Happy Birthday Bro!

My brother's birthday was last week and I got to see him yesterday and help paint my nephew's big boy room. I managed to paint the walls more than myself and had some pound cake and strawberries after lunch. Plus I had many kisses from the cutest 2 year old on the block. If only he could say my name. What a delicious day!

As soon as my brother opened the envelope he says "I haven't seen this on your blog." I didn't realize he looked at it regularly enough to notice, and am glad I didn't put it up Friday when I had it finished!

I used Julee's sketch from Verve's may release. I love all her sketches and this one will be used many times in the future! It came together quickly and easily...I just had to do some angling and offsetting to make it a bit less structured. I'm also working on my outdoor picture taking skills. Once the flowers grow a bit I'm sure they'll look even more fabulous...if I don't kill them.

Smiles,

Paper: Very Vanilla, Black, Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy, Garden Green DSP
Ink: Midnight Blue Stazon
Stamps: Tag Time, Birthday Greetings
Other: square silver brads (Making Memories)

Celebrate!

Celebrate good times, uh huh! Now I'm singing Kool & the Gang. Which makes me think of my dad because we would sing Celebrate continuously until my mom made us stop. Then Hallmark came out with music cards and it was definitely one I had to buy! Onto the card.....

I was planning on following Saturday's Our Creative Corner sketch a bit more closely, but the stars jumped off my table so I had to go with it. I even have this awesome itty bitty star background stamp from SU--it's one I inherited from my mom so I don't even know the name. I figure this is a good masculine birthday card to have on hand, or maybe I'll have to throw a 4th of July party.

Don't forget to go to Unscriped Sketches and try out the first sketch challenge!!!!

Smiles,

Revisiting and revising

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I'm enjoying digging out cards I made a year or two ago and bringing them up to my current standards, like I did with this card. My uncle's birthday is today (I'm loving my birthday calendar I got for xmas as I've discovered relatives that I need to send cards to!) and I needed something masculine. Unfortunately I was in a rush to get it made and in the mail and didn't take a before picture!

The before card had the Night of Navy stamped image, complete with circle highlighted, and it was mounted on a Really Rust card. That's all. Blah, which is why I never sent it! So I ripped it off (carefully!) mounted it on a Navy square, mounted Candy Lane DSP on Chocolate chip, and added silver brads. I stamped Happy Birthday on the inside of the Sahara Sand card and finished. Hopefully Uncle Mark likes it, but I hope my card making Aunt Karen enjoys it as well! Thanks for visiting!