A Simple Birthday Card

Hi everyone!

I didn't get much in the way of crafting done today...it was so beautiful here that I spent the day outside getting the laundry list of things done before the snow begins to fall which could be tomorrow for all I know.

(I hope not...nit quite ready yet!)

Anyways I have a pretty busy week coming up...my 10 year old is going in for surgery on Thursday to have his tonsils and adenoids removed so I have to make sure everything here is done so I can devote all my attention onto him.

I have a PTO meeting tomorrow night and I volunteered to be the staff card maker this year :)

Actually they usually just buy cards but this year I will be making them....all 100 plus of them.

Unfortunately we decided at the last meeting to play catch up so I have been busy going through my stash of already made cards and coming up with all but 10. Not bad!

I just thought I had so many more birthday cards....guess that will be my card focus for a while :)

Anyways here is my quick and simple card using all scraps

I used a Martha Steward punch and a piece of scrap DP .

All the edges were inked with coffee bean pigment ink and

the sentiment is one of my dollar finds.

What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you all tomorrow!!

Spring is on my mind...in a TALL way :)

Good Morning fellow bloggers. I am feeling up to the challenge...to make a card for more than one challenge. After blog hopping last night and this morning I found my one card I made can be entered into 8...yes 8challenges. That is the most I have done with one card since I started blogging 2 months ago. Happy Happy Joy Joy :)

Here is it! I made a Tall card...my first ever! The card base measures 9X4 and can fit into a #10 envelope. How much fun is that?!?!
Anyways I was at Michaels...surprise, surprise (my home away from home) when I found a package of Tim Holtz fragments. They were on clearance so I bought them :) I didn't know what to do with them so I went to Tim's website to watch a tutorial on these so cute clear tiles. He being the master (right!?!?) of all things altered took scraps and attached them to these tiles. I then knew what I was going to do with them. I went through my scrap container and pulled out my springy paper. What a great way to use up those little pieces of scrap. I usually just give my too small pieces to my boys so they can cut and paste and make things. I attached my scraps with glossy accents and tada this is how they came out!!
The spring cutout is from Stretch your Imagination cartridge. I cut this out and cut off the spring flowers that are attached to this cut. Instead of the dotted "i" I put a button.
I scalloped the purple paper using my corner rounder with the guide removed (another tutorial idea). With alittle stitching aound the spring sentiment and circle and my card was finished.
I hope you like my spring card!

Challenges entered at:
Pause Dream Enjoy- Fun Fold Challenge
Claudia & Company- Recipe Challenge #77
Papercraft Star- Challenge #36- Spring and Color Challenge
Cricut Cardz Challenge-#65 Make a Tall Card
For Fun Challenges- Spring
Tuesday Throwdown- #39 Scraps
Cropstop: Challenge #10- Spring is in the Air
Patti-Lynn Creations- Creative Sisters Challenge #3 Spring

So Until tomorrow....