Happy 2nd Birthday!

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I'm sharing a birthday card for a two year old

boy that my friend commissioned. She requested a 

construction themed card. I don't have any stamps to

fit that theme and my printer is on the fritz so I had to

get creative. I remembered that I have a VERY old set

of Sizzix dress up dolls. No construction themed sets

but I was able to improvise.

The little tools on the front of the card are from Art Impressions.

5330 – Tools Mini Dies

All of the dress up dolls and accessories are long since retired

but I'll share photos of everything I used below so you can 

possibly search and find them on eBay

or Etsy or in a craft

group on FB.

I also used a retired Cuttlebug embossing folder, retired 

Spellbinders Arrow Dies and a retired My Favorite Things 

Tool set.

Truck, shirt and overalls.

Hair

Vest (I altered the gown)

Hard hat (I altered the beach hat)

Body

Shoes

Ruler embossing strip from Cuttlebug

Spellbinders arrows

Larger tools on the inside were from My Favorite Things.

Happy Second Birthday!

Hello and happy Wednesday!

Today I'm sharing a birthday card I made for a two year boy. 

It's the same boy I made a Harry Potter shower card and 1st birthday card for.

He has developed his own likes and is apparently really into construction equipment.

Since I don't own any stamps that fit this theme I had to get creative.  I found a pattern on line for the bulldozer.  The boy was made with a Sizzix die and I printed his hat on my computer.

On the inside I printed the cone, backhoe and sign.  The truck is from a Sizzix die and the saw horse was just cut from paper and I put it together

I used the sign in conjunction with the 2 as a play on the terrible twos.

Get it? "Caution 2!" I don't know...I hope they get it.

My Weekend Warrior

Hello Ai Fans!

Today I'm sharing two cards made with one of my very favorite people.

This is the WEEKEND WARRIOR set and it's so much fun to use.

He's part of the Art Impressions Ai Heroes line.

Although I love flowers, flirty and feminine...I just LOVE doing masculine cards.

I love the rich colors and the fun accessories.  Aren't the little screw eyelets and metal cool?

I'm proud of myself...I made two New Years resolutions.  Keep my craft room more picked up (notice I said MORE picked up...not picked up)  I wanted to keep it realistic.  I KNOW it will never be clean but I knew I could do better than I was.  I also wanted to try to use more of my supplies that I've had lying around forever and wasn't putting to good use.  I've had this mesh for almost 10 yrs.  I know that because the store I got it from went out of business  when my kids were little.

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Handy Andy, Humorous Senior...reporting for duty!

Hello everyone!
Hope you all had a nice 4th of July! 

Since the last card I made was more of a pretty one I felt like busting out something funny this week.  This Humorous Senior is called Handy Andy.

I Brake For Stamps is LOADED with funny images and verses.  Lots of masculine ones too which can be harder to find.

I used a cute ruler embossing folder and some "fix it" themed paper.  I also had these cool screw eyelets that were just perfect for this.  The mattes were done with Spellbinders dies.

This image has a funny verse with it that says Say No To Crack!  Unfortunately, that one's still on my wish list so for now the inside is blank.

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