.

Plus, I thought they were pretty adorable, so I wanted to share.
30 cards in all! Do you see the pattern??

There are 3 big bird cards with blue polka-dots, so I just included the one picture here.

I used this as a time-saver: I cut all the eyes, noses, etc. in white, and colored them with my Stampin' Up markers... What a life-saver!! I used real red, pixie pink, only orange, and close to cocoa. Can you see them??

Please enjoy!!

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