Hired thanks

This is a repeat performance of cards that I made last year for a staff appreciation event at a local firm. These are my mockups for them to choose from. They're a little tricky to come up with because they need to be mostly gender-neutral.


Ky was very helpful in the design of these cards. I was running low on creativity (I have an ear ache and sinus infection, so my aching head is interfering), but he was able to give some really good ideas, including picking up some of my discarded elements and saying "What if you ..."


I know which one I hope they choose ... which do you think they should go with?

Happy Easter!

Sorry these weren't posted early enough for inspiration to you, but we had a jamb packed day yesterday, and I was wrapping these projects up at 1:30 this morning after we got home from watching the Colorado Mammoth Lacrosse game downtown with our friends/neighbors.

We're home from church, and brunch is baking, so I'm dropping by quickly with pictures of the projects that I made for my nieces and nephews. The bunny bag contains several little goodies (like new summer pjs, word puzzles, gel pens, etc.) for my littlest niece who will be at brunch, and then the cards are for the other kids who will be at supper at my inlaws. I have individual gift bags to go with the cards w/ just a simple monogram on the front on layered circles. I will try to add a picture so you can see those, too. But I have to go check the food.


I used the "Tea Party" designer paper from Stampin' Up and the set An Egg-cellent Easter. That striped ribbon is from the set "Sweet Shop" from a while ago (i.e., it's retired now).

The card above features paper-piecing for interest, and all the cards have dabs of Crystal Effects for highlights.

And then our little flower, Berkley. We bought this headband for god-daughter Audrey, but somehow Berkley ended up wearing it during Audrey's visit! She was just wearing it and looking around like, what? I'm cute, it's no big deal. :)

Have a blessed Easter!

Choosing colors of sympathy

I needed to make a card for the family of a coworker who died recently. I chose my colors using this utility here: http://www.scraptitude.com/colorcombo/. I'm not faulting the color choosing utility ... but I don't know what to think of the combination either.

Edited to Add: The cardstock colors used are (in order from the card base on up): Basic Grey, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss , Going Gray, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White. In colors are Going Gray, Kiwi Kiss and Not Quite Navy. The flowers/leaves were covered in Crystal Effects and once dry, I dabbed on white "highlights" with my gel pen over the flower petals.

I was completely stumped on the colors. Now I've made this card, and I'm just not sure that I like the colors and how they turned out. Last night I thought I liked them, then I went to mail it and was uncertain. It shouldn't be this hard. :)

What do you think of the colors?

Welcome baby Trip

I've been holding onto this post until I was sure the recipient had seen the card. I put it in with her stamp order and wasn't home when she picked it up - then I've been so busy I hadn't had time to check in until last night when I saw the new (again) mom at stamp club.

Apparently, when I made this card it was the week for using retired sets. It's nice to break them out again and put them to use! This card uses the set Bundle of Joy. This card is for my stamp club member's new baby boy. He's John the third, and one of the other club members even suggested the nickname "Trip" for him as the triple in line with the same name. Because the repetition of the name is important to his family, I thought I'd highlight his initials with a little III tacked on at the end.

I snuck in some ribbon for a little softness - it is for a baby after all! But then put some eyelets in each corner and a sweet little giraffe. For the giraffe's mane, I just snipped along it and then roughed it up a little so the pieces would stand up and add texture.

Finally, I covered the initials in Crystal Effects (those letters are from the set Headline Alphabet - also retired).

Little Trip came to visit us at stamp club last night for the first time and ooh is he ever CUTE! Little button nose, adorable fingers and toes, and he still is tiny enough that you pick him up and he just scrunches right up into a super cuddly little bundle. Who doesn't love having new babies to enjoy?

Quickie card

This is a little card (3.5" x 4.5"), made with Stampin' Up set Refuge & Strength and a Verve Stamps Bible verse. The Designer Series Paper is an older design from Stampin' Up that I pulled out from my stash of older papers. I was trying to make bookmark multiples for Ky's upcoming retreat weekend, but this one turned out to be too involved and too big to work as a bookmark, which was my initial intent. However, I like the final piece as a little card to send out later.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Thursday!