Cocktails, mothers and pink lanterns...

Ok. So this is kind of a mash up of 3 months worth of card-club cards.
Long story short...been super busy, so here are my April, May and June cards I made for my card club.
April had to be funny, May had to have flowers and June had to be pink.
Enjoy!

It's a quicky tonight, as I'm mad tired. Enjoy the cards and I hope to get more crafty coming soon.
Nighty night!
M

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The Cupcake Parade

So here are the cards I made for my card club. February's theme is 'Birthday'...I got to choose the theme, and since February is my birthday month, I thought a birthday theme would be appropriate.
Anyways, I went with a slightly different card for each person, so here they all all! I decided to try out my newest stamp set I got from Xmas, Papertrey Ink's ticket stamp set. I decided to do the last one (which I kept for myself, for a belated birthday...since I got tired of stamping and cutting out all the tickets!...lol). Which one is your fav?
Enjoy!

Hope everyone is having a great day!
-M

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Snowmen Saturday

I know, its been a VERY long time, like before Christmas time, long time since I've been on the blog-o here. I've started another blog: www.steppingwithsmiles.blogspot.com to track my long journey towards weight loss and better health. I finally got time today to work on a card for a friend and my Friday Night Card Club January cards (Snowmen/Snowflake theme).
The card for my friend, is a miss you/going away card for him, since he is moving to Alaska. He leaves on Monday, so I wanted to make him a wintery card. I went with this adorable penguin...but if you ask my husband, penguins are not in Alaska. (but I don't care...he was just too cute). Anyways, I spent a decent amount of time on this, since I wanted it to be a nice card- since we won't see him for a while.

And here is my Friday Night Card Club card. I had made these cute little tags earlier, then decided I wanted to use them for the cards- so I made a pocket card. Sadly however, I don't have enough snowflake paper, so I went with different background for each card.

Lots of snow around here too, as we have been having a snowstorms over and over around here.
Anyways, off to bed soon and  I hope ya'll have a great evening!
Laters.
-M

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It's Christmastime again!

Christmas card time has come along! I'm pretty much done now with my Christmas cards, so here are a few cards I cranked out and I'll show some more throughout the week. Enjoy the cards and I hope you all are having a wonderful December!

 (I love these K&Co. chipboard things...sparkles and Christmas...too cute!)

 (Another great chipboard from that K&Co. Holiday set. I love the colors!)

 (This is my November Friday Night Card club card- had to be a Christmas card in non-traditional colors and includes your picture)

 (This is the inside of the card)

 (This was something I just kinda cooked up on my own)

 (I love these little trees!)

There will be more cards later on, so stay tuned for more holiday cards!
How is everyone's December going? Is everyone's Christmas card making going good? Or are you all done with your cards?
Have a great day!
-M

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Placecards and Picture cards

So I've been slacking in the craft department lately. I know, life happens...but that is no excuse. Anyways, this year for Thanksgiving we are going to have my parents come to visit us, and since my in-laws can't make it down, its just the 4 of us for the big turkey day.
I decided to make new placecards using this adorable placecard set from Papertrey Ink (my mom got it for me as a early Thanksgiving present, along with some other equally nifty and cute Thanksgiving decor).
Anyways, here are the placecards. Once again, I apologize for the bad quality- still using the camera on my phone while I try to frankenstein my camera back to life. BLah!

