Happy Birthday

 

 Here is the start of a birthday card for the holiday season.  I wish I had time to finish  it before the 2022 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop ends today, but time is really short today.  I took this picture days ago.   I like to look at a photo to get ideas for embellishments.

So, on this card I would add a couple smaller gold thingies at the top (those gold plops at the bottom of the card are the center pieces for paper poinsettias).  And I think I would remove the large cup and add several small pretty cups instead.  On the inside I'd add a couple more gold thingies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I finish the card, I'll post a picture of it.   Have a great weekend!

 

Kathy

 

 

 

Guy Birthday Card

 Birthday cards for guys are somewhat of a challenge.  You don't want something too flowery or pinkish, but not too dark and moody either.

So I just go with bright cheery colors!  Here's a colorful fancy fold Happy Birthday card that could be given to anyone of any age.  I may make several of these.

The Happy Birthday flap flips to the right and the green panel opens to the left.  A message can be left inside.  A cute card that is easy to make.

 

 

 

Here is another version of this card where you can see the folds.

 

Happy Tuesday!

 

Fancy Fold #290 Cardz 4 Guyz

 

Happy 17th Birthday

Happy Birthday to a 17 year old boy!  Cards for men and teenagers cause me a bit of stress.  This is my second try on this card.  The first went in the trash.  sad.

This is a simple card with a brown base card and beige frame.  The light blue card stock is covered with embossed happy birthday sentiments.  The number 17 was die cut and adhered to two oval cut outs.  A brown ribbon with blue stitching and brown and white twine were added for depth.

The coloring in the second photo is more accurate. 

 

 

 

Cards 4 Guyz  Challenge #266

 

 

 

Have a great Sunday!

 Kathy

Winter Happy Birthday Card

Here is a snowy birthday card for someone with a winter birthday.  This card seems fitting for this time of year especially since our outside temps have been really low and the sun is hiding!

For this card I embossed snowflakes on a piece of white card stock and framed it with dark blue card stock and a white base card.  I added a few silver drops in the center of the snowflakes.  The Happy Birthday sentiment was embossed with silver powder and framed with the same dark blue card stock.  An easy card to make but filled with different elements.

Cards for Guyz  #264 CAS Clean and Simple 

Festive Friday Challenge #FF0077

 

Have a great week!!

Kathy

 

May all your wishes come true

 Happy Fall!   We have a beautiful maple tree in our front yard which I love looking at all summer.  Usually the leaves slowly turn orange and yellow in the fall.  But not this year.  It seems like half the leaves fell off the tree today - leaves were raining down!

So in honor of my tree, I made this card using fall colors (orange, gold, brown, green) in the paper, foil leaves and twine.

 

 

Challenges:

Cards 4 Guyz Challenge #256  Colours of Autumn/Fall

Tuesday Morning Sketches #577 

 

Festive Friday Challenge #FF0070    (brown, gold, twine)

 

 

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Kathy

Happy Birthday

Below is card #3 for the 2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.  A  simple coffee cup on a white paper doily with a few pearls and Happy Birthday sentiment.

Happy Birthday Coffee Cup

Hope you are well,
Kathy

National Library Worker Day

Though National Library Worker Day has been around for several years, I am more familiar with Library Assistant's Day.  We always enjoyed celebrating National Library Week. 

Here is a birthday card with a darling kitty atop a stack of books for the Festive Friday Challenge #FF0056. 

Have a great weekend,
Kathy

Cookie Time

Celebrate with a cookie!  

 

 Cookie Monster birthday card for the Festive Friday Challenge #0053 using blue, brown, green, a cookie, and birthday sentiment.

Best Wishes

Best Wishes in black, gold and white.  The other night I could not sleep and my mind wandered all over.  At some point, I thought about a card I had seen on Pinterest and eventually came up with the idea for this card and the Festive Friday Challenge #0042 and CAS on Friday #163.

The Festive Friday Challenge required the use of three elements from their list of ten.   I chose black, gold and a pearl.

The CAS Friday Challenge required a die cut word -- best wishes.

