Happy Birthday Collage

Another birthday card for my stash. Need them all the time. This one was for a color challenge on StampTV - I love that site. I wasn't thrilled with how it turned out but I will use it anyway. Did you notice I changed my profile picture? I am not sure how long I will leave this one up but I thought I would give it a shot. Here is the card.

Checkered Birthday

I told you that there would be more birthday cards coming - the hard part is going to be deciding which daughter-in-law or daughter will get which card - could be a toss of the coin. This one was really fun to make. I used the Report Card paper pack from October Morning for the checkered challenge from GinaK on StampTV. Then there was also a challenge on Card Patterns with this layout. I started laying things out and it just came together. I used the Square Pegs set from Melanie for the cupcake. I also just got the Flourishes from Spellbinders and used 2 of them, aren't they cute? (I found them at JoAnne's) I used the Ocean Mist, Vanilla, and In the Navy Pure Luxury card stock from GinaK. I paper pieced the cupcake paper. This card was easy to make. 

  

Button, button

I always have a hard time with the "not cards" category in the challenges that I try to complete. I looked around, and looked around my craft room and found these very plain plastic containers that I keep my buttons in. Aha, I thought - I will cover those! Then I found the Cuttlebug folders with the little buttons on it - grabbed the button stamp from Square Pegs and the word "My" from Organize It! sets from GinaK and there it was! Excuse my handwriting on the word "buttons" couldn't find a stamp for it anywhere! :-)

PS: The buttons on the top are for show only - I could NEVER waste a button by gluing it to the lid! :-)

Lots of Love

The valentine cards keep running through my mind, probably because there are so many "loves" in my life. By the time I finish making all of these I will probably not want to see reds of any kind for a while. Anyway - this was made using GinaK's Square Pegs which was created by Melanie.