Barb's Surprise Blog Hop

Today is a big day! It's my friend, Barb's birthday and we are doing a little Birthday blog hop for her!

I've been "online" friends with Barb for several years and we finally met in person at Scrapfest this year! There were several of us who met there and Barb made all the dinner plans and arrangements for all of us. We all had such a fun time and made great memories! Here is the card I made for Barb.

Happy Birthday Barb! I hope you have a day of smiles, laughter (I know you will) and many blessings! :)

Be sure to stop by Virginia's blog for more fun and check out all the blogs below to see their cards and to wish Barb a very Happy Birthday!

Marcy

Nancy

Judy

Linda

Lin

Kathy (that's me)

Virginia

Thanks for stopping by.

20 down....but many more to go

So far, I have about 20 Christmas cards made. Woohoo! Still have lots more to make. Love this new Lawn Fawn Let it Snow stamp set with the different trees. Makes it so easy to make a holiday/snow scene.

Are you still working on your Christmas and holiday cards?

Christmas in October??

I'm still working on my Christmas cards. This new Hero Arts greeting set called Miracle of the Holidays is awesome! It went perfectly with my nativity scene and the Radiant Banner background stamp.

I also used Lawn Fawn paper (the red background paper) and Authentique paper (the holly leaves). As always, thanks for stopping by.

More cards for WCMD

I created a few more cards for WCMD. I'm going to enter this first one into the Ellen Hutson Holiday Greetings Challenge with Julie Ebersole. I stamped the background greeting stamp with Colorbox white onto a Hero Arts notecard. Then I embossed the ornament and inked it up with some TH Barn Door distress ink. The dotted line and bows are from a Lawn Fawn set and the strip of paper at the bottom is from an Authentique Christmas 6x6 paper pad.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you're having a great weekend!

World Card Making Day!

Today is World Card Making Day (WCMD), so what else is a girl to do other than make some cards?!  :)  I made this card for my sister and her hubby because they just bought a house.

I'm going to enter this in the WCMD Scene it challenge over at the Ellen Hutson Classroom blog. Ok, I'm off to make more cards. How about you? Are you making cards today?

Happy Haunting

Can't believe it's already October! I'm finishing the last of my Halloween cards and here's one I made last week for a friend of mine, but haven't had a chance to post it yet. Not much stamping on this card. Instead, I cut several pieces using the Silhouette and then punched a border on the right side of the card front and added patterned paper to the right side of the inside of the card. The spider web in the background was done with an embossing folder.

Hope you're October is off to a spooky start! :)

More Halloween Cards....

I didn't realize I hadn't posted in such a long time. I've been busy with work, stuff at home and traveling. I went to Scrapfest at the Mall of America last weekend. I had a great time meeting new friends and going to classes, doing make and takes, etc. Was great to finally meet people (in person) who I've known online for such a long time. Lots of fun memories! Also really enjoyed getting to know my travel partner, Linda! Every time we took the shuttle from the hotel to the mall, Linda and I thought we were in the movie, Ground Hog Day. :)

Anyway, I've been working on Halloween cards the last few weeks.  Here are a few more I've made. I use this Hero Arts owl stamp all the time. He works for lots of different occasions. You can see him on some of my other cards here and here.

These Halloween stamps below are an older set from Hero Arts (except for the balloon). It's from one of their stamp and cut sets exclusive to Archivers. Love them!

And the spider web embossing folder below was given to me by a new friend, Ava. She was also at Scrapfest and we took classes together and shared some great times and laughs! Thanks Ava!  

Well that's it for today. Hope you're having a good Sunday and you have a great week!