A touch of elegance with kids paper

 I created 4 cards with a new paper pack I got  from a friend. She spoils me, she really does! She is always sending me deco paper, deco cardstock and stamp sets. She truly is a blessing of a friend to have.

So, these cards can be for kids or adults, they're class and cute...

Such Gorjuss Girls!

For these couple female themed cards I used the Santoro Gorjuss Girls stamps. I made 5 cards using 3 of the stamp sets I have. I definitely want to get more of these sets because the girls are just adorable!

Here's one card, click below to see the rest...

For this card I used my SU! Doily Die, I thought it would just give this card a little extra love in femininity, I cut it out on white cardstock and then used my felt tool to ink it with a burgundy color. I used 1 small flower and then added 3 mini flowers to complete the cluster. I cut 2 decorative cardstock pieces to layer behind the top layer that she is stamped in. I added 3 pearls, and on the gal, I gave her cute rosy cheeks and a small smile. I covered her eyes and all the hearts and puddle in glossy accents to give it a clear shimmer.

Sending Showers of Love and Smiles Across the Miles

Hey y'all! Today I have 2 cards to share. Most of my followers know, I do NOT duplicate cards. I do however, often times replicate the layout of a card because I liked my original layout of another card.

That's what I have here today. The layout used on these 2 cards are the same layouts on a card that I made back in 2017. I used one of the Santoro Gorjuss Girls stamps I have.

One is for my baby sister who I miss dearly everyday, and the other is for mine and hubby's best friend Jenn, who recently lost her dad (and lost her mom last year). We called them Mom and Dad because they were like 2nd parents to hubby and I. It really sucks that they are both gone. Jenn is more than a friend to us, she is family for sure! I call her my sister or Butthead (I'm Bevis) LOL.
And Please always say "I love you" before leaving the house because just never know when your hug or kiss will be your last.

Anyhow, click below to see the cards.

A Few Forgotten Cards

Usually, as soon as I'm done with cards, I take photos. If it's night time, I take the best pics I can of the cards (since I don't have a photo tent to get great pics of the cards), and then wait until the next day and take pics outside.

It is very rare that I wait longer than a couple of days to post pics on my blog. But, today I was browsing through my computer to transfer pics to the flash drives my ma got me for christmas, and I came across a few cards that I realized I never posted here. So here are 4 easter cards that I made earlier this year for my friend Rhonda to give to her niece's and her MIL. I did 3 bunny cards, same layouts with the bunnies on 2 cards and then a mirrored layout on the 3rd one, but all 3 cards are different colors, and the bunnies are different colors as well. I also did a Magnolia/Tilda card for her MIL.

Here are a couple sneak peeks. click below to see the full pics. I hope you enjoy them, I can't believe I forgot to share them, they are SO adorable!!!

My card names:
Basket Tilda

Yellow Bunny

Pink Bunny

Purple Bunny

Before you read on, please know that this post is VERY image heavy. There are 18 pics in all, so if you're on any internet besides high speed cable modem, it may take a few moments for all the photos to load.

Wild Birthday!

Next month is my little sisters 20th birthday! Sadly, with everything going on lately with my health, I completely spaced on it. I'm such a horrible sister, I know. pfffttthhhh. :-/
Well anyhow, I worked on this card last night, and I did get it done on time and it went out to her priority mail this morning. It will definitely make it to her on time and for that I'm glad.

It's ALWAYS difficult making cards for my sis because she isn't froo froo girly girl. LOL (isn't it always hard making cards for girls like that?) So, I decided to go with a multilayer layout that has some womanly touches to it, but that is fun and funky as well! the way this card came out isn't exactly how I sketched it on paper, but anyone that knows me will tell you I am HORRIBLE with measuring, so it actually came out a little different than I had wanted. the layers of the card on the bottom came out too big, and the top layer with the images came out just right for the card, when I had envisioned them bigger. so in the end it worked out!

Here is a sneak peek, click below to see the rest.

"With Sympathy" and "Thanks Sew Much"

this post has a sympathy card and a thanks card! My friend Rhonda (my loyal customer that I'm always making cards for) told me last week that her auntie passed away. She was very sad as she said this was the auntie that she was closest to. I made her a card :)

the 2nd card is a "thanks sew much" card. this card was actually just "thrown" together (haha, sewn together, not quite!) and it didn't turn out how I wanted it. the coloring job is bad (I'm ASHAMED of myself!!!) and it just isn't what I wanted it to be! it did come out cute, and it's what I wanted it to be as far as 'layout' goes but I'm not happy with my coloring job. I think that is really what throws me off with this card! I never color this bad, but I was RUSHING to do this card early into the morning last night before I had to get up to leave at 4am to go to the airport to get our friend Jenn who's in visiting from Lost Wages, erm, I mean, ehhh hemmmmm, Las Vegas (haha, I can call it that cause I used to live there!).

Anyhow, here are sneak peeks of the 2 cards, click the link to see the rest of the pics!
Sympathy card for Rhonda....

 Thanks sew much card....

3 Birthday Cards

My friend and very lovely loyal customer, Rhonda ordered 4 more cards from me last week and needed 2 of them by the end of this week, so I completed those 2 yesterday. I still have 2 more patriotic ones to make, but for now I got her 2 requested b-day cards done, a ladies card and a guys card.

the cool thing about the guys card is that I was able to make 2 "similar" cards with 2 1/2 sheets of cardstock! Well, ok, TECHNICALLY, it was 3 1/2 sheets, BUT, I say 2 1/2 because the 3rd sheet ended up being cut down to scraps because I ripped both halves of TWICE so it was scrapped. so, in the end, the ACTUAL cards were truly made with only 2 1/2 sheets of CS. that would be, 1 sheet of deco for the fronts and inside (it was double sided so I got to use the whole 12x12 sheet, 2 fronts and 2 insides (with opposite side of the cs), and then 1 sheet of plain colored cardstock for the card base, and then half of a sheet of cardstock for the white on the inside! :)

Anyhow, here are the sneak peeks, clickety click click below to see the rest of the images (and SHORT descriptions--I'm trying to get better at doing shorter descriptions so you aren't sitting here all day reading my posts! LOL I'd seriously blabber on all day if I could! haha)

Male B-day 1 (given to Rhonda for her order):

Ladies B-day card (For Rhonda's order)

2nd 'similar' card I made, that I kept for myself to give to someone for their bday (not sure who yet, maybe my daddy, I dunno!)