Celebrate...More Stamping!

Hello Friends,

After a busy week of teaching and running around delivering and picking up kids I finally had the chance to get caught up on some of my stamping orders! I have spent 2 days stamping and I just LOVE it! Here are a couple of the cards that I created....

The card on the left was made for a 13 year old boy and the card on the right  for 13 year old girl- birthday cards. I thought it would be hard to create a "cool" enough card for a teenage boy, but then I found this stamp set in one of my baskets, it is an Inkadinkado set- I think this card turned out great. The sassy girl with the ice cream cone is a Penny Black stamp. This company has a number of girls in different styles, they are fun to color in. Actually, my daughter, Ady, colored in the girl with the ice cream cone, she loves to help when she can.

The card on the left was made for a 9 year old boy and the card on the right for a 9 year old girl. The girl with the Ipod on is a digistamp, so I just print her off of my computer onto card stock and color her in.

This card was made for a man with a winter birthday. I just purchased this stamp set from Papertrey ink last month and it has come in handy! The name of the stamp set is Masculine Motifs. I need to add a couple of more male stamp sets to my collection.

This card is a birthday card for a male astronaut. I really wanted to incorporate a "galaxy" theme with this card...so once again I used the same male stamp set as before, Masculine Motifs, and came up with this card. I love how it opens up. This card was easy to make: First take a piece of 8"x11" paper and cut it in half the long way. Next score it at the 2 3/4" inch mark on both sides, punch with eyelets on each flap, cut a piece of white card stock for the middle 4"x 5 1/4" and decorate the outside and inside with desired stamps. Cute, huh?

I used another new stamp set, Inspired by Nature, from Stampin' Up! on this card. I just love the writing over the flowers. I could make cards for so many different occasions with this set, watch for more to come!

Isn't this little girl sweet? This image is also a digistamp, she is a Pure Innocence image. This card was made for a little girl's birthday. I made a couple for myself, I just couldn't resist. Let me know if you would like one too!

This is the last card of the day. I love the simplicity of the card, but it still has plenty of style. This card is for a man whose birthday is in August. This card was inspired by Maile Belles at http://mailebelles.blogspot.com/.

That is it for today. My husband just put a movie in...I must go for now! I will be completing most of my current orders this week, so if you are interested in cards for any upcoming holidays, people on your birthday list or "just because" cards, let me know...I truly enjoy this craft!

Thanks for stopping by!

Nicole

Celebrate Duluth

Hello Friends,

We just returned from a quick trip up to Duluth, Minnesota to celebrate the 4th of July. This is our second year celebrating the 4th up north. About this time of the summer we all need to get away from our daily routine; we had a blast. I included a couple of pictures from our trip below along with a couple of cards that I made for my cousin-in-law, Hilary.

The picture on the left is the Glensheen mansion which was owned by the Congdon's in 1908.

  The mansion along with

all of the other buildings on the 22 acre property was built in 1908 for $850,000 to replace

just the shell of the mansion today would cost $30 million. It is just an amazing

historical place to visit-

http://www.d.umn.edu/glen/.

This was one of the flower arches in the rose garden. There is still a vegetable garden

on the estate. The vegetables are donated to the local food

shelf every summer.

August and Adeline sitting by the creek that provided fresh water for

 Mrs. Congdon's house plants and much more. The estate was pretty much

self saficiant.

We ate at Hell Burgers- YUMMMO! I don't think I have ever

had a tastier burger. I had the swiss and mushroom burger with fries...

I usually turn down fries, but they had just the right crisp on the

outside and were soft in the middle, perfect with LOTS of katchup,

mustard and mayo. We will be going back for more next year!!!

                                                                                    

                                                                    

Smile, Ady!

On to the cards........

The first card is to congratulate a newly expecting mom and the second is to congratulate a family that is welcoming a new baby boy.

The next two cards are neutral congratulation cards for expecting parents. Both cards are made by cutting out templates that I purchased from Papertrey Ink along with the polk-a-dot patterned paper used on the elephant. I really enjoy using their products, they are quite addicting!

I made this card using a basket stamp set from Papertrey Ink. I stamped it on patterened paper then cut the basket out. For the background I used a cursive print background set from Papertrey Ink.

I am signing out for now. I have a couple of more cards to create yet tonight.

Thanks for stopping by, Nicole