Birthday Pocket Card

After a wonderful vacation last week and now back to work, I needed to make a card for my coworker's birthday. Her last day is today so it doubled as a birthday and going to miss you card.  I saw one of these on pinterest and I think my sisters made made them too.  Tags are a lot of fun to make!  The tutorial for this is on splitcoaststampers under Tutorial and search for Diagonal Double Pocket card. Finally with some nice warm weather in the northeast, I made  this a spring card with flowers, butterflies and birds!

Happy Birthday Marcine and Good Luck with your new adventure of moving to Florida!  It was a pleasure to work with you and I will miss you smiling face each day!

Cruisin Vacation

First night

Last week my husband and I with my sister, Connie and her husband Russ went on a Carnival Cruise.  The destination was Nassau and Stirrup Cay Island.  The weather was perfect and so was the company.  We had a lot of fun on and off the ship!  The name of the ship was Fascination.  The picture above is from the first night with a beautiful sunset!  It was so nice to be pampered, no dishes to do and no beds to make.  Just a lovely, lovely week. 

Pretty pool water!

Some pictures around the ship.  At night the lights under pool changed colors-so pretty!  Next to the last day we were able to jump in and have the pool all to ourselves which is pretty amazing!

The picture below was Captain's night when everyone dressed up and had pictures taken around the ship.  A lot of people out and about and listening to the band playing. A lot of people like to cruise!

Promenade Deck

Captain's night

Mark and I dressed for the occasion.  After dinner, we were waiting for a show in the Palace Showroom.

Captain's Night

Connie and Russ enjoying the evening too! Great picture of the two of them!

Caribbean waters

We headed to Nassau and took a Catamaran boat trip to a reef to do some snorkeling.  Had to show a picture of the beautiful Caribbean water.  Just a gorgeous color of blue/teal!  On the way back to the ship we had some, what else, but rum punch!  It went down real smooth but we didn't count how many some of us had! Right Mark!

Double fisted!

Someone was having too much fun! Such a beautiful day and beautiful place!  Loved the trip and as always it is great to be home.  One more thing, I have to mention the buffet was spectacular!! Below is a picture of Maine lobster tail. It was very good but not sure it was from Maine because of the size. Check out the buffet! Need to get back on the Treadmill!  Again it is good to be home!!!

Dinner in the Dining Room

Buffet dining

Hello Spring!

I wanted to make this scallop punch flower because I haven't made it in a while.  Such a pretty, quick card for any occasion.  I used SU scallop punch and  punched out 5 of them, sprayed them with water and crumpled them.  Wait for them to dry and just layered them on top of one another with a pretty brad in the center.  Simple but cute! 

Happy Birthday to a little lamb!

This was such an adorable little lamb I had to make it for my brother's granddaughter's 1st birthday.  Her birthday was Thursday but today they celebrated with a party.  They live in New Jersey and since tomorrow is Easter we weren't able to attend.  Another card I saw on pinterest that was so cute!  The body is nestabilities' scallop heart, hind legs nestabilities scallop ovals as well as the ears.  I sponged pink inside the ears with Pretty in Pink.  The top of the head is an oval nestability and the head is a circle scallop nestability. The nose is half a circle. The feet are all round punches.  The grass is a sizzix die.  The inside of the cards reads "Happy Birthday is a little lamb". 

Happy Birthday Amelia!

Amelia could have an Easter birthday someday!  She is simple adorable and looks just like her mother, Jill when Jill was this age!! I am sure this little lamb had a great day!!!

Easter Bunnies

Chubby

These are the cutest Easter bunnies!!! Once again I saw them on pinterest and you can check them out here.
She calls them chubby bunnies!  I think she made this chubby bunny as an easel card but I thought it would be fun to make them for my coworkers  as a little bag with the sizzix Bigz bag die.  I am not sure what was used but I used the biggest nestability scallop circle for the body.  The wide oval SU punch for the feet and ears. Circle punches for the hands and whiskers.  Also a tiny little heart punch for the nose. Check out below for the back of the bag.  I did another variation using the Top Note die from SU and you can check out where I got the idea here.  The Top Note variation gave him some whiskers which I just used my paper crimper and cut thin strips. The only difference is that I used nestabilities oval for the ears.

Not so chubby

Filled them up with pink grass and candy and then I was done. I  know I have said this before but I did have a lot of fun making these cute little bunnies.  So adorable!!!  I made 6 of them and they were a hit at the office.  Put a smile on everyone's face!!

Happy Easter everyone!!!

Adorable tail!

Which one do you like the best?

95 Pleasant Poppies

Tomorrow is our Aunt Nan's birthday!  She will be 95!!  She is a delightful person. Aunt Nan really knows how to enjoy life. Some of her adventures have been white water river rafting in her 70's, playing tennis well into her 70's, and just last year at this time tandem skydiving!!  Just last fall she fell and broke her hip and did well after surgery but since the beginning of this year she has declined.   So I wanted to cheer her up a bit because she does like it when I make her a card.  Love SU Pleasant Poppies so decided to make a card with this stamp.  It is hard to see but I used Crystal Effects on the poppies to make them "pop".  Happy Birthday Aunt Nan!!!

Family Easter Baskets

Time again to make some Easter Baskets for the family.  On pinterest I saw this tutorial which has 2 parts. The first video and then the second for this basket.  It is really very easy but you will need the sizzix scallop envelope die also some ribbon, DP, solid cardstock, decorative brads and decorative border punch.  I also did a purple one which is shown below.  It is a really good size basket which measures 5 1/2-6 inches roundish.

I can't decide whether or not to glue the flaps down or not.  Hope you enjoyed this little basket and try to make one for your family.  Easter will be here before you know it!  Happy Easter  Everyone!!