Happy Birthday Rachel

 Today Rachel turns 24!!  Oh my!!  Where has the time gone?  It seems like yesterday that she encouraged  me to start a blog.  We had a family get together this weekend to celebrate her and my daughter Jeannie's birthday which is next weekend as Jennifer will be with her Father.  It was a beautiful day.  We have switched from heat to air-conditioning over night!!  Since Rachel came up with the name of my blog, I decided to make her a birthday card of pansies which she loves as much as I do.

I saw this technique on Running with Scissors and thought it was so beautiful.  It is a Split Front technique.  For those whom want to try this she has a link to a how-to video that Patti from PS Paper Crafts made.  I have been hoarding this DSP for years and finally decided to make the cut for Rachel's birthday card as she loves these colors.  The base CS is SU's Mossy Green and I used Gina K's  tapestry embossing folder on SU's Brushed Gold CS.  I decided to fussy cut a few of the pansies from the DSP and used 3D Galaxy Gloss on them which I think made them stand out so pretty.  I have been trying to use up some of my gems from SU and thought these Speckled Dots would look nice as the pansies centers.

For my sentiment on the front and inside the card, I used SU's Pansy Patch stamp set and I added another Pansy to finish up the inside of the card.  Rachel took the day off from work, so we are taking her to dinner tonight at the Cheesecake Factory which just opened up by us,  We have never been there, but with cheesecake for dessert I don't think we can go wrong!!

I entered this post over at - Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Carrot Treat Boxes

 This year for Eastern I decided to give the kids something a little different than the regular Easter Baskets.  We always have the egg hunt here but by the time they get here they have already received their baskets filled with goodies.  I saw these cute baskets over at Taylor Expressions and decided to make some.

I made five of them but forgot to take a final picture, so I snapped these on their way home.  

Here they are almost finished waiting for the little rabbit to be glued on. I glued the carrot top on, filled them with goodies and tied them together with some twine.

I used the Take Two stencil from Taylor Expressions.  It is one sheet with two different stencils.  I just cut it in half and used one on the berry baskets and one on the carrots.  The die for the carrots is called Carrot Treat Box.  I decided to add a little bunny and put a google eye and glue a puff ball on for the tail with the Impression Obsession Die and put a wobble on it so it wiggled around.  I love how they turned out.  

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Foiled Easter Cards

Well, I hope everyone had a blessed Easter.  This year it came so early it was a rush to get everything done.  Since I had my foiling machine set up I decided to make some more cards with the poly-glaze sheets I had purchased from Gina K.  They had little bunnies and eggs on them which I thought were so cute!  I concentrated on using two foil colors - purple and gold.  

These were made with the purple foil layered on a piece of SU's Gorgeous Grape CS.  The dark purple card was made with the negative piece of foil.  Absolutely no waste which I love.

I decided to use an old bunny die I had and mount it on a wobble to make it wiggle and some twine to dress them up. 

The sentiment is from SU's Easter Bunny stamp set. An oldie but goodie! The next three cards are made with the gold foil.

It was hard to take a picture of the negative gold card but I loved how it turned out layered on a piece of SU's Gold Brushed CS.

I used the same sentiment stamp but in gold ink and the bunny was in the gold CS as well.

I was so pleased with my first attempt with foiling.  I will definitely have to watch some more videos and see what other techniques I can do with the foiling.  The family was here for the day and we enjoyed watching Jennifer and Juan looking for eggs.  I'm sure everyone read about the earthquake we had yesterday.  We were in the kitchen eating breakfast and the house started to shake.  Everything was rattling but fortunately nothing broke.  It took us a minute to realize what was happening as we don't get many earthquakes here.  I started to call the family to check on them as Jennifer's house is only a few miles from the epic center.  They were shook up but all was well.  Margaret was at the hospital where she works on the 5th floor and the building started swaying a bit.  Checked with Rachel and Sarah and they felt it too but were OK.  We had a few after shocks later in the day but nothing like in the morning.  This tremor was definitely not like what's happening in Taiwan.  We were lucky.

I entered this post over at - NBUS Challenge #61 and Four Seasons April 2024 - Anything Goes Spring.

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy