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Ranger’s Birthday Card

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Yesterday was our good friend Ranger’s birthday. We had a hard time choosing a gift for him, so we ended up just doing a gift card to Academy since he enjoys  running and playing tennis. He even enters tennis tournaments, so I’m sure he’ll find something good there.

For his card, I decided to use this dragon image. I picked up the digital image for free from the blog of Dustin Pike, the current illustrator for High Hopes Stamps. Ranger was quite impressed with the personalization of the card and wondered how I did that. When I said I hand wrote the sentiment and name, he was surprised.

Ranger's Birthday Card

Stamps: Dustin Pike FB020319
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Basic Gray, Almost Amethyst, Wild Wasabi
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Uptown
Ink: Dell printer
Accessories: yellow brads
Tools: Prismacolor pencils; Stampin’ Up Basic Black marker

I made a second card without the name that will be going in my pile for Operation Write Home.

Lori’s Pizza & Pie Birthday Party

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Sunday afternoon, Amy hosted a pizza and pie birthday party for our friend Lori. The timing was perfect because Jessica woke up from her afternoon nap, I nursed her and then we left for the party, only arriving about 15 minutes late.

Here’s the birthday girl with her party hat. I insisted on taking this picture and Lori humored me.

The Birthday Girl

Jessica went to the party with me. She enjoyed playing with the whole basket of baby toys Amy set out for her.

Jessica Playing

Here’s Heather and Lori, fellow AMDers. Heather works in the same group as James and Amy’s husband Ken.

Heather and Lori

Lori is not the biggest cake fan, so Amy made an apple pie and a cherry pie for the party. I had a slice of the cherry pie and it was so delicious.

Lori and her Birthday Pie

Of course, Heather brought some cupcakes and the kiddos (well, all the kiddos except Jessica) had fun with those. Don’t you love the frosting smiles cupcakes give kids?

Anna's Frosting Smile

Georgia Rose licked all the frosting off her cupcake and then declared she was done with it.

Cutie Pie Georgia Rose

It was fun getting to hang out with everyone to celebrate such a fun event.

Evalyn and Amy

A Birthday Card for Lori

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My friend Lori’s birthday is this coming Tuesday. Another friend hosted a pizza and pie party for her. It was a lot of fun. Come back tomorrow for pictures from the party.

This is the card I made for her. Since my gift to Lori consisted mostly of a few TGF stamps, I decided this TGF little girl stamp I have would be the perfect image. I used the color scheme from the ATS Weekly Wednesday Challenge #34 which was to use caribbean, pink and celery. Initially, I thought I would use the Mojo Monday Sketch  #144, but my image turned out too big for that sketch. I decided the Our Creative Corner Sketch #21 would be perfect, although I decided to nix the bow.

A Birthday Card for Lori

Stamps: The Greeting Farm OA-Happy Day; Hero Arts CL038 Number Four (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Pretty in Pink
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Tea Party, Paper Prints Certainly Celery
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Certainly Celery
Accessories: Stampin’ Up Tempting Turquoise 3/8″ grosgrain ribbon
Markers: Stampin’ Up Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Blush Blossom, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa

ATS Challenge #29 and a Sketch

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I always enjoy joining the ATS challenges. They have a nice mix of challenges: some easy and some that put me outside my stamping comfort zone. This week’s challenge, ATS Weekly Wednesday Challenge #29, was to use dry embossing. I also used the sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges Challenge #38.

I wish I hadn’t colored her socks red, but initially I hadn’t planned on cutting her out. I like that it is a clean and simple card and that the dry embossing gives the sentiment.

Have a Birthday Ice Cream Cone!

Stamps: C.C. Designs Sweet Kiki La Rue
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Real Red, Always Artichoke
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Summer Picnic
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Markers: Stampin’ Up Real Red, Blush Blossom, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Regal Rose, Barely Banana
Tools: Cuttlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder; Xyron 5″ Creative Station

Pirate Cards

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I got together with my friend Lori on Sunday. One of the things I worked on was a birthday card for Jacey, Jennika‘s little boy. Jennika is the friend who made Jessica the adorable little knited hat with flower, which I just realized I never shared with you. Isn’t that hat adorable? You can get your own at Beany Bling (Jessica is a model there).

Model Jessica, 3/22/10

Anyway, Jacey and Lillie’s carnival birthday party is this coming weekend. Jacey likes blue and green and I know that his bedroom is getting a pirate make-over, so I borrowed this stamp set from Lori. I made this card for this week’s Stamp Something Challenge, to make something layered. To qualify for layers (outside of the matted map), I used a technique to give the little pirate boy dimension. I ran him through my Xyron 5″ Creative Station three times. The first two times I adhered him to white cardstock. This made him three layers of cardstock thick. In addition to dimension, this technique provided stability. After the third run through the Xyron, I stuck him to the card. I thought it might be safer for the pirate boy this way once he made it into the hands of soon-to-be three-year-old Jacey.

Jacey's Birthday Card

Stamps: Stampin’ Up  Ahoy Matey, Matey’s Map (wheel), On Your Birthday (sentiment); A*Muse Waves
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Kraft, Pacific Point, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Versamark (waves)
Markers: Blush Blossom, Close to Cocoa, Garden Green, Brilliant Blue, Basic Black, Going Gray
Tools: colored pencils; Xyron 5″ Creative Station

I ended up making some extra cards, but changed the sentiment. One or more of the extras will go to Operation Write Home.

First Additional Pirate Card

Second Additional Pirate Card

Third Additional Pirate Card

Additional Stamps: Starving Artistamps DoodleFactory Tropic Sentiments

I’m really digging these Tropic sentiments. I bought the tropic set and the 2 coordinating sentiments quite a while back and I finally got around to mounting them on EZ foam so I can use them.