Masculine birthdays are sooooo hard! But, I'm finally amassing enough "supplies" and techniques that they don't make me quiver and feel sick to my stomach anymore. I just a tad nervous before I begin and need to pray a bit (hehe). Seriously, the more I do the easier it seems to be. This was for our best friend's birthday a couple of months ago. Cuttlebugged the top, lots of distressing, "boy" pattern paper (pp) at the bottom, PTI stamp, ink, and cs.
Then, I put vellum over the top for the shield to give it a more realistic look and IRL it is amazing!! The card was so great!! Love my cricut!
Our oldest neice on my husband's side keeps making us older... we are about to be "great uncle and aunt" for the THIRD time. Seriously, I am not 40 yet. Being married to a man who's oldest brother had kids young who then turned around and she has had kids young... sheesh. I mean, don't they all want to be like us?? Old and still dealing with preschool? Um, no. In fact, my oldest brother in law likes to remind us that at my husband's age all his kids could drive. Yea, well. We did whatever we wanted for a looooong time before we had kids! :-)
I am finally posting the projects I did in August/September. This was for our best friends' oldest daughter. She is now nine. Painfully old am I too. But, she rocks... so she needed a very cool card! CTMH paper, PTI cs and stamp, lots of stickles, cricut cuts, and some cute ricrac ribbon I got from CTMH.
and a mini scrapbook. I used some old SU dsp and paired it with PTI Berry Sorbet (cs and polka dot ribbon and ink) and Scarlet Jewel. The stamp set was Simply Stationery (love it!). I have had some white rub-ons from CTMH from maybe 2007 (?) and used it on her scrapbook. She needed something that she only cut up pictures and taped them down! She is one busy lady!!
First day of First Grade! Sad, but this cute boy posed WITHOUT me asking him too!! His idea!!! Oh goodness :-)... anyway, Cricut cuts and PTI stamps, paper I have had forever (!!), and a layout that I got off of a great blog (but I have now lost my notes, yikes!... so please let me know if you recognize this sketch- I definitely want to give credit!).