Multiple Card Week...

September is a super busy month, a TON of birthdays, (including mine :) !!), our anniversary, school starting, vacation..where to find time to create the oodles of cards I need to make!!! I have been busy colouring the last couple of nights, one with my good friend Angie who is always ready to colour! I had a couple thank you cards to make for my boys' daycare providers, Ben is moving up to the next level (AAAHH, my baby!), and Malcolm is leaving completely as he starts Grade 1. I didn't get a picture of Ben's thank you card, it was really sweet too. Oh well, can't share them all!

But here is the card Malcolm will be giving to the great ladies that have taught him so much over the last couple of years:
Surprise, surprise... orange and dinosaurs....I know, no surprise really!!! I embossed the Greeting Farm image with black ink and clear powder, than coloured it with chalk and distress inks. And I love my EK Success dinosaur punch.

Next up is my niece's 10th birthday card. I popped it in the mail this morning, hopefully it makes it to Winnipeg in time!!
Love this High Hopes stamp! I coloured her in with my pencil crayons and mineral spirits. There is both Creative Imaginations paper and Basic Grey, some Kaiser pearls, Prima flowers, and a Martha Stewart edger punch.
A bit hard to see but I also added a bunch of sparkle using my clear star gel pen. My niece loves horses, she has a couple as well as a couple miniature ponies. I really wish they all lived closer!! Happy Birthday!!!

I have lots more to create!! FIL, SIL, my 2 boys, my anniversary, birthday invitations, and still manage to put together some layouts for SGD!!! Wow,what am I doing at work? Oh yeah, paying for my hobby!!

Have a splendid day!!

Last Day of School

For my son's school it really is the last day. Our beloved little school is being closed forever. It will be a bit of a tear jerker when I go to pick up Malcolm shortly. His incredible SK teacher is also retiring. I can not say enough good things about this amazing women. Where she gets her enthusiasm or her energy I don't know but I wish I could bottle it some days!! She has given Malcolm a terrific start to his schooling, I am so very thankful! Here is the card I made for her, to help her remember (not that she'll need it) Malcolm and his dinosaurs.

The little dino guy is part of a set called O' Happy Day from the Greeting Farm and it is so perfect for my paleontologist in training! I tore up some brown cardstock for the "rocks", stamped some trees from a C.C. Designs dino set, added the sentiment with some jute twine and tada! (I coloured with my pencil crayons!)

Have a great day!! Enjoy the sunshine and lack of humidity!! My hair is loving it today!

CREATE...a fun little project.

We helped out our niece and nephew give their mommy a birthday present. My hubby had the kids put a handprint on the front page of an artist's sketchbook. Then I did some creative sketching around them. Stamped a couple of images that are remarkably like Alex and Anna, did some colouring. It was a lot of fun. I am glad she liked it! Now she has the rest of the sketchbook to CREATE with!!

The girl image is a Greeting Farm stamp, I think it is called Ebony, and she is just as sassy as red headed Anna is in real life!!

Alex's image is a Bella stamp, and he too is true to Alex's shaggy headed "cool dude" character!!

I hand drew the rest of the page, the background wording I just gave it some shading to pop off the page, and I coloured with my pencil crayons!

Have a paper crafty day!! And CREATE!!!