Card for Garrett

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown

Hi Everyone!

Today I am sharing a card I made for Garrett Brown, a young man who is turning 16 years old today! Fabulous right? A milestone birthday on a leap year day! 

In 2002 he was mauled quite badly by a dog and was left mostly blind with multiple facial scars. It seems he read an article (he reads braille) about a little girl whose wish was to receive Christmas cards and he started wondering why he never received any mail for his birthday.

So a request was issued asking people from around the world to make his 16th birthday wish come true!

Here is the card I made for him using the sketch on the left ... I found it on Pinterest but I don't know where it comes from :O(

  

Supplies

Card stock from The Paper Studio, Stampin Up!, Bazzill & Sizzix

Design paper from DCWV (I think)

Dies: Mixed Media from Sizzix

Dies: Banner from Stampin Up!

Ink from Stampin Up!

Sentiment from Inkahootz!

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Roses

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. ~Gerard de Nerval

Good Morning!

The next edition of Through the Craft Room Door is due out soon and the newest challenge for the subscribers is to create a card or project using one of the tutorials in a past magazine. 

I created this lovely birthday card using a Die Cutting tutorial from Sandra van Blaricum that can found in the November-December 2015 edition of the magazine.

The image is from SandiSamples and I have made a lovely birthday card for my Mother-in-Law.

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Looking forward to seeing you!

Happy Bird-day!

Fathers represent another way of looking at life — the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

--- Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978 ---

Good morning!

Today is my Step-Father-in-Laws Birthday and I decided to make him a fun card!

It also gave me the chance to play with my new "Crazy Bird" stamps and dies from Sizzix and my new box of gelatos!

SUPPLIES:

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Bazzill

"Crazy Bird" Stamps and dies from Sizzix

Colored with Gelatos

"Word Bubbles" dies from Stampin Up!

Sentiment from Stampin Up! set "Pink Flamingos"

"Happy Birthday" embossing folder from Cuttlebug

Ink from Palette

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Day After Forever

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

--- François VI de la Rochefoucault ---

Good evening everyone!

Running behind with this post.

Today is the first day of a new Anything Goes Challenge at Through the Craft Room Door.

Our Sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps  and I am using this great image called "Day after Forever" 

Supplies

Digi Image" Day after Forever" buy Bugaboo Stamps

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Bazzill

"Oval Regalia" die from Spellbinders

Hearts are from my die/scrap bin 

PrismaColor Pencils

Aleens paper Laze

Smooch Pearl paint

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) cara

Thoughts of You

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. 

--- Steven D. Woodhull, 1999 (U.S. geologist, b.1976) ---

And a Blessed Day this is everyone!

I hope you are all doing well today and always.

I received some sad news this weekend that the mother of a close family passed on to a better place and time.

I knew that she had been extremely ill for some time but it is still never easy to hear when loved ones, be they friends or family, have died.

So here is a card I made to send to her daughter and son.

I made the card based on the sketch on the left.

Supplies

Card stock from The Paper Studio & Stampin Up!

Design Paper from my Stash

Sentiment from Studio G

Ink from Close to My Heart

Yellow flower from Michael's

Small white flowers from my stash

Die: Floral Flourish from Spellbinders

Leave punch from Fiskars

Fern punch from Martha Stewart

Thanks for stopping by

(Hugs) Cara

Valentine for the In-Laws

Who, being loved, is poor?

- Oscar Wilde -

Good morning my Crafty Peeps ...

I hope the coming day is bright and glorious for each and everyone of you!

Happy Valentines day to those who celebrate...

Some interesting tidbits about Valentine's Day and more can be found here at The History Channel.

As a child I remember being told that Valentine's Day commemorated St. Valentine, a priest who wrote love letters to a young woman while he was imprisoned for doing something he wasn't suppose to ... or something like that but as with most of our religious or popular holidays, it appears the foundation for this one can be also be found in a pagan holiday.

Apparently the Church Elders of the time decided that February 15... or the Ides of February, would be a great time to memorialize St. Valentine and as "luck" would have it, that day was the same day that Lupercalia, a fertility festival dedicated to the Roman God Faunus and to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus as held.

Whatever your beliefs are about the day, there is no denying that Valentines Day has turned into a huge "Hallmark" Holiday.

"According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.) Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines."

