Washington Apple DSP Birthday Card & Kid Creativity

Here is a birthday card I made today when my daughter said, "Mom lets stamp." (there is glitter on that present in the white spots, but for some reason it didnt scan) So I couldnt say no. She is 3 and 3/4 year old. She made the following:

Two Birthday Cards

Here are two cards I made today for family birthdays this month. The ribbon is crunched because It was put on my scanner funny.

For my Sis-in-law &

for my nephew.

My Christmas Cards 2009

Hey guys I was hoping to have these done last week but here you go!

Dasher embossed in gold:City of David:

Season of Friendship/Peaceful Wishes:
(the snowflakes are glittered)
Berry Christmas:

Delightful Decorations:
Patterned Pines:

Here is this years family photo and poem:

This is us at the Santa Train in Snoqualmie

Hark, oh friends and listen, for

On Kirkland's cold and shaded moor

our robust band of Wilsons four

Has moved into a humble dwelling

For Ben his thesis did defend

His languished schooling put to end

And with the help of faithful friends

In Bellevue works, malaria quelling

And all the while fair Bri was found

Getting bigger, growing round

Another sister coming down

Always crafting, sewing, baking

While Ginny has the magic touch

Counting, writing words and such

Violet talks and talks so much

Ne'er too far from trouble making

So at the end of another year

We gather with our family near

To recall again with joy and cheer

The baby born on Christmas morning


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Breast Cancer Month and Halloween Bday

Here are two cards I made today. The first is my card I made for two lovely ladies who have survived breast cancer. Inspired by a card I saw in the SU catalog. The second is my Grandpa's birthday card. Yes he was born on Halloween.

Its hard to tell but the moon, pumpkin and bat are glittery. And the tree has crystal effects on it. sorry its not a better photo.

Two baby, One Grad

So I needed some baby boy cards believe it or not. And so I did these two simple ones. Got the idea from the SU catalog.

Sorry this one is harder to see.


Lastly this is my husbands Grad announcement. Its nothing fancy, but it was about time to get it done. Also inspired by the SU catalog.

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!

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".

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

Two B-day cards

So February is my birthmonth and two people share my birthday whom I am close to. This one was for my best friend. I just stamped a tree put hearts in it for leaves and a small bird. I rolled grass along the bottom with a wheel stamp and made heart flowers in the grass with a small heart stamp. Pretty simple.
This one is for my niece. A cupcake mounted on apricot paper and tied with a pink ribbon. Stamped some hearts around.

Open it up and its a pop up! this is done by using a word window punch to make to slits in the card. You then fold that inner portion of the card between the two slits inward. Glue another mounted stamped paper to it and volia pop up card. the apricot paper on the front folds over to the back of the card covering the slits. I learned this from my buddy Julie A.
Enjoy!

Girl Birthday Card

This was for a friend's daughter. The papers are all from DCWV Spring 2007 stack. The flowers are white cardstock I punched with a paper puncher (the daisies along the top are just two flower punches layered together).

The stamp is from a Stampendous word stamp set, and is stamped in white chalk ink and touched up with a white paint pen.

The top stripe is accented with white satin ribbon. The dashes on the bottom strip were made with a white paint pen. The center of the flowers were made using the same paper as the strips and a normal hole punch.

Its A Girl

So I finally found out what that design sketch thing was that some of you were talking about. I saw one on someones blog and was inspired to do this. I think if we want to start doing them together on here that would be fun!

So quickly, I stamped flowers on the card and rolled flower on the pink paper. Stamped a baby and colored her in, but her on a scalloped circle Thanks Jessica! and tied a bow around it. I also stamped Its a girl and colored in with my white pen the daisys, the centers of some flowers and the baby's poka dots and zipper.

Hoppy Birthday Sophie

I made this card for my niece. I stamped some yellow gifts on the card in a pattern. Then I stamped two frogs in dark green and sponged them to color them in with a lighter green. Then I cut out the frogs. Okay that took awhile. After that I stamped two presents and cut one in half. Put the sitting frog on the long present and the jumping frog holding the small present. Stamped "hoppy birthday" cut it out and Tag Corner punched it, mounted it on blue and punched it again. Finally I tied a red ribbon and cut a wavy edge. I also colored the paper behind the wave with a yellow marker to make it stand out more.

You Take the Cake!

This is a birthday card for a friend of mine.

I stamped the light purple card with flowers and those little flourishes. Then I stamped the cupcake. This time with chocolate frosting! I did the colors by coloring the stamp with markers. Then I filled in the sprinkles and sponged around the cupcake. Cut out the cupcake and "tag corner" punched two corners. I stamped the stamp "you take the cake" with white on the dark purple and mounted the cupcake on that paper. I left room between the words and the cake to make a bow. Then I put the cupcake/word/bow piece of paper on 5 dimentionals to adhere it to the card. To give it the popped out effect. :)

Blessing Card

I used a MM Noteworthy sheet for this card. The sentiment is a rubon.The heart is a stamped image. One other item was ribbon! Voila, an easy card!

Boy Birthday card

I have a hard time with boy birthday cards. I would love to hear/see what you think about this type of card.

Christmas card time!

Nativity card: gold sponged, purple crystal brad, three bronze eyelets.


Christmas Tree card: this is actually a birthday hat stamp and I added stumps. Plus one has a star eyelet for its topper.



Happy Holidays card: scalloped, punched, dimentional-ed (pop up), ribbons and green crystal brad.



Snowflake card: Silver sponged, blue crystal brad, ribbon.


Lone tree card: gold eyelets, ribbon, green crystal brad.



Snoflake bookmark card: Lucky recievers of this card will get to keep the happy holidays bookmark! its tucked in a pocket made by silver eyelets. This one is also silver sponged, sorry the scans didnt turn out so well.

We decided to put inside a Family update in a short poem and a photo. Below:

In Seattle’s misty shade
Violet her grand entrance made
On an early springtide day,
Now she crawls in merry play.

When Ginny sat with potty under
Her parents cheered in awestruck wonder
Talking day into the night,
Pink and princess her delight.

While rocky rills ‘neath foot were spurned
In the lab with lasers turned
Cells. His test were passed as planned;
Bens degree grows nigh at hand.

And Bri was crafting all about,
Sewing, baking, stamping out
Cards for you with Christmas joy;
Started by a baby boy.