Happy Birthday Katie!

Happy Birthday Katie!

My friend is celebrating her birthday today and she LOVES all things patriotic.
Her classroom is decorated with "fireworks" lights, flag themed pencil cups, red, white and blue flowers and more.

She also has an Americana feel to some of her house which is really pretty.

She also loves...Rocket Pops.

I forgot to take a picture before sending this off to her so she took this for me.

As you can see...patriotic décor for July.

I commissioned my wonderful Design Team mate Diane Mason to create this adorable crocheted Rocket Pop for her.

Here's hoping she has a wonderful birthday!

First Communion Banner from Art Impressions

 Hello Ai fans!

This was a first for me.

I had a friend ask for a First Communion Banner.

This is pretty foreign to me, so I pulled out lots of my Art Impressions stamps and especially the dies.

She said she wanted her son's banner to be really unique and stand out from the rest.

I hope I did it justice. I've never actually seen one.
(all Art Impressions products are linked at the bottom of this post)

Working from top to bottom, I used an assortment of Art Impressions Dies and capped things off with two stamps from the 5419 – Bible Icons Set 1. The church and roof were completely free handed with the help of my paper trimmer. 

The stained glass windows are my favorite part, although those tiny little doves are a very close second. I hope this is something that they save and he treasures. He'll be wearing a little navy blue suit with brown shoes so I used my very old Sizzix doll die to try to recreate Michael.