Brother’s Birthday

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This is a card that I did for my brother. His birthday is coming up. He’s an April’s Fools boy and lives in Indonesia. This is why I got his card done so early so that I can send it off this week — it’ll give me a few days to figure out when I’ll have time to stop by the post office. I have stamps but not sure how much it is to send overseas WITH a knotty ribbon — it’s not $.41 + $.17. Oh speaking of, stamps are going up again May 1st. Just a penny though. Which I think is reasonable the way gas is going.

I created this card based on Beate’s sketch challenge. Challenge #39. If I have time, I want to try another challenge, one from Caardvarks. They have all sorts of cool prizes so you might want to check them out. I didn’t do this week’s because I have nothing in mind for their transportation theme. So I’ll wait for the next one.

I hope my brother likes it. This card was easy to make (as you can see). I just used my 1 3/8″ punch for the square, then rounded the two corner edges and stamped and layered. I added the baby blue ribbon because the colors look good together and also because he’s my baby brother, ha! The brads are Making Memories, the coloring was done using Stampin’ Up! markers and there is also some dimensional sparkles on the cake — thought I’d give it sparkly icing look. Not sure if you can see it. I really like how this card turned out and I hope he does too — he better! {::SMILES}.

Have a great Monday!!

Had a Day Off, Yeah!

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I had a nice day today. Yeah to me! {::SMILES}.

I stayed up late, not scrapbooking, but watched the Wedding Crasher last night. Hubby took M to school this morning and me… I slept in until 11 a.m.! Wow! I haven’t done that since… uhmm… who knows… It was nice. This afternoon we ran some errands, had lunch at a little tea house, and shopped at the local consignment store. I spent $97 on a butt load of almost new name brand clothes for myself. The most expensive was a $12 BCBG pants. I LOVE consignment stores! M even got a little Easter dress and necklace and the hubby got two pair of pants. Yeah… the poor guy, he had to leave and come back to get me since I was taking my sweet time in there. Even after he came back, I was still in the dressing room.

Ok, so here are some cards that I create for my Stampin’ Up! workshop on Tuesday. I actually did three but the other one I’m saving for a submission to something. I’ll tell you later.

I used the Just Celebrate set — my favorite owl — and the Cuttlebug. It’s a pretty simple card and for the owl, I just used my pastel SU markers to color it.

For the ribbon, the ribbon doesn’t go all around the card stock. It’s cut on each end and then glued on to the paper. What I did was glue one end and glued it to the back of the card stock, rolled the ribbon over and when I get to other end, I’ll decide how much I need for the glue and then cut the ribbon from the roll. For the center tied the knot first, arrange it the way I like it, and then cut the other end from the roll. I like doing this because I feel like I’m saving a lot of ribbons. I see people cutting a strip of ribbon and then end up trimming a lot of it after everything is all set and done. I know that some people can’t tie if the ribbon isn’t loose but to me it’s quite easy and that’s why I do it the way I do it.

This other card is a super simple card for M’s friend. We’re going to another party this weekend. Her friend is turning three, so I don’t see the need for a fancy card. The last card I made for M’s friend, the one who turned five, she glanced at it and put it down. Who knows where the card is now.

I used the scallop punch for this and the stamp is from the So Many Scallops set. It’s a Sale-A-Bration set.

Tomorrow and Saturday I’ll be scrapbooking. I hope to have a lot to show you by Monday but we’ll see. My husband said it’s so discouraging for him when I go to this types of events. I’ll be gone for so long and I’ll come back with one or maybe two layouts. I’ve told him that I’m just a slow scrapper. I’ve actually gotten better this year but I’m still slow compare to many of you out there. So we’ll see.