Birthday Traditions

I don't know about you but I'm really looking forward to seeing you guys tonight, singing "Happy Birthday" to Mona and indulging in an Iron Horse cheeseburger!  Aren't birthdays a wonderful thing? - - - even when they're not yours!

Here's a card that I made for my Dad's birthday last month.  I tried a new technique I saw on Pinterest.  I used the Lovely As A Tree stamp set and a bunch of miscellaneous birthday sentiment stamps that I found in my stash.  I really liked how it turned out.  I may have to give it a try with some softer girly colors.

See ya' tonight.

Variety is the Spice of Life

Remember this card I did in early December with the Lovely As A Tree stamp set?  Which by the way happens to be one of my all time favorite stamp sets!  Well check out what another stamper did with the same set. . . .

Is that not absolutely AMAZING!?  This person has a really great blog, Bits and Pieces.  She uses a lot of really different stamp techniques and a lot of her cards have a very artistic, ethereal quality to them.  It's refreshing to see her style when a lot of what we see in the card magazines starts to look the same.  Just my two cents :-)

Stay safe on the roads today.  Let's hope that freezing rain really does stay away and we can keep all the pretty, fluffy white stuff around for a little while.

Transition

This is another card from the Lovely As A Tree set.  I thought it was a good transition card between Fall and Winter for the weekly family newsletters.  Kind of looks a little wintery without being too Christmas-y.  The outlining technique is one I stole from Simplicity - my favorite clean and simple blogger.

Lovely As A Tree

Have had my Lovely As A Tree stamp set out for the last few weeks.  Made this card  for one of the weekly family cards.  Loved the gold embossing.  Used the Dazzle sticker lines to outline the tree and the sentiment.  Wish I would have done something a little different on the quote - different font? different alignment? ???  but I just ran out of time. 

Here's another version where I used a different patterned paper. 

Have been trying to go to my scrap folders first before cutting anything new.  That's actually been kind of fun and something I want to do more of in the New Year.