Ella's Card

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One of my wonderful granddaughters will be 8 on Sunday - you guessed it, her name is Ella! Ella holds a special place in my heart, she always will. She was just a little 1 year old when I experienced a very painful loss in my life. Her mom and dad made sure that I spent as much time with her as possible because they knew that her little hugs and unconditional love would help me. They were right! She (and her younger brother) attend the school where I teach so I get the added bonus of seeing them every day during the school year. God sends us healing in a number of ways - one for me answers to the name of Ella.

This card was made for a couple of challenges. The first was the inspiration challenge on StampTV. We were asked to make a card based on that image of the cake. That was my rendition of it. The other was for the sketch challenge on Card Patterns 73. I paper pieced the sections of the cake to get some of the green into it and I HAD to go with pinks! This card took me a long time to make, some cards just fall into place and others are a struggle. This one was harder than most. I hope she likes it! 






Recipe:
Stamps: Candles on your Cake by Melanie, sold by Gina K Designs
Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury Passionate Pink and Creme de Menthe
Specialty Paper: Paper Pack from DCWV called Nana's Kids
Other: Some flowers and brads 

Love the USA

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Happy 4th of July! We always have a big lake party for the 4th and some family members are staying for the weekend. The children swim all day, families take turns with the cooking and everyone brings covered dishes to share. We always have fireworks too. Everyone has a good time. I made this card for the sketch challenge on StampTV and it won the random drawing and I won a free stamp set from GinaK! Yippie!

Recipe:
Stamps: Candles on your Cake - GinaK Designs
Paper: Pure Luxury Rocket Red - SU Brilliant Blue
Other: Star Cuttlebug folder, ribbon, markers

Cody's Birthday

This past weekend we celebrated one of our grandson's birthday and I had to make him his own special card. So this is the card I made for Cody. It was also for a StampTV challenge. The challenge was to color using colored pencils. I am so into the Copics that it had been a while since I used that medium. It was fun. Cody is all boy so the card had to look boyish. At 6 he didn's spend much time admiring the card though! :-)

Recipe:
 Stamps: Candles on your cake, Oh Boy
Paper: Nook and Pantry from Basic Grey, GinaK Pure Luxury Ivory and Chocolate
Other: Prismacolor pencils - Cuttlebug folder - Crystal effects for the window - stickers for his name 

Birthday Surprise!

Birthdays are so much fun, especially if we can surprise someone. This is a "Surprise Birthday" virtual party for Kathy. Happy birthday Kathy! I am bringing the Pepsi - enough for everyone. Doesn't that look nice and refreshing? If you came from the Stampin Sisters in Christ website and got a little lost you may want to go back to the main page here. If not then you came from Linda's with that wonderful candy - yum! The next stop is at Peggysue's. The birthday card was made with a new stamp set I just got called "Candles on your Cake". It was designed by Melanie and is sold at GinaKDesigns. I used some of my precious DP from October Afternoon called "Fly a Kite". I used an impressibility for the background and lightly sponged it with greet. I also made this card for the color challenge over at StampTV and the sketch challenge at Sketch Girl. I hope your birthday is wonderful Kathy! God Bless!