More Birthday Cards & Projects

This is a new style card for me to make with cupcakes and candles for a 6-year old girl's birthday card! This is called a Center Pop up Step Card by Iced Images. I have made many cards from her tutorials and she does a wonderful job explaining it all. Here is her link to this style card at

This is another February birthday card I made for my daughter's friend, Nelson. It is a step card with the theme of camping/hiking which is his favorite thing to do!

Happy Birthday to Emily and Nelson! I have started making some Easter projects for our booth in Wells, Maine.

Love making these signs for the front door. Whether it says "hello" or "welcome", they are fun to make. This one is a wooden circle that has been painted and added flowers, ribbon and wooden "hello" word with a bird mould from IOD.

I have quite a few corks and thought it would be fun to make an Easter display/bowl (like I did for Valentine's day, see previous post) with the corks that I had left. Added a bunny that I had in my stash and decorated a wooden Easter egg that I have too. I thought it came out pretty cute. This is a great alternative to an Easter basket, right? I am still working on some more projects both wall signs and Easter centerpieces! Check back in a few days to see what I have completed. Thanks for stopping by!

February Birthdays!

Love these pop up double tier cards especially for birthdays, and I love adding a photo! I made 2 of these for a friend's husband and my brother in law who's birthday is at the end of the month. Both of them, have a love affair with their cars! Below is the picture that I made for my brother-in-law. Did I mention that he is turning 70? Happy Birthday Tom & Sandy!

My sisters and I have changed up our booth at Cole's Corner in Wells, Maine and below are some pictures. We have added some of our crafts for Valentine's day which is a week from today!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Crafting

I love having a theme to make a birthday card for someone. This one is for my husband. He can't start a day without his coffee! Love this set from Stampin up "Coffee Cafe". It has been used a lot! The bridge style card is an easy one to make and worked perfectly! Happy Birthday to my best friend who happens to be my husband, lucky me!

The coffee bean stamp is so cute! My husband pointed out that it looks like lips! I think so too!

I have been doing some crafts with my pom pom maker. Love all the ideas on Pinterest especially the bunny bottoms! They are so adorable! It was easy to make two cute chicks with Easter eggs for Easter and little gnomes with their hats for anything. Lastly I made a vignette with a pom pom bunny in a garden that says "Hello Spring"! Can't wait for spring! I also made the carrots for the little bunny. It won't be long before spring is here!

January Birthdays

Love making tent cards! This one is for a student of my husband's who shares the same birth date as him. January 20th is a popular birthdate for many people we know! Tia always remembers Mark's birthday and she is married now and has children of her own. She is a special lady! These polar bears represents winter and they are so cute, had to use them for her birthday card. Happy Birthday Tia!

This past summer I have been making these tower cards. It gives you panels to decorate. This card is a for friend from high school who has a birthday next week. Graphic 45 Fairie Dust is a favorite paper collection and it is so pretty. Love the purple! Below are more pictures of the card. Happy Birthday Betti!

Welcome to 2022!

Since it is a New Year, my sisters and I went to our booth yesterday changed out Christmas items for Valentine items! This is the first thing I made for Valentine's Day. A Valentine heart made with corks! You can hang it on your front door or on your wall. If it doesn't sell, I may hang in on my wall. My daughter gives me a lot of corks from the restaurant that she works. I painted the tops of the corks pink and red with the ribbon wrapped around the entire heart. It took a few days to make because I glued the heart a little at a time to make sure they stayed in place. I used both Gorilla glue and hot glue. Loved how it came out! For our booth, I also made a couple of Valentine baskets and also with corks a cell phone holder which is pictured below.

It has a nautical theme because where we have our booth is near the ocean and nautical things sell very well. I actually kept one of the cell phone holders that I made for myself. It works great in my craftroom to watch videos.

Above is the Valentine Explosion Box that I made which was fun to do! Explosion Boxes are always fun to do! Here are some pictures of the inside of the explosion box.

I want to make another one for a friend who I know will love this. You can add pictures to this box too! Valentine's Day will be here before you know it! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy New Year's Eve!

Before we begin the new year, I wanted to share my Christmas cards for 2021. It is an inverted center fold card using Stampin up's ornament stamp and dies. I have a Christmas tree in the background which is from Elizabeth Craft. I make a total of 40 cards to send out so I made 25 of these cards and 15 of a second type which is below. The stamps and dies were also from Stampin Up. I am sorry but I cannot remember the name of them. Both style cards were fun to make and the paper is from Authenique, Stampin up, and Graphic 45.

Before we close out 2021, I also wanted to share 2 more birthday cards that were in December. One was for my sister and the other one was for my brother in law, Russ.

This card is a triple fold with graphic 45 Bloom collection, which I made for my sister. It is more of a 3 panel card and has plenty of room for decorating and sentiments.

This style card is a bridge fold card. Russ has helped my sisters, and me with our craft booth with all of his carpentry so I thought this would be a fitting card for him. Happy Birthdays Chris! and Russ!

I wanted to leave you with a picture of our booth at Cole's Corner in Well's Maine. My sisters and I are having so much fun repurposing and making things for this booth. Happy New Year Everyone!

Christmas Gifts

This is the first of 3 wooden letters that I have made this month for a Christmas gift. C is for Chloe, she is a granddaughter of a very good friend. She also wanted me to do one for her other granddaughter, Emily.

These were so much fun to make! My friend is going to give them to Chloe and Emily to give to their father for his apartment to put in their rooms. I think that was a great idea! Lastly, I made one for another friend's granddaughter, Mia!

These were so much fun to make for my friends! The embellishments were fun to do too! I just love pictures and all of these girls were so "stinkin cute"! I just love, love, love making them! The pictures say it all! Merry Christmas little ones!!!