Happy Mother's Day!

Today is a special day for all  mothers. I wanted to wish my mom a Happy Mother's Day.  This is a picture of my mother at her 50th Wedding Anniversary Party that all her children gave my Dad and her in1998.  My Mom and Dad had 8 children and were very, very busy as you can imagine.  She is a very special lady!  Love you Mom!

We are celebrating with her today at a luncheon today.  She is a self taught pianist so I thought the card I made for her is appropriate. 

I saw this on pinterest and immediately thought of my mom.  I used Stampin up products such as the tab and label punch, as well as the Top Note die and sentiment.  The fern punch is a Martha Stewart punch and the leaf vine is from Dee's Distinctively (which is my new favorite leaf die).  The flowers are from Prima.

I found this sentiment on the internet.  It is hard to read but I really liked it for my mother.  Hope all of you have a Happy Mother's Day.  Thanks for stopping by!

Adoption Day Cards

Again this year, I was asked by a teacher at my husband's school to do a couple of Adoption Day cards for her 2 nephrews.  One of the boys is going to be 7 and his name is Alan who happens to be blind and loves music.  This card is for him!  I found this template guitar from http://sarahsinkspot.com/blog/2009/06/u-rock-guitar-card-2.html  I used a glitter paper for the guitar so that Alan could feel it. The strings are the gold metallic string from SU which I wrapped around brads at the top and base of the guitar. The card size is 8 x 7 inches. When you open up the card I made the piano from Lynn Pratt (you can go to her blog from my blog, her button is to the left of my blog). She is so talented! I made my own dimensions from her picture to fit my card.  The white keys are 4 x 5 1/2 and I drew black lines every 1/2 inch.  I scored twice on each side at the 1/2 inch mark. The black keys are measured 5/16 of an inch by 2 1/2 inch and scored the same way only at 1/4 of an inch mark.  Then place the black keys in the middle of the black line on the white keys.  The sentiment "You rock!" is done in gold embossing powder so that Alan could feel it. There is a lot of texture in this card so I hope Alan enjoys it.

From a different angle

The second card I made was for Alan's brother, Aaron and he is 3 and loves baseball. I wasn't sure what team he liked so I did a generic Red Sox jersey.  I used a few punches for this one. The large and small tag punches for the pocket. The frame corner punch for the V neck and I cut free hand the red triangles for the shoulders.  The baseball is from nestabilities with red stitching and inked it up with Tim Holtz's Wild Honey. Check out the inside below.  Check back with me and I'll let you know how they liked their cards.  Thanks for stopping by!

Not sure why this is sideways?!

Birthday singer

I made another card for my daughter's roommate, Rachael and since she is an opera singer I thought this would be appropriate.  I have seen this punch art mouse at Christmas time and thought it would be a great idea for a birthday card.  Check out JC Mickey card, which is one of the cards that I saw recently.  The mouse is used with the SU ornament, word window, small oval and butterfly punches.  I used spellbinders rectangle for the book and the ornament punch for the tail.  The nose is just a small round punch which I think is about 1/2 inch.  The background on the card to the left is sizzix EF and the card on the right is a rubber stamp Composer's Dream from Stampabilities. I used Tim Holtz distress ink to give them both some more contrast. I did the same with the title, "Happy Birthday to you". Such a cute mouse, I just love it and I hope Rachael will too!  Happy Birthday Rachael!!!