Beachy Birthday

Friends of mine from my high school graduating class are all turning 60 this year!  So I have been busy making 60 birthday cards for them.  4 of them rent a beach house in Old Orchard Beach every year and another 4 of us always make a point of spending at least a couple of days with them.  We look forward to their "beach week".  They usually have pretty good weather so we are hoping the same for this summer!!!  The cards that I have made so far have been beachy themes.  This one, of course, are sandals which I had a template for them. So this was just fussy cutting them.  Just added a couple of flowers and some bling.  I thought it was adorable!!  Happy 60th Birthday Julia!!

Tying the Knot!

All about the dress!

This past week my sisters, Chris, Connie, Andrea and I made and sent out our baby sister, Adrianne, bridal shower invitations.  When we started the invitations, it seemed like we had plenty of time to plan but time is racing.  We have some surprises for her.   Adrianne & Lenny's wedding is Sunday, June 7th.  Praying that it is a beautiful day weather wise!!

For the invitation we used the dress from SU's framelits collection. The anchor is a Martha Stewart punch.  The paper is from a Cape Cod collection that my sister's had.  Check out the inside of the card below.

Inside invite

Adrianne's theme is nautical with the anchor as her symbol.  We are all so very excited for Adrianne and Lenny!  With Spring coming, April 25th will be here before you know it!  Below is a picture of the happy couple!

Engagement photo

Happy St Patrick's Day

Another cute punch art card that I saw on pinterest and had to do it for my son.  I have passed on to him some irish heritage so I thought it was important for him to remember this!  The card that I saw on pinterest is here.  I probably should have made the eyebrows and mustache red but I didn't.

Most of the punches are from Stampin up. Tab and square punches are the hat.  I used the bird punch for the eyebrows, mustache and nose.  The bowtie is from Die-namics and the 4-leaf clover is Martha Stewart's punch.  Next time I make this card I might use googly eyes instead of circle punches.    Happy St Patrick's Day!!

Football Tailgating

Last November my brother, Hal invited my husband, my sister's husband and my other sister's boyfriend to come down to a game with the Giants vs 49ers game in New Jersey. They tailgated prior to the game and the food was unbelievable!!  They had everything!  The game was at 1:00 pm but the guys all left at 8 am in the morning to get a good tailgating spot.  There were 8 guys in all that went and they had a great time even though, the temperature was very chilly for a football game.

For a thankyou for all the work that my brother, Hal and his friend, Dave did.  My sister, Connie and I are making 2 - 8 x 8 scrapbooks for them.  Here are some of the pictures from the scrapbook that I made. The paper that Connie and I are using is Graphic 45 Sports!!  I love it!  So happy that I have a reason to use it. My husband helped me with some of the captions for the pictures!!  Some of the captions are really funny!! This was a fun project that I hope Hal and Dave like.  Thanks guys!!

Pinwheels!

Professional tailgaters

View from on top!

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!!