Fat-Free Birthday Card

Happy Thursday, peeps!  The weekend is almost here, and it's going to be a warm one, before the temps dip back down to more fall-like next week! We are going to John's 50th class reunion, so at least it won't be raining!

My card today uses the Freshly Made Sketches sketch, and I am also entering it at the Krafty Chicks "Any Occasion" challenge:

So here we go:

A friend in my TOPS weight-loss support group is having a special birthday, and she has the best sense of humor, so I thought this sentiment from Birthday Wit would be a fun one for her!  I used papers from Echo Park's Bee Happy line, and embossed the front with a retired polka dot embossing folder.  If I'd had my wits about me at 10 pm last night, I would have used the new Hive EF that I just bought, LOL!  Anyway, I didn't have any bee stamps small enough, so I fussy-cut a few from the papers themselves for my little "bee-line" running cross the bottom of the card:

I am hoping this will make that certain birthday a little sweeter!  Thanks for visiting today!

John had a free day yesterday so we went to Longwood to see the mums and all the other fall foliage they had planted! It was a gorgeous day to enjoy it!  I had read on Longwood's blog recently that their amazing Thousand Bloom Chrysanthemum was back on display after two years of regrouping due to disease.  Here's what you see as soon as you walk into the Conservatory:

These flowers are all from ONE PLANT!  You can read about how it is done on their blog HERE.  It's a painstaking process, obviously, and here's what each blossom looks like individually!  

And here's how it looks from the opposite end, showing the pool and surrounding greenery! I'll have more pictures (of course I will!) in the next few days!  I almost wore out my phone's battery taking them all, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart." Proverbs 27-19

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Birthday Wit (ret), Stitched Borders (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Daffodil Delight, Bee Happy (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Checks & Dots Embossing Folder (ret), Small Heart Punch (ret)

AYSI277 Belated Speed Stamping

Yay, happy Friday, peeps!  Time for a new As You See It challenge...the exciting SPEED stamping challenge!  I almost missed that part, hah!

 

Luckily, I had already chosen a fairly simple design since my stamping time this summer is bit more limited!  I couldn't find many belated birthday stamps in my vast stash, but I did find this funny one in Birthday Wit, and I had a scrap of this cute woodland critters DSP hanging out on my desk, so here we go:

I stamped the sentiment and the bear from Thankful Forest Friends both on Very Vanilla cardstock in Early Espresso ink, then quickly fussy cut them out.  When I layered them on the card front, it looked a little sparse, so I cut out some wood circles from the opposite side of the DSP and quickly tucked them around the sentiment.  I barely made it at 9 minutes and 46 seconds!

I do think this bear is rather cute, though, even if his ears and paws are a challenge to cut around!

Hope you'll play along with our SPEED STAMPING challenge this week....remember, gather your supplies, get your design planned out in your head and GO!  See what you can create in ten minutes! You'll be surprised at what you can create!  Then share it with us at As You See It!

Cassidy has been battling a terrible summer cold, poor thing! She felt well enough to throw the frisbee around with Grampy one afternoon:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Birthday Wit, Thankful Forest Friends (both retired)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Nestled DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories
Tools

IB54 Cozy Denim Birthday

Hello everyone!  I am so sorry to be so lax in my posting, but we are beginning to go through my dad's stuff....years and years and years of stuff!  I am sure some of you know what I'm experiencing!  Anyway, I did take out some time to play with Laurel's latest Inspired By challenge because I needed a masculine birthday card, and it was a good inspiration!  So here we go:

And here is the prompt:

I also used the FMS sketch for this week:

My recipient is kind of a no-frills guy, so I let the Authentique papers from the Original and Genuine collections do most of the work!  I cut out some pieces and adhered them on, and I did add some random grunge stamping with Smoky Slate and Night of Navy:

and I used the new Itty Bitty Birthdays with the new Rectangle Stitched dies:

And since it was late, I thought it would be fun to put this sentiment from the retired Birthday Wit set inside:

This nice cozy scene is sure to be a happy inspiration for you...can't wait to see what you create!  Be sure to share it over at the Inspired By blog!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays, Gallery Grunge, Birthday Wit, Gorgeous Grunge (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Night of Navy, Original and Genuine DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Night of Navy, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Rectangle Stitched Framelits, Sponge Daubers

FMS320 Birthday Wit

Happy Thursday, peeps...this will be a quick post as I have a busy day!  The FMS sketch by Rita is a fun one, even though I realized I didn't place my panels correctly!!!  I hope she's forgiving!

I don't usually make "funny" birthday cards, but the new Birthday Wit stamp was too cute to pass up, and the large panel was perfect for this large sentiment.  I added a little fox created with the Fox Builder punch and Foxy Friends stamp set and used Cajun Craze and Foil Frenzy for the background

Isn't he a cutie....especially since he left his little footprints all over the card!!

Thanks for popping in today...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Just a couple of crazy girls!