Simple I know, and I tried to go all Kristina Werner on ya'll, but alas, my faux stitching looks just that. FAKE. I blame me not having a steady hand. Eh...they'll do.
I also started working on my November cards for my card club, which I have been struggling with. This month's theme is a christmas card with your picture and non-traditional Christmas colors.
Well here is my demo of the card (I plan to make the actual cards much more blue colors, but I thought I'd use up some scraps to test the design out with the plastic).
I think it will work, so I just gotta get the vellum or plastic and the photos developed and I"m set.
Anyways, I"ll post the final product later once I get all the proper stuff together, but imagine if you will that this card is lots of blues and snowflakes, and a lot cleaner lines. lol

 

And if you where wondering, yes that's me. That was taken during our "Snow-pocalypse" last winter. lol

Have a great day all and enjoy the weekend!
-M

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Airplanes in August

So I finally had a chance to work on my Friday Night Card Club cards. This month's theme was "guy cards." So this is what I came up with. I really wanted to use my BBQ stamps, but realized quickly I didn't have any papers that worked with that, so I decided to go with the below idea. I also wanted to try a different fold than what I usually do, so I went with this window/shutter door type fold. I just love this stamp set from Papertrey Ink. So cute! Enjoy!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. I just saw "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World" yesterday, which I thought was wonderfully funny and a perfect start to my weekend. It is perfect for the gamer in me and I just couldn't stop laughing. :)
Anyways, have a great weekend all!
-M

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More wedding-type cards and May card club card

Ok. It must be the season or something. I feel all I'm doing recently is wedding cards, bridal shower cards, or baby cards. haha Anyways, I've been busy doing personal card orders for co-workers and finally completed my May "Friday Night Card Club" cards.
I've also been busy auditioning for a local theater show "Week Between the Holidays" which I just found out today I got cast as the character I wanted-Mary Catherine. This original musical, is written by a local music/play writer and is being performed as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Feel free to check out their website: www.philadelphiaperformanceproject.com . I just so happen to have designed their website, so I guess that's how I knew about it. :) I'll be starting up on that here shortly, so hopefully I'm able to get some crafting done in between.
I also found out today that tomorrow I DO NOT have to go to jury duty. Our awesome county has a website that you can check to see if you are needed for you jury summons, so I checked it today, and they said I am not needed! Hooray! Today's been a great day!
Ok, enough babble, on to the cards! Below is an Engagement congrats-type card, a Bachelorette party card, and a wedding card. Also below is my Friday Night Card Club card for May- "island/beachy themed." Enjoy!

This card turned out cute I think. I am happy the co-worker I was making it for told me 

that the person they were giving it to plans on having silver, white and black 

as their wedding colors. Perfect!

I just couldn't resist. I've had this little stamp set for a while now, 

but I thought it would be appropriate for a Bacholerette party card. lol

This wedding card turned out adorable I believe. The bride-to-be is obsessed with owls, 

so I took a Recollections popup owl set and altered them to be

a little bride and groom owl. I love it, don't you!?

And this is my May card club card. My "island" theme is flip flops. 

The second it gets warm enough for me to be wearing flip flops, 

you can't take them off my feet till it gets cold again. haha. 

It isn't my most favorite of cards, but I like how the paper 

pieced umbrella and matching flip flops turned out. I also had to do two versions, 

since I ran out of the same paper. So I did a pink and a blue version of the cards.

Stay tuned for some baby shower/congrats on the baby-type cards. I'm finishing up a baby shower card tonight, so I'll wait to post the other baby card I did over the weekend for when I can post that card.
Hope everyone is having a great week, since today has been a wonderful day for me!
Hugs all!
-M
P.S. I know I haven't posted my winner to my blog candy yet. I promise I'll try to get a winner chosen this week! Promise!

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Bunnies and flowers

So this Easter hasn't been extremely eventful, but that's ok. I like just relaxing. We are prepping to dye some eggs and already ate some chocolate and jelly beans. Our original plans of Easter dinner kinda fell through, so we're going to try and find a place to eat later.
Anyways, here is the card I made for the hubs and the cards I made for my Friday night Card Club's April card: flowers and spring theme. Enjoy!

I just loved this little word bubble saying. Too cute!

Another thing I got done and ready was my new paper rack my Mom got me for my Birthday. It's been sitting in my craft room waiting to be put up, and I finally took the time to organize my paper into it. I have the solid paper by color and the designer paper by month/theme.

Have a very Happy Easter everyone!
-M

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