birthday wishes.

Hello again! Here's another cute little reject card for you to enjoy today:

I know... I didn't crop the photo and it's not all that exciting of a background. But I like this card and didn't really feel like taking another picture.

This was for the Papercrafts sketch submission call. I'm thinking that it would be fun to make up a bunch of these with different colored floss as a card set. It was fun to bust out my (dusty) eyelet setter and use up some of the thousands of eyelets I have!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by

AE

told you there were more...

Hello again! Here is that card I promised. It's one of the bajillion that I made with this layout. But it will be the last one that I post here. Promise!

I really like these colors together. One of the papers is October Afternoon, one is PTI, and the other two are just from my scrap bag. It's so full.... I need to find another layout that will use up some of those scraps!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

AE

man made.

Does this card scream 'masculine' or what? My husband made this card for his dad's 45th birthday. All I did was make the card base and give him a Cricut lesson.

He added just about every cool little shape that he could find! And I love it. I don't think that I could have made anything this manly and I'm sure this card will be much-loved by my father-in-law!

There is even a special signature that he used to sign his work! :) It was so much fun to sit and watch Branden create something in my craft room.

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AE

PTI Birthday Card #2

Hello again!! I squeezed in enough time to make a second entry for the contest over on Nichole's blog.

This cute little digi download is from Dawn McVey. I'm in absolute love with every single thing she creates and this color scheme that I chose today reminds me of that. It's bold and bright and I love it!

The little label has glittered spirals on it but they didn't show up too well in the photo. I also glittered the outside edge of the embellishment.

Sorry the picture quality isn't the greatest! It is wellllll past sunset here.

Have a great night!

Thanks for stopping by!

AE

Happy Birthday, PTI!

All this week, Papertrey Ink is celebrating their third anniversary. Nichole Heady has TONS of fun challenges and prizes on her blog. So play along!

My card today uses a free download from Niki Estes. At first I wasn't sure about the colors since the cute little present was already colored for me. So this forced me out of my comfort zone a little and I LOVE IT. These colors are gorgeous together and I just like how everything turned out.

The patterned paper is PTI Bitty Dots, the sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages, and the buttons are aqua mist vintage from (of course) PTI!

I'm already so excited for tonight's post and of course all the countdown and new releases coming soon!

Have a great night. I'm going to try and get a couple more cards finished before the deadline.

Thanks for stopping by!

AE

Here's More...

Using the design from my previous post I made a dozen more cards! I changed the colors and themes, some are Christmas, fun and purple, brown, whatever, and cranked out a ton of cards yesterday.

This picture isn't all that great but there are fifteen cards here that I added to my basket! I can't wait to start sending some of these out. I already gave one to my husband for his birthday today. They fit pretty well in an envelope and won't need extra postage or anything.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for so many things...too many to list!

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AE

Simple Flowers.

Here are some tissue paper flowers that I made just playing around in my craft room. They were really simple and the stitched button in the center holds them together really well. There's also a piece of tape on the back to hold the thread in place while I stitched.

I love how this card turned out. Simple, fun and elegant. I ended up making a ton of them in just a short amount of time. By just changing the sentiment I added a bunch of new cards to my stash. The green patterned paper is from the Papertrey's newest release, Turning a New Leaf. I love all the papers in the set and can't wait to use more!
Thanks for stopping by! Happy Thanksgiving!
AE

Happy Birthday, Little Brother!

Yesterday was my little brother Robbie's birthday! Here's the semi-masculine card that I made for him:

I know that there is a lot of glitter on this card but I needed a glitter fix! I just HAD to use some somewhere and I think this turned out alright. It's not too feminine... even with all that sparkle!
It's been forever since my last post! I had to completely rearrange and gut my craft room but now that it's done I feel so much better! This new layout is fabulous and my creative juices are really flowing now! I can't wait to keep this blog up more regularly!


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AE

Supplies:
Cardstock: PTI; Patterned Paper: Making Memories; Stamps: SU!; Glitter: Doodlebug; Ink: Tsukineko; Brads: Spare Parts.

Happy Birthday to my Mom!

For my mom's birthday I made her a little photo album with recent pictures. This wrapping is great though! I put the photo album in a box and covered it with some cardstock that I stamped with a couple images. The stars are from an old Stamping UP Christmas set that I have and I can't even remember where the cute little "to my mom" sentiment came from.

The tag is covered and sanded chipboard that I embossed a "Happy Birthday" sentiment on.

I can't wait for her to unwrap this surprise and hope she likes it!

Thanks for stopping by!

AE