WOW - Just WOW ... that's a lot of cards! It's also quite telling, in my opinion, who carries the day for couples.

So today I am sharing the Valentine card I made for my In-laws.  I recently purchased some new dies and they just came in the mail so I had some new toys to play with!!!

I love quilts. I have made a few small ones but sewing, while I am quite capable at it, is not my passion :O)... but I love looking at them and I enjoy recreating some patterns with paper pieces.

One of the dies I purchased cuts a "Quilt" complete with stitch marks. I had some fun messing with this before I ever got around to making this card! LOL

Supplies:

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Design Paper from Atd called "Wonderland"

Die: Quilted Stitch by Gina Marie Designs

Die: Scallop Squares by Sizzix

Heart Punch from Marvy

Embossing Folder from Cuttlebug called "Bloom Dots"

Heart image from Stampin Up! set "Happy Hearts"

Sentiment is an Orphan from a Stampin Up! set

Ink from Palette and Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd like to enter this card into these challenge(s)

Christmas Holly

Very gay they were with snow and sleigh-bells, holly-boughs, and garlands, below, and Christmas sunshine in the winter sky above. All faces shone, all voices had a cheery ring, and everybody stepped briskly on errands of good-will.

- Louisa May Alcott, "Seamstress," Work: A Story of Experience, 1873 -

Good evening my Crafty Peeps!
Thought I would get in on the Sketch Challenge this week from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

Since I cut it way too close for cards last year, making sure I started early and I decided that when possible, I would make two cards at a time ... so there are actually two ... the picture is showing the sentiment from the set I used (Which by the way, if anyone happens to know this set and who made it I would be most appreciative if you would leave me that information! Thanks!)

52CCT05-16

Supplies

Card stock from The Paper Studio

White Glitter paper from Recollections

Red Glitter tape from CTMH

Sentiment Unknown

Die: Holly from Darice

Red Glitter Glue (for the berrie) from Stampin Up!

Ink from Palette

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

I'd like to enter this card into the following Challenge(s)

52 (Christmas) Card Throw down: February Sketch Challenge 52CCT05-16

Crimbo Crackers: #99 Anything Goes

Jingles Bells: Bling on the Holidays!

Afghan for my Mom

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Hello

I made this afghan for my mom quite some time and finally managed to get a picture of it! 

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Birthday for Ms Pris

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

--- Robert Frost --- 

Good morning ...

Here today is a Birthday card for a co-worker!

Sorry for the picture quality ... For some reason I really struggled with this one and my light box. And I couldn't wait for another day because I needed to take into office for everyone to sign.

I don't know a lot about photography and I normally just happy when I get decent pictures ... of anything but I think I just need to maybe work with the light angle better.

Anyway, a nice CAS birthday card based on this card HERE.

Supplies used:

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Sentiment from Inkahootz!

Flowers created from DP scraps and Stampin Up! Punches

"Cascading Flowers" Embossing folder from Sizzix

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

I'd like to enter this card into the following Challenge(s):

Crafting by Design: 2-3-16 Anything Goes

Create & Inspire Challenge Blog: #38 Anything Goes

Moo Mania: 1-27-16 Use your scraps

February Progressive Freebie Challenge

Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks.

~Dr. SunWolf, 2009 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

Well good morning everyone!

I am back on a Design Team for The Outlawz! This time it is the Progressive Freebie Challenge and today we have a new one starting.

Rules are simple: Each month we will send you a free digital image to use in the Freebie/Progressive challenge. Once your creation is completed, upload it into the freebie challenge at The Outlaws and you will automatically receive the next month free digi.  We will have one image per month so you have plenty of time to create a project using the image. Please register with your name and email address to:

outlawzprogressivechallenge@gmx.com

This month's image has been provided by Teresa Arsenault (Tickell Expressions) and the winner will be able to have her make a custom digi just for them! How exciting!

Normally Teresa does not sell her images, but for a small donation to The Outlawz to help maintain the site, you will receive a copy of the image.

I hope you will join us this month!

Here is my card with her cute image

Supplies

Image & sentiment from Teresa Arsenault

Prisma color pencils

Copics

Card stock from the Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Doe: Label #10 from Spellbinders

Rhinestone flowers from my stash

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I'd like to enter this into the following Challenge(s)