First Set of 2012 Birthday Cards

Hi there my blogging community. I've been busy, but found some time to work on my January birthday cards; the issue has been finding the time to upload the pictures. I hope to do better. In the meantime, here are pictures of my cards. The flowers on these cards were made using the Flower Shoppe and Sophie Cricut cartridges.
I had such a good time playing with the flowers,layering, distressing and blinging them up.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Latest projects

Happy New Year!!!! It's been a while since I've posted, but not because I haven't been crafting; though, not as much as I'd like to. Anyway, here are a couple of my latest projects. I'm trying to get ready for all the January birthdays, so I've got 4 more birthday cards to make in the next week. The Christmas tags were made to be attached to some lightbulbs I found at Hobby Lobby. I filled them with small candy pieces. They made great Christmas trinkets.

I'm so glad you stopped by and I hope that you enjoy my last few projects.
TFSB,

More September Birthdays

More September birthdays; whew, only one more to go, 9/30/11, so I better get started on that card. This was a fun card to make and I am totally stuck on this peachy color, so you'll be seeing more of it.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Matron's Birthday

September is a big birthday month for me, in addition to me and my twin brother turning 50, one of the older ladies at my church, whom I love dearly, is celebrating her 78th birthday. I didn't want to miss the opportunity to remember her on her special day.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Birthday Greetings Inside & Out 1

I've been playing around with an all white card for a while now, but each time, I end of adding a little color to it, either with paint, glimmer mist or dimensional pearls. Well, not this time. I'm so proud of me. I embossed one layer of the card, then used pop dots to add some dimension to it. The butterflies were cut with my Cricut Expression and the Paper Lace cartridge. I added a little bling to the butterflies, but clear; still no color. I used a fabulous stamp set, Birthday Greetings Inside and Out 1 from the Cutting Cafe . I love this set because I do a lot of birthday cards and can't always think of something to say on the inside of the card; this set takes the guess work away.
Enjoy and TFSB

It's Your Birthday

I wanted to make a masculine birthday card for a friend and I always struggle with colors and embellishments for male cards. I reached into my stash and pulled out these great brown and beige tone papers; maybe a little boring, but I love these colors. I paired the papers with a great background stamp from the Cutting Cafe's Bingo Month Card Set and dark colored accessories. Ummm, mission accomplished.
Enjoy, TFSB

Stampede Projects

Below are the calling cards and table pop-up I made for the Cricut Texas Stampede. We tradinng calling cards with other croppers; which was pretty fun. I collected some absolutely fabulous calling cards. I made 4 cards, all from Teresa Collins' latest line, Timeless.
Thanks for stopping by.
Enjoy,
Karen

Playing Catch-Up

It's been a while since I've posted, so I need to play catch-up. Here are the first two, a birthday card and a card to welcome my newest niece, who I must say is absolutely beautiful. Well, gotta run a look at some pictures I need to scrapbook over the next two weeks.
Thanks for stopping by,
Karen

Have A Wonderful Birthday

I'm having a wonderful time tonight; snacks, a couple of bottles of water and time to just whip out cards. Boy, am I taking advantage of the time. I had a few other cards to make, but wanted to share this one with you.
Thanks for stopping by to visit,
Karen

Girlfriend's Birthday Celebration

Time for another birthday celebration, and it's a big one; Vee turns 45. She is the youngest one in the bunch...scary, hmmm 45 and the youngest. Age is just a number in my book. I'm embracing every new year that the Lord allows me.

Anyway, here are some cards I made for her birthday celebration.

Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Happy Birthday

I know I've said it before, but this is "really" my year to scrap from my stash. I have been holding on to this sheet of pattern papers for months now; mainly because I like the print so much, but I decided it was time to pull it out and use it. I need to make a card for one of my girlfriends and thought this the perfect time to use it. The sentiment is stamped in grey, so I thought I'd carry that color on to the flower by using some Grey/Silver Smooch.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

Twin Birthdays

I had to make a couple of cards last weekend for my son to take to a pool party. A couple of his friends, twins, a girl and a boy were turning 13. I was stomped on the card for the boy when my son told me to cut a football and basketball with my Cricut. What a great idea; it gave me an opportunity to use the Sports Mania cartridge I purchased last summer. What can I say, it was on sale and I got a good deal, right?
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

A Quick Birthday Card

I needed to make a quick birthday card, that didn't look like a quick card, so I scraplifted an idea from one of my favorite blogs, Stop and Stamp The Roses. I wanted to make the design my own, so I added additional ribbon and pearl bling: oh-la-la.
Enjoy and TFSB,
Karen

I needed to make a quick birthday card, so I duplicate something that I'd done already; made a few alterations and voila!
Enjoy,
TFSB

Scoring - Birthday

After talking with my girlfriend several months ago, she made me realize "I needed a scoring pad", so I printed an online coupon, we jumped in the car, drove 50 miles to Archiver's to purchase a Scor-Pal and used it twice. Then about 2 months ago she tells me how "we need the new Martha Stewart Scoring Board, so again, I printed an online coupon, jumped in the car, drove to the nearest Michael's to purchase the Scoring Board and have finally used it. I must say, that I absolutely love this tool.
TFSB,
Enjoy

So Not Disney

When I saw this paper and ribbon, I automatically thought about Disney, though that's not the theme I had in mind. The pattern paper has raised bling dots on it, so I wanted to make a "happy" card. I think I succeeded.
Enjoy and TFSB

Monday Mojo Challenge #144

I needed to make a masculine birthday card and I wanted to participate in the Mojo Monday sketch, so I combined the two and here is my take on the sketch. I like the way it turned out and I finally used one of the Hero Arts stamps that I purchased a few months ago; had to have it that day but hadn't used it until last night.
Enjoy and TFSB

One More April Birthday

My last card for April birthdays. This has been a very busy month for cardmaking, but hey, who's complaining; certainly not me. Sending them gives me an excuse to keep making them. I saw this card sketch on the web and my mind starting racing with ideas for paper; call it a sickness, I don't care, it helps to keep me sane.

Chic Birthday

Another May birthday card. You can't see it, but I am patting myself on the back. I don't have to mail this card for 2 weeks, but it is ready and will be sitting in an envelope, with stamp, waiting for that day.
Enjoy,
TFSB

Another May birthday

Keep those May birthday's coming while I'm on a role.
Enjoy,
TFSB