I like this card cause it could be used for a birthday, new job, retirement or even a wedding or anniversary and would be great for a man!

Have a great week!!
Kathy


 

All Booked Up

The past couple weeks I have been 'decluttering' my house.  We have lived in this house for seventeen years and have accumulated so much good but unnecessary stuff.  My library, in particular, has suffered the most.  I just keep adding books, card making materials and crochet patterns and I've run out of space.

So, with Marie Kondo in mind, I started looking at each book:  do you bring me joy?  Surprisingly, some did not.  Those books were put in boxes immediately to go to the Woman's Club Out of the Attic Sale later this month.

Then the new Library Challenge was posted - Reader's Choice -- good timing!  I almost chose Marie Kondo's, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.  Instead I selected a book I read many years ago, All Booked Up by Terrie Curran.  The title is perfect for how I am feeling now.  And this book is still on my shelf bringing me joy!

 

Here's my card:

  I'm sure I'll be able to send this card to someone in the future!!

I'll also add this card to the Simon Says Monday Challenge Stamp It

 

Have a great week,

Kathy

Happy Birthday Folder Card

Folder cards are really unique.  I made this card using an Envelope Punch Board.   Many samples and tutorials can be found on Pinterest.

 

Have a great week!

Kathy

Celebrating Kitty

This little kitty from The Stamps of Life is soooo cute.  When I saw it on a card on Pinterest, I knew I had to have it.  Then I saw the challenge at the Day of the Month Card Club -- good timing!


When I started this card, I remembered that I had picked up some paper with little paws -- took me forever to find it.  The lessons here are not to buy paper without a project in mind or it's time to organize the stacks of paper laying around!

After stamping the cat in black ink, I fuzzy cut it.  The sentiment is heat embossed with white embossing powder.  

#4 - Hug your Cat Day

 

Have a great week!

Kathy

Celebrate

What a cute little die!  Celebrate.  I've used this die many times for birthday and retirement cards. 

This celebration card is for The Library Challenge to use stripes.  I inked the raised rays from an embossing folder for a stripe effect.  The sun is shining brightly today so this cheerful celebration card came to mind.

Challenge 34 - The Art of Stripes 

 

 

Have a great day!

 Kathy

 

Red, White and Blue

Here's a quick and easy card in red, white and blue.

 

Have a great weekend!

Kathy

All Creatures Great and Small

Love this little frog!  Happy Birthday card for The Library Challenge.

Happy Day,
Kathy

Happy Birthday in Orange

Happy Birthday in orange - card #4 in the 2019 Spring Summer Coffee Blog. 

A plain and simple card with a white doily behind a beige coffee cup and a few paper flowers and bling.

 

 

 Have a great day!

Kathy

Happy Birthday

Card #2 for the 2019 Spring-Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!   A simple birthday card with three die cut coffee cups in different colors on a background of sponged polka dots embossed white paper.  The base card is dark blue.  This would be a great card for a guy who loves coffee!

 

 

Hope all is well, 

Kathy

Apron for Mother

Love making this apron card with all the utensils and pot holder.  Cute.   This is a great card for Mother's Day or for Mom's birthday.

I hand cut the apron from a template.  I do have an apron die, but it is smaller and I like the larger 4x5 apron size.  The utensils are die cuts in silver glitter paper.

 

A few months ago I made this apron card for my nephew who loves grilling.     

 

 Happy day,

Kathy

Celebrate

When I first saw the Mary Poppins challenge at The Library Challenge, I was disappointed as I thought I did not have a stamp or die that I could use.  But... while organizing my dies, I came across this set of stamps and an umbrella die that I have had for a very long time and never used.  yay!

So, I made two cards with the umbrella die that I will send to a couple nieces next month and I'll also post the cards to a couple other challenges.

 

Challenge 30 - Mary Poppins at the Library Challenge

Seize the Birthday  






Cards for Galz   Challenge 94  Pretty Papers



Happy Spring even though the tree pollen is killin' me.
Kathy

Quilted Happy Birthday

Here is the birthday card I made for my friend's birthday.  Can you tell she is a quilter? 

Have a great day!
Kathy