A few more cards. The second one is a paper bag card. You can see more pics and details on my blog along with the other cards and which Copics I have used to color them with.

Thanks for lookin' and happy scrappin'!

ABC Birthday

My daughter and her birthday buddy (only 1 week apart) wanted to have an ABC birthday party and I just couldn't hold back. Here is the invitations we made. Luckily, I had my stamping buddy, Bri, come over to hep me get the colors just right and then make 8 of them! We had so much fun. Thanks for your help. (we used rollers for the cupcakes and the letter background, and then the B is for birthday SU stamp set, added the cupcake from another set)I did a lot of stamping for her birthday party decorations and games.

Like ABC Bingo

and ABC cupcake flags using lots of scallop and circle punches. (the other mom made the cupcakes--they tasted as good as they look!)

I had so much fun making the ABC bouquet. I wasn't sure if it would work, but Bri loaned me a few supplies. So with punches, 2 ABC stamp sets, chipboard letters, embossing, ribbons, skewers & letters from foam ABC puzzles all came together to make the bouquet.

We had tons of letters all over the walls, windows and doors and the kids had a great time hunting for letters everywhere. The girls just turned 4 years old and are SO excited to have learned all their letters! So with stamping stuff (and a few things from the dollar store), we had an awesome alphabet birthday.

Thank You

I ran out of Thank You cards and have as a result been less grateful than usual. Or at least appeared that way... ;) So I whipped up a few as fast as I could with a fun Spring card making kit from DCWV. I think I'll use the rest to make a few little girl bday cards... Try not to flinch too much--I did these fast.

Summer Fun

And a corny one:

Some Recent Stuff

Just some stuff I've done in the last month or so and thought I'd share!! Hope you all had a safe and fun holiday weekend!!!

Red,White and Blue!!!

Christmas in July!!!

~DEANNE~

Here are some cards I've made recently...

IT'S A BOYHI GORGEOUSHELLO HANDSOMEHB 2YOU2 FRIENDS 2 GETHER 4 EVER

Deanne

Father's Day Cards ...

Since Father's Day is Sunday I thought I'd share a few of thecards I made ..enjoy! :)

Happy Fathers Day

I made this card for my dad for fathers day. I kinda put it together fast, I probably could have done more with it. Anyway inside I put "Happy fathers day from your wild animals." Five animals for our family of five. Enjoy!

Maid For You

"Maid" this card today for a blog challenge and thought I'd share. Used my new MFT stamps and embossed on foil. Did some layering for the wallpaper and carpet effects along with some stickles - I just love me some stickles!!! Papers are from Making Memories. Thanks for looking!!!



Happy Scrappin!

getting hooked

I'm getting totally addicted to stampin and card making. I don't have much ideas or creativity when it comes to layout, so I usually end up copying or adapting something from the SU catalog or other idea book. But Julie and Bri have encouraged me to post. So here we go.
I've been trying to use my new stamp sets I got from the Sale-A-bration. Here is a few using the Congrats set. I was able to make a retirement card for my daughter's preschool teacher, a graduation card for my brother in law and while I was at it and had the supplies and ideas I made a wedding card as well.

These are from the Yummy set.
These 2 are copies from the SU idea book/catalog. They were a little more involved, but turned out OK I thought. I can't remember which stamps I used for the Thank You card on the left, but I used Happy Everything and Eastern Blooms on the card on the right.

Another layout I totally copied, but I really love these little owls(from the Owl Together Now set) and I finally started using my Stamp-a-ma-jig and I LOVE it. Why I haven't been using it sooner to get my stamped images to turn out all lined up properly.

SU regionals Seattle '09

So I went with my Stampin Up demonstrator Julie Alberda to the SU regionals here in Seattle. It was a lot of fun. We spent a whole day swapping card fronts, making new projects, learing techniques, and winning prizes. Below are pictures of the three cards I made to swap. This was a little tricky because you could only use current SU products and you had to have at least one embellishment like brads, eyelets, or ribbon. It was fun to have to follow rules and see what people came up with.

Ice cream cone card from the set "Party Hearty"



Beach card from the set "Lifes a Breeze"



Dino card from the set "Prehistoric Pals"



Below are all the cards I got in return. (Julie I added a ribbon and brad to that Christmas card, check it out)

And this next slide show is of the projects we made and the free stuff we got. :)

These final pictures are ideas posted at the convention. Inculding using the big shot to cut out fabric for quilting, and layering buttons and brads.

I had a lot of fun. Thanks so much Julie!

A couple of cards for ya...

HAVE FUN 4 U
~based on a sketch by Dawn Baty

Hi all!!!

Wow, I have not been here in a while and I apologize! I see some gorgeous work and new members!! Welcome to you all!!! Hi Deanne!!! It is great to see you here as well! I am on the DT at De's sketch site - she is so sweet and a fabulous designer! I've gotten quite a bit done lately but have been so busy with school (I returned to college last fall) that I haven't gotten here to share! I will be working on leaving you all love on your work but know I have seen it and it is all so great!!!

Here are my cards from my DT spot at De's sketch site:

And here are some cards that I've done for misc blog challenges and such:

I saw someone mention they were looking for challenge blogs. Well Deanne has a blog FULL of sketches and then if you go to my blog and scroll to the bottom right there is a listing of blog challenges - most are for cards but there are some LO challenges as well!

Thanks for looking and I'll try not to be a stranger!!

Cute cards to try!!!

I have a tutorial HERE for you to make the flowers!!!

DEANNE BURTON

birthday and birds cards

This first one is designed by my Stampin Up demonstrator Julie Alberda. I love it! You can't really tell with the scan but the birds are pink polka-dotted.


This one I made for my friend Julie V's Birthday. The little bird is cut out and on a dimentional.


This one is for my niece Ella. I basically copied this out of the Stampin' Up catalog.


And here is a birthday card I made with the idea of the first card I posted. The cool part is the scalloped edge is made with eight small circles that I punched out and glued on. Thanks for the cool tip Julie A!

Pirate Birthday

This was for an "older" friend's birthday. The red strips are satin ribbon. The pirate skull has a pewter star brad "earring".

Beginning card maker ...

I've been a scrapbooker for years, just recently started making cards ..a few of my first attempts:

More Baby Cards

Per Bri's request, here are the cards I made! Pardon my ugly carpet...

Baby cards

Some of us got together and made cards last night. I think we all made baby cards. I did two of each of these cards. I am not in love with them but oh well. sorry its a little blurry. Julie and Jessica you should post yours!

My girls bday invites

My girls birthdays are a week apart. Its crazy! Violet is turning one on the 24th and here is her birthday invitation. The stamp sets are from stampin up. The set with the fish is "Life's a breeze" the circle is from "Party hearty" and the number 1 is from "A happy heart." the balloon stamp is from a stamp I have thats says thanks on it with a balloon.


This is Ginny's bday invitation. Her birthday is the 31st. The stamp for the cake is from the set called "Birthday whimsy" and I punched the hearts out of designer paper. Enjoy!

Pretty but easy card idea

HELLO

THANKS

~based on a sketch by Shanna Lewter