June 20th Exchange

When I became a U.S. Citizen last year (wow, time flies...), I created a LO, which is where this card comes from... I totally cased my own original idea, but I must confess that this design is one of my favorite creations... I will check to make sure the Citizenship layout is posted on this blog, and if not, I will make sure it shows somewhere...
Anyway, we are right around the corner of celebrating our country's birthday... Here is a card wishing everyone a Happy 4th of July!!!

New Day Foundation Tablets

Memorial Day Week End Card Class

People tend to focus mainly on cookouts during Memorial Day week end. We focused on a card class AND a cook out afterwards. The food was great, we discovered huge Marshmallows (pictures of that to be posted soon, I promise)... But before that, we worked on those 7 lovely cards...

TAC Party of May 16

Here are the cards we made during the Angel Company Party of May 16th.

A New Era

We had been looking for a few weeks now... and here we are... Today Paul and I bought a Ford Escape to replace our beloved Dodge Grand Caravan. (And when I say "beloved," I do mean it... It simply was time to get rid of it but I am going to miss it...)

Now off to a new era with our just as beloved Escape!

challenge card due June 20

Here are the pieces for the next challenge card...:

Challenge card May 16

Here is what I started with:

Here is my take on it:

Card exchange May 16

Cornelia's birthday

My niece Cornelia is turning 2 on May 14th. Here is her birthday card. If the card looks familiar, it is because I cased it from one of my own creations. I cased the card I made for Remi's birthday last year. I was very proud of that card, one of my favorites actually, so I chose to use the general idea again.
And would you believe that I do not have a stamp that says "Make a wish"????

Brigitte's birthday

My older sister is turning 45... Here's the card I made for her for that occasion. It looks nothing like what I had anticipated!!! I wanted to use brown and blue, and somehow the white got mixed... Stuff happens, right?

Joyeux Anniversaire Bibi!!!

Thank you

Here's the card I made to thank the persons who helped in any way during the Pancake Breakfast fundraiser...

Thanks again... You know who you are!!!

Preschool Mother's Day Tea Party

Here is my current preschool BIG project. i am working on this tea party and thought it would be nice to hand out nice invites to every preschool mom... I made a total of 32 and I had fun for each and every single of them!

Challenge card pieces due May 16th

OK so this one is quite interesting... What in heaven's name am I supposed to do with the rooster? oh, and also, it is supposed to be a Birthday Card... Time to think outside the box...

It is called a "challenge" for a reason... ;)

Card exchange April 18

It started with this:

Then I started moving the papers around and ended up with this:

My dilemma was that I just could not pick which card I liked best so I had to test it out with people outside our exchange group, and the final card won...

Here is the inside of the card:

The cards were made using a stamp set from The Angel Company called "Be of good".

Challenge card due April 18th

Here is what we had to use, with also the requirement of using only black and white (and also silver and gold if desired...):

And here is what I came up with:

I am actually quite pleased with this card. I admit I really like black and white...

random

A card I sent to Melanis, just because... I was sorting my paper scraps and came across everything you see on that card... I thought it fits our friendship perfectly...

Thank you cards using scraps...

I really am working hard on getting rid of scraps... Here's the same paper as the one I used on the Mother's Day card (post below)... This card started out with the colors being reversed as shown below, but I prefer the final version...

original version:

I kept the flourish and sentiment background and here 's what i came up with after finding a piece of gold paper:

Mother's Day card

Scraps be gone... And there's more to come with the same paper...

bird card

OK, so I totally cased that card from the Spring 2009 CTMH idea book... I had been dying to do it, the only problem was that I didn't have a bird stamp. I finally bought a wood mounted one (Stampabilities company, the stamp is called Ornate Dove... isn't it gorgeous???). So here is my copycat version of it... Unlike the CTMH card, I am keeping this card without a sentiment on it, as a "just in case" card and will put a sentiment on it when/if the opportunity arises...

Kindness Pledge

Funny what you can find when you clean your computer desk... I have been looking for this piece of paper for, never mind weeks, MONTHS!!! For the love of me, when I became the Preschool lead teacher I wanted to help the children learn about kindness and incorporate this Pledge which I learned from one of my previous Preschool mentors, Jacky... I just could not remember the words for it... Well, there it is... In an effort to not lose it again, I am thinking that posting it here will keep it safe...

KINDNESS PLEDGE
I pledge to myself
On this day
To try to be KIND
In every way
To every person, big and small
I will help them if they fall
When I love myself and others too
That is the BEST
That I can do!