birthday wishes 21

Hi! Today I have a birthday card x 2 to share. I really struggle creating masculine cards so since I had to make a birthday card for my dear husband, I made one for a male friend of ours.

I created a water colored background then layered on a die cut forest scene:

I embellished with a double layered die cut snowflake and a die cut male deer then randomly spattered acrylic white paint in hopes of making it appear like snow.

For color inspiration, I'm joining along with the Inspired by All The Little Things challenge:

as well as the CAS Mixed Media card challenge where I combined stamping, watercouloring, die-cutting, splatter, stains and sprays:

Many thanks for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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warm winter Birthday Wishes...Exciting News 14

Happy December! I have the honor as the Tag You're It Guest Designer to be sharing another sample for the current challenge. 

The challenge is to CASE the Featured Artist or use his or her tag design to inspire you to create a design of your own. Shown below is the beautiful tag made by featured artist Jessica Frost -Balls to be inspired by:

This time around, I created a tag for my sweet husband's birthday which we will be celebrating next week :)

I combined a variety of techniques and products including various embossing techniques and fun stamps from the PTI In The Meadow Stamp set:

You still have to play so please be sure to visit the Tag You're It challenge site and check out all the inspiration!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Be Sweet ;)

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Happy 50th Birthday Scott! 54

Hi there! I'm a week early but I wanted to make sure I had my sweet husband Scott's Birthday card made. As the saying goes, life happens while we are busy making plans so I wanted to be sure to have this one done plenty ahead of time! As I've said before, making masculine cards is not my forte but this one came together rather easily. Gotta LOVE when that happens!

I combined lovely patterned papers from the Pink Paislee Nantucket collection and the Pink Paislee Digital Family Matters paper pack. The plaid label is from the MFT Textile Rectangles set and was cut using the coordinating die. I used the 5 & 0 number dies from By the Numbers set to cut cardboard numbers which cut like butter!

For sketch inspiration, I played along with the current My Favorite Things Weekly Sketch Challenge:

I've been quite busy decorating my home over the past few days both inside as well as outside. A sweet friend of mine gave me the beautiful jars in the photo below several months ago. I put them to good use and filled them up with some pretty ornaments.

 Some of these ornaments are actually made of terracotta!

 I LOVE ornaments, can you tell? :)

Thanks so much for visiting ~ hope you have a great weekend! ***Don't forget to check out the Pink Paislee Winter Wonderland Event, click here, featuring awesome inspiration and DAILY GIVEAWAYS! Be Sweet :)

Supplies Used:
Stamps: MFT By the Numbers Stamp and die set
Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee Nantucket, Pink Paislee Digital Family Matters 

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