Every Princess Needs a Castle

Just when I thought I'd never be able to pursue the princess adventure with my two girls, my almost three year old has suddenly taken a facination with them.  To humor her, and myself I made her a princess card for her birthday.  Her all time favorite is Cinderella.  I wish you could hear her pronounce it,  it is just too cute and the sounds don'r come out clear, but I wouldn't have it any other way.  But....on to the card.  The card is a side step card.  I printed the brick paper and the princess from the internet, coloured her with gel pens and then carefully cut her out with gel pens and popped her up on pop dots.  Simple as that! 

To make my little princess even more happy, I made her a cinderella cake.

Happy 70th!

Turning 70 is beautiful, isn't it?  This card was made for my MIL.  I started off with a white base, layered some silver, and light blue, and then die cut a Spellbinders Decorative Window.  For the white background behind the black window, I simply traced around the die and then cut it out with detail scissors, though I'm sure any kind would have worked just fine!  I also used a Spellbinders Fancy tags one die and like the window traced around the die to get my white outine.  zOther punches I used were Martha Stewart Stamp and Punch Flower, and Martha Stewart Stamp and Punch Leaf Set.  I curled the leaves slightly and added some dimensional dots to keep them curved.  Then I finished it by adding some yellow brads to the flower centers and number peel offs. 

Tool Belt Card

Today's card is was made for my dear dad.  Always the fixer upper,  My most treasured memory of him is the renos he did in my kitchen.  He was obviously in his glory too, because when as day of sawing, pounding nails, and rewiring was over, he'd slump on the couch with a bag of potato chips and watch some television.  He reminded me of a teenager then...but that was a few years ago.  My dad is 80 now.  The years have taken their tole...but on to the card.  For this card I used some brown leather paper that, to my delight was two sided.  I had two really nice colours of brown to work with and I had a hard time choosing which should go where.  Both the paper and the tools I bought through kijiji, some gal was destashing a lot of her scrapbooking colllection and i jumped at the chance to  grab a bargain.  You'd have done the same, right?

60 Years

My parent's recently celebrated their 60 wedding anniversary.  The card I chose to make for them is a pure white.  I cut the aperture in the card front with Spellbinders Ironworks Motifs.  I applied tape the wrong side of the diecut, put it back from it original spot to help with alignment.  I cut the ironworks border six times, then starting from the bottom and keeping the straight edge even with the card adhered 6 rows of them.  Then applied two strips of deco strip bling to hide the seams. 



Here's a look at the inside...



Happy Anniversary

The first card I am posting is a card I made for my brother-in-law and his wife.  They just celebrated their 25th anniversary.  Isn't that something to hoot about?!?!  The colours they chose for their wedding were grey and pink and so I chose those colours as my basic card.  I used Spellbinders Scallopped circles, Spellbinders Circle Hearts, and Spellbinders angle approach Cut, Fold, and Tuck.  My embellishments (pearls and corner blings) are from the dollar store.  I also used some Happy Anniversary Silver Peel offs.