A Cupcake Birthday Card

I finally had the opportunity to sit down and make a card today. WooHoo!

I used some patterned paper from DCWV glitter line for the scalloped background and then embellished the cupcake design with ink, chalk, glitter (of course) and a nice felt flower for the top. I added a few clear rhinestones and used the white opague inkssentials pen for the dot work.

The cupcake is hand cut out and mounted on thin foam tape for dimension. I just love the designs from The Cutting Cafe'. They have an awesome choice for printable stamping.


I used my corner rounder on the bottom edges to compliment the round circles in the design.

This is a close up of the chalking and glitter.

I love using this pen. It flows so smoothly and never skips!

I just used embossing glitter for a simple "Happy Birthday" sentiment on the inside.

I'm going to try to finish a couple Father's Day cards and do a bit of gardening today.

Enjoy your Sunday and for all those Michigander's out there.....GO WINGS!!!!

Darlene

Organizing my Wooden Stamps

Hi everyone!

I've been pretty busy here getting my stamps organized. I took my lighted Curio cabinet that has a mirror in the back and glass shelves in it and brought it into my scrapbook room. I decided to organize my wooden stamps by size and display them in the cabinet. I used the bottom area to display my mini books. It works perfect for now but if I make more I'll need to put them in a basket instead.

It makes the room very cozy when it's evening and the lights on the cabinet are turned on. I'm loving this room!

I've also been making some cards and trying to veggie and flower gardens tended to so there doesn't seem to be enought time to blog right now. I'll give it my best and add some pics of my new projects soon.

Darlene

Giving the Raspberry!

This is a video of our grandson Eli and our daughter Heather playing together in April 2009. He was just learning to talk and interact with people. My how fast they grow! I just had to share this because it is just precious. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did :-)

Darlene

I'm Back :-)

Wow it seems like it's been forever since I've posted. I was trying to decide on a replacement digital camera. I found one I like so I'm back!

My hubby and I have been busy making our garden fence. We have to keep out those dogs or we won't be eating any wonderful tomatoes this summer. We created a picket pattern and then cut each board out individually. These are a couple pics of the fence unstained.

We will be re-staining our two decks this summer (it truly needs it with these harsh Michigan winters) so we decided to use the same cedar color as our exhisiting decks on this new garden fence. It's a very nice rich color. I just love how it came out. Now I can begin the planting :-)

I also told you I would post a pic of the card I painted when I had a camera.

Here it is.....

I used black embossing powder for the "happy birthday"and acrylic paint for the daisy flower design.

I also put a strip of white paper on the inside bottom of the card that I had embossed with my Big Kick. It came out very pretty!

Enjoy your week!

Darlene