Willow & Paisley

OH BOY!!!

                   

It's a boy!!  OH MY!  My sister, Miranda, just found out she is having a baby boy in October and I wanted to make a fun little card to send to her.  She has two little girls now.  Ryann just turned 3 and Camryn is going to be 18 months when the new baby is born.  Yes, my sister is a very busy woman these days.  The whole family is excited about the new baby regardless of the gender but won't it be fun to see the girls play dress up and put this little guy in princess dresses?  Oh it will happen!  I have also scared my sister and asked her what she would do if the boy turns out to be exactly like our brother.  He was SO bad....yep, she's scared now.  Sorry Wes.  Haha. 

I cannot wait to meet this little man.  I am just so thankful to my sister and my brother for bringing these amazing children in to my life.  I love being their Auntie.  

Happy Birthday Maria

                  

              Happy Birthday Ms. Maria.  Have I told you lately that I love ya?!!

Hey everyone it's my Loonie girl Maria's b-day today.  Go wish her a happy day and tell her how GREAT she is.  Ok ok....so the card is going to be late BUT it IS in the mail and that's somethin'.....right?!!  I am really really trying to be a card sender and not just a card maker.  Fingers crossed.   I hope you all have as great a day as I just know Maria is having.   I wish I had some cake to help her celebrate!!  Yum-o!

                         

A Little Bit of This and That

First up....I just wanted to post my cards that were published in the June 2009 issue of CARDS.  I don't have my copy yet but I have seen them through my on-line subscription.  It's so nice to be able to do that.

                   

                   

                   

Also...notice the new avatar?!!  I got new glasses a couple of weeks ago and I LOVE them so it was time to update my pic even though I don't look any different really.  Gotta love that self photographed look hey?  But who else would be patient enough to take 147 pictures of me until I was at least half satisfied with one?  Haha.  Please try not to notice my AGE spots freckles or my double chin :0  I booked my very first Microdermabrasion session for this Thursday (TMI??).  The ugly age of 39 is approaching all too fast and I need to do something.   Anywho....these are my new glasses.   How cool are those?!!  I am so in love with these new specs.   I may not have used my houndstooth dp but I wear the pattern daily now. 

                         

                      

                      

Raspberry Suite CC

                           

I needed a birthday card for a friend (Happy Birthday Cristy!) and used Dawn's colour challenge for it.   Whew....these were not easy colours were they?  I think it was that red and green that took me for a loop. 

                   

The stamps are both by Elzybells.  The cupcake stamp is from the Mini Messages~A Little Hello set.  So cute.  I paper pieced the icing on each cupcake rather than colouring them in.   The hb sentiment is one of my favs as I just love the font.

                         Thanks for visiting everyone!  Have a great day.   

                          

Loonie Stampers

         

I will tell you that when one of the girls chooses a colour challenge that I think is hard or just plain odd I whine and torment them with my whining.  This week Dee chose Scarlet Jewel, Aqua Mist, Ripe Avocado and Lemon Tart.  Well I nearly fell down dead with shock.  Oh I whined and whined.  That is until I made my card and realized I LOVE those colours together.  Dee, you are brilliant....love you!!  So I will fess up and say that I don't have the Scarlet Jewel colour from Papertrey yet but it's coming!  What I did use was a crochet flower by Imaginesce that I have had for a while.  I thought the colour was good enough to make do.  I am going to a baby christening for some very good friends of ours in a couple of weeks and this will be their card.

    

Unfortunately Jewels had to leave town for a family emergency so we didn't have our usual colour map artist.  Well Dee, once again, floored me with her talent and created our colour map this week.  I absolutely LOVE it.

Be sure to check the girls creations.  I cannot wait to see what they did with these colours.  Have a GREAT Friday and a fantastic weekend.

   Dee    Jewels    Regan    Maria    Wendy  

  

Red & White

                                    

The Elzybells Fortnightly challenge is to create a card using the colours of your countries flag.  I think for most of the DT that is red, white and blue but for Canada it's just a simple red and white. 

                     

As you can see I took full advantage of the red and white theme to not colour my image.  I know, I know....I was being lazy.                  

                      

Once I was finished my second card I couldn't decide if I liked it better standing upright or as a wider card so I decided to show you both pics.   The sentiment and the little flower stamps are from the newly released Best Things clear stamp set.  I seriously love these sentiments.  Please play along and post a link to your card on Elizabeth's blog.  We'd love it if you did!!  

                     

Happy Birthday Steph!!

                   

"Happy Birthday to You!  Happy Birthday to You!  Happy Birthday dear Steph!  Happy Birthday to You!!"