Tara's Bridal Shower!

We celebrated my niece Tara's bridal shower yesterday and this was the card that I made for her.

My sister sent me all of her inspiration photos and I did my best to incorporate her colors and flower theme as well as little personal touches like her love of cats and dogs.

LOVE is actually gold and not black as it appears. I decided on a first for me. I cut the cat and dog out of patterned paper instead of a colored cardstock or white cardstock that I colored, like I've done in the past. I really think they're cute this way.

On the inside I created a pocket to put her check in.

One of her wishes was to have a large ribbon hat so they asked guests to wrap with lots of bows. Since I was only doing a card/cash I created a fancy bow to attach to the envelope. The pink bow came from a yard sale the day before (score!) and then I added lots of curling ribbon in all of her fun colors.

I "heart" Dogs!! (and Art Impressions interactive sets!)

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing two different cards both with a dog theme.

My first card was made with the 5101 – Dog House Cubbies.

I made this card for my friend's birthday.  Her husband secretly

contacted a bunch of her friends and asked us to donate to the 

Humane Society in her name.  She was SO touched when she 

found out.  
The little paw print cut out was made with 5337 – Dogs Mini Dies.

Don't you love how the little dogs poke
their heads out of the windows and doors?



For my second card I used 4850 – Paws To Love MTF.

This card was made for the same friend.  I sent her this one at work just to brighten her day. 

On the inside I used the Dog Mini Dies again as well as the 5333 – Cats Mini Dies because she has a cat and a dog.  I only used two of the three stamps on my card because I didn't do it as a trifold.

Feline Funny Farm Triple Pop Up Cube Card from Art Impressions

Hello Ai fans! 

I'm so excited to be sharing the most adorable new Funny Farm set from Art Impressions!

The set is called 5369 Feline Set and every
animal lover is going to NEED this set!!

The name of this funky fold is Triple Pop Up Cube Card.  I found a tutorial here.

I feel like this has endless possibilities.

The card folds flat into a neat square so that it can be mailed in a normal square envelope.  I make all of mine using the We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board.

I also used 5337 – Dogs Mini Dies for the paw prints that I die cut.

When folded flat you can see that I left 2 panels that can be personalized with a message from me.  When open, these are underneath and not shown.

Copics used:

G12, BG02, BG05, BG11, R81, N0

T2, T5, Y23, E08, E23, E42, E50, E97