Birthday cards

These are the cards I made for Kolby and Sidney. I didn't do anything as far as sentiments on the outside because I am going to frame them.

Thanks for looking.

The Gruesome Twosome

My babies are turning 5 on Sunday. So hard to believe that 5 years ago Kolby and Sidney came in weighing 4 lbs and 4 lbs 4 oz. They have changed so much. I am so proud of them. Sidney is sweet and beautiful. Kolby is sweet and adventureous (to say the least). If one doesn't think of something, the other one does. They are each others best playmate and each others own worst enemy 5 minutes later.

This is them when they were best playmates. Yes, it was 90 degrees outside, but you can never have on too much pink. And Kolby, well, lets just say he has no issues with his masculinity. He has no problem dressing up in Sidney's clothes. That's ok, right?? I mean if he were walking out the door to Granbury High School, that would be an issue.

HBBH!!

This is to my brother Mike......HBBH!!

The Lone Ranger

This is the card I made for my OLDEST brother, Mike. His birthday is this week. He always used to watch The Lone Ranger. My grandparents had him once at their house and thought it would be a GREAT idea to dress him up in his western finest and get his picture taken. I am ever so glad they did that. How can you help but not poke fun at him?? I mean, hello?? Can you say Happy Birthday Kimosabe??

Card base is SU Basic Brown. The red ticking stripe paper as well as the striped paper are Flaire designs. The cowboy boot was actually cut out of a piece of paper by Flair designs as well. The Lone Ranger sentiment was printed in my home computer from doing a search on Google. The hemp twine lasso is SU. The copper brads are Spare Parts and the brown ribbon is from Michaels.

Here are some cards that I worked on yesterday. They are all for an order that was placed by a sweet lady. I love making them when they are so well received. All the images are family photos. I usually have a smirk/smile on my face as I put a card together when I get to the sentiment. I try to really match the sentiment to the image. Now, it might only make sense to me or one of my family members, but generally if I am happy with the way a card turns out, the recipient is too.
The top left card is a picture of my great Aunt Margie.
The top right card is my grandmother, and the sentiment matches her EXACTLY!!

The bottom left card is a picture of two sisters and the bottom right is my husbands Great Aunt Alta and her very close friend, Vera.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Finally

It's been well over a week since I have actually sat down and cranked out any cards. I have some orders coming in so I decided that I best get to crankin.'

The first card (hokey pokey) uses all Amy Butler paper. The card base is Stampin Up! Brocade Blue. Ribbon came from Michaels; brads are Spare Parts; Stickles in Fruit Punch around the pic. Sakura Gelly Roll Pen also. The picture is my dad and a group of friends as well as his cousin, Wayland. Aren't they cute? My dad, Goose, is the second from the right.

The second card (horsin'around) is Amy Butler paper as well with the card base being Old Olive from Stampin Up! Ribbon from michaels, and my Sakura Gelly Roll Pen in Stardust added some needed bling. The picture is my husbands Uncle Richard. Cute huh?

WIll post more cards tomorrow hopefully. Given the 2 4 year olds behave and don't lead the 16 month old astray. Of couse they would never do this intentionally....wink, wink!!

Victoria Enmon

This is for a young lady... Victoria. Victoria has cancer. Her teacher is trying to get cards sent to her from everywhere in the US.

Here is a copy of the email from Victoria's teacher:

1. I want Victoria to receive cards and letters from EVERY STATE in the USA. This means WE - me and you, have to send out these emails to all our friends and relatives all over the country and get them on board with us. 2. I'm going to get a map for Victoria so she can map every piece of mail she gets. I think it would be so neat to see how far her name can travel. 3. We have to enlist everyone we know to send her a card. Suggestions I thought about: Sunday School classes, classrooms at school, organizations and groups you are a member of, clubs, workplaces, dr. offices, neighborhoods and the list can go on and on - USE YOUR IMAGINATION! All we would have to do is purchase several cards, take them with us wherever we go and have the people we come in contact with simply sign it as a way of letting Victoria know we are all praying for her. 4. Now, here's the challenging part. I want us to do this within the next 2 weeks AND I want Victoria to receive 5000 cards and letters during this time!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is only 100 cards from EACH state! I want the mailman to drop off bags of letters to 1205 Red Bud Circle.5. Emails don't count - only snail mail!!! (I know, you might have to buy some stamps!!!!) 6. Homemade cards are great too! Anything that can be sent via the US postal service.7. EVERY card MUST include the city and state from which it was sent. ( And if possible, a little bit about the people from whom the card was sent!) 8. As a teacher, I must give you a due date: All cards and letters must be sent by September 27, 2007 to be included in this project.
9. You can mail your cards and letters to:

