Pink!

I needed to make a couple birthday cards and I asked Carver what they should look like. Well, all he said was "Pink!" So that's what I went with. I made this one first and then realized I needed a bunch more and as much as I liked the script background, it would take too much time.

 So along came this one!

I still like the first one best but I love the simplicity of this one too.

Details:

Birthday Bash 3"

Recollections kraft

Bazzill Chablis

Dollar Tree ribbon

Spellbinders Labels 4 Small

Stickles Stardust

Pink by Design - Age is  Only a Number; Script background

Birthday Buffalo

Today is my dad's birthday. His friend raises bison and my dad has always liked them so this card was easy for me to think up. I used the sketch from Wacky Wednesday over at More Than Favors for my layout of the card. The dictionary page is actually from a dictionary that I picked up at Goodwill. I just went to the page that had all the celebrate words and cut it out. :)

Details:
Birthday Bash 3.75"
Core'dinations - Deep Navy & Jet Stream
scraps
DCWV Celebration Stack
Dictionary
Fiskars Shake Cutter - circle (I don't use this nearly enough.)
Pink by Design "Take the Cake"

Challenge:
More than Favors - sketch

Halloween Banner

Here's a banner I did in preps for Halloween. Yes, I know its months away but I found this cute Halloween paper and had to make something with it. :)

Details:
Birthday Bash: banner 5.75", letters 3.25"
Simply Charmed: Ghost 3.75", bat 3"
Wausau Paper black
Me & My Big Ideas - halloween paper
scraps
Bazzill Orange Slice
ribbon - JoAnns

Another Baby Girl Bannerhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Here's another banner I made to have at the Farmers Market. I love, love, love how this turned out!! Sorry the picture is horrible, I was rushing to take this and finish getting ready for the market.

Details:
Birthday Bash - ovals 5", letters 3"
New Arrival 4"
Bazzill Chablis
Core'dinations Grapevine
scraps
iRock (on the bow on rattle)
Celebrate it ribbon
K & Company Snuggle Bug stack

Link Parties:
You Had me at Craft
Joyful Stamper
Patches of Pink

Carver's Birthday!!!

Today was Carver's 2nd birthday party. It was a blast and Carver had a lot of fun - even though he went the whole day without a nap!

Here's the banner I made. The details will be at the bottom of the post.

I made these big dump trucks to hang around the house. We had to move the party inside because of the rain. (B is for Boy, fit to page - 10.75in)

The birthday boy! If you want to see more pictures you can go to our family blog, The Garland Fam.


Banner Details:
Birthday Bash - circles 4.75", Letters 3"
B is for Boy 4"
Bazzill Mud Pie & Desert Marigold
Recollections kraft
Dollar Tree ribbon

Carver's 2nd Birthday Invitations

Carver's birthday is a construction theme this year. Can I just say that I LOVE to party plan! That said, I feel like I've started a lot later than last year and I feel like I have a lot more to do. That'll go away when we buy his present (he's getting a bbq to sit next to daddy's haha)

I came up with a lot of the wording, and enlisted Etsy for a couple ideas. :)

Details:
B is for Boy 3.75"
Birthday Bash 1.5"
Bazzill Mud Pie & Desert Marigold
Recollections kraft
CB Diamond Plate embossing folder

I found envelopes that matched the yellow paper! I'm always happy when things fall together like that.
Envelopes: Cordenons Malmero Perle Yellow

A Banner for my Nephew

My nephew turned one on May 10th and so, of course, I had to make a banner for him. :) I wanted to try out the banners on Birthday Bash since I need to do a banner for monkey's birthday. I love how it turned out but I'm going to add another pennant between Happy and Birthday that'll be blank so that I can add something for if they have a themed birthday (ie. dump truck).


Details:
Birthday Bash: pennants 5", letters 2.5"
ANW Crestwood Deep Sea
Wausau Paper White
Value Pack Chocolate
Dollar Tree ribbon

NSD My Pink Stamper Ch #6

Here's my card for MPS challenge #6. The challenge was to incorporate a tag in a project. It took me a while to think of a project for this one but I love how it came out.

Details:
Birthday Bash 3.5"
Recollections black & white
ANW Crestwood Deep Sea
scraps
Pink by Design 'Jungle Fever'

NSD My Pink Stamper Ch #1

Welcome to National Scrapbook Day!!!!! My Pink Stamper has challenges set up every hour all day today! The first challenge this morning was to use a cupcake. It could be on a card, layout, 3D, etc. I'm going to keep these posts pretty simple since there will be multiple posts today.

Details:
Birthday Bash 4"
DCWV The Stack III
scraps
TPC Studio 'Greetings'

36 Week Layout

As promised, I did another layout and let you guys see my big pregnant belly!! I think these are, by far, my favorite pictures of when I was pregnant. They're also the last belly pictures I got before the little monkey arrived. :) I cut the silhouette out myself and I have to admit, I love the idea, but not exactly how my drawing turned out. haha Oh well.




Details:
Rhonna Farrer paper
Wausau Paper black
Green - ?
Birthday Bash: 36 - 2.5", weeks - 1.5"
Buttons
White Gelly Roll pen

So, what do you think? :)

Up Up and Away!

This card took awhile for me to like it but I think it's won me over. :) I didn't like the empty space at the bottom but now I think that it goes with the idea that the balloons are floating up into the clouds. This is for a friend of mine whose birthday is a few weeks away.

Speaking of birthdays.... mine is coming up too! This year my birthday falls on Mothers day. This only happens every 7 (?) years. I never want to do much for my birthday but this year I wanted to do something. That was until I realized when my birthday was. So we're going to have a Mothers day BBQ with our families and call it good. We'll see what happens. haha

Details:
Scallop border - From my Kitchen 10.25" (fit to length)
Balloons - Birthday Bash 4"
DCWV Blue #2
scraps
Divine twine
CB D'vine Swirls embossing folder
Pearls (Scrapbook Expo)
TPC Studio "Greetings"

Challenges:
Card Patterns - sketch
The Paper Variety - polka dots
MAG Challenge by the Page - From My Kitchen pg 53

A Bee to Celebrate With

I knew that the first cut I did with Birthday Bash would be this bee and I was true to my word. I love this cartridge! The layers are so easy to assemble. This card feels really plain but I don't want to change anything. I like that this card isn't strictly for a birthday.

Details:
Birthday Bash 2.5"
George & Basic Shapes 3" (regular & shadow)
Fiskars star punch
Recollections black & white
Bazzill Pollen
scraps
stickles
TPC Studio 'Greetings'