What's Keeping YOU Busy this Summer???

I haven't posted in forever because my grandchildren have been visiting for 3 weeks. 

 The girls ALWAYS want to make cards and believe me... they are REALLY getting good at it! 

The little guy of course needed to make his own.

They also had lots of fun paddle boating and tubing, Bar-B-Qs and more. 

 Banana boat tube at my brother's cottage. 

 Meeting some people that Gramma works with in the park. We have Friday's Picnic Lunch in the Park. 

Brian painting his helmet

Hot tub fun.

Bar-B-Qs

The last thing on our list was to paint Brian's helmet. He begged me from the day they arrived to make his "girl" helmet a "Boy" helmet. So Gramma got out some paints and sponge brushes... 

 He did it all by himself and did a great job. 

It went from Pink to his favorite colors.... Blue and Orange. 

All in all they had a great time over the three weeks. We will be driving half way home to meet their parents on Friday.  It was great fun but Gramma & Papa are pooped! 

Fun Folding Birthday For a Friend

One of my gal pals I work with has a birthday on July 5th. So needless to say her big day usually always get out-shined by the festivities going on for the 4th of July.  She also takes her birthday week off so I gave her the card last week and we celebrated at work with our little group. Here is her fun fold card ... and I tried to make it BIG for her big day!

Here is a peek fully opened.

Lots of stuff goin on here!

 

I hope you all enjoy the July 4th Celebrations!

Hugs

Diane

 

Happy 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary Bev and Pat

Today's post is going to showcase the card that I made for my dear friend's 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary. 

 

Her daughters contacted me and asked me if I would... not only make a special card for their parents, but they wanted me to use a few photos of their actual wedding day. Ohhhh by gosh by golly gee! That would be something new for me.

 I made no promises but asked them to send me the photos they wanted me to use and I would do my best. Well I received more than a few photos so I picked two that I liked and thought would work.
One was of their crossed ring hands.... and one was of the happy couple after the ceremony. 

 Here is the results.

I stamped the main card then embossed with a music note embossing folder. The little calendar has a tiny heart on the "actual date".  If you click on the photo and enlarge it you can see the photo of their crossed hands that I die cut in a heart shape and partially matted with a golden heart.
The "50" is also die cut from gold glitter DSP. The leaves are cut from felt and I also have an assortment of cream flowers.

The inside shows the photo I chose of the happy couple. Little did I know this was Bev's  FAVORITE photo! Yippee Skippee ... Can't get any luckier than that!

Since I knew this would be hand delivered I packaged it in an empty plastic stamp set container. Now nothing will get smashed. I made a label for the front and tied a bow with some neutral tulle. 

  Ta Daaa!

 

I can finally post it today because I know they got it this past weekend. Even though their anniversary is at the end of the month, their kids gave it to them early so they had time to plan the trip they also gave them to re-enact the "Honeymoon". How sweet is that! 

I also know she LOVED the card and she LOVED the photos I picked because she contacted me to say just that. You would have to know my friend Bev to appreciate just "How Much she LOVED it".  

I hope you like it too.

Hugs

Diane.

 

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Using Up Those Scraps... cards

The girls that come to my classes always joke about how I don't throw 'anything' out! Guess they're right but I aways manage to use those scraps somewhere!Just a few more class scrap cards to share today.

Super simple card and good for a masculine birthday or get well or just... thinking of you. I've certainly needed the two later lately!  I used the water drops from French Foliage as my ink splats! Works great don't you think?

Here a few baby cards I made to just have on hand. Using up some left over class scraps.

For the Little Crawler card I used SU's Polka Dots DSP and Gumball Green and Calypso Coral cs.

This cutie uses the Whale stamps and dies, the could embossing folder and zig-zag embossing folder.

This one used the fancy fans emboss folder and the banners really used up the scraps from the table!

Another one using mostly scraps again.  Thanks for stopping!

I hope this encouraged you to look at your table of scraps!

Hugs.

Diane

By the Tide - Open Sea Masculine

Hi everyone. I thought I would share two of the cards the girls will be doing for the next class. They all have a lot of males in their lives and asked me to do a masculine card class. Here they are two of the four:

The first uses the "By the Tide" set and I used pear pizzazz, calypso coral and very vanilla cardstock. 

I did use three rhinestones but not in a feminine way... just a few bubbles will do. 

The second card is also on the water... and this is a CASE from Michele Zindorf using the Open Sea set. 

I call it a brayer card but actually used a few masks and daubers on photo paper.

Hope you liked the first two masculine cards for my next class. 

Bye for now!

Diane