Mum's 65th

There is too much light in the background to see the card well, but this is the card that I made for my mom's birthday.  I think it's called telescopic? 3 circles connected with brads so they twist together.  The card was in green, brown and light blue.

Sympathy card

I really don't like trying to do sympathy cards - I guess none of us do.  I was looking to do a simple, monochromatic colour scheme.  I was trying to stay with light grays, but I couldn't find anything that quite fit what I was envisioning, so it is gray, silver and pale blue.  The flowers are stamped with clear versamark ink, but it came out paler than I intended, so I added clear embossing powder, and that brought it out a lot more.  The sentiment says "thinking of you" and is embossed in silver. 

Hedging my bets...

I will say this...I was sure that my sister was going to have a girl, even if she said she didn't know, I was pretty sure it was going to be a girl.  But still, to cover my bases, I did a card for a girl and a card for a boy.  The carriage image is from the Heritage cartridge.  The funny thing is that the patterned pink I used for the carriage for the girl card is left over from the teacup invitations that I made for this same sister's bridal shower.  Then I was looking through by blue patterned paper and found one that I liked....then I realized that they were the exact same pattern, but the pink one was in a block pad of paper, and the blue I had just picked up as a loose sheet from Michael's.  I think it shows that I was looking for the same feel in both cards if I unintentionally selected the same paper!

Dad's Birthday

This is a really simple card, but it worked for my Dad.  My parents spend most of their time during the summer up at the cottage, so this is quite fitting.   I believe the boat is from the Cricut cartridge "Designer Calendar".

Flowery Thank You

Just a simple Thank You card.  The message is from Paperlace 2 (I think, or maybe the original Paperlace).  I was happy to finally have a use for the flowered ribbon.  I bought it some time ago, a fab find from a discount bin, but just hadn't found the right niche for it.

Happpyyyy Birthhhdayyyy tooo yoooouuuuu!

The title is supposed to represent singing, not an inexplicable typing snafu.  This is the birthday card that I made for my musically inclined sister.  I couldn't find a ribbon that suited what I wanted, so used a decorative punch on plain card stock and made my own.  The image is from the Cricut Paperlace 2 cartridge.

Ta dah! Todah!

This year Andy and I started taking Hebrew lessons at the local synagogue.  I've learned the alphabet fairly well, but don't have much vocabulary.  That's how I am with languages.  When I was living in Korea, I could read everything, I just had no idea what I was reading.  I made this Thank you card for our rabbi (Todah is thank you), and begged his pardon if there were any spelling errors.