Happy Retirement - Betty

Here is a simple retirement card I made using my current fav Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons. The stamp is from Congrats a Stampin' Up set. The inside says "Let the relaxation begin! (happy retirement)" which is also from the same stamp set.

Card

Betty

Her retirement cake {no I didn't make it}

Thanks for looking,

Valerie

Christmas Gifts - Card Sets

So for the girls at work this year I decided to make each of them a card set. I took the week of Thanksgiving off to use up my vacation time (I get Thursday and Friday as paid Holidays, so I only had to use 3 vacation days {smiley face} to get the whole week off). I spent a good 2 and 1/2 days working on these.

I made the box from Bags, Tags, Boxes and More. I had to tweek the matchbox cut to fit my cards better. I also used the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge for the box decoration. I soooo love this flower!

The cards are made slightly smaller than an A2 card. I usually make my own cardbase and buy A2 envys from Staples. But since I was making so many cards (4 per set and I made 16 sets) I cheated and bought 2 packages of premade cardbases w/ envys. They were on sale at Hobby Lobby for $4.99 a package of 50. I could not beat this price. Anyway, they were only 4" x 5" if I remember correctly. The DP were all from DCWV Linen Closet collection and the solid paper/card stock were all the 09-10 Stampin' Up In Color. The ribbons were also the Stampin' Up 09-10 In Colors except for the hot pink ribbon which was from Michael's. Most of the cuts were also from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons Cartridge.

Box and Cards

Card #1 (my personnal fav)

Card #2

Card #3

Card #4

Sorry such a long post. I will be posting some of the other card variations that I did as part of the sets at a later time.

Thanks for Looking,

Valerie

Thankful

After making the decorations for my co-worker, I really wanted to make a thanks giving card and use that wonderful scarecrow. I'm not quite sure I am happy with the end result. The colors didn't tie in as well as I would have liked.


Have a wonderful Day,
Valerie

Season's Greetings

I fell in love with snow man when I received my Cheerful Seasons circut cartridge. I mean how many different snowmen could there be right? It seems like more than I ever would have thought. I don't even know why this one is my fav...lol. I went with a simple design for this card.

Happy Day!!!

Valerie

Decoration for Co-worker

Just a little something for a co-worker. She wanted something small and simple to decorate her monitor. She was going to cut out some black and white pictures of pumpkins. So I told her I would make her some. There was actually 5 pumpkins in total plus the scarecrow. She just loved them.


Thanks for looking,
Valerie

Gardener Birthday

So while going through my stamps the other weekend, I found this wonderful stamp that I probably bought 5 years ago and have never used. Well I work with a woman who is an avid gardener and boy does this stamp fit her. So her birthday was last week so I had to make a birthday card using this stamp. As an accent I used my new Cheerful Seasons for the boot. I also used my new Cuttlebug Folder and finished it with Happy birthday cut from Stamping Solutions cartridge.

Thanks for looking,
Valerie

Cheerful Seasons Happy Birthday

Wow...it has been a long time since I posted. It all started with a weekend that I didn't feel so well and I tell you the last month just went down hill from there. But I'm back for now. Since my last post I was able to acquire some new cartridges. My boss suprised us (everyone in our office...about 20 people) with a bonus $100!!! Wow were we suprised. So I purchased 4 new cartridges although I did spent just a tad over the $100. I purchased both of the Creative Memories Cartridges: Cheerful Seasons and Reminisce Accents, Country Life and Old West.

Today I had a birthday card to make for my niece Victoria. I started with the base and added the brown layer. I tend to use a lot of brown (not exactly sure why...lol). I really liked a sketch that I used a while ago so I put the teal at the bottom, thenf I looked through my ribbons for something to match. I found this wonderful stripped ribbon and added this. Yellow for the top seemed like the prefect choice. Lastly I choose this flower from Cheerful Season.

I am hoping to get some more posting over the next week. I actually have some cards I've made over the last month to share with you.

Thanks for stopping by!
Valerie