God's Love

I made this card to give to a wonderful friend from church. She gave Bailey a cute hat and a book for her baptism and was even kind enough to think of Caleb. He loves dinosaurs and she gave him a book on dinosaurs. I made her this card as a thank you. I used the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge 9 sketch. I love it, it will definately be one I use again! I had to ink up two of my new Ippity stamps. You can't tell in the picture, but I embossed the cross behind the sentiment. I love the precut stamps, so easy! I also used the Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge #33 to make a card with Love on it, although I didn't get it posted in time to enter... oops! : )

Image: Ippity stamps

Paper: CTMH Lets Get Together

Copics: R27, Y15, G82

CTMH button, misc ribbon

Staying Young

My aunt's 50th birthday is coming up and she is very traumatized by the thought! My mom asked me to make a "classy, black" card for her to give. My husband said that was an oxymoron but I tried my best! I love my Gorjuss girls stamps and think this one's attitude matched Becky's well! I think she will love it. The sentiment says, "The secret to staying young is... to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age- Lucille Ball." I used Card Patterns Sketch 59 for the layout. This is also my submission for Crazy 4 Challenges 32 to use 1 ribbon, 2 brads, and 3 punches on your card. My card is also mostly black, although I did through in a little red on the sweet girl, for Cute Card Thursday Challenge 107 Mono Mania!

Image: Sugar Nellie, sentiment is CTMH

Paper: CTMH

Copics: 0, E000, E00, E11, R20, E21, E31, E33, R39, R85, C1, C3, C5, C7, N0, 110

CTMH brads and eyelets, misc ribbon

Be Strong

This is going to be a short post quick, I'm late for Caleb's bath time! Usually it's me fighting him to go get ready! I made this sympathy card for my grandma to give to a dear cousin's wife after he died last week. I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #68. I loved this sketch, it was so easy to design with!

Image: Verve

Paper: CTMH

Prima flowers, CTMH brads and ribbon

Hawkeye Ian

Hello! I made this card for my husband's birthday. Even though he graduated from UNI and is a Panther at heart, he is also a big Iowa fan and has season tickets to the Hawkeye football games. I used Taylored Expressions Sketch #104.

Image: The Greeting Farm

Paper and Hawkeye emblem were from a package from the local stamp store

twine, CTMH brads

Lovin' from the Oven

I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted, March flew by! I returned to work after being on maternity leave, and I've found it hard to find time to make cards. Luckily for me, my family has a TON of April birthdays and since I make most of my cards for my family to give to others, this is going to be a very busy month! I made this card for my dad, his birthday was yesterday. My mom switched jobs awhile ago and now my dad has to fend for himself for supper sometimes! We've found that he actually makes really good cookies and brownies, so I thought this card would be perfect for his new found talent! I used Taylored Expressions Sketch 106 for this card.

Image: House Mouse, sentiment is CTMH

Paper: CTMH

Copics: E00, E11, R20, 0, E21, E25, E29, E50, E53, Y06, Y08, Y11, B00, B21, B23, C1

CTMH buttons, Scrappers floss, Stickles