Surprise Birthday Invitations

My Cousin Sherry will be turning 60 soon and her Duaghter is giving her a little suprise party and I had the pleasure of doing the invitations. I must say at first I was thinking "Oh No! What have I got myself into" But after I started on them and the ideas came to me , I really enjoyed making them, I made 20.

I bought the premade DCWV 5-1/2 X 5-1/2 card and envelope pack (in black) all the other paper uded is recollections form Michaels.The white flowers where stamped using a stamp from the dollar bin also at Mikes!

Here is a little peek at the inside , didn't want to show much for privacy reasons ;)

Time for a change!

I have been looking for a new mouse pad for about a year,mine was getting really gross! I could never find one that I really liked, it was either the wrong color, too cheesey,to cutsie.....although this guy was kinda cute, he was just getting worn out!  so this morning as I sat on the computer I looked over at it and thought ugh! this things gotta go!!!!

 so I thought I would try something...

I peeled off the front, traced the shape onto some printed cardstock, glues it on the pad with zip dry, trimmed it a bit, inked around the edges and cut a piece of peel and stick laminate to fit,

 applied that on top and volia!

Looks much better, don't you think? You could get really creative and do a digital layout and make a personalized mouse pad..give it a try!

Thought I would share....

I hope this works... I thought I would share this coupon for 50% off at Michaels this weekend! What will you get?? I'm looking for storage solutions for my mess of ribbon..... If you don't believe me here's the proof.

I notice I don't use ribbon much at all when making cards and I think it's because I become overwhelmed when I pull out my stash. If you have a good solution , please share and post a link in your comment.

I have thought about these and have even seen a cut file for something similar .... Anyone use these?

I would love too see how you store your ribbon!!!

Have a blessed day!

Debi

Winner..Winner Chicken Dinner :)

Liebster Blog Award

 Im honored to have been choosen by Vicki  and Janet to recieve this award!
The Liebster Award is a way to highlight some of our favorite blogs with a following of 300 or less. I have come across several must reads from other peoples nominations.As a recipient of this award reveal 3-5 blog picks.


2. let them know you chose them.

3 copy and paste the award on your blog.

4.Have faith your followers will rally and show their crafty love back out to those awarded.

5. Have fun

My picks are:

1. Kathy  at Kathy's Addictions
2. Alee  at Aleejentaleighs
3. Stacey  at pinksugarcre8s

Again thank you Ladies for this Honor!

Tacky Tuesdays Challenge

I made this card for Tacky Tuesday over at Ruthie's

The challenge is to use the chick  from the simply charmed cartridge.

Once again I used paper from my scrap box, with the exception of the card base which is SU.

I cut the chick at 3-1/4 on the shadow feature so I could stamp the eyes using Peachy Keen's Wide Eye Kids stamp set. I inked around the chick and other paper using Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink, and added some white faux stitching.  The sentiment is from a Stamp of Life stamp set from last Easter,also you can't tell but I used an action wobble for the Chick!

I hope you check out Ruthie's blog and join the fun!!!!

Check out the previous post for the giveaway!

Love is... Closed, I will anounce the winner in the morning

Like a butterfly.... it goes where it pleases & pleases where it goes.

Please read entire post, a surprise is waiting!!

I just love butterflies, dont you? They have a very special meaning to me...

I lost my Mom to Lung cancer, July 17, 2003. In losing her I also lost a part of myself, it'something that forever change you. She was a beautiful woman inside and out, she always put her Family first and rarely thought of herself, which to me was sad. She never complained about anything, I mean anything. I sure didn't  get that from her. ;)

The day we laid my Mom to rest , a butterfly as big as a tennis ball fluttered by and landed on her casket spray, and just rested there during the service. I remember hearing someone behind me gasp. After her funeral we all gathered at our home. We had lived there about 5 years and never before that day had I seen a butterfly in our backyard, as we all gathered on the patio, someone said something and I turned to see why they were all gathering around a bush. There rested on a branch,  a Butterfly identical to the one at the gravesite service. I felt a sense of calm come over me. In the difficult months ahead it seemed a butterfly presented itself to me at times I need reassurance most.

To this day when I see a  butterfly, may it be, real, a picture, on  a card ... I still feel that sense of calm, and a gentle reminder that she will always be with me!

I  just had a thought..... In Honor of my beloved Mom I'm going to make this post a giveway post too...  Ok, UPDATE....Here are the details on this challenge giveaway!

Make a card using buttterflies and post a link using the link button below,  then leave a comment below(include a way for me to notify you) and I will pick a winner on the 28th.

The prize will be a Give A Hoot Cricut cartridge, this cartridge is soooooooo cute!

All paper and ink used is from SU, the butterflies and sentiment and scalloped shape are also SU.

Stacey's having a GIVEAWAY!

    WOW!  Two post in one day, Im sure that's a record for me!


I made this card for a challenge over at  Stacey's blog, she is having a giveaway to so be sure to go over and check it out!
The challenge was to make a card using the colors, pink, green and black. Im happy to say that ALL the paper used was from my scrap bin. The cute little frog was cut at 2-3/4  from my paisely cartridge, I added some googly eyes and the sentiment was computer generated.
I hope you guys go over and welcome Stacey to Our blogging community!, Have a blessed day!