Victoria Enmon

1205 Red Bud Circle

Orange, TX 77632

10. Let's have fun with this! Get out there and send some mail! Wouldn't it be awesome to exceed 5000 letters from ALL over the world!!! We can do it! Help me bring something fun and different into the life of this precious little lady! I want this to be something you pass along to your friends and family across the nation, encouraging them to pray for Victoria. Enlist people of ALL ages - from the youngest to the oldest - everyone can get involved!!! Think about where you go (dance, football practice, church, school, work, birthday parties, etc.) and use your imagination to get people involved. Buy some cards and send them with your children to their events and make this a family assignment! Have fun most of all!!! Remember: A nation that prays together ,stays together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wendy Hanks

Little Cypress Jr. High

7th Grade English

DUH!!

OK, how dumb am I? OK, just be nice and keep your answer to yourself. In regards to my "Subscribe" post, don't scroll up....scroll down.

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questions, questions, questions

OK, several folks have emailed me asking me questions about my cards, so I will try to answer some of those now:

1) Are the photo's originals? Heaven's no. I want to keep all my original family photo's for my family to enjoy. The photo's are scanned and printed on water color paper. The WCP gives it a really great vintage feel. The vintage graphics are printed on the same. The graphics are used by permission from http://www.clothdollsupply.com/ and http://www.enchantedmercantile.com/.

2) Where can I buy your cards? I do not have them in any shops YET. I am hoping to soon. For the time being you can email me at jastephenson2000@yahoo.com and let me know you are interested in purchasing some.

3) If I order cards from you are they going to be identical to the ones on your slide show? Odds are no, they won't be. I can do the same sentiment and photo, but I just never know what papers I am going to have at hand. Trust me though, I truly have no ugly papers. If you have a special color theme I can work with you on that.

4) How much are your cards? The cards sell for $6. Some may say that sounds steep, but how many of you have gone and picked out a card for a birthday or Mothers Day or Fathers Day and paid at least that and sometimes more. These are one of a kind hand made cards that I put a lot of work and effort in to.

5) Can you use a picture of mine? Absolutely!! Birth announcements, anniversary, Mothers or Fathers Day or birthday invitations would all be a great time to use a personal photo

6) What size are the cards? The cards are your standard 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 size note card. If you want a larger card/invitation, then the price would adjust accordingly.

OK, I hope I answered every one's questions. If not, please feel free to holler.

This is the card that started it all. My friend, Melissa, was having a birthday. I had been looking thru my stash of papers, cardstock, embelishments and so forth. I didn't want to stamp a card, but I wanted to make a card. For me stamping is just too time consuming. Plus it just sucked out all my self esteem. I could not make a perfect card. The coloring was such an issue for me. Anyway, we have a TON of family photos. So, I started rummaging thru all that and found this picture of Michael's great Aunt Helen. How cute is that picture? So, I sat down and came up with this card for Melissa. Honestly, after I made it, I didn't want to give it away. (Don't worry Melissa, I don't want it back....ok, yeah, I kinda would take it back, but seriously you can keep it.) I fell in love with it. Then thats all I did was start making cards with funning sayings and vintage photos. I bought a couple of cd's that have vintage images on them and off I go into the wild blue yonder. I am absolutely hooked on these cards.

They would be so great for a milestone birthday. Ya know, a 50th (I won't say 40th, because that one just passed me by) birthday and I could put a childhood picture of the birthday boy or girl. A wedding anniversary could have an old wedding pic of the gloriously happy couple. Those are just some custom ideas I have in my little pea brain. I prolly have more ideas floating amongst my brain matter than will ever come out, but hey, ya never know, do ya?

So, I will eventually get all the cards I have made thus far posted on here. You just gotta give me time. I'm new to this blogger thing.

Thanks ever so much to Lisa Zappa for her help in getting me hooked up. YOu can check out her blog here http://www.shabbychickjunk.blogspot.com/. She is a rock star!! I LOVE her blog. It is a daily yummy for me, so check it out.