FOREVER & ALWAYS - CARD

Now that Valentine's Day is over I can share with you all the card I made for my dear husband.  How cute is this image?!?!  I swear this image is hubby and I exactly, which is why I was drawn to this stamp from Stampendous the moment I saw it at Hobby Lobby.  Oh and did you notice the smoochie lip buttons???  I love love love them and really had to scale back the number of them that I wanted to include on this card. 

I hope everyone is enjoying their week thus far.  We are currently in the process of painting the interior of our home.  Which is a HUGE pain due to the vaulted ceilings.....and the fact I hate painting.  I will have to share pics next week once we're done.

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS!

Yes, this is a Christmas related post.....in July.....LOL!  I can't help it, I refuse to buy Christmas tags every year and I am always making the mad scramble to throw them together in the month of December.  I am actually ahead of the game this year.  I have decided to make several tags a week from now until Christmas.  Here are just a few that I have made.

The stamped image is from the Snow Friends Mini Cube from Stampendous.  This has to be one of my most used Christmas stamps.  Sigh, I still have several more tags to make......or maybe I should shorten my gift list this year.  ;)

DAD - CARD

Quick post for today....still trying to get caught up on posting all of my projects to date.

Here is a simple and quick Father's Day card that I whipped up for all of the daycare babies' dads.  The stamp is from Stampendous, it's called "Dad Words".  The patterned paper is from my scrap stash.  This year I had all of the kids make bar-b-q sauce from scratch.  We then bottled it and made recipe cards with their pics and attached them to all of the jars as gifts for each of their dads.  They looked so cute with their little chef hats, I almost did not want to give their little recipe cards away.  :)

CHRISTMAS GIFT CARD HOLDER

Here is another example of the simple gift card holder made using the tutorial found on the Whimsie Doodles' blog. See my post prior to this one for the link to the tutorial. The stamp is from Stampendous. It is actually a cube stamp and has 4 different images including the quote used on the inside of this project. It is my favorite Christmas stamp lately.

HAPBEE BIRTHDAY - CARD

I wish I owned this stamp, it is adorable. I was fortunate enough though to receive a couple of the images in a swap so I put together this card for a friend. I popped up the second layer and used Glossy Accents on the balloons and gifts. The sentiment is a Studio G $1 find at Michael's. The border punch (I think it's Martha Stewart) was a real find at Michael's at 75% off!!!

CHRISTMAS IN JULY - CARD

I can't believe I am already into making Christmas cards. I usually don't think about Christmas cards until October, but when I was out the other day and saw this cube stamp I could not resist buying it and using it right away. The stamp is from Stampendous - MTC07 "Snow Friends Mini Cube". Thanks for looking and have a great Monday!!

BEE THANKING YOU - CARD

Thank you card #3. Another very simple, not much to it card. The stamp is the "Bee Thankful" stamp from Stampendous. I love these bees, they are so stinking cute and quick and easy to color. I also used the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder and the Fiskars Threading Water border punch. Yep, you guessed it, stickles on the wings of the bee and the flowers. Yes, I am outta control.

THANK U - CARD

Here is a quick "thank you" card that I whipped up. I love the Changito Monkey stamps. They are so adorable. This stamp is "Changito Thank U" by Stampendous. I used my Prismas pencils and the Gamsol technique. I still really want to try the Copic Markers, I prefer the vibrancy of the markers over the pencils. I used one of the Cuttlebug "With Love" border embossing folders. I have had them for awhile but today was the first time I broke it out of the package. Staying true to form I added tons of sparkle with stickles.

FATHER'S DAY - CARD

Now that graduation is over I can concentrate on other things, like Father's Day. Here is a card that I made for one of the daycare kids to give to their dad. The stamp is "dad words -Q144" from Stampendous. Pretty simple card, I stamped the image once on the white card stock and then again on the background paper and cut out the word "dad" and adhered it to the cardstock. Doesn't get much simpler than that.