A Country Birthday Card

Hi! We have a new challenge at My Sheri Crafts!  "August 2-8 is National Farmer's Market week. Make a card or project with a farm/country life inspiration."

I used cuts from Cricut's "Old West" cartridge for my card:

I cut the sentiment from Vinyl...much easier to get it onto the card that way!   ;o)

I hope you'll join us!

Camping Card - My Sheri Crafts Challenge!

Hello all and welcome to my blog today!  I have just a quick post today. 

 

It's time for another challenge at My Sheri Crafts and this week we are celebrating Summer solstice with projects that represent your summer evenings.  Here's mine:

 

For the past 3 or 4 years, my immediate family has been getting together for a weekend campout and I love those evenings around the campfire just talking and spending time with my brothers, sister, in-laws, nieces and nephews.

I used the Old West cartridge for the fire, Potpourri basket for the tent and grass, and the Gypsy Wanderings for "Summer".   Then I sponged some orange ink over it to soften up the picture and give it all that rosy sunset glow.  Hope you will join us this week!

God bless you this week!

Entered here:
Aud Sentiements - anything goes

"John Deere" Boot Birthday

*** HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYLEE!!!!  ***

Unbelievably, my oldest granddaughter turns 13 today!  Officially a teen-ager!  She became a huge John Deere fan about 2 years ago and I've made a couple of tractor cards for her.  This year I wanted to do something different, but still with her favorite theme. 

The boot is from Old West cartridge and the label is from Lacy Labels.  I used a punch for the '13'.

Everything has been inked with Tim Holtz distress ink.  I really like how the boot turned out.  It doesn't show up too well here, but the yellow boot tip has some pen work that really makes it look almost real. 

 I added some Marigold and Pea Pod twine from The Twinery.  The sentiment is from K Andrews.

The inside sentiment is from Pink By Design and the stickers are NRN Designs.  Fun, simple card.  I hope she likes it! 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week.  It's Holy Week!  Be sure to take some time to think about what Jesus did for us and Praise Him!

This card entered here:

Scrappy Frogs - use green
Lady Anne - Sentimental Friday
More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday - Use green
Crafter's Cafe  - use green or St Patrick's Day

Cowboy Baby Shower Decorations

Hello again and welcome to another challenge at My Sheri Crafts!  Today our challenge is titled "Oh I Love America!"  It's time to celebrate our freedom so let's see your Patriotic cards or other projects, or use Red, White & Blue. 

I titled the challenge from a song I heard at my granddaughter's Veteran's Day program a couple of years ago.  I was going to do a layout with pictures from the program for this challenge, but life kind of got in the way these past couple of weeks and scrapbooking just didn't happen!  My sweet father just had his 90th Birthday on the 18th so we had a BIG party on Father's Day.  He's having a really rough time health wise, but that day was a very good day.  Thank you Lord for that one really good day!  Since then he has started dialysis and had two ER visits, is currently fighting a bad infection and just really struggling.  My heart hurts for him and I would appreciate any and all prayers for him.

So anyway, I had an order for baby shower decorations with a cowboy theme.  When I finished it, I realized I had primarily used Red, White and Blue and what's more American than the Great American Cowboy?  So it qualifies for this challenge!

First we have the diaper cake:

The topper is cut from A Child's Year and mounted with pop dots onto Martha Stewart paper.  The paper is 8x8 bandanna print and I trimmed out the center of the print.

 Each layer is banded with wood print paper from The Paper Studio.  The bands are decorated with cuts from A Child's Year and Old West, mounted on punched squares of the Martha Stewart bandanna print papers.

Next we have the banner!

 The onesies are from the New Arrival cartridge and the bandannas, hats and letters are all from the Old West cartridge.  I used the Gyspsy to get the bandannas sized to fit the onesies.

The "It's a Boy" ribbon is from Wal-Mart.  I threaded it through the detail slits cut in the sleeves of the onesies.

So that wasn't too much of a stretch to say it qualifies for this challenge, right?  :)

I hope you like the decorations.  They were so fun to work on!   Now it's your turn to join the fun and head over to My Sheri Crafts!

Hubby's Birthday Card

Hello!  Happy Birthday honey!!!  He's a real tough hombre' in my book.  Fighting a terrible disease, aggressive Rheumatoid Arthritis, he still works everyday and is coaching our granddaughter's basketball team in our Upward program!   My favorite cowboy!!!

