Labels -- category added

Hiya!  I decided to add another category to my Labels section:-  Cards


The Cards are then broken down into:

• All Occasion 
• Anniversary 
• Birthday 
• Christmas 
• Father's Day 
• Get Well 
• Halloween 
• Just Because 
• Mother's Day 
• Retirement 
• Sympathy 
• Thank You 
• Thinking of You 
• Valentine's Day 

Hope this helps you, a lot better, in locating something you're looking for. J

Butterfly Birthday Card

Made this card for another dear friend’s birthday.

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-

Glue – ATG; Zig Two-Way

Cardstock – double-sided patterned for the base; glittery for the front; blue glittery for the  butterfly

Martha Stewart Punch – Monarch Butterfly

EK Layering Punch -- Butterfly

Embossing Folder:  Darice – Happy Birthday

Corner Chomper – Scallop

Prima Flowers

Rhinestones

Brads

Pop dots

The front of the card spoke for itself w/ all its glitteryness.  J  Didn’t seem like it was necessary to add too much to it, so I just added layers of Prima’s to some of the flower designs.

I love how the embossed “Happy Birthday” is so raised up and distressed looking.  Looks like I sanded it but. . . I didn’t.  J

The front sentiment was computer-generated.

The small butterfly was created using a layering punch.  How fun.  You get three different parts of the butterfly:- 

v  Base shape

v  One w/ cutouts in just the outer wings

v  One w/ cutouts in the outer wings and inside wings

Here’s what it looks like:-

side of punch showing different layers

top of punch

When layered, you end up w/ a butterfly like this:-

Cool, eh??   J

Bailey – my li’l star

Whilst on our walk yesterday, we came across a group of Asian tourists. Nothing unusual here, as we’re a tourist town. A few of them came over to Bailey and I thought they wanted to pet him but, instead, they started taking his picture. They couldn’t speak a stick of English but we conversed regardless, w/ me acknowledging that it was alright and they, in turn, gesturing many “thank you’s”. Bailey was in his glory, posing for different pix. He twirled around for them, as they were giggling away, snapping picture after picture. It was quite the scene. They were grinning from ear to ear, as if they had won the Lotto. Bailey literally pranced away, as if he knew that he had put a smile on their faces.  J

So now li’l Bailey is a “star” in a Continent a gazillion miles away, where his pix will be shared w/ their family and friends. He’s always been “my li’l star” but now someone else will get to enjoy him, too, at least in pix.   J

Birthday Card for 80th birthday

Made this card for a dear friend’s mother’s 80^th birthday.  She’s a real “sweetheart” and she deserved a “sweet” card.  J

Inside:- 

Tools/Items:-
Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridge – Yummy

Glue – ATG; regular

Cardstock -- white (for the Imagine)
Patterned paper – double-sided, glued together

Corner chomper – Scallop

Pop dots

Rhinestones

The patterned paper I chose was double-sided but I didn’t like what was on the back, so I chose another double-sided patterned paper and just glued it to the first one. 

Both sentiments were computer-generated.

The “balloons” were done using the “SF Balloons” font.

80^th was done using the “Boingo” font.

The sentiment inside used the  “ChocolateBox” font

There’s no candle on the cake because of the sentiment inside the card.  J

Easter Wishes

Birthday Card

Made this card for a dear friend’s birthday:-

Inside:-

Tools/Items:-

Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page  – Deep Edge Double Loop

Martha Stewart Punch – Monarch Butterfly

Embossing Folders:

* Darice -- Butterfly

* Darice -- Happy Birthday

Stamp – swirl

Hand-made crocheted flower

Glue – ATG; regular

Cardstock -- white

Rhinestones

Bead – for centre of flower

FIL’s Birthday Card

 Inside:-

Made this card for my FIL’s 75^th birthday.   Because he used to manage a tomato hydroponics company, it only seemed apropos that his card have talking tomatoes.  LOL

And, because he’s French, the little French birdie, w/ his li’l beret and spouting off “Bonjour”, was perfect as the “tattletale” about his birthday.  J

Pop-dotted the birdie's wing and beret, as well as the tomatoes.   

Tools/Items:-
Cricut Imagine

Cricut Imagine Cartridges: – see below

Glue – ATG; regular

Cardstock – green; white (for the Imagine)
Patterned paper

Corner chomper – Cloud

Pop dots

Cricut Imagine Cartridges

Kate’s Kitchen – tomatoes, bowl, and placemat

Better Together – birdie

The sentiment on the front and inside were computer-generated.