It's A Girl

A good friend of mine had a baby girl.  I wanted to make a card for her.  But I was stumped on what to make.  I can make cards all day long for "strangers" but when it comes to making personal cards for family & friends, I have the worst time.  I finally came up with an idea, made the card & mailed it.  Then I realized, DOH, I forgot to get a picture of it!  Thanks to my wonderful friend Liisa, she took a picture for me!

Falling In Love With Digital

Thank goodness for digital cardmaking!  You can print your own paper, embellishments, etc.  I made this missing you card with all digital elements.  It all came from Shabby Princess - Spontaneous Delight.  I added the antique brads, navy paper for layers, Miss You wording & ribbon.

Seeing Christmas Through The Eyes Of A Child

I have always loved Christmas.  Something about seeing all the decorations and having family close by.  When I got older, I always helped my mom get the house ready.  One year, she was busy working and didn't have the "spirit."  She said there would be no decorations.  I was SO mad.  While she was at work, I got everything out of the attic & put it up myself.

As we get older, most of us lose that love.  We get so wrapped up in our own lives.  The spirit of Christmas becomes consumed by how many presents we have to buy and the amount of money we must spend.  I found myself doing that exact same thing.  Especially, after I moved away from my family.  I felt like there was no reason to celebrate.  But then our son came along.....and how things change.

Children love the spirit and the magic of Christmas.  They love the decorations, the season of giving and mystery of that jolly man we call Santa.  Christmas comes alive again when you experience through your child.  My husband and I made a tradition of every Christmas Eve, we would get a glass of eggnog, ride around looking at lights while listening to carols.  Now when we ride around with our son, watching his eyes light up and that smile on his face makes it all worth it.

This year, just about every morning, I catch my son sitting in front of the Christmas tree, just staring.  And as the presents begin to grow under the tree, so does his excitement.  He wants the lights on all day long.  Thanks to my son, I found that love and joy for the holiday again.

One Last Love

I decided before I packed up my box of cards to mail, I would make one more set of love cards.  The sketch came from CPS Sketches by Tami Mayberry.  I altered the sketch just a tiny bit.

The patterned paper, heart and Valentine envelope all came from Shabby Princess.  There are some great digi sets of paper and embellishments.  The bonus.....they are FREE!  This particular set is found under Seasonal Sampler (Amore).

Sentiment Challenge

Through OWH, Our Daily Bread Designs has a challenge for the month of December.  You must make a card with a sentiment as the main part of your card.  If there are 50 people that enter the challenge, ODBD will sponsor two boxes to be shipped to our heros.  WOO HOO! 

Masculine

I can make girly cards like no tomorrow.  But why do I have such a problem with manly cards?  So one day I sat down and goggled masculine cards.  I found some inspiration on a few different Stampin' Up demonstrators pages.  I CASE'd this card but changed the sentiment (it was a birthday card).  The inspiration card had the bubble strips going up and down.  That is what I meant to do!  But I didn't cut the paper right.  Shhhh no one has to know!  But having them go side to side makes it more my card!

Thank You Mojo

Somehow.....somewhere my mojo packed it's bags and got out of town.  I was really needing to make cards (for my sanity).  But nothing.  So I did something scary......I cleaned my desk.  Under all the scraps of paper & stamps that were buried, I found it!  There on my desk was this wonderful paper that just screamed for me to make a card with it.  And one must always listen to your paper when it screams!  LOL  Thank you mojo for returning!

As a tribute......I have made a few cards of Thanks.

The first one is made with Heidi Grace Designs.  Normally, I don't care for paisley anything.  But for some reason I found myself buying it.  Glad I did!  Can't remember who makes the thank you stamp as I am in the middle of organizing my stamps.

This second card was just a quick put together.  It makes a good masculine card, which is always needed.