The papers are from two sets, Cosmo Cricket’s Salt Air (the background bubbles) and the DCWV design paper from Latte Paper Stack (the lattice medallions).  All the other papers are from our stash. The banner is created with the Photo Finish Strip die from Papertrey Ink. This particular one is a bit hard to see but there are two grooves embossed into the paper and I’ve stamped “Here’s to Celebrating You” between them. A couple of layered buttons and some thicker baker’s twine finish things off.

The little green scalloped edge was done with a Fiskar’s punch, Threading Water and the embossed orange panel was created with one section of the Mary Ann folder by Cuttlebug.  The ribbon and brads on the flowers are from our stash.

Colours: B21, B45, Y11, Y21, Y28, YG03, YG23, YR23, RV23, R32, R85 and skin E50, E51, E53, E3`, E33, W7, W9

I punched a bunch of 1″ tissue paper circles and then instead of leaving them as tufts, I rolled the pieces into balls to give me a wooly texture.  The string of hearts is cut from a pierced heart border die (can’t seem to find where we got it!) and the patterned paper is from Martha Stewart’s Key and Heart Valentine’s pad.

And another confession, this was Rob’s 2011 birthday card – sheesh!

So here we have Ian Laddie from the Greeting Farm line of stamps. My husband’s family background is Scottish so of course Ian in his kilt made for a great focal point.  I didn’t quite have the papers to match the MacKenzie tartan but the blue and green with a touch of red are at least in the ballpark.   I paper pieced his tam and kilt as well as the sash while the sporran and jacket were coloured with copic markers. A large silver brad adorns his tam.

The camera paper was another very specific thing for this card as Jim has a love of photography and is still a die-hard film user, printing black and white photos in the darkroom.  I used the Nestabilites: Reverse Wonky Rectangles and Wonky Rectangles, around my sentiment.

I have quite a few posts I need to make but I thought I’d start with this one because it was my entry into April 22′s Bellarific Friday over at Stamping Bella. It’s fun to be able to participate in a challenge at another blog and we really love when people come over to our blog and leave us a comment or two! This week the theme was “anything goes” which means that as long as you have a Stamping Bella image to use you are good to go.

Since I needed a birthday card I picked Sneaky Sneaky Birthday Bella as my image and then paper pieced my little heart out.   I stamped the couch on green patterned paper and then stamped it again on some scraps to create coloured pillows. I stamped it yet again on white cardstock so that I could colour Bella’s head and all the hats of her “hidden” friends.  It’s a bit hard to see in the photo but the hats and prezzies have all sorts of glitz and glam worthy of a Bella birthday celebration.  The best part of all? – my co-worker loved it!

It’s so cute I just might have to make it a few more times… perhaps with a a few changes!

Sandi

Ellery is getting to be so grown up looking that I decided to colour up amplee TUDE from Stamping Bella.  She has beautiful, thick long hair just like Ellery so it was a perfect fit.  The patterened paper is all from K&C Company – Greenhouse paper pack.  I added a little glitter to the headband and clear glaze pen on the ice cream.  The fabric flower was the final touch to finish it off and it comes from Maya Road

Lori, Ellery and I also had fun making the invitations to the birthday party.  We headed to The Greeting Farm and used little Anya from the Me Time Anya set and I believe the pj border came from Stamping Bella (in a bag of free stamps).

I have been wanting to participate in the That’s Krafty Thursday challenge over on Jeannie’s blog for quite some time, and finally have an entry to submit.  If you haven’t visited The Spotted Chick you don’t know what you are missing!!!  She is a wonderful artisit and every time I read her entries I leave smiling.  Sandi

The layout was a sketch that was provided  Ebrubella at Stamping Bella, but unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to enter it in Bellerafic Friday.  Now that I have photo editing software installed on the computer again I hope to participate more.

This snowman was created from an idea in the Papercrafts November/December 2010 issue (page 21).  I used similar colour and placement, but incorporated my own stamp ideas, etc.  I love using craft paper and was happy with the final outcome of this card.

This is actually a refurbished card from the christmas before.  The original card fell apart so instead of just hitting the recycle bin I tuned it up, made it better and voila!! Sandi

This card was made for our friends Sherry and Tom.  I used the Sockafellabella stamp from Stamping Bella, coloured them with Copics and finished it off with a bright green bow.

Here is another bright and cheerful card made from non-traditional Christmas colours.