Happy Birthday Regs!!

Today is my niece Regan's birthday! I have to tell you that I love this kid! She is sweet and crazy and just makes me laugh all the time. And she is fabulous with Maya! Maya just loves her Regy!!

Happy birthday Regs!! We love you!!

And here is the card I made for her. I bought this image a while ago but hadn't used it yet. I just love it - so cute!! It's Izzie with a Cherry on Top from Stamping Bella.

Happy Birthday Morgan!

Today is my niece's 2nd birthday! Look at how cute she is!!

Happy birthday Morgan! Love you!!

And here is the card I made for her using one of the adorable Huggabugg images from Stamping Bella.

Happy Birthday Dee!!

I am super excited that Regs asked me to play along in Dee's Birthday Blog Tour!

Enjoy the trip Dee. It's all about you today girl!!

Here is my card that is in the mail to Dee as we speak!

I used the super fab Cupcakeabella from Stamping Bella and based the card on this sketch from the Mojo Monday blog.

Wanna see some more yummy Loonie birthday goodness?? Check out the following blogs...

Loonie Ladies

Regan

Dee

Maria

Jewels

Charlene

Wendy

This week's guest Loonies

Rosanne

Avril

Tracey (me)

Sue

Steph

Pam

Donelda

Deb

Ashley

Happy Birthday Bria!!

Today is my niece Bria's 5th birthday. Where does the time go?!?! What a sweet girl Bria is. I love you Bria Bumcake!! We hope you have a fantastic day!!

Here's the birthday girl with her younger sister Marissa and my baby girl....

And here is the card I made for her using the Flutterby Huggabugg from Stamping Bella.

By the way, if you want to see a very cute "last day to be 4" picture, head on over to her Mom's blog. Who is her Mom, you ask?!?! Well, none other than the super fabulous photographer that I am always talking about - Amanda Stratton.

Friday Sketch! 51

Here is a card I did for another sketch challenge. I am loving sketches for my cardmaking! I find I go through spurts where I am always using sketches. I did it with my scrapping too. When I was starting out and not too sure of myself I would use a sketch for most every one of my layouts but now I rarely do. Maybe it will be the same with my cardmaking. We'll see!!

This card uses a sketch by Amy Rysavy. Friday Sketch! #51

The card was made using some scraps of pp from my stash. The turtle image and sentiment are both from Stamping Bella. The image was coloured with my Copics.

Speaking of Copics, I have had a revelation!! I've been colouring with them for a while and frankly thought I just wasn't that good with them since I kept getting the colour 'bleeding' outside of the lines. I totally thought it was me. I mean some of those images are pretty small!! It's hard to stay in the lines. Anyway, it turns out that it wasn't me! It was the paper I was using. I had been stamping on some white cardstock from my stash (no clue where it came from) and well, quite frankly, the paper sucks. I picked up some luxury cardstock from Gina K Designs and I am in heaven!! This paper is a dream to colour on! Love it and can't wait to get me some more!! Right now I am using the base weight for everything since it was what I bought to try but I am looking forward to getting some of both weights!! Oh, and they are coming out with new colours soon (Black Onyx & Chocolate Kiss). So glad it wasn't me that sucked!! :)

MFTSC69 & Friday Sketchers 40

Well, it's Friday and I decided it was time to get scrappy!! It's been a tough week for my family. We've been dealt a few blows and I needed a break from it all. What better way than to spend some time with my scrappy supplies!?!?! I just finished up a couple of cards but I hope to get to more before the night is through!

This first card is for this week's sketch over at Friday Sketchers. Just found this blog today and decided to play along. I just got this stamp and I love it!! It's one of the new Turtle Tots from Stamping Bella. So cute!!

My second card is for Sketch MFTSC69. I won these stamps in some blog candy from Janette and I love them!!! It's the It's a Cupcake Kind of Day mini set from My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping in! Enjoy your weekend! :)

Happy birthday Ang!!!

Today is yet another in a very long line of family birthdays! This one is my baby sister's day! She's 25 today!! I can't believe it! It just doesn't seem that long ago that we were all kids at home! She's a great person and a great sister and I love her!!

Happy birthday Scoots!!

And here is the card that I made for her. My first attempt using a Bella (love these stamps)! This is also for Challenge #3 as part of Kimmie's Birthday Celebrations!!

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A couple of other things today too!!!First, my gal Judy passed this award onto me and I just wanted to say thanks!! Judy is a very talented lady who happens to be a co-owner of the super fabulous company In A Pinch Designs. Be sure to pop on over there and check them out!!

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And last but certainly not least, I just needed to tell you all that Whiff of Joy has an upcoming new release!! Here is the scoop taken directly from Katharina's blog.... "We have a fabulous and fun Medieval Collection designed by Alison Acton with the characters "Charlotte & Charlie" coming" You also have a chance to win a whole set of the new release (consisting of 10 stamps). Pop on over to Katharina's blog for all of the scoop on that!