Classic Birthday

My husband, Mark asked me to make a card for his brother's birthday.  They had a Black VW car growing up and I thought it would be a great card for Sandy!  I have made a VW punch art card in the past and loved doing it.  Love how all these punches come together to make a car.  All of the punches are from SU.  I used the ovals, circles, word window and tab punches.  The road in the background is Spellbinders nestabilities paisley die.  The sentiment inside is "From one classic to another".  Happy Birthday Sandy!!

Princess Cindy

Today is my good friend's, Cindy's birthday!  She is a Disney Lover and actually has a blog called "Disney Lover".  We have just had a wonderful trip to Disney World a few weeks ago (previous post) with Cindy and her husband, Dave.  This card was a perfect card for her!!  She is a true princess!!

I used the framelit dress die from Stampin up along with their build a blossom punch and the small oval punch for the sleeves.  Embossing folders were used for the background and the sleeves and sides of the dress.   I used the Craft white ink from SU to sponge the sides and bottom of the dress.  A touch of pearls for the sides and neckline of the dress.  Cinderella dress is so adorable!!  Love it!

Have a Magical Day!

I wanted to share a few pictures of our Disney vacation last week!  My sisters and their husbands and a very good friend (sister) and her husband all went to DisneyWorld last week and we were lucky to get in and out of Maine inbetween snowstorms!  It has been quite a winter in the Northeast getting so far a total of 6 feet of snow mostly in the month of Jan and Feb!  In all their were 8 of us and one of the Disney workers were so nice to take a picture of all of us.

Here are the husbands!

Our first day we went to Downtown Disney! Our second day we  headed to Magic Kingdom!  Magic Kingdom has added and changed so much since I was there for the first time in 1979!  Recently they have added the Snow White and 7 Dwarfs ride!  Love it!  We ate lunch in the castle of Beauty and the Beast! The inside of the castle was amazing! I took a lot of pictures which I wish I could share with you but you will have to go yourself!!

Fun ride!

Beast castle

Inside the castle!

We went on many other rides such as Thunder Mountain,  Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Carribean, and saw the Hall of Presidents!  The afternoon parade was awesome!  We saw Wishes that night as well as the Electrical Light Parade!  The next day we all went to Epcot, then Animal Kingdom and the last day we went to Hollywood Studios!  Some of us had some trouble with knees and we were popping our ibuprofen in the morning before we left in the morning but we were all troopers getting to do just what we wanted.  Everytime I go I do something that I haven't done.  One of all of ours favorite rides is Soarin'!  We were able to get right on it and did it a second time!  Love, love, love it!  We have heard a rumor that they are going to add more theaters and maybe even change the movie to the East coast!!

Favorite ride at Hollywood Studios!

Perfect sign!

We certainly had a Magical vacation and thanks to family and friends for making it the best!!

A Blizzard Birthday!

We are having a blizzard here in the northeast today!  I will post some pictures later but right now we have gotten a foot so far and more to come!!  So because of the weather and most everyone is heeding the warning from our weatherman, most people are staying home.  I love it because I was able to make a birthday card for a good friend who turns 50 today!!  His party was last Saturday but because of a snowstorm it was cancelled and rescheduled for this Saturday which, unfortunately,  my husband and I won't be able to attend.  Will get this card in the mail tomorrow for him.  He is a high school soccer coach so he will definitely appreciate this card!!  The soccer ball is the embossing folder and I just colored in some of the hexagons black.  Love my Die-namics grass die!! I use it all the time. The background is the cuttlebug "happy birthday" folder.   Happy 50th Birthday Todd!!  Enjoy your Blizzard Birthday!!!

3 Hearts for One!

3 heart easel card

Loving these heart easel cards!  I made this one for my husband to give him on Valentine's Day!!  I used shiny red paper for all 3 hearts and then just decorated each one differently.  The tutorial for the 3 heart easel card is on an earlier post from this month.  I used Nestabilities heart dies for all the hearts except the silver filigree heart on the big heart.  That silver filigree heart is from Cheery Lynn designs, so pretty!!

Largest heart

Here is a closer look at the big heart that is in the back using the filigree heart die with the Happy Valentine's Day sentiment.  The middle heart is decorated with a bow/key and then a small heart with the words "I Love you".   Check out the smallest heart below.  Valentine's Day will be here before you know it.  Have fun making these fun and easy heart cards!

Be Mine!

My Goofy!

To my Goofball!

My husband's birthday is tomorrow. Just a little about him, he loves telling jokes and he always has one to tell!!  His memory is unbelievable when it comes to telling jokes but not so good when he is looking for his wallet!  I asked him what his favorite Disney character and he told me Goofy.  I remembered that I saw a punch art Goofy on pinterest.  The picture I found on pinterest didn't give the different punches that they used so I used what I thought would work.  The punches I used were all from Stampin up.  I used the large oval for the snout and the small oval for the jaw, lip and tongue. The eyes are actually nestabilities oval. The ears are the tab punch.  The hat is the oval punch, and the wide oval punch.    The inside sentiment I wrote to my goofball!!!  He loves to tease me about cards I make but he really does think it is amazing.  Love him to pieces!! Happy Birthday Husband!!!  Love you!

Busy January 2015

Hey Betty

I think January is as busy as December was.  I have a few birthday cards to make this month starting with this one.  A girlfriend of high school turns 60 at the end of this week.   She is the first of many of my friends from high school.  A bunch of us turn 60 in 2015!!!  This is a big year!!  Betti loves Betty Boop and I have made a Betty Boop card for her before but not for her birthday.  Saw this on pinterest using the top note die from Sizzix/SU.  So clever!

Inside sentiment for a 60 year old

This past week we found out that my son's girlfriend from high school, grandfather died.  My son was very close to him during his high school and college years so it was very sad for him.  His name is Jack Deering and our whole family became very close because Jack would call us from time to time to "check in" on Eric. He had a wonderful sense of humor.   He adored Eric and also, our daughter, Lindsey.  He was a very caring man and loved giving advise to young adults.  Jack will surely be missed.  Such a great guy!! Below is a sympathy card for the family.

You will be missed!