Here is the card I made for him:

 This is the first time I've tried this type of card and I really thought it was fun.  Folded it is a standard A2 card.

 The cardstock is from my scraps and the patterned paper is from My Minds Eye. 

The font and the ropes are cut from the Old West cartridge. 

The cow skull sticker was bought at Hobby Lobby ( I don't know the company) and the horseshoes, hat and boot stickers are from Creative Memories.

I enjoyed making the card and he liked it, so overall I call it a success! :0)  Thanks for stopping in!

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:
Birthday Sundaes
Celebrate the Occasion #47-male birthday
My Craft Spot - Let's Hear if for the Boys

Favorite Project of 2011

Hello!  I'm glad you stopped in today.  I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and got to spend wonderful time with your family.

I found a couple of challenges today that are looking for our favorite project we made in 2011.  I decided on a Thank You card that I posted in September here.  I just really liked the way this one turned out.

 I used the Old West Cartridge for this card. 

 I just love that little piece of rope on the saddle horn!  It adds so much!The patterened paper on the saddle is from an assortment of paper I won from Oh My Crafts and the solid paper is Kraft paper. I used a scalloped hole punch and gold paper from my scraps to make the conchos and folded tiny strips of brown paper for the latigo. The rope is twine that was on a box of something I ordered.



 I made a matching envelope from patterned paper and the border punch is from the Paper Studio.

I'm entering this repost at Cooking With Cricut and at Whimsical Designs

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful, blessed New Year!

Western Thank You Card

A friend of mine asked me to make a Thank You card for someone who donated a saddle to use as a fund raiser for our annual Bullriding Bible Camp.  I knew the card had to have a saddle on it!

 I used the Old West cartridge for all of it. 

 The patterened paper on the saddle is from an assortment of paper I won from Oh My Crafts.  I used a scalloped hole punch and gold paper from my scraps to make the conchos and folded tiny strips of brown paper for the latigo.  The rope is twine that was on a box of something I ordered.

 The border punch is from The Paper Studio

 And an envelope to match!  I hope both my friend and the donor like the card.  I'm really pleased with the result. 

I'm entering this card in these challenges:
Love To Crop - Fall colors
Crafting Misfit - Show and Tell
Do You Stack Up - texture
CASual Fridays - Fall colors & paper piecing

Texas Longhorn theme baby shower!?!

I have a great friend who is having a baby boy! Congrats Curtis & Barbie!!! I had told Barbie I would help with her baby shower decorations back when she first told me she was pregnant. I was a little surprised, though, when I found out last month that she wanted to use Texas Longhorns in the decorations. I hadn't thought about that. But, it got the imagination and creativity going! So here are some pictures of what I came up with:

These "diaper bags" were for the nuts and placed on the tables. They were cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. The "toys" inside are from New Arrival.

The banner flags are from Stand And Salute, the onesies and animals are from New Arrival and the longhorn head is from Old West. I had to cut the whole steer and behead the poor things!

"Onesie Confetti"

And the "Diaper Cake"! Who needs a stork when you have a Longhorn?
:-)

I had LOTS of help with this from my granddaughters, Kaylee and Lexi. Thanks girls! I couldn't have gotten it all done without your help! Oh, and Barbie really liked the decorations!

Thanks for stopping by. This week I'm working on albums for some kids at a camp for abused and neglected children.

Western Birthday Card

 It's been a REALLY busy week.  Tuesday I took Tim back for another treatment for his RA.  Tuesday morning I had to pull him up to a sitting position on the side of the bed and then help him to stand.  Wednesday he was able to get out of bed completely on his own!!! We are praising God for bringing us to this treatment.  He has regained his ability to function on his own power and is pain free.  It's so great to see him acting like himself again!

I'm still working with kids at school to get ready for choir contest and hopefully qualify for state, so lots of time spent there.  We go to contest Saturday and have to leave at 6:45 am!  All this boils down to not much time for crafting.  So I'm posting a card I made earlier in the month.  I'm working on a cute belated birthday card.  It just keeps getting more and more "belated"!

I made this card for my granddaughter Lexi.  She absolutely loves horses and can hardly wait for her Pa to be able to get back to riding. 

 

The haystack paper is from Hobby Lobby.  I used the Old West Cartridge for all cuts and the font.  I printed the sentiment with Cricut Markers.  The hat is a sticker.  Looking at it now, I wish I had colored in the letters.  Oh well.... Thanks for